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Weekender 6.04.24

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Six60 Grassroots Tour starts next week

New Zealand rockers Six60 are counting down to the start of their Grassroots Tour next week — a 24-concert tour during which they will head down State Highway 35 and on to Beach Road, Tokomaru Bay (pictured), for their 10th show at Te Puka Tavern...

Te Araroa Aerodrome opening shifted to Sunday, April 14

The date has been changed for the official opening of the Te Araroa Aerodrome, from Friday April 12, to Sunday April 14. “The date has been changed to the weekend to allow many of the private aircraft owners and others, who found it difficult to...

Chances of quake, tsunami outlined

THERE is no stopping a tsunami or predicting when one will occur, but the warning signs will be there, says Kate Boersen of Illuminate Science. She was giving a presentation at the Māhia Golf Club in the first stop of the Hikurangi M9 Roadshow. The...

Easter hunt a roaring success

by Ryan O’Sullivan Woolly fleeces, cool beverages and record numbers of entries and game weighed made for a successful Tiniroto Easter Game Hunt. Celebrating their 20th anniversary, the hunt had 488 registrations with 369 animals weighed. Of the...

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2024 Gisborne wine vintage ‘excellent’

The grapes have all been picked in this season’s wine vintage in Tairāwhiti. While yields have been down, the grape quality has been excellent, says Gisborne Winegrowers chairman Mark Thompson. The last of the grapes, reds merlot and...

97 pēpē born in Tairāwhiti in January and February

New figures from Health NZ Tairāwhiti show 61 pēpē (babies) were born in January and 36 in February at Gisborne Hospital’s Puawai Aroha Maternity Unit. In January there were 35 boys and 26 girls born, with the heaviest baby weighing 4650 grams...

Making progress on freshwater management

Gisborne District Counci’s freshwater planning has been impacted by severe weather events and policy changes made by the new Government. A report to a full council meeting said staff working on the the Waiapu Catchment Plan were procuring...

Gisborne Herald 5.04.24

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Expanded help for cyclone-stricken homeowners

Temporary Accommodation Assistance will soon be available to more people who cannot live in their homes due to the severe weather events here last year, Social Development and Employment Minister Louise Upston says. “This will help more people who...

High interest in roading recovery info sessions

Public interest in roading recovery following Cyclone Gabrielle has led to changes in planned public information drop-in sessions. Transport Rebuild East Coast (TREC) is an alliance set up to plan, design and manage the delivery of much of the...

Rocket Lab's next mission to carry payload for Korea programme

Rocket Lab’s next launch from Māhia is a double whammy, with two payloads due to be released into two different orbits. The “Beginning Of The Swarm” mission is scheduled to lift off from Rocket Lab Launch Complex 1 in Māhia, during a 14-day...

Celebrating outstanding exporters

The call has gone out for “amazing stories” of local businesses on the world stage as the ExportNZ ASB Hawke’s Bay Export Awards celebrates its 10th year. The awards celebrate outstanding exporters in the Hawke’s Bay and Gisborne region and...

Busy days at Eastland port

Eastland Port was chocker yesterday and will be again today with kiwifruit and logs being loaded on Wharf 7 and Wharf 8. The second kiwifruit consignment of the season to leave Gisborne by sea is being loaded on to the freighter Crown Opal —...

Roamin finds a new home

There has been a happy ending to the abandoned dog story the Herald ran last month. Roamin, the 18-month-old Labrador/Greyhound cross is roamin’ no more. He was found abandoned in a local forest and cared for by two Gisborne women. Now a Makorori...

Kuru Contracting expands business, buying Rewi Haulage

Directors Chubby Rewi and wife Agnes of log transport company Rewi Haulage have said goodbye to a business they founded 10 years ago. A farewell breakfast was held at the Cossie Club in Gisborne this week with some 60 people attending. Kuru...

Gizzy chopper involved in search for six hours

The Trust Tairāwhiti Eastland Rescue Helicopter crews involved in the search for a missing fisherman off the coast of Hawke’s Bay covered over 50 square kilometres of ocean during their 10 hours flying time involved in the extensive search...