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Kerrah just one bull away from sellout at auction

Kerrah Simmentals from Whakaki kept the bull sales season success going in the region on Tuesday when they achieved an almost total clearance in their on-farm auction. The Knauf family put up 73 rising two-year-old bulls and sold 72 of them at...

Increased cost of postage pushes up bill for election

The cost of the Gisborne District Council election of 2022 has been determined at $217,000 plus GST for 35,000 electors, or $6 plus GST for each elector. The figures came from Gisborne electoral officer Dale Ofsoske in a report prepared for the...

Improving measles vax rates in Tairāwhiti, a priority as part of the recovery from Cyclone Gabrielle.

Only 28 Māori in Tairāwhiti received a measles vaccination over a two year “massive” measles vaccination catch-up campaign. Health Minister Ayesha Verrall says the Ministry of Health had “good intentions” when it planned the campaign...

Honours shared in top-of-table thriller

Close encounters highlighted Week 4 of Poverty Bay club hockey including a classic duel between last year’s men’s competition grand finalists. As predicted, defending champions YMP A and Lytton Old Boys Traktion produced the men’s game of the...

Ovation innovation at Gisborne plant

Ovation New Zealand Ltd is partnering with inMR Measure Ltd (inMR) to test the development of an intramuscular fat (IMF) lamb grading technology at its Gisborne plant in Dunstan Road. The concept has been developed with the support and co-funding...

$90k to trails trust to push marketing

The Motu Trails Charitable Trust will receive $90,000 from Trust Tairāwhiti over three years to boost their marketing and promotions to attract more visitors to the region. That was one of 11 applications approved in the trust’s latest funding...

Ngatapa’s turn to take on top seeds at the YMCA

The other new team in Premier Grade netball, Ngatapa, face a tough task tonight when they front up to in-form YMP in the YMCA. Turanga FM YMP racked up over 80 goals against newly promoted YMP (2) in the Pak’nSave competition at the weekend. YMP...

Sports draws

Netball Pak’nSave Gisborne Netball, SATURDAY, Premier/Prem Reserve games are 4 x 15-minute quarters. All other games are 4 x 10-minute quarters. Duty teams to put up the goal pads, set up team benches (courts 1 and 2) put out bins: NHEW Tein...

Family bragging rights for Luca

by Rockin’ Robin Luca Vita was first and his father Mike second in the feature race of Eastland Kart Club’s last meeting of its 10th season. Racing was to a high standard as drivers dealt with windy conditions on Sunday. It was their last...

Last time experts’ answer was pine trees

by Peter Jones It was comforting to see that all sides of the debate are genuinely concerned about the impact of recent storms on the viability of humans living throughout our district. Who could doubt that Hekia Parata did the best that she knew...

A relocation rift for the TK community

by Tony Harvie Forty years back as chairman of Te Karaka Federated Farmers, I made a public statement that TK was living on borrowed time and relocation was a growing threat. City engineers at the time labelled this alarmist but it has eventuated...

GDC release misleading

When I read the front-page article of Saturday’s Gisborne Herald, I could not believe my eyes regarding the huge amount of money allegedly being given to help Tairawhiti’s cyclone recovery. On Sunday I emailed the editor and voiced my concerns...

This round to US in ‘geopolitical games’

The security deal signed this week by Papua New Guinea and the United States is a major counter-manoeuvre in the battle for influence in the South Pacific between the US and China. Over the past decade, China has strengthened its ties in the...

Day of shooting ‘a blur’

Forty minutes after Maraea Smith was shot dead in Titoki Street, Mongrel Mob affiliate Mercedies Grace wandered up to a police cordon, beer in hand, slurring her words, and claiming she knew nothing about it. She initially said she’d been at...

Scragg and Sheild on leaderboards at trials 'noon call'

Wairoa’s David Scragg and George Sheild from Tolaga Bay were in the top seven of three events at the “noon call” in the Tux South Island and New Zealand dog trial championships at Balclutha yesterday. Scragg was in the leading group in event...

‘Role-based risk assessment’ for unvaccinated

A nationwide Te Whatu Ora Health NZ pre-employment vaccination policy is under development. The Government’s Covid-19 vaccination mandate, or compulsory vaccination for health workers, has been lifted, but a Te Whatu Ora Tairāwhiti spokeswoman...

El Niño pattern detected from space satellite

The first signs of a developing El Niño climate pattern have been spotted by a space satellite. Gisborne-East Coast farmers and those affected by weather systems need to be aware of the imminent change and incorporate the latest advice in their...

‘No certainty, no hope’: council slammed over housing obstacles for whānau

A man on a mission to house people displaced by Cyclone Gabrielle has painted a grim picture of Tairāwhiti’s worst-affected in a fiery email to the district council. Toitu Tairāwhiti Builtsmart Ltd director Willie Te Aho has worked to house...