by Sherrill Beale Premier sides Gisborne Girls’ High Senior A and Horouta Koura hit the court running with emphatic wins in the first of the Challenge round games on Wednesday night. Girls’ High outgunned YMP (2) 59-22 and Horouta eased past...
The cream has risen. Rounds 5 and 6 of the Oligoi Jug men’s interclub pennants were expected to be Moving Day for those hunting semifinal berths in the matchplay series. And move they did. Patutahi (1), as they have done since Round 1, virtually...
by Scraggy GMC Green know their A’s from their B’s but there could be the odd double take in their Poverty Bay women’s club hockey game tomorrow night. The Green Machine will be out to keep their unbeaten run intact when they face YMP B at 6pm...
Gisborne primary football First Kicks 4v4, Watson Park, 8.30am: 1, Awapuni Green v Mangatuna; 2, Kaiti Paoa v Wainui Mussels; 3, Kaiti Horouta v Wainui Kina; 4, Mangapapa Storm v Wainui Paua; 5, Mangapapa Mist v Wainui Crays; 6, Mangapapa Floods v...
‘We know what we are in for’ Families, friends and fierce competitors will make it a big day out up State Highway 35 tomorrow. The H Blackbee Contractors Ngāti Porou East Coast men’s and Enterprise Cars NPEC women’s club rugby competitions...
by Ginny Sherriff Former New Zealand international lawn bowler David File picked up his 84th centre title when he won the centre men’s singles at Gisborne Bowling Club. Te Karaka club champion File beat Gisborne club champion Malcolm Trowel 21-18...
Thistle Firsts copped the backlash of Wainui Sharks’ loss to clubmates Demons the previous week. Sunshine Brewing Wainui Sharks beat Property Brokers Gisborne Thistle Firsts 6-2 in an Eastern League 1 football match at Childers Road Reserve on...
If there was ever a time Heartland Championship hopefuls want to impress Poverty Bay selectors, tomorrow is it. The annual Town v Country match returns to the Poverty Bay Rugby Football Union calendar after last being held in 2020. Ngatapa’s...
Gisborne’s place as a major Chardonnay producer will be celebrated on International Chardonnay Day. This year the annual Chardonnay Affair takes place at The Vines at Matawhero midday to 5pm on May 27, rather than over Labour Day weekend. “It is...
New research has found New Zealand’s policy of allowing fossil-fuel emitters to offset all their greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions by planting trees is at odds with the rest of the world, and it is having a damaging impact on the agricultural sector...
Confirmed temporary location of kura a factor in decision A Gisborne bar has been granted permission to set up shop just a few doors down from a kaupapa Māori school, despite strong opposition at a recent hearing. Anjuna Beer Garden will open on...
The dogs responsible for mauling sheep earlier this week have been destroyed. Gisborne District Council animal control team leader Ross Hannam said a number of sheep were injured or killed after being attacked by dogs on a farm around Kaiti this...
Three months after Cyclone Gabrielle, State Highway 2 will finally reopen between Napier and Wairoa this Sunday. The drive, which usually takes around 90 minutes, has been taking over six hours thanks to the lengthy detours currently in place...
Turanga Health continues to receive recognition for its Covid-19 response by being included in two prominent nationwide studies. The health provider was innovative and agile during the first two years of its Covid-19 response, creating...
Warm for this time of year? You betcha! And by an average of more than five degrees so far this month. Normally people are throwing something extra on the bed as May nights cool down, but for the first nine nights of this month, night-time...
Laughter, joy and the sound of bouncing basketballs reverberated off the playground of Whatatutu School yesterday. New Zealand Breakers captain Tom Abercrombie was a popular man as he took about 40 students through drills, games and match skills...
Breast scans at Gisborne Hospital are now more accurate and comfortable. A new ultrasound tomography machine arrived from Sweden last month that is able to detect even the slightest abnormality in the breast. The technology reduces the need for...
Teachers at the region’s secondary and area schools were on strike yesterday (Thursday), as they continue to press for better pay. Post Primary Teachers Association members have been taking part in national rolling strikes over the past week with...
Race Relations Commissioner Meng Foon is calling for a more targeted approach to healthcare funding to address poor outcomes for Māori living in Tairāwhiti. The Health Select Committee recently released its 2021/22 review of Te Whatu Ora’s...
Los Angeles — When Peter “Star-Lord” Quill, while inspecting a murky extraterrestrial region, pressed play on Redbone’s Come and Get Your Love in the first Guardians of the Galaxy, it would have been hard to imagine that James Gunn’s space...
ODEON MULTIPLEX Book Club: The Next Chapter Diane Keaton, Jane Fonda, Mary Steenburgen and Candice Bergen take their book club antics to Italy. When things go off the rails and secrets are revealed, their relaxing vacation turns into...
Tairāwhiti is in the unprecedented position of having two independent MPs following the resignations of Labour’s Meka Whaitiri and the Green Party’s Dr Elizabeth Kerekere from their respective parties. Ms Whaitiri, formerly the Customs Minister...
The Gisborne-East Coast region was lucky that the latest sub-tropic rain event passed speedily to the east. Even so, the overnight “flick” of its tail showed how quickly heavy rain can cause damage. The atmospheric river that dumped on...
Tomorrow is World ME (Myalgic Encephalomyelitis) Day and is a chance to acknowledge the estimated 25,000 sufferers in New Zealand. ME or chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS) is a long-term (chronic), fluctuating, neurological disease that causes symptoms...
This week ■ Friday Night Karaoke Breakers Jandal Bar, from 8pm to midnight. Free entry. ■ CANCELLED: Midwave Breaks Dome Cinema at The Poverty Bay Club, Saturday. Refunds available ■ ‘Vivo! — Musica Y Baile’ Smash Palace, Banks Street...
May is NZ Music Month and local musicians, bands and music organisations are reminded there’s still time to take part in the formation of the region’s music strategy by completing the “What Music Means to Me” Tairāwhiti Music Survey...
Three artists in Gisborne have been selected as finalists in the inaugural Kiingi Tuheitia Portraiture Award. The celebrated artists are: Michelle Hinekura Kerr for Ngā Huna Kōrero, Jody Tupara for Ngā Haututu o te Kāuta and Karaitiana Akroyd...
The operative word in Central Business District is business. What a dumb idea to locate a school amid all the busy traffic and its noise and toxic exhausts. No playground; kids barefoot on filthy footpaths. Emphatically the man’s business should...
Hear! Hear! to the Maori Party President for converting the House of Representatives into a circus. Facepalm. Raawiri Gilgen
I’ve long said we should become an independent nation. However, I fear that there isn’t the stability or cohesion in Aotearoa to even start to think about a constitution. We have a cohort of selfish people who can’t understand the concept of...
Lara — you can point out all the wrongs in society and use them as excuses why children aren’t going to school. It’s raining, it’s cold, I don’t want to walk, our home is damp . . . Children in parts of Africa and some Muslim countries...
A national survey conducted by the NZ Food Network shows an alarming rise in the number of people needing access to food support, portending a bleak winter for many New Zealanders. The network surveyed 51 food hubs across the country to find 480,104...
What Mitchell Forbes’ crew learned about Gisborne Boys’ High School rugby last year, they put to use at the weekend. In 2022, Gisborne hit their Wellington opposition hard. Stream won 39-11 but only after leading 12-11 at halftime. On Saturday...
Tapuae did themselves proud at the Gisborne Oval on Saturday. A week after their 29-10 win against two-time defending champions Charteris Choppers Wairoa Athletic in the derby match, the undefeated green and blacks are the undisputed leaders in...