Life ain’t a spectator sport . . . just ask Lucy Bond, who fell into a role helping farmers and equestrians access essential feed for their animals. It all started when she looked to put together a group to buy some hay and truck it in after...
Sue Wilson isn’t one to sit on her hands. Despite her own property and surrounding roads and infrastructure being hit in back-to-back weather events, her first thought was for others. She is the administrator for the Wairoa Community Development...
Katrina Duncan loves nothing more than to show off the very best of Tairāwhiti to visitors and locals alike, but for now, she’s part of an army of volunteers trying to restore some sort of semblance of normality to the cyclone-ravaged region...
Sandra Faulkner has clocked up a lot of hours — and kilometres — in the past few weeks. Her truck is her office, initially driving on roads that weren’t exactly fit for purpose as she headed out into the rural community to help, chat, and...
by Dr Andrew Cribb, East Coast Farm Vets With the abundance of feed across the district, it’s easy to forget about trace elements, and copper in particular has been on our radar while pregnancy testing cow’s. A national survey in 2021 showed...
by St John Craner Environmental challenge is a much wider concept when you think about it. The biggest environmental battle you face is the one inside your own head. It's the environment you live in day in, day out. Author Robin Sharma said, “The...
Prime Minister Chris Hipkins would have been the most harassed person in Parliament yesterday as he first watched one Minister trying to explain her comments in the House and then had to fire another who joined the House at the same time as he did...
The New Zealand Defence Force played a crucial role in supporting our rural and isolated communities in Tairāwhiti after Cyclone Gabrielle. They hit the ground running in the immediate aftermath of the cyclone, facilitating the establishment of...
Maxim Institute executive director What does politics produce when mixed with violence and intimidation? Sadly nothing constructive, plus a humungous helping of anger, division, recrimination, spleen and confusion. Oh, and...
Opinions? Have I missed something? I was under the impression that opinions were something everybody was allowed to have, and that everyone else respected our right to have. Sharing these opinions was considered to be a form of debate that gave us...
The people behind Torere Macadamias are so passionate about macadamias they have developed a 10-year NZ Macadamia Industry Growth Strategy (2018-2029) to increase organic growing of macadamias from 10ha in 2018 to 1000ha in 2029. The company is...
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...