People in Gisborne are being urged to help “kick breast cancer to the kerb” this month by collecting for Breast Cancer Foundation NZ’s Pink Ribbon Street Appeal. Around 10,000 volunteers will be hitting the streets all over New Zealand on...
If you see a bright orange gazebo by the boat ramps this summer, go and have a chat. It means Harbourmaster Peter Buell and the Māori Wardens are close by to ensure good information is readily available for anyone going out on the water. They’ll...
Poverty Bay A&P Spring Show National Dancing — Cups and trophies C Jolly Memorial Cup PB & EC Championship Highland fling under-12yrs: Mali McGrail Jackie and Gillian Dodd Cup PB & EC Championship sword dance u14yrs: Mali McGrail. Mrs...
Waikato triallist Leo Jecentho and Zap won the Spring Show dog trial championship title on Saturday morning in what was described by the judge as a “brilliant” final runoff. Jecentho scored 99 points out of 100 in the final, to nudge out...
Muka Tangata, the Workforce Development Council for the food and fibre sector, is seeking feedback from people here on new, simplified qualifications for seafood workers. Chief executive Jeremy Baker said the proposed new qualifications are easier...
Having opened the door to dealing with Winston Peters after the election, National leader Christopher Luxon went to great lengths to assure voters it would be a “last resort”. However, the calculus of forming “a strong and stable government”...
Josiah Brown, Maxim Institute There are some things a government cannot fix . . . a lot, in fact. As a willing victim of this year’s election debates, I was astounded by what politicians were prepared to “pledge” themselves to fixing. As we...
Elysabeth Wolter Hello, wonderful readers! I’m the founder of Lizzies Insights and I’m thrilled to invite you to join me on the 28th of October at the Cossie Club in Derby Street for a day of transformative workshops. This isn’t just about...
We are sad and fearful that New Zealanders have voted for some pretty cruel policies. National have never been friends of the poor and have said they’ll sanction beneficiaries once again. We remember Ruth Richardson and then Paula Bennett and Anne...
For goodness sake! Our newspaper has the intellect to name our Show the A and P Show; not A.M.P. The radio has taken their own direction in this naming. It is no more difficult to say “A and P” than it is to say A.M.P. Does radio have their own...
A whopping $33,583 was raised for the Gisborne-East Coast Cancer Society at the 25th stockyard fundraising sale held to support Daffodil Day. Expressing gratitude, Cancer Society fundraising and events coordinator Shay Podjursky said to everyone...
Before election candidates spoke at the New Zealand Nurses Organisation’s Maranga Mai Election Evening Hui held recently, several nurses spoke of their experiences in the health sector. The following slightly abridged coverage comes from a Te...
Stop/go traffic management will be in place for one night only tonight at the Waipaoa River roundabout just south of Gisborne on State Highway 2. The stop/go signs and lower speed limit of 30kmh will be in place between 7pm and 5am on Wednesday...
A man who suffered a suspected spinal injury in the ocean on Sunday afternoon was fortunate lifeguards from the Wainui Surf Life Saving Club happened to be there for their annual general meeting. At around 2.50pm, Riversun Wainui lifeguards saw the...
The Gisborne Town Clock has turned pink this month to support Breast Cancer Awareness Month. From October 9 to October 31, the Town Clock joins more than 60 of New Zealand’s landmarks, streets and prominent buildings in the Global Illumination...
by Doug Laing Te Kuiti shearer Jack Fagan sent out another warning that he is out for some big pickings on the Shearing Sports New Zealand circuit this summer when he won the Gisborne Shearing and Woolhandling Championships Open shearing final at...
Whānau Āwhina Plunket has welcomed a familiar face back into the Tairāwhiti Gisborne team. Plunket nurse Kaye Foreman is known to many whānau in the region as she worked for Plunket at the clinic on Ormond Road for nine years. “It’s no...
A “fantastic” event that “showed the heart and soul that’s in our community” was how the 2023 edition of the ever-popular Poverty Bay A&P Spring Show was summed. Thousands of people flocked to Showgrounds Park on Saturday, following on...
Kirkpatrick’s victory a 9500-vote turnaround from 2020 election
The expected blue tide rolled in a little higher than the polls had suggested on Saturday night, but not quite enough to give Prime Minister elect Christopher Luxon the clear majority he badly wanted. Preliminary results out on Sunday saw Luxon and...
Gwynne Dyer Armies never tell you what their strategy is, but if you look at the problems they are faced with, you can usually figure it out. No solution they come up with can be perfect — wars do not allow for perfect solutions — but their...
Attention service providers! Recently I helped a 77-year-old homeless person. Her eftpos card was worn out and needed replacing, and as she has no fixed abode they hadn’t been able to update it. When she rang them, they told her she needed proof...
The 2023 general election results are in and National will lead a new Government for the next three years. Climate change and the environment are a low priority for National and its Act coalition partner, which wants to repeal the Zero Carbon Act...
The chap driving the children’s Fonterra barrel rides for two days at the Show, with a smile on his face the whole time and showing untold patience with his little passengers, deserves a medal. Maire Overbye, Vivienne Cooper and Raigh Franks
With just three-quarters of the year gone the Trust Tairāwhiti Eastland Rescue Helicopter had already completed more missions than for the whole of last year. During 2022 the team flew 248 completed missions from their Gisborne hangar, as well as...
by Gary Hamilton-Irvine Just hours before Cushla Tangaere-Manuel was elected as Ikaroa-Rāwhiti’s new MP, she made a trip to an urupā to visit her parents’ graves. Labour’s Tangaere-Manuel defeated long-standing Ikaroa-Rāwhiti MP Mek...
Newshub's Paddy Gower called East Coast for National's Dana Kirkpatrick at 7.20pm on election night but Ms Kirkpatrick and Labour's Tāmati Coffey were still reserving judgement two hours later. From 8pm to just after 9pm, Ms Kirkpatrick had a lead...
Perfect weather highlighted the A&P Show dog trial competition out at the Showgrounds Park, that culminated this morning in the final run-off. Five Gisborne triallists and one from Wairoa were set to decide the title against combinations from...
Beef + Lamb New Zealand’s ‘Better Ram Buying’ workshop will be staged on Monday at the Waikanae Surf Lifesaving Club in Grey Street. “Don’t miss this opportunity to gain essential insights into ram selection,” said B+LNZ senior extension...
A fantastic first day of the Spring Show yesterday was just the ticket for bringing our community together, from town, country and all walks of life. The sun was shining and the mood was festive as families and friends set about enjoying the many...
Tim Wilson, Maxim Institute executive director Sociologist Brian Steensland says culture is the “symbolic-expressive dimension of social life”. It’s a helpful lens for analysing and describing the functions of a community. In policy, cultural...
Clive Bibby We should not be persuaded by the crocodile tears from Joe Biden or those of his Democrat predecessor Barack Obama professing they have been and always will be right behind the Israeli nation as they try to find a way of defending...
The country’s 2300-plus polling booths close at 7pm tonight. By the end of Wednesday, nearly one million (970,818) ordinary votes had been cast. That compares to 1,565,056 votes up to the comparable day in 2020, and 806,380 votes on the same day...
Gisborne Police are urgently seeking sightings of missing man Matthew Knight. Matthew was last seen in the Raupunga Mohaka area at around 10pm on Monday. He was wearing black work boots, blue jeans, and a black jacket. Police and Matthew’s family...