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Quake an early-morning wake-up call

An earthquake on a fault beneath Ngatapa might have disturbed light sleepers yesterday morning, a day after a similar quake near Matawai. Yesterday morning’s light shake lasted no more than 5-10 seconds at 4.31am and was recorded at magnitude 2.9...

Visitors finding other places to stay in region

More baches and holiday rentals helping as hotel and motel accommodation caters for emergency housing . . . While many hotels and motels have moved into housing the region’s homeless in emergency accommodation, the regional tourism organisation...

Clean-up duties for two Gisborne war memorials

Two Gisborne monuments honouring the country’s soldiers who died in battle are being cleaned ahead of Anzac Day. The Gisborne Cenotaph and the Pātūtahi Returned Services Monument will have scaffolding and fences put around them to enable...

Ready for take-off at Te Araroa

New aerodrome at Te Araroa will ‘unlock the tourism and general economy of the . . . area”.

Autumnal nip likely as equinox approaches

The next few days are forecast to bring the first touches of autumnal weather to Gisborne and the East Coast, with lower temperatures and southerly winds. Not much rain is in the offing — a bit over five millimetres yesterday — and March has so...

Morere hot pools reopening delayed

The Morere Hot Pools, one of the region’s most popular tourist attractions, will remain closed until at least July. A failing septic tank system forced the closure of the Department of Conservation-managed hot pools in 2022, and effects from...

Smoke from roof leads to calls to firefighters, house saved

Alert passersby and neighbours made the difference yesterday morning when they saw smoke coming from the roof area of a house in Ormond Road and firefighters got there in time to stop a fire inside from spreading. The alarm was raised at around...

Call for master plan to protect Kaiti

Deputy Mayor speaks up for a suburb he says is nervous about ‘intensification’.

Commitment questioned as absent councillor removed from committee

First-term Gisborne district councillor Nick Tupara has been lambasted for his poor attendance record at council meetings and removed from a newly formed council committee. At yesterday’s full council meeting, councillor Larry Foster said he had...

‘Prudent approach’ to GDC finances

Gisborne District Council faces a “serious situation” of financial sustainability as it tightens its belt to pay for cyclone recovery costs. A recent audit report says the council needs to take a “prudent approach” to finances due to the...

Festival of cricket for local primary schools

Wednesday was a great one for youth cricket at the Harry Barker Reserve. The reserve served as the venue for the Primary Festival Day on which 10 teams from nine schools played five fast-paced games of eight-a-side, eight-over softball cricket...

Van burns in suspicious circumstances in park

Fire and Emergency NZ and police responded to the incident just after 1pm yesterday.

Old law forces out quality Ombudsman

The resignation of Peter Boshier from the role of Chief Ombudsman because he turned 72 on Saturday is a loss for the country and shows the nearly 50-year-old legislation covering this key role in government accountability needs updating. Boshier has...

Economic growth looms over climate

by Bob Hughes Before the 2023 election, climate activists expected a National, Act and New Zealand First coalition Government to hit the brakes on climate and environmental action. This has now been confirmed. On Friday, RMA Reform Minister Chris...

On a pro-smoking Government . . .

If someone had stated that in the 21st Century, Aotearoa New Zealand would have a “pro smoking” Government, the result would be ridicule and incredulity, I would have been wrong, as we now do have that. Bruce Hubbard

Nothing is as simple as it seems

Hurricanes Poua again use haka to call out Govt despite warning. Extract from RNZ: “Late Saturday night, the Wellington-based franchise issued a statement explaining while the words of the haka were open to interpretation, the latest haka was not...