The new regime to respond to reports of wandering stock on the region's state highways is now in force and the NZTA hopes local motorists take note of the new reporting number. The NZ Transport Agency has taken over stock control on State Highways 2...
Dear Clive Bibby,The council has arranged for extra water storage with large amounts of funding from the Government. It's called a swimming pool . . . recreation beats productivity. You need to recognise the council's priority. It's called monument...
A gisborne production company has received $350,000 in funding for a docu-drama television series on the history of Pasifika rainbow people living in New Zealand. Tairāwhiti TV received NZ On Air funding to produce the series, called Manalagi. The...
MONDAY, November 27 — Sean Shivan Pharmacy Championship, Pairs 10: Eileen Lee/Ann McCombe 61.11; Sally Knight/Michelle England 58.33; Jean Turnbull/Robyn Cheyne 55.09; Carolyn McMurray/Elizabeth Jackson 55.09. WEDNESDAY, November 29 — Craig’s...
This pen (above) of 96 Waitangi Terrace Station ewes sold for $211 at Friday's Matawhero sale. These ewes were mixed aged, with good mouths and condition, had been scanned-in-lamb at 168.75 percent and mated to a Romney ram on April 1. A second cut...
Reports of a “sale by tender” of one of our most iconic livestock farming properties — Mangaheia Stn, inland from Tolaga Bay — is welcome news for most of us who have been nervously watching the process since it was listed for sale. Foremost...
POLICE are on the lookout for a distinctive yellow Toyota Hilux that was stolen last night and the owner said the theft has disappointed him because he thinks it’s a bit of a Gisborne icon. Boyd McGregor previously operated the Surfit fishing...
In the aftermath of the Christchurch terror attack, New Zealanders are asking ourselves many difficult questions. Why has this happened in Aotearoa? How can we help the victims? How we can we heal as a nation? Are we safe?New Zealanders have come...
We are blessed our child’s grandparents have taken their grandchildren on so many outings these school holidays. Unfortunately, yesterday’s outing to our city’s amazing boardwalk was tainted. Grandparents were on foot with grandfather leading...
The World Trade Organisation agreement eliminating export subsidies for agricultural exports reached in Nairobi at the weekend is a quiet success story that may become even more important as threats to the controversial TPPA deal increase. The...
Two Gisborne businesses have an extra reason to be grateful this Christmas after winning a national advertising campaign with professional rugby players starring as actors. Dive Tatapouri and London Street Fish Shop were surprised when they each got...
Gisborne Judo Club contingent bring back 11 medals, including four gold
THIS district’s “own land wars” — starting from the siege of Waerenga-a-Hika — should be commemorated each year, says Ikaroa-Rawhiti MP and Cabinet minister Meka Whaitiri. The Customs Minister says she is less interested in Raa Maumahar...
A pilot digital health programme to help vulnerable children that is proving successful in Northland has been launched here. The mobile healthcare system iMoko is an application used on iPads and is the brainchild of doctor Lance O’Sullivan —...
THE New Zealand Forest Service has opened up its 2022 ‘Nga Karahipi Uru Rakau' forestry scholarships applications and this year there will be nine successful applicants.“It is an exciting time to be studying and working in the forestry and wood...
A ROTORUA man and two Gisborne people were arrested yesterday after police chased a car allegedly stolen from Lytton West and eventually stopped by road spikes near Tolaga Bay. Police were called about the incident at 9.45am and the Nissan Micr...
And so the stalls go up for the 2020 election — vote Labour for a fairer tax system, vote National to protect the Kiwi way of life. While it is understandable that National is arguing against a comprehensive capital gains tax in the strongest...
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Peter Clayton and Mark Hunt turned talk into title in winning the 2022 Gisborne Motors Barns-Graham Cup men's pairs on Sunday. Clayton and Hunt beat brothers Kit and Tene Goldsmith on the 17th hole of the handicap matchplay final to join an elite...
A re-think on allowing industrial operations in Awapuni Road could be on the cards after Mayor Meng Foon agreed to look into concerns raised by nearby residents. Given the nearby industrial subdivision, residents have complained that increasing...
A government minister aiming to visit every rural council in New Zealand by the end of September has made it to Gisborne — stop number 15 of 55. Associate Minister for Local Government Kieran McAnulty visited Gisborne District Council on Thursday...
Support for the petition opposing the potential sale of the Huiarua and Matanui stations to overseas forestry interests climbed past the 2500 mark yesterday, and Gisborne-Wairoa Federated Farmers has had more than 35,000 views on it on their...
Labour's proposed new tax rates are the most dramatic development of the election campaign so far and cut straight to the issue of how the country can recover from the economic recession caused by the Covid-19 pandemic. Finance Minister Grant...
AN increasing trend of sole parents in Gisborne getting off benefits and back into work or education is expected to further improve, after the Government announced it would make more help available for single parents. There have been successive...
ONLY days after a public plea was made to stop using second-hand charity stores as dumping grounds, a broken bed with stains and dirty car tyres were dumped outside Gisborne’s Habitat for Humanity ReStore at the weekend. The call to the public by...
YMP made their most emphatic statement yet in the Pak’nSave premier-grade netball competition when they completed a resounding victory over challengers Whangara Old Girls at the YMCA last night. YMP Sunshine Brewery were in control throughout and...
Firefighters were called out twice last night to two quite different emergencies, one that involved overcooked food and the other to help someone trapped in a bathroom. Fire and Emergency NZ received the first call at 6pm to a house in Daphne Street...
SPRING caught out Gisborne Hospital’s Emergency Department (ED) with a record number of October presentations. Chief executive Jim Green told the Hauora Tairawhiti board that October had been the busiest month of the year for the ED, with...
Ukaipo or the Big Latch-On at Puku Ora cafe on Thursday was a celebration of breastfeeding. The virtual community event was for all breastfeeding mothers to share their current “belfie” (breastfeeding selfie) to the Facebook page of...
Last seen in these parts behind The Gisborne Herald's front desk, Uawa-Tolaga Bay woman Te Ao o Hinepehinga Rauna has since travelled overseas, returned and been cast as Aria O'Kane in the upcoming TV series, Head High. Described as a case of art...
WAIROA man is in a critical condition in Waikato Hosptial after the ute he was driving collided with a parked trailer in Ormond Road last night near the Wi Pere Street roundabout. The crash happened at about 8.30pm.“The 29-year-old man’s utility...
A big week in council with volumes of reading to be done, all whilst keeping an eye on the global economic landscape and the effects on our community. Covid-19 is a reminder of the necessity for regional security through diversity...
Gisborne Intermediate's man at the top is stepping down and taking a new direction in life after almost 30 years of service to education.“Gisborne Intermediate is an incredible school that has been a huge part of my life for two decades. I have...