It was a busy weekend for Poverty Bay Bowling Club’s junior members. On Saturday they competed in an interclub event organised by the Tairāwhiti Bowls Futures Group. The club entered a men’s team and a women’s team. A Te Karaka combination...
Israel faces even more international condemnation and outrage if it goes ahead with its planned invasion of Rafah city in Gaza, but that won’t stop Benjamin Netanyahu. The Israeli prime minister has said he is determined to press on with a ground...
Tim Wilson Maxim Institute executive director Many ominous omens filled the air before this year’s Waitangi celebrations. Commentators were prophesying trouble. Deputy Prime Minister Winston Peters was booed in the morning. A hīkoi approached...
Clive Bibby I can’t remember a time when farming in New Zealand provided so many opportunities but at the same time was threatened by so many events and interferences beyond our control. It is clear that, in order to survive as profitable entities...
Interesting article from Ric Stevens, Open Justice, which confirms that a long-haul truck driver who was dismissed for refusing to get vaccinated against Covid-19 has been awarded nearly $29,000 by the Employment Relations Authority. One wonders how...
Wake up, Kiwi Rail! I want to be able to go to Napier on a train from Gisborne. Trains are my favourite, and I am missing seeing the train come to Gisborne. I am a great, great fan of trains and go to Rail Action Group meetings. Please save the...
Eastland Wood Council has vowed to continue to support the region’s cyclone recovery efforts and “seek out new and innovative ways” to build sustainability and mitigate risks in forestry. On reflecting on the impacts of the severe weather...
by Zita Campbell Emergency officials gathered in Gisborne this week to look at the progress made since Cyclone Gabrielle and plan for future natural disasters. The Tairāwhiti Civil Defence Emergency Management group met on Wednesday to discuss...
Sport Gisborne Tairāwhiti is excited to announce the Tairāwhiti Rising Legends squad for 2024. Tairāwhiti Rising Legends (TRL) is an initiative aimed at recognising, acknowledging and supporting the development of talented young athletes within...
by Jack Ward A cultural and linguistic renaissance is under way on Rēkohu Chatham Islands. For years, myths have shrouded people’s perceptions and notions of Moriori who call those islands home. Kiwa Hammond says “they are waking up a dormant...
The district council has indicated it will look at spraying the remains of willows removed from the banks of Te Arai River during the major clean-up operation. That news has come as a relief to landowners impacted considerably when the river flooded...
Agri-innovators, top-flight speakers and two full days of networking are in store for those planning on attending the 2024 East Coast Farming Expo next week. The February 21-22 event for East Coast sheep and beef farmers is being held at Wairoa’s...
“We only need one to slip through.” That from group manager Ben Green, speaking at this week’s Tairāwhiti Civil Defence and Emergency Management group meeting. Mr Green said the thunderstorms and other bad weather of early 2024 were...
Tairāwhiti-based Mātai Medical Research Institute has celebrated the success of its 10-week summer internship programme and farewelled those involved. Chief operating officer Leigh Potter says the interns undertook a transformative journey of...
Around 40 percent of the district’s kiwifruit growers have been hit by vine and crop loss as Cyclone Gabrielle continues to leave a destructive legacy.
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Royal New Zealand Ballet’s Tutus on Tour is coming to Gisborne at the end of February with two shows at the Gisborne War Memorial Theatre. The summer tour will visit 11 different regional theatres in 23 days, marking the end of summer and the...
Gisborne people will soon have the chance to learn the drums, Japanese style, with Jessie Gibbs from Wellington’s Narukami Taiko. Throughout history taiko drums have been used in communication, military action, theatrical accompaniment, religious...
Footnote New Zealand Dance, Aotearoa’s leading contemporary dance company, are bringing their critically acclaimed show If You Know You Know to eight centres across the country, with a Gisborne date at the War Memorial Theatre next month. “IYKYK...
The wealth and diversity of creativity within Te Tairāwhiti is set to be showcased across the globe on a daily basis thanks to a collaborative effort between Te Tairāwhiti Arts Festival and the Ministry of Culture and Heritage. Tikitoi is a free...
A surprising op-ed duo of former prime minister Helen Clark (1999-2008) and her once political opponent Don Brash (2003-2006 National Party leader) appeared in the NZ Herald on Tuesday, urging the Government not to join the Aukus security pact...
Gwynne Dyer Coming up to the second anniversary of the Russian invasion of Ukraine on February 24, things aren’t looking bright for the Ukrainians. Their vaunted summer offensive sputtered out with almost no gains. Russia’s winter offensive is...
Re: Tairāwhiti Moves, inner city transport plans/Grey Street redesign. I read with concern the Tairāwhiti Moves plan put forward to council. At the same time we are reading daily the issues and huge expense such plans are having in Auckland, with...
Re the modes of moving nonsense . . . I would seriously suggest that another roundabout is needed to solve a now very-congested intersection. I refer to the Peel Street-Childers Road intersection. This has become a nightmare to negotiate safely, as...
In Jason Heale’s column “Our character deficit . . .”, he cites incidents of politicians and relatively rich businesspeople letting the masses down and, therefore, not to be trusted. He also pontificates by paraphrasing definitions from a book...
The widespread cyclone devastation that ripped through the Gisborne and wider communities is still being felt a year on as the recovery continues. But for a group of Te Wharau School senior students yesterday, it was all about fun and participation...
Patutahi Cheryl Te Rito completed a weekend victory double at Patutahi’s Open Opening Day tournament on Sunday. Fresh from winning the Canadian foursomes stableford at her home Waikohu club’s opening day on Saturday, she repeated the effort —...
Nick Greeks is loving his cricket at the moment and rightly so. The Coastal Concrete Old Boys Rugby all-rounder, who — hampered by an injury to his left ankle — got through to Christmas on courage before stepping down as captain, took 10 wickets...
The maiden visit of cruise ship Silver Shadow to Gisborne on Tuesday was affected by swell in Tūranganui-a-Kiwa/Poverty Bay. “Tendering of passengers did not start until around midday and the early excursions planned were cancelled because of...
Gisborne-based fruit marketer First Fresh hosted its annual Freshies grower awards night and the Supreme Award winners were Ormond couple Charlie and Vivienne Mills. The awards acknowledge those who achieve the most outstanding performance across...
A major aerial mapping project is under way to gather information on the region’s underground water resources. The project is being carried out by Aqua Intel Aotearoa (a partnership between GNS Science and Kānoa, funded by the Provincial Growth...
by Zita Campbell Plans to build a 20-metre-high Buddhist monument in Gisborne have been marked as auspicious by a highly-ranked monk. His Holiness Kenting Tai Situ Rinpoche, a lama of The Kagyu school of Tibetan Buddhism, has appointed the stupa. As...
It was an emotional and beautiful morning in Te Karaka yesterday as over 150 people gathered for the karakia to acknowledge the year since Cyclone Gabrielle hit the region. Residents from Te Karaka, Puha, Whatatutu, and Branson and Lavenham roads...
Deputy Mayor Josh Wharehinga summed up his experience of Cyclone Gabrielle a year after it struck in one word . . . “unreal”. “Unreal is what I think about what we went through last year.” He was one of several Gisborne district councillors...