Tokomaru Bay farm manager Colin Skudder made the headlines after Cyclone Gabrielle when he cut a track across his farm to ferry nurses, technicians and other hospital workers from Tokomaru Bay to Te Puia Springs Hospital. The hospital was cut off...
by Trevor Brown PRICES were buoyant at yesterday’s Matawhero weaner fair where 2736 steers and bulls went under the hammer, many from the Wairoa and Ruakituri districts. There was a large bench of buyers, most from outside this district, and they...
APPLES from Gisborne have been hitting international markets since February. About 30 percent of the crop has been picked to date, and local industry sources say the quality has been “OK” , despite the weather. T&G Global reported this week...
Strong winds to gale force are forecast to hit the eastern coast of the North Island today and tomorrow, as far north as Mahia. MetService has issued a Watch for severe gale-force south to south-westerlies, with a deepening low lying to the east of...
Lytton High school students helped the Manutuke community carry out a clean-up last week. School learning support teacher John Ingram said that ever since Cyclone Gabrielle hit the region, causing widespread damage, the school wanted to helping...
THE MetService has issued a Wave Warning for the coastline from Mahanga Beach at Mahia up to Potikirua Point at East Cape, with big seas from the south from tonight. The warning is valid from 9pm tonight to 1am on Friday. It involves a southerly...
The trailing suction hopper dredge Albatros has been working out in Turanganui-a-Kiwa/Poverty Bay and around the port since last Saturday. The dredge has been removing the naturally accumulating sediment along the shipping channel, turning basin and...
More than $350,000 of council money went towards accessing water from an industry site following Cyclone Gabrielle, but the project never got off the ground. At a Gisborne District Council meeting on March 2, an agenda item said the council planned...
The sacking of Forestry Ministry Stuart Nash last night may have implications for the ongoing ministerial inquiry into land use in Tairāwhiti and Wairoa. Mr Nash, who is also the Napier MP, was sacked as Forestry Minister, after it was revealed he...
Netball PAK’nSAVE Gisborne netball, SATURDAY, senior grading , Round 1 — Duty teams to put up goal pads, set up team benches (courts 1 and 2) and take out bins: Thistle Storm, Horouta Kohatu. All scorecards are run from the tower. All games are...
Poverty Bay DAMAGE caused by Cyclone Gabrielle to Poverty Bay Bowling Club’s artificial turf caused the club to hold its progressive triples tournament at the Kahutia club last Wednesday. In the Beetham Progressive Triples Tournament, each player...
TAIRĀWHITI health officials are launching winter immunisation events across the region. The campaign is a collaborative approach between Ngāti Porou Oranga, Turanga Health, Te Whatu Ora-Tairāwhiti and Pinnacle Health. “In gearing up for winter...
GISBORNE-EAST COAST men’s and women’s teams had their moments at the four-day national intercentre bowls championships in Christchurch. The men’s team narrowly missed qualifying for the semifinal, losing the last-round match against Northland...
Waerenga-o-Kuri school students shared their experiences of Cyclone Gabrielle with Beef + Lamb New Zealand advisers Pania King and Charles Taituha last week. School teacher Rebecca Denton said the kura was pleased to have the reps come in and hear...
Ryan West left Harry Barker Reserve with mixed emotions on Saturday. West led the Civil Project Solutions Ngatapa Green Caps to an eight-wicket victory against defending champions Rawhiti Legal Old Boys’ Rugby in the Hope Cup Senior B club cricket...
The niece of a woman who died after being struck by her own car in a chain of events caused by a careless driver says, “the justice system is flawed”. Sarah McPhail says the 100-hour community work sentence imposed yesterday on the driver...
To say that 2022-23 was a challenging season for Poverty Bay cricket is an understatement. Cyclone Gabrielle, flooding and the loss of three playing days in scoring platform PlayHQ’s debut season nationwide had an impact on all three premier grade...
Gisborne Centre Stage’s latest musical production Jersey Boys is now open for auditions this Friday and Saturday. With phenomenal music, memorable characters, and great storytelling, the musical follows the fascinating evolution of four...
Handel’s Messiah, the choral work that has been a hit for almost 300 years, will once more resound here on April 2, sung by the Gisborne Choral Society, which was forced to postpone the performance last December when its principal guests had...
Experience the brilliance of Witi’s Wāhine, a theatrical taonga and an uplifting love song to the wāhine toa of the East Coast who inhabit celebrated Maori author Witi Ihimaera’s celebrated writing. The story crafted by late Aotearoa actress...
Weaving her Samoan roots into fabrics, local and upcoming fashion designer Susana Tasi welcomes the public to her new shop branded with her initials ST. Located on Gladstone Road, the shop offers three unique brands — the quirky and fun-fitting...
Phil and Sue Newdick continue their travels through Europe, crossing the border from France into Italy, bound for Turin. We boarded an Italian train at Grenoble and crossed the border into Italy without noticing we had arrived. As is the norm for...
Gwynne Dyer The final report of the United Nation’s climate body, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), has come out at last. The desperate optimism that characterised the last few volumes (this is Part Four of four) has frayed...
As far as the feijoa season goes, when it rains, it pours. If you’re lucky enough to have a feijoa tree in your backyard, you need to get creative to keep up with the supply. These delicious recipes are a good place to start. Feijoa Strudel...
Rebekah Ballagh’s latest book Be Your Best Self has brilliant exercises, tips and practical strategies to help people transform the way they see themselves and create lifelong change. Be Your Best Self covers everything from your inner critic to...
Alex Campbell has lived and farmed at Hangaroa for a long time. He survived the fury of Cyclone Bola in 1988 and Cyclone Gabrielle this year. He talked to Avneesh Vincent about the differences between the two storms, the impact of forestry in the...
They had no comms and some were cut off from their own homes but, post-Cyclone Gabrielle, members of the Trust Tairāwhiti Eastland Rescue Helicopter team swung into action . . . AS one of the crew, and base manager ,for the Trust Tairāwhiti...
Re: A direct threat, stop her — March 23 letter. Debate is always good but I draw the line at hate speech. Posie Parker gains followers because she pretends to be pro-women but she’s not really. She seems intent on excluding any woman who is...
Kellie-Jay Keen-Minshull stands up for women’s rights — you remember women, right? The female half of the human race. The ones born with female genitals and able to produce another human being out of their body. Women attacking a woman who is...
QUICK work with a hose by Corrections Department staff stopped a deliberately lit fire in a small toolshed in its tracks at the skatepark in Grey Street yesterday afternoon. Fire and Emergency NZ sent one appliance and had another on standby at...
Hangaroa and Bushy Knoll residents will soon have a temporary bridge. Residents have been cut off for six weeks since Cyclone Gabrielle destroyed the Bushy Knoll Bridge that connects them to Tiniroto Road. “A Bailey bridge is coming, but that’s...
An iwi joint venture is providing temporary houses for Wairoa whānau while their devastated homes are repaired after Cyclone Gabrielle. Toitu Tairāwhiti Builtsmart has offered 12 solar-powered relocatable homes on loan to Tātau Tātau o Te...
Construction has begun on the pier for a Bailey bridge in the Waikare Gorge which will temporarily replace what was washed away during Cyclone Gabrielle. Waka Kotahi NZ Transport Agency says the much-anticipated work will enable people to access...
PANEL member Bill Bayfield has stood down from the ministerial Inquiry into land use in Tairāwhiti/Gisborne and Wairoa. Inquiry chair Hekia Parata said Mr Bayfield had acknowledged that entering into discussions with Hawke’s Bay Regional Council...