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A breakthrough for landmark sculpture

Nearly three years after the Te Ha commemorations it appears the Hawaiiki Turanga sculpture might finally be installed next to Waikanae Stream. A Gisborne District Council meeting last week revealed the council could gain Three Waters Better Off...

Tie-breaker needed to decide final

SOFTBALLSCORPIONS needed an eighth-inning tie-breaker to beat TWK Rams 8-7 in the final of the Reid Reihana Memorial Tournament for Tairawhiti men’s softball teams. The scores were tied 6-6 at the end of the regulation seven innings. Rovers won the...

Training day

Former Lions governors from around New Zealand enjoyed a visit to Gisborne and finding out about the Gisborne club's work with Gisborne City Vintage Rail. The group enjoyed a morning tea on a carriage of the Wa165 steam train and saw some...

Our food system workers are heroes too

Like healthcare workers, food system workers have been the frontline heroes throughout the fight against Covid-19. While food producers, manufacturers and distributers have been acknowledged as essential businesses, those physically in the harvesting...

Making mark on mats and track

GISBORNE students are making their mark on the mats, while a Campion College BMX rider has tasted bronze success at the AIMS Games International Sporting Championships in the Bay of Plenty. Twelve Gisborne students have advanced to post-section play...

OBR and Ngatapa the teams to beat as Hope Cup semis loom

CRICKETWhat wouldn't any cricket team do to have just one of them?Opening batsmen Craig Christophers and Thom Berry again laid the platform for victory at the Harry Barker Reserve in Round 14: two weeks out from the Hope Cup semi-finals, their club...

Mangapapa dances into first place

Mangapapa School bowled over the judges in a national dance competition to take home the NZ Dance Challenge Trophy. The national dance challenge is an opportunity for students to learn, perform and share a dance routine along with other...

Petition against sale of stations gains more signatures

Signatures on the petition opposing the Overseas Investment Office application for the sales of Huiarua and Matanui Stations on the East Coast are approaching 3000. An overseas company has lodged an application with the OIO for the purchase of the...

Picture postcard

Campion College student Angela Gibson Sam spent a whole year painting a wall of Maurice Allan's house in Lytton West. It wasn't just any old paint job though — she copied an image from a postcard on to the blank wall. She started the mural as an art...

Gig Guide

Got something going on? Let The Guide know at guide@gisborneherald. co. nz, or telephone 869-0630. The Wave featuring Seymore & TDK: Dome Room, Saturday (8pm-2am), Tickets $10 on the door. DJ Murdurah (Video DJ): The ShipWreck bar, Saturday (9pm). Free...

Get counting kereru in September

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...

Old flag with silver fern

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...

Store prices ease at Matawhero

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...

Vaccine pass adds to Covid stress among elderly

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...

Changing attitudes towards underage drinking

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...

Telling their mother’s story

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...

Sweet theft ends on a bitter note

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...

Tallott and Mackay on attack

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...