Interesting reading in last Saturday’s newspaper regarding the clean-up after Cyclone Gabrielle. It wasn’t just locals involved in the clean-up. One young ex-Gisborne man, who I will call Antony, travelled from Auckland with the express purpose...
Whāngārā Farms has announced the appointment of Anthony Creswell as its first CEO. Anthony Creswell The appointment underscores the company’s commitment to growth in New Zealand agribusiness, says board chair Ingrid Collins. Mr Creswell has...
Beef + Lamb NZ will stage a Ewe Body Condition Score and Performance Feeding Workshop in Gisborne next week. It will be on Thursday February 29, from 1pm to 4pm at Papatu Station, 479 Papatu Road, Manutūkē. “This workshop will help sheep and...
by Katherine Klouwens, LeaderBrand As summer hits its stride, New Zealanders are in for a delightful surprise as watermelons are in abundance this week, offering unbeatable prices that will not burn a hole in your pocket. Some supermarkets are...
The cruise ship Noordam made a successful visit to Gisborne on Saturday and was a majestic sight as she sat at anchor in Turanganui-a-Kiwa/Poverty Bay. Almost all of the 1800 passengers on board came ashore for the day in the ship’s tenders. Wa165...
TaiTech Writers Group has been meeting since 2020 and have just published and launched its first collection of writing in a volume titled Voices from the TaiTech Hub. Some of the 13 contributors, invited guests and members of the public gathered on...
Wairoa’s Flood Protection Stakeholder Group is exploring a range of critical mitigation options, including spillways and stopbanks, to provide future flood protection for the township but a solution is still years away. Following Cyclone...
Māhia Beach residents and holidaymakers are finally to be connected to the Chorus fibre broadband internet network. Chorus fibre frontier general manager Anna Mitchell said Chorus was extending its network to 59 rural communities (10,000 homes and...
NZ Transport Agency roading crews will return to State Highway 2 next week for resurfacing work at Muriwai. The stretch of road between Nicks Head Station Road and Maraenui Road will close between 8pm and 5am each night from Monday, February 26, to...
Controversial plans to change Gisborne’s transport priorities by building more cycleways and pedestrian crossings appear unlikely to get Government funding after Transport Minister Simeon Brown hinted funding priorities are about to change...
The redevelopment of Mangapapa School completed an important milestone on Tuesday, with the pouring of the first layer of concrete foundations for the final stage of the project. Main contractor, Currie Construction, and their team of subcontractors...
Practices of Gisborne forestry company Ernslaw One are in the spotlight after its Forest Stewardship Council certification was revoked following a report from Geneva-based auditor SGS Société Générale de Surveillance. Ernslaw has appealed the...
A major aerial mapping project intended to gather information on the region’s underground water resources concluded with a survey of the Poverty Bay Flats at the weekend. The project was carried out by Aqua Intel Aotearoa (a partnership between...
Raukūmara Pae Maunga restoration project has started the year with a pre-feed application which sets the stage for a 1080 drop. Raukūmara Pae Maunga is the largest indigenous conservation project in the world. It is led by East Coast iwi Ngati...
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Gisborne surfer Hannah Kohn saved her best to last and booked a trip to the ISA world championships at the New Zealand Festival of Longboarding contest at Papamoa on Sunday. Kohn, 27, won the open women’s title while fellow Gisborne surfer Dan...
Midway came home from the Northern Regional surf lifesaving championships at Whangamatā at the weekend with a stack of medals with the squad producing another strong performance ahead of the nationals next month. The club’s Under-19 athletes were...
Gisborne Boys’ High student Tristin Williams won’t forget his Super 8 secondary schools golf tournament debut on the Awapuni Links course yesterday. Playing in the B Division of the 54-hole event, the youngster racked up an incredible 60...
SATURDAY — Premier Grade DJ Barry Cup, Round 2, Day 1: Gisborne Boys’ High School 164 all out in 54.1 overs (Johnathan Gray 40, Nathaniel Fearnley 38 not out, David Gray 29; Keegan Jooste 4-31, Nicholas Armour 3-25) lead Bollywood High School...
Prime Minister Christopher Luxon cast something of a shadow over the country with his weekend “state of the nation” speech where he described New Zealand as fragile, laying the blame for that on the former Labour government. In what often seemed...
Gwynne Dyer Vladimir Putin’s regime had been assassinating Chechen warlords, defectors from the Russian intelligence services and sundry wayward oligarchs for years, but its first political murder was the hit on high-profile journalist Ann...
Re: Look back to forebears, February 17 letter. Peter Best states that the building of a Buddhist stupa on Kaiti Hill is an insult to the memory of Christian missionary William Williams. I do not think Mr Best understands Buddhism at all. Buddha was...
The frontage of the Blitz Surf Shop in Wainui Road sustained extensive damage at around midday on Sunday when a van veered off the road and smashed into the building. The van ploughed through the left front corner of the shop and came to rest by the...
The elderly and disabled people are often forgotten during extreme weather events, a research project study has found.
Stand-up comedy, burlesque dancers and frank discussions about often taboo subjects like menopause, sex and relationships were all on the menu for the more than 300 women from around New Zealand who gathered for the inaugural Shepherdess Muster at...
The Marlin and Tuna Hunt tournament that concluded here on Sunday was “amazing with magnificent fishing”, Gisborne Tatapouri Sports Fishing Club president Roger Faber says’ Close to 100 boats and more than 330 anglers took part in the Gisborne...
Gisborne firefighters were called out twice at the weekend to put out fires left burning on the beach. It has prompted another request from Fire and Emergency NZ for the public to make sure they put out any beach fires they light. FENZ crews...
Members of the Tolaga Bay Bowling Club welcomed the reopening of their club a year after Cyclone Gabrielle took out the bowling green. President Sharon Olsen, a member since the early 1980s, said the green had had a lot of water damage from the wet...
In the week to Sunday the Trust Tairāwhiti Eastland Rescue Helicopter team flew two helicopters and completed 12 missions, nearly twice their usual weekly average. “That’s a big caseload in anybody’s language and just shows the level of...
by Doug Laing Wairoa Mayor Craig Little is hoping the long-awaited State Highway 2 Waikare Realignment between Napier and Wairoa will go ahead without a hitch after resource consent was lodged with the Hawke’s Bay Regional Council. The consent...
Riding the region’s longest forest mountain bike track in summer is a great way to focus on technique instead of speed while having fun, says Motu Trails Charitable Trust chair Amy Spence. The 20km-Pakihi Track northwest of Gisborne is part of the...
A mission to help clean up space junk launched successfully from Rocket Lab’s Māhia spaceport yesterday. The mission, named On Closer Inspection, deployed an orbital debris inspection satellite for Astroscale Japan Inc. Rocket Lab’s Electron...
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The Government and KiwiRail have to come up with a solution quickly on what to do about the inter-island rail ferry service. In December the Government declined the state-owned rail operator’s request for an extra $1.47 billion for the...