The Weddel closure in late 1994 meant the end of a 98 year era for the Gisborne Refrigerating Company (GRC). For the 1200-strong workforce it meant the sudden and dramatic end of their working lives at the plant. It came as a crushing blow for many...
Gisborne Intermediate School students Neko Dalton and Max Gavin were crowned Māra Kai MasterChef champions after an inter-school cook-off last week. The Enviroschools Māra Kai MasterChef final runs every year at Gisborne Intermediate after...
A Gisborne man who repeatedly poached crayfish from a marine reserve has been sentenced to two months jail for what a judge described as deliberate night-time offending. Duke Matahiki was first observed and then apprehended by police at Tapuwae o...
A woman suffered serious injuries when the SUV she was in left State Highway 35 yesterday morning, hitting a large willow tree before coming to rest against a fence down a bank. Emergency services were called to the crash at around 9.30am, and...
More rain is on the way for the region, as another system sweeps in from the north, off the Tasman Sea. While the rain has not been torrential so far, total accumulation means much of the district is once again saturated. MetService warns a low...
A collection of surreptitiously taken photographs showing life as a POW (prisoner of war), backed by diaries never discovered by German captors, will fascinate any World War 2 buff or descendant of a veteran. Prominent Gisborne farmer Nick Seymour...
Project fitted Waka Kotahi goals to increase number of people using active and low carbon modes of transport . . . Gisborne District Council has already agreed to part-fund a proposal to introduce speed chicanes on Grey Street and make Kahuti...
Daughter deliberately started fire which burned her father alive, jury finds.
A referendum on the Treaty has been described as “too divisive”, so how about a referendum on the name of our country: New Zealand or Aotearoa? How could anyone describe this as “divisive”? Martin Hanson
The disintegrating condition of the sea/road wall in Tokomaru Bay is a classic example of why Big is not Better. Once Waiapu County Council’s priorities were Waiapu County Council’s and the wall was constantly maintained. Under Greater Gisborne...
by Dot McCulloch I think it’s high time I did another screed of notes about our fair city!!! I am one of those who see the “sport and recreation hub” mentioned in a previous paper as a “pie in the sky”. We Gisbornites have so much that...
Negotiations to form the next government have had an extra layer of challenge on top of the personalities, past jibes and policy differences among the three parties, with confirmation this week they are working to create New Zealand’s first...
The Big Show charity fundraiser has been hailed “a great success”. Held over two days at the Tairāwhiti Aviation Museum, the Show featured hot rods, classic and muscle cars, boats, aircraft, motorcycles, vintage military vehicles and...
Police have released the name of the person whose body was located near the mouth of Mohaka River, south of Wairoa, last week. He was 19-year-old Matthew Knight from Te Awamutu. The teenager went missing on October 9 in the Raupunga/Mohaka River...
Wāhine from Te Hokowhitu Atu sing out in their performance at the weekend’s Tamararo event, which featured brackets from 19 groups over the two days. The festival, in its 70th year, was held at the Farmers Air Showgrounds Event Centre, hot on the...
New Zealand’s “fifth wave” of Covid-19 continues to impact on Tairāwhiti For the week up to midday on Sunday, 107 active cases were reported in the district. This followed 74 cases from the previous week — the highest number recorded for...
Should the remains of dogs destroyed after attacking stock be given to Māori because of their status as taonga? Councillor Nick Tupara raised that possibility as councillors discussed a staff report on worrying dogs at a full meeting of the...
The bestowing of five new Tairāwhiti Museum life memberships was supposed to be a secret but for one recipient it was more of a surprise than most. “We were determined that Michael Muir be named a life member but because he chairs the board, as...
Ulysses Motorcycle Club of NZ members passed through Gisborne last week as part of a nationwide baton relay to raise money for victims of Cyclone Gabrielle. From November 5 to 19, hundreds of bikers travelled the length and breadth of New Zealand...
The processes of collecting, recording and classifying information on the natural world will be explored this Friday by two visiting Cambridge University researchers. Dr Edwin Rose and Professor Staffan Müller-Wille, from Cambridge’s Department...
Protecting tamariki in their travel to and from school is a key driver behind the Wairoa District Council Interim Speed Management Plan. The council proposes implementing an interim speed management plan to reduce speeds in key locations, such as...
Tairāwhiti health leaders will be appearing alongside some of the finest scientific minds from New Zealand and overseas at the Mātai Medical Research Institute two-day symposium which starts tomorrow. The free event is open to the public and will...
Gisborne District Council has issued 190 camping permits so far since the seasonal camping season started at Labour Weekend. Each of the permits entitles campers to occupy a particular site for 28 days. Pouawa and Turihaua Beach have been well used...
The second cruise ship visit of the season went ahead as planned on Saturday when the 140-passenger Heritage Adventurer spent the day at anchor out on Turanganui-a-Kiwa/Poverty Bay. As usual the visitors on board came ashore to enjoy a range of...
Alliance Group’s pure south handpicked 55-day aged beef has been crowned the best grass-fed steak and the best ribeye steak in the world. It triumphed over entries from across the globe at the World Steak Challenge awards ceremony in London...
Greenpeace have shown they are nothing but an anti-farming lobby group by criticising Fonterra’s new on-farm emissions targets, says Federated Farmers president Wayne Langford. “Last week Fonterra announced that they plan to reduce their...
A Beef + Lamb New Zealand Knowledge Hub learning module explains that there are generally four months between weaning and mating and the first two are key to best body condition going into mating. “Getting the feed management right in the two...
The time it is taking to form a government has become a growing headache for Prime Minister elect Christopher Luxon and his National party, so they will have been glad to announce yesterday afternoon that they have reached policy deals with both Act...
The truth — pine trees do NOT cause erosion. Aside from natural erosion by quake, wind and water, human activity is the prime cause of damaging erosion in this district. Those who are spreading misinformation about erosion and land use need to...
I believe many of your readers will not have liked Gwynne Dyer’s “The frog, the scorpion and Hamas” column because it is an accurate treatise on the factors governing the Gaza conflict, yet like all good analysis it is pragmatic in the...
Imagine Eastland Group as a sailing ship like the Spirit of Adventure. Under full sail it is a great sight as it powers steadily forward. This is not good enough for the owners and the captain, however. They require more performance from the ship...
I am not happy that the United States plans to spend about a trillion dollars over 30 years to rectify its nuclear shortfall. This is a reversal from President Barack Obama’s 2009 Prague speech that laid out his agenda for further nuclear...
Rivers around the region are being surveyed by a high-tech drone this summer, replacing traditional ground-based methods for gathering river information. Jet skis and kayaks will also be used to collect depth soundings, which together with the drone...
Gisborne District Council staff member Kerry Hudson has been described as a hero of soil conservation and land management in Tairāwhiti after he was honoured at a national event last week. Kerry was awarded the Outstanding Contribution award at the...