Craig Bauld, I have known you for many years and although you can be a bit flaky at times I have always considered you the sensible one on the council. This time though you have let me down with your adamant views on this waka-inspired edifice. When...
ANOTHER young woman was injured in an accident at the Rere rockslide on the Wharekopae River yesterday. It was the second accident at the popular spot since New Year’s Eve. A young Palmerston North woman was hit in the back of the head by another...
Contractors are turning the former Soho and Plunket building into office space for Eastland Port staff. About 20 staff are to move into the Crawford Road building, which is owned by Eastland Investment Properties Limited. Eastland Port general manager...
Vern Marshall and Mick Maunder are centre open men’s pairs champions and Queenie Takurua and Dayvinia Mills have the women’s title following the finals at Kahutia Bowling Club on Sunday. For Tolaga Bay Bowling Club’s Marshall and Maunder, the...
Martin Hanson (October 6 column) claims that faith is usually defined as “belief without evidence”. “Fact on the other hand, is that which is strongly supported by empirical evidence.” Where then is the evidence that there is no soul and...
Having seen at least two articles in this paper about the detrimental properties of silver birch trees, and that they should really not be anywhere near urban areas, I now wish to ask the GDC through this column why action has not been taken...
The correlation between more cricket for junior high school players and the keenest of them reaping good reward is undeniable. Poverty Bay club cricket’s Hope Cup competition on Saturday saw Campion College follow their season-opening win against...
There was a time when if anyone had a question about Tairāwhiti's history, the answer would be “ask Sheila”. Sheila Robinson, that is — former history teacher, Gisborne (later Tairāwhiti) Museum curator of history, Historic Places...
YMP No. 8 Willis Tamatea has a two-point lead at the top of the premier rugby division’s Most Valuable Player standings. He took three points in Saturday’s 20-14 win against Waikohu. Tamatea has 20 points but with two games remaining before the...
BULLOCKING forward Horace “Horse” Lewis has announced he will pull the plug on a stellar 42-year rugby career after the Ruatoria sub-union’s Barry Cup challenge against Uawa next month. Lewis played a major role in Hikurangi’s 18-16 East...
IKAROA-Rawhiti-based Green Party list MP Dr Elizabeth Kerekere has enthusiastically endorsed yesterday's Budget. The first-term MP said the Green Party's Te Matawaka (Maori and Pasifika) caucus acknowledged the new investment in Maori health...
Congratulations to the museum for the Leonardo da Vinci exhibition. Well worth a visit, as the museum is. Considering he lived from 1452 to 1519, da Vinci was extremely imaginative, ahead of his time and talented in so many ways. The exhibition is...
Now that the final election results are in, here’s a question for those moral mandators out there: with National on 44.4 percent and Labour/Greens on 43.2 percent, who has the moral authority to form a government?Others on the right, in an attempt...
TWO trumpets and two trombones will raise the rafters with the sound of brass at a lunchtime concert tomorrow. In Gisborne to compete for the Edgar Brass Player Award at the Gisborne International Music Competition (GIMC), are trumpeters Patrick...
The Trust Tairāwhiti Rescue Helicopter was called to Waipatiki Beach in Hawke's Bay on Monday afternoon to winch an injured teenager out of harm's way. The teenager had fallen down a bank off a walking track on to a rocky area at the beach, which is...
JUDGE Warren Cathcart told a woman in Gisborne District Court that she was lucky not to have killed her partner when she stabbed him in the left side of his chest, nicking his lung. Sarah Colleen Gray, 22, was sentenced to 19 months imprisonment but...
A Christmas market with a difference took place on Saturday at the Albert Cox Skatepark — all the stall holders were under the age of 18. The fine weather coupled with the delicious offerings on sale made for a successful market and organiser Cain...
JACK Faulkner had a good season in goal for Gisborne United in Pacific Premiership football this year, but he is not putting his feet up with the onset of warmer weather. He is an all-rounder for Gisborne Boys’ High School in local cricket, and is...
A lack of ability to enforce bylaws creates “perennial” issues, says a senior Gisborne District Council staff member. Senior policy adviser Chris Gilmore made the comments at a Sustainable Tairāwhiti meeting two weeks ago where approval was...
An American teenager was murdered and her body buried on Kaiti Hill, letters sent to police and The Gisborne Herald claim. Police have started an inquiry after receiving the letter three weeks ago. The Herald received a similarly-worded letter...
Gisborne primary and intermediate school principals and teachers will strike tomorrow to send a message to the Government that they are not satisfied with the offer on the table. This is part of a nationwide strike that started in Auckland today and...
It's way past time for this Government to get tough on the increasing violent crime in this country. This weekend a dairy worker is once again attacked and loses fingers to a machete-wielding scumbag. Labour seems to be able to change laws pretty...
Come on Jacinda, you visit Turanganui a Kiwa and pay your respects to another iwi that has no mana whenua or mana moana in our rohe. Labour’s Maori caucus should have known better.“Turanga Tangata Rite,Turanga Ararau,Turanga Makaurau,Turang...
A GISBORNE mother has sounded a warning after a phone charger malfunctioned and caused a fire in her son's bedroom. The teenager's iPhone SE was charging on a bed in the sleepoout earlier this month.“My son had fallen asleep and was woken by the...
A NEW action plan has been launched designed to help manage parasite resistance to drenches in New Zealand. Encouraging the responsible marketing and sales of drench, more accurate and easier parasite testing, research to demonstrate the costs and...
JAMES Blackburne was an inquisitive child, always wanting to know how things worked.“I used to pull things apart,” says James, whose career in architecture took him in quite the opposite direction.“I got into trouble with my father when I took...
COULD the moody botanical artwork a Gisborne couple hung on their wall in TV reality show The Block have secured a win for Stu Watts and Amy Moore in the TV reality show’s first challenge? We’ll never know — but having been allocated the do-up...
CRICKET by Ben O’Brien-LeafBittersweet — the Poverty Bay boys’ junior secondary schools team were thrilled to play their last cricket game of the Northern Districts tournament at Rotorua’s chief ground, Smallbone Park, but disappointed to...
THE Gisborne-East Coast branch of the New Zealand Farm Forestry Association believes a field day tomorrow will benefit the whole commercial forestry industry when it comes to the right tree in the right place on East Coast steep hill country. The...
The Ministry of Education (MoE) has recently published a study showing that computer or tablet-based learning in Year 5 students reduces reading enjoyment, as measured by data from the Progress in International Reading Literacy Study. It also showed...
A report to the council’s Finance and Audit committee tomorrow says capital expenditure for the first six months of this financial year was $12.4 million against a budgeted $18m — 69 percent of what was forecast — while a net surplus of $2.8m...
“Residential schools” were a common feature of European settler societies (except New Zealand) until quite late in the 20th century, and their purpose was not just to educate but to “deracinate” their aboriginal pupils: that is, to cut them...
There is an important display at the Poverty Bay A&P Show this week that Tairāwhiti Civil Defence Emergency Management wants everyone in the community to see. It's an emergency pod — a six-metre shipping container packed with emergency equipment...