A social media page promoting healthier choices over a lifetime of diabetes and obesity, has been created in Wairoa. Initiated by Putahi Kani of Wairoa in July, the Facebook group has more than 39,000 members and that number is climbing. Mr Kani, who...
Do you think the Swiss weren't aware of costs and economic risk when they built the Gotthard tunnel 57km long and 2.3km deep under the Alps? They were, and they still built at unfathomable cost because they did not want trucks polluting their...
A man admitted two charges of assault with a weapon arising out of an incident in which he threatened his partner while brandishing a baseball bat and axe at her. Comments made by Ben Johnson Kahaki, 29, to the woman during the incident included that...
High-tech equipment from the United States government department instrumental in developing military stealth technology will be launched into space from Mahia next month. After successful launches from its Mahia launch complex at Onenui Station last...
SECOND CLEAN UP: The city beaches will need to be cleaned again of debris after the storm event last week dumped many tonnes of fresh driftwood along the shore. The stretch of beach from The Cut to just past Midway was only recently cleaned at...
GISBORNE bird watchers are encouraged to be part of the Great Kereru Count from September 20 to September 29. It is called New Zealand’s biggest citizen science project. This project depends on as many people as possible getting out and about to...
In our Gisborne Herald dated 16.12.15, letters to the editor “A silver fern” by NZer Forever; I fully agree with your comment. After myself sending in three flag suggestions then noting an addition of ‘Red Peak’ allowed after cut-off date, I...
PRICES eased considerably on the previous week with the store lamb section in the Matawhero sheep sale yesterday where 3100 head were presented for sale. The sale attracted a small bench of local buyers.“The best of the male store lambs from Amu...
The theatrical education programme Smashed, staged at secondary schools around the country, helped many Year 9 students determine to wait until they are 18 to drink alcohol. This was one finding from an analysis of data gathered before and after the...
The children of pioneer Maori filmmaker Merata Mita are glad that her story has been told on film by one of them. Awatea Mita was in Gisborne for the Mother’s Day screening of the film Merata: How Mum Decolonised the Screen, and said she and her...
Elderly residents are frustrated and feel “further isolated” because of too much digital focus around vaccine passports. Since the Government introduced its My Vaccine Pass digital proof of vaccination earlier this week, Age Concern Gisborne...
POLICE responded to a break-in at the Enterprise Cars Swim Centre in Nelson Road early this morning and a dog team tracked the alleged offenders for two kilometres to make arrests. The call to the burglary came in at 3.55am.“Two people allegedly...
Scott Tallott and Baxter Mackay are great entertainers. Their match-winning partnership of 112 in pursuit of 120 saw Bollywood High School Old Boys beat Old Boys Rugby by nine wickets to stay at the top of the premier grade table two games into the...
Gisborne Vehicle Testing is likely to be sold to Vehicle Testing NZ. Gisborne Holdings Ltd, the district council's commercial arm, announced at its annual meeting this week that it was in an advanced stage of negotiations with VTNZ regarding the...
A Gisborne woman remains in a critical condition in Waikato Hospital after a two-car crash at Rotoma in the Bay of Plenty on Friday afternoon. The crash happened on State Highway 30 near Braemar Rd just after 2pm. The 31-year-old Gisborne woman was...
Te Kura Kaupapa Maori o Nga Uri a Maui celebrated Matariki with a night market on Wednesday this week. As part of Te Wiki o Te Reo Maori we went down to the night market to korero about how te reo enriches their lives
Elderly people are facing continuing challenges in the wake of the Covid-19 lockdown, the Tairawhiti Positive Ageing Trust has found. For this reason the trust is establishing a resilience framework to not only help those affected by isolation but...
Mr Sunderland of Brisbane, re your letter of September 1. Thank you for your concern about about my writing hand. It isn’t often that someone from so far away shows such compassion. Let me assure you, sarcastic comments such as yours shall in no way...
A community meeting at Patutahi this week to bring residents up to date on progress after a child was shot in March, attracted about 50 people. A nine-year-old boy had been riding a quad bike on a road in the rural area on March 5, and had stopped...
US Ambassador to New Zealand and Samoa Scott Brown, and The Mind Lab by Unitec general manager Fee McLeod, have been announced for the Eastland Group speaker series. Mr Brown, who took up the position of ambassador in June, will be visiting Gisborne...
It has been just over a month since the Tairawhiti Roads joint venture between the NZ Transport Agency and Gisborne District Council was disestablished — and the Transport Agency’s focus on the region is stronger than ever. Previously, Gisborne...
Two ships berthed at Eastland Port started filling up with logs and squash today with the arrival of Solent Star and Kaiti Hill. The Solent Star came from Lyttelton and is loading squash. It is expected to leave for Napier to load further cargo on...
The bad weather has forced the postponement of tomorrow's hui planned by the Te Araroa Barge Facility Working Group. The hui, advertised in the Public Notices section yesterday, was to provide feedback on the environmental and social impacts of the...
HOCKEYTHE female component of the weekend hockey draw has “close call” written all over it. All four women’s matches are likely to be tight affairs in the most even-looking round so far this season. The pick of them will be the game between YMP...
More jargon joy from the business page. On Thursday's article on data sovereignty, we find these brilliant technical types trying to keep their cloud onshore, with lawyers advising “being onshore is no hedge”. Clouds on the ground with hedges...
A man who continued to deny indecently assaulting a nine-year-old boy was jailed for 23 months and refused leave to apply for home detention at his sentencing in Gisborne District Court. The man received a three strikes warning and his name will be...
I had the privilege a few days ago of being in a village outside the Beehive. Unlike what Jacinda and the media portray, “a place of intolerable living conditions, which children should not be exposed to”, it was quite the contrary!Being an...
Striped skink have been discovered for the first time in the Gisborne region. Described by the Department of Conservation as a nationally threatened species, the lizard is included in a national recovery plan. The first striped skinks were discovered...
Gisborne Mayor Meng Foon has been appointed as Race Relations Commissioner. He takes over from Dame Susan Devoy, who left the role in June last year after major changes at the Human Rights Commission. The position has been vacant for more than a year...
Turihaua Angus bulls are reaching “almost unheard of” prices, following last Wednesday’s 2019 yearling bull sale.“It went exceptionally well,” Turihaua Angus stud manager Paul Williams said.“It was a very strong sale, particularly...
ACCORDING to the 80s camp anthem from the musical Chess, “One Night in Bangkok and the world’s your oyster.”Or not. Within minutes of landing at Bangkok’s Suvarnabhumi Airport, a pickpocket or two has swiped my wallet and my proverbial...
Guide dogs offer freedom and independence by acting as eyes for people who are blind or have poor vision. Each year the New Zealand Blind Foundation holds a Red Puppy Appeal, the annual fundraiser for breeding and training guide dogs. This year’s...
A1 Homes says all homes will be finished as originally contracted if that is what the clients choose in the wake of Fargher Construction Limited going into liquidation. Around 20 families, many of them in Gisborne, were left with unfinished homes...