The Poverty Bay Wairoa branch of the New Zealand Federation of Women’s Institutes presented some well-earned awards this week. Alison Crawford of the Poverty Bay Wairoa Federation presented Delys Hollamby (Puha Women’s Institute) a Long Service...
CANOE Racing New Zealand has started a Givealittle page to help raise money for the hard-hit Poverty Bay Kayak Club that had floodwaters through their clubrooms in Anzac Park during Cyclone Gabrielle. The donation page will also raise money for the...
The rescue chopper crews involved in the search for a possible body seen in the water off the Gisborne coast on Friday night are confident if there was someone in the water they would have seen them. The Trust Tairāwhiti Rescue Helicopter and...
Bestriding Labour’s small conservative wing, MP for Napier Stuart Nash has been a valuable commodity for the party despite an occasional propensity for letting his mouth get away on him. He and colleagues Damien O’Connor, Kieran McAnulty and...
Farmer surveys showing that estimated on-farm damages as a result of Cyclone Gabrielle stand at $80 million are another dramatic sign of the long, hard recovery this region faces. Fence damage is a major part of the costs, with thousands of...
Seeing the photo of the severed Gisborne main water pipeline in The Gisborne Herald was quite a revelation. It looked such a fragile and flimsy structure, strung out as it was across the landscape. I understand that whatever caused the downfall of...
The Farm Forestry Association says the ministerial inquiry into land use across Tairāwhiti needs to look closely at the tree options for shoring up vulnerable farm and former forest land in the region or it will leave a legacy of mistakes long into...
THE district's surfing fraternity are mourning the loss of one of their own who passed away while surfing at Makorori at the weekend. Don Pearson, aged in his early 60s, suffered a medical event while he was surfing and despite the best efforts of...
Bill Nighy is at his stunning, tightly-wound best in this poignant and powerful English-language “reimagining” of Akira Kurosawa’s much-loved 1952 movie Ikiru (To Live).He plays Mr Rodney Williams, a respected, no-nonsense English civil...
It’s been reported that people are taking on second jobs to make ends meet. That shouldn’t be necessary. Instead, your primary employer should pay you enough to live so you don’t need to work two jobs. In just 40 years, we’ve degraded from...
For those of us unashamedly hooked on politics, the daily fix actually has little to do with incumbent government policies that affect us all. It identifies more with the alternative front-runners who could replace the current leaders doing the...
Oh my goodness, going to the supermarket is like going to the dentist now! One doesn’t know how much you have to pay — it’s beginning to be a nightmare. I can’t believe how everything is going up, especially women’s products. Just...
THE police investigation into missing Gisborne man Joseph Ahuriri is entering a new phase with Search and Rescue (SAR) personnel extending their search into remote areas north of Bay View in Hawke's Bay. Mr Ahuriri has not been seen since early on...
Police seized $40,000 in cash, 16 grams of methamphetamine and four firearms yesterday in Gisborne and Tauranga as a gangs and organised crime operation continues. Multiple search warrants were executed in both cities as part of Operation...
Recommendations from the ministerial inquiry into land use here are expected to be too “compelling” to ignore, the inquiry’s independent panel chair says. Speaking to The Gisborne Herald yesterday, panel chair Hekia Parata said the inquiry, run...
The region's roading connections continue to be put back together following cyclone damage. State Highway 2 access was restored last week south of Wairoa to the northern side of the Waikari River, Waka Kotahi regional manager Jaclyn Hankin...
The first tranche of insights and data tables from the Tairāwhiti Wellbeing Survey are available online. The survey ran for nine weeks from October 2022 with the aim of improving local data and better understand the wellbeing of the region. Trust...
Retired electrical engineer and former pilot Jim Linton of Wellington celebrated probably his final visit to Gisborne, his place of birth, with a flight in local Tiger Moth “Snafu” at the weekend. Pilot Patrick Callaghan took the 91-year-old up...
Former Gisborne Boys' High first 15 squad member Gibson-Park plays prominent role in history-making Grand Slam victory
Hipkins to visit Tairāwhiti regularly to keep informed about district's recovery from Cyclone Gabrielle
I have a vivid memory of saving my pocket money to buy this dish at the night market in my village when I was 11 years old. I waited all week for Friday night to come when the smoke from the stall carried with it the wonderful smell of grilled...
Police have discounted what they call “false speculation” that a second person can be seen with missing Gisborne man Joseph Ahuriri in a CCTV recording taken the night he disappeared. Mr Ahuriri was pictured with his Toyata Hilux ute at the...
Despite my green tendencies, I’ve never been a fan of composting toilets . . . but a recent visit to the loo at Glenorchy changed all that. This tiny settlement at the head of Lake Wakatipu, permanent population 450, is home to the astounding Camp...
The Nick's Head Charity Fishing Competition being held this weekend will raise more money to help Tairawhiti children who have cancer or diabetes. Organiser Andrea Gregory spoke to Planet Sunshine clinical nurse manager Deb McKay to ask her what the...
Re: Parking issues. Sorry Alain but you are dealing with a group of people at the council who for years have thought that they are a law unto themselves — the fancy new council building (which was opposed by the majority of ratepayers) is testament...
A Tairāwhiti-based small business is using a Workbridge-operated digital programme to combat technology challenges faced by people with disabilities. Workbridge is a not-for-profit organisation that helps people with disabilities and other mental or...
The heroes of D-Day were honoured at the RSA yesterday 75 years after Allied forces landed in France to begin the liberation of Nazi-occupied Europe. While international dignitaries attended commemorations in sunny Normandy, a small group honoured...
If there’s one thing that’s worse than apathy, it’s empty virtue-signalling. All over New Zealand, local councils have been falling over themselves to declare a “climate emergency”, but unless I’m missing something, there has been little...