Almost 24 years separated Saturday’s Rugby Festival match between Gisborne Boys’ High School and Wellington College and the occasion on which their first 15s helped bring the curtain down at Athletic Park. But memories of big games are enhanced...
SPORT in brief Eastland Kart Club members will run their second-last points meeting of the season tomorrow. Racing — at the Aerodrome Road track, off Awapuni Road — starts at 10am
Blasts from the past, another top rugby player showing his multiple sporting talents and a Park show of strength are features of the line-ups for rounds 5 and 6 of the Oligoi Jug men’s interclub pennants. Electrinet Park is hosting tomorrow’s...
The NZ Army Band concert at Boy’s High School. Wow! Wow! Wow! It was great! Heather van Wyk
by Tim Wilson, Maxim Institute executive director The news that only about half of our students regularly attended school in the final term of 2022 produced predictable — and reasonable — concern. After all, that number was worse than the 65...
by Phil Newdick Pardon my stupidity, but can someone please explain to me how the percentage rate of tax collected can be used as a barometer to assess how much tax is enough tax? It is reported that our 311 wealthiest people only paid a paltry 9.4...
Publishing the final Gisborne Herald to be printed in its hometown is a sad day for our company, the many people who have worked for it, and the Muir family who have had an ownership interest in this newspaper since 1884 and have a 200-year history...
Are you going to watch King Charles III coronation this Saturday?
A man has been found guilty of historic sex offences against a young niece by a jury that was unable to reach a unaminous decision but returned majority verdicts. The 59 year-old accused, who for legal reasons cannot be named, was on trial this week...
A meth addict who ran a drug shop and received stolen high-end garden accessories at her Kaiti home has been jailed. Carey Pohatu, 35, was sentenced last week in Gisborne District Court. Judge Warren Cathcart imposed a prison term of two years and...
The royalist fervour so abundant in Gisborne 70 years ago when Queen Elizabeth II was crowned cannot be compared with the low key nature of this weekend. Back in June 1953 people crowded streets and shop balconies to cheer on the coronation...
A 5.3 magnitude earthquake was felt by many Gisborne residents last night. The earthquake — a bit of a jolt and a short period of shaking — struck at 11.37pm. GeoNet said it was centred 70 kilometres north-west of Te Kaha at 11.37pm and at...
Waimata dog triallist Merv Utting had a disappointing end to the Tux North Island championships in Taupō yesterday with fourth and fifth placings in the long and short head events. Utting and his dog Bob went into the final runoff in Event 1 —...
Visiting National Party MP Chris Penk says much of New Zealand does not know how badly impacted Gisborne was by Cyclone Gabrielle. Mr Penk, the party’s cyclone recovery spokesman, said it was understandable there was a greater focus on Hawke’s...
Several houses and businesses were without water yesterday afternoon after a water main broke at the intersection of Palmerston Road and Grey Street. The water main was shut off from Grey Street between Palmerston Road down to Mitre10 and to...
Under-fire MP Elizabeth Kerekere has resigned from the Greens after earlier hitting out at the party’s co-leaders over their handling of an investigation into her behaviour. Kerekere — a first-term list MP who lives in Gisborne — has been...
The Goss Community Press rolled one last time for today’s Gisborne Herald. After 149 years of printing in Gisborne, the company is outsourcing printing of the paper to NZME in Auckland from next week
Tokomaru Bay United Sports Club has leased land at Hatea-a-Rangi Memorial Park since 1981, remaining on site despite that agreement expiring in 2014 with no right of renewal.
Preeti Maheshwari and her family immerse themselves in the fascinating history of Mumbai . . . After enduring the sweltering heat in Ahmedabad, we boarded a train to reach Mumbai — a stunning paradox of hope and chaos, magic and madness. Formerly...
From crisp and zingy salads to fresh and comforting curries and tangles of tasty noodles, as well as plant-based bowls and stir-fries, Norman Musa’s Bowlful will satisfy all cravings . . . I adapted this dish from the famous Javanese dish known as...
The Everyday Herbalist by Jane Wrigglesworth is a comprehensive guide to herbs, covering everything you need to know: from how to grow them successfully in your garden to how to use them for health and wellbeing . . . This is the ultimate book for...
Historian Jane Luiten has spent much of her working life researching treaty claims for the Waitangi Tribunal. But when she is not reading history, she is busy holding folk dance events throughout New Zealand. She talked to Avneesh Vincent...
AS pre-season hit-outs go, this one couldn't be more significant. Gisborne Boys' High School will meet St Patrick's College Silverstream in Hastings tomorrow (11.30am kick-off). Both sides lost their opening match in the TranZit Coachlines first 15...
How a school in the remote East Coast township of Te Araroa coped after Cyclone Gabrielle. Principal Lynn Burrell talks to Kim Parkinson . . .
Rising surfers from Ahipara to Dunedin are converging on Gisborne for the latest round of the New Zealand Grom Series — the Sequence Surf Shop Gisborne Junior Pro — this weekend. Scheduled for Makorori’s Red Bus break from tomorrow, the...
The floodwaters have receded and tomorrow Ngati Porou East Coast men’s club rugby will make its return. “We can’t wait — it’ll be wonderful to get the families out and about, reconnecting in fine weather,” said NPEC president Campbell...
All roads lead to Barry Park tomorrow for supporters of YMP and OBM. Round 1 of the Civil Project Solution premier club rugby competition ends with a blockbuster clash between East Coast Farm Vets YMP and Enterprise Cars OBM at 2.45pm. Both teams go...
We attended the show on Wednesday night and were immediately impressed by the professional set, which became electric once the performers started moving on stage, each of them living their characters. The intensity of the show never once waivered...
I don’t know if I can still offer my thoughts, but here goes nothing. May I break my self-imposed exile by recommending a book I have just read. It is “Stop the Clock” (a memoir on ageing with dignity, grace and humour). It is written by...
In my view, a person who “jumps ship” without the courtesy of giving any warning deserves utter contempt. That goes for any politician in any party. It is backstabbing of the highest degree, akin to Brutus and Caesar — “Et tu, Brute?” So...
In my last week’s record CO2 alert, I mentioned how three times this year atmospheric CO2 has topped a 4 parts per million increase on last year’s reading. Carbon dioxide measured at NOAA’s Mauna Loa Atmospheric Baseline Observatory steadily...
Millions of eyes, including a substantial number in New Zealand, will be focused on London tomorrow night for the coronation of King Charles III — a man who has waited most of his life for this moment. If ever a new monarch had a hard act to...