by Phil Pennington, RNZ Gisborne’s main water supply pipe was identified as being at unacceptable risk of catastrophic failure months before Cyclone Gabrielle wrecked it. The cyclone broke the pipe in 10 places, plunging the city’s 39,000 people...
A lot ‘still very much against it’: Tuatara collective A group hoping to establish a controversial barge facility at the northern tip of the East Coast is confident it will get the project across the line in the coming months. But the initiative...
A girl was admitted to Gisborne Hospital yesterday with serious pelvic injuries after she was struck by a log and partially buried in the sand at a spot along Centennial Marine Drive. The accident happened at around 4.30pm about a kilometre along...
Mountainous onshore seas deemed too dangerous for racing brought an early end to the IRB national championships at Waihi Beach. The 120 crews there for the BP-sponsored event — including four from Kaiaponi Farms Waikanae — went home...
Retired warrant officer Jack Donnelly looks back at Anzac Day from the era of universally respected Great War veterans to more recent times featuring veterans from the more controversial Vietnam War . . . The days when the Gisborne community...
Tuesday, April 11 — Beetham Lifestyle Village Swiss Pairs 2 (victory points — after six rounds) Carolyn McMurray, Elizabeth Jackson 75.92 VP Caroline Kirkpatrick, Robyn Cheyne 73.73 VP Jean Turnbull, Caroline Taylor 69.07 VP Diana Styche, Joy...
Debate on the Three Waters makeover called Affordable Water Reforms has centred initially on the contentious parts that remained, such as co-governance and the removal of assets from council balance sheets, but as time goes on the focus may well...
It will be interesting to see if Gisborne District Council agrees with its southern counterpart on the subject of the wood debris left after Cyclone Gabrielle. Hawke’s Bay Regional Council has released a report which concludes the majority of the...
Very disappointed in VTNZ customer service on Tuesday, April 12. The girls in the office are top notch — the workers doing WOF and COF are the ones I am complaining about. I arrived in the line at 10.45am and by the time I got to enter no workers...
When we first came to Gisborne some 20 years ago, walking though Kaiti Mall I spotted a well-dressed gentleman sitting at a table whose face was tattooed with beautiful images. Thinking he might have something interesting to say, I sat down, said...
I understood there was a ruling years ago that “road worker” signs on our roads were to be removed over the weekends when there was no one working. Has this slipped through the cracks, and no one polices this now? I know our roads are in a state...
There were 2394 sheep sent for sale at Matawhero yesterday — almost all were store lambs and came from the Matawai and Te Karaka districts. Waikohu Station sold pens of Wiltshire ewe lambs for $155, $140 and $120. KJ and RE Fisher at Motu topped...
The recent Open Farms Day event achieved its highest visitor turnout last month, with 3680 Kiwis stepping foot on a farm. Despite having the lowest number of hosts partly due to Cyclone Gabrielle, the event had a 35 percent lift in visitors compared...
Wet weather forced the postponement of Gisborne Speedway Club’s first-night programme of its double-header grand finale weekend. Club president Clyde McGrory said the track looked excellent on Thursday, but heavy showers since then impacted the...
Individual highlights 180s: Tahuna Irwin. Highest start (140): Te Kotahi Kaio 3 (Tigers); Pete Tom 2 (Falcons); Anaru Cashmore 2 (Ruahine Tahi). Highest finish (100): Tahuna Irwin (Falcons). Most tons, men (17): Te Kotahi Kaio (Tigers). Most tons...
INDIVIDUAL HIGHLIGHTS 180s: J Collier (Roseland); K Tamihere (Stallions); L Kaa, M Stevens (Rebels); T Campbell-Ratapu (Tao Spartans); R Leach (Outlaws); A Cross (6 Shooters); S Gooch (Spandangles); I Eyles 2 (Gunz). Highest start (180): I Eyles...
Three people are in Gisborne Hospital with Covid-19. A Te Whatu Ora Tairāwhiti spokeswoman said cases were trending up with a daily average of 17. There were between six and 30 cases this past week. The Ministry of Health’s latest figures, dated...
The need for a swift energy transition and securing devices from potential cyberattacks were topics of discussion at the monthly Gisborne U3A meeting at the Cosmopolitan Club. U3A aims to nurture minds and bodies and provide social engagements for...
SIXTEEN gymnasts from Gisborne signed up to compete in the Wellington Open Championships. It was a huge commitment from their families to get them to Wellington, especially with the road to Napier being closed by the effects of Cyclone Gabrielle...
A man has admitted deliberately lighting a fire last year at an unoccupied Tokomaru Bay house where the owner was murdered in 2019. Jamie Migowl Thomas, 33, pleaded guilty in Gisborne District Court this week to two charges of arson — one at 15...
Age is just a number when it comes to Gisborne master athletes Debbie Hutchings and Tamera Nelson. Both women have qualified for the CrossFit Torian Pro Championships in Brisbane, Australia. To qualify, athletes enter their scores attained in the...
The Royal New Zealand Air Force’s Black Falcons aerobatics display team drew hundreds of people to the city foreshore and Tītīrangi/Kaiti Hill at lunchtime yesterday. The team turned on a 15-to-20-minute display that had the big crowd on the...
A Royal New Zealand Air Force squadron known as the Black Falcons accomplished a mission to entertain Gisborne in the air and on the ground yesterday. Gisborne Mayor Rehette Stoltz enthusiastically accepted an invitation to sit in the cockpit of an...
There is a sense that land has been exploited because forestry companies were “unregulated” and “unmonitored”, says the chair of a ministerial inquiry into land use in Tairāwhiti and Wairoa. The inquiry was set up in the wake of Cyclone...
A woman accused of stealing more than $16,000 worth of alcohol and other goods — including a water feature — from local shops, failed to front at court when her case was called this week. Krystal Kelly Love, 38, who is listed on court documents...
Plans to hold a charity auction to raise funds for our flood-stricken region in the aftermath of Cyclone Gabrielle are well under way, with the opportunity for local businesses, organisations and services to become sponsors or donate to the event...
Tairāwhiti kaumatua Stan Pardoe has received an honorary doctorate from Te Whare Wānanga o Awanuiārangi for his contributions to Mātauranga Māori — an honour that humbled and surprised the 80-year-old. When told of the honour in a phone call...
Having already extracted more than $50,000 from a Wairoa man by essentially blackmailing him, a woman went to his workplace to demand more money. But police were there waiting to arrest her. Diane Sandra-Leah Winter pleaded guilty in Gisborne...
Gwynne Dyer China has been having conniptions again. President Tsai Ing-wen of Taiwan had a courtesy meeting last week with the Speaker of the US House of Representatives, Kevin McCarthy. Beijing reacted by issuing a “stern warning” to the...
Travel writer Mike Yardley catches the ferry out to Matiu/Somes Island in Wellington Harbour, before travelling on to delightful Days Bay. Then he goes exploring along the Kapiti Coast. Wellington had dawned bright and brilliant as I made my way to...
Organised seasonally, and with growing guides for each ingredient, Italian-Kiwi Bri DiMattina’s cookbook Nostrana is full of simple, gorgeous and delicious recipes with fresh vegetables and fruits you can easily grow and harvest yourself...
The foliage of this plush fern is a rich green, and it unfurls from softly hairy rhizomes that creep along the top of the compost and eventually dangle over the sides of the pot. This is one of the easiest ferns to grow. Hare’s Foot Ferns...
Ted Skuse has been home from Queensland, visiting family here, and John Gillies caught up with him. Ted Skuse is 76 years old and can’t work out how to retire. He was in Gisborne, his home town, to see family this month and returned to...