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...
Life Education Trust is celebrating the successful return of the Five Buck a Duck Race and looking ahead to the next one. “After expenses, we have netted around $22,000, but we have yet to make donations to Rotary and the Gisborne Yacht Club for...
Te Whatu Ora-Tairāwhiti is looking for former health board employees who may have been underpaid. Health boards, Ministry of Business, Innovation and Enterprise (MBIE), police and many other employers, including in the private sector, were found to...
Gisborne’s median house price decreased by 5 percent year-on-year last month to $570,000, data from the Real Estate Institute shows. “The region saw investors tentatively returning to the market following the election,” REINZ chief executive...
Young Gisborne musician Jed Skuse has made the final of the New Zealand Blues & BBQ Festival competition and has the chance to win three days of recording time and other prizes. The 18-year-old has original songs on Spotify and also plays a lot...
Sunday event brings in nearly 300 competitors to run or walk despite the rain.
A quad bike accident at Potaka last Thursday required a hillside landing by the Trust Tairāwhiti Eastland Rescue Helicopter to get help to an injured farmer, who was flown to Gisborne Hospital in a stable condition. The chopper crew headed back up...
A person doing spadework in the garden accidentally severed a gas line to a house in Oman Street behind Kaiti School early on Sunday afternoon. Fire and Emergency NZ responded at around midday that day. “A resident had been digging in the garden...
An air rifle has been used to shoot two protected birds found dead on the beach at Pouawa, prompting Department of Conservation staff to appeal to the public for information. Some time between November 1 and November 3, an adult variable...
It seemed inevitable after the announcement three weeks ago about potential closure in the face of ongoing financial difficulties and tough trading conditions, but confirmation yesterday that Juken will close its Gisborne mill after nearly three...
Clive Bibby Business support packages that are based on unsustainable incentives can do more harm than good. And those that involve special treatment of foreign companies, to keep them operating in this country, can prove disastrous — even if...
Gwynne Dyer Stop me if you’ve heard this story before. Or rather, don’t, because it’s relevant to the current situation, and we have to bring the people who don’t know the story up to speed first. It’s about a frog, doing whatever it is...
The current toxic shellfish warning is another sign of poor land-use decisions. What we do on land ends up in the sea — poisonous seafood is the payback we get for abusing Mother Earth. Algae and phytoplankton blooms are not just the result of...
The chop of helicopter blades filled the air at Gisborne Intermediate yesterday when an air force A109 light utility helicopter dropped in for a flying visit. The chopper stayed on the ground for the visit and a talk to the students, before...
Another bout of heavy rain is on the way for the district, according to the severe weather outlook from MetService. A low is developing west of the North Island and is expected to deepen today, then move over the North Island tomorow, although the...
Firefighters were called to burning driftwood at the mouth of the Waipaoa River on Thursday and they have made a plea again for people lighting fires on the beach to ensure they were completely out before they leave the beach. Fire and Emergency NZ...
Covid-19 numbers are up in Tairāwhiti with 74 active cases, as the country experiences a “fifth wave” of the virus. The latest official figures, for the week up to midnight last Sunday, showed 5942 cases were recorded across the nation. Health...
Hato Hone St John will soon begin Whakaōrite Whiwhinga Mahi, the organisation’s first region-wide targeted recruitment initiative in Tairāwhiti and the Eastern Bay of Plenty. St John has partnered with tertiary, local iwi, hapū, whānau and...
The ice-strengthened expedition cruise ship Heritage Adventurer was scheduled to call into Gisborne this morning as the next cab off the rank in the cruise ship season. Built in 1991 by Rauma shipyard in Finland the ship measures 125m in length...