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Petition to raise house price cap

The Government is being petitioned to change its stance and increase the house price cap for Gisborne first-time home buyers to access its First Home Loan Scheme. The scheme allows qualifying people to take out loans for properties up to a certain...

‘Another legend gone too soon’

NGATI Porou East Coast Rugby Football Union is among the many to have paid tribute to former player Willie Collins, who died in a diving incident in Wellington at the weekend. Wellington-based Collins, a cousin of All Black Jerry Collins who was...

Aims Games

SwimmingFinals — Jodiesha Kirkpatrick (Gis Int), 12yrs girls age group: 1st in 200 metres breaststroke; 2nd in 100 individual medley; 1st in 50m breaststroke; 3rd in 100m butterfly; 2nd in 200m IM; 8th in 200m freestyle; 1st in 100m breaststroke...

Holiday weekend action

Woman critical after two-vehicle city crash

A woman was taken to Gisborne Hospital in critical condition this morning after a two-vehicle crash at the intersection of Roebuck Road and Aberdeen Road. The crash happened at around 8.35am. Police said a 25-year-old woman in one of the vehicles was...

Time for Maori wards has come

Our columnist today can rest assured he is not misusing the term “some of my best friends are Maori”; it is indeed a common deflection for people who wish to make comments or take positions that could be seen as anti-Maori or racist, and serves...

PLANE SAILING

Touching down after years in the air

World Cup in Gisborne

Tairawhiti paddlers ready

TAIRAWHITI paddlers have history on their side in the waka ama national sprint championships at Lake Karapiro next week, but Horouta Waka Hoe face strong northern competition for the title of top club. Mareikura Canoe Club and Horouta have some of...

Upgrading roads a top priority

Gisborne District Council is now mostly moved into its new building. Without doubt it will have been designed and built to meet every building code best-practice standard so that all who are working inside can be assured they are in a safe and...

Shocked at presenter’s bias

Yesterday morning on TV1’s “Breakfast” we saw news presenter Hillary Barry seriously step over the mark in her position, which cannot be biased at all. Television news presenters have an important job to do. Freedom of speech is a most...

Tairawhiti's Covid outbreak grows: 332 active cases

Huge weekend of vaccinations as outbreak intensifies

Realtors ‘ready to rock’

GISBORNE'S housing market is out of an enforced lockdown and with just nine houses sold last month, realtors are prepared for change. Latest data from the Real Estate Institute New Zealand shows sales fell to single figures in April while the...

Marijuana lies

We have just listened to an interview of Colorado author Ben Cort talking with Bob McCoskrie. This issue of legalising marijuana is full of lies — lies of ommision. We are not being informed of the huge increases in the THC of plants today. In the...

Using music as a tool to motivate little learners

The founder of The Kids Music Company will be in Gisborne next week to give teachers of 2 to 5 year olds, and parents and caregivers with children in that age range, the opportunity to discover the value of music as a motivator. Janet Channon’s...

Coaches proud of how teams respond

A LATE penalty by midfielder Grant Jones won the Poverty Bay Cup for United (3) at Childers Road Reserve on Saturday. It was the start of a good day for team coach Chris Adams. He hit the winning spot kick for United firsts in the Bailey Cup penalty...

Rich possibilities ignored

Gordon Webb seems to be working overtime to persuade people to do nothing about climate change. He projects no visions but the status quo and a ridiculous extreme, ignoring the rich possibilities in between. This paucity leads to something more...

Hands off our fireworks, Akld bludgers

Well, 7000 Auckland screamers say the country can’t have Guy Fawke’s sales of fireworks any more, as the 1.5 million of them bludging off the rest of the country for their roads etc want this. What is so wrong with this picture?Well, I’m sick...