Clients using Gisborne’s Sunshine Service are greeted by some new faces on a Friday once a month, the result of an initiative to increase the service’s volunteer base. The faces belong to members of Eastland Port’s senior management team, who...
The call for an indoor sports centre in Turanganui-a-Kiwa/Gisborne is intensifying as several sports experiencing significant growth feel acutely the impact of a lack of facilities. Sport Gisborne Tairawhiti chief executive Stefan Pishief says the...
A pink-themed top-of-the-table men’s football game has raised thousands of dollars for the Breast Cancer Foundation. The total was boosted by a flurry of donations after High School Old Boys player and co-coach Matthew McFatter put his hair on the...
Contractors repairing the collapsed sewer main in Ormond Road at the junction with Lytton Road,yesterday. Gisborne District Council staff have been working alongside hospital staff to ensure minimum disruption while the sewer pipe is fixed. This is...
Tairawhiti-raised Hurricanes lock Isaia Walker-Leawere has served a one-month ban from all sport after testing positive for cannabis use. Walker-Leawere tested positive after the Hurricanes played the Fijian Drua in Suva in May and served his ban...
The Sunrise Foundation welcomed new trustees Mike Torrie, BDO managing partner, and Leslynne Jackson, Manaaki Tairāwhiti project manager, to their board of trustees at the recent AGM. “Mike and Leslynne’s respective roles and experience in the...
The Serious Fraud Office with neither confirm nor deny if it is investigating cases of fraud here around misuses of the Government’s recent cyclone recovery business grants. Earlier this week, the SFO issued a new strategic focus, listing...
Tairāwhiti has 153 cases of Covid-19, according to the latest figures released by Te Whatu Ora. Total Tairāwhiti cases “recoded” since the Covid epidemic began in 2020 number 24,820 and include 35 deaths. All Te Whatu Ora data on Covid relates...
Gisborne District Council is to suspend its programme to strengthen existing bridges during the current financial year because staff have been reprioritised to focus on storm recovery work. The $650,000 annual programme was implemented to enable 50...
New research shows the scale and pace of sheep and beef land purchased for forestry is even higher than first thought. An updated Orme & Associates report on land-use change from pastoral farming to large-scale forestry shows the amount of land...
Workplace challenges remain the most common reason for women to never breastfeed or to stop breastfeeding earlier than recommended. That is the key issue behind the theme for World Breastfeeding Week 2023 — Enabling breastfeeding: making...
A council decision to approve a lease in principle on culturally significant land in Tokomaru Bay was made without a full swathe of information available to councillors, a report has revealed. Last September, Gisborne District Council’s operations...
More than 100 people picked up 1.3 tonnes of rubbish from the sand dunes and beach along the Mad Mile on Sunday morning. The community clean-up along Centennial Marine Drive was organised by Waste Management and Gisborne District Council. Waste...
The new Wharf 7 development at Eastland Port has been used for the first time with the docking of the coastal container ship Rangitata. She has been discharging a load of 2000 tonnes of fertiliser for Ravensdown. The Rangitata, first ship to dock...
Police have recovered firearms, ammunition and molotov cocktails from the Totara Street house that was shot at on Saturday night and a gang member from that address has been arrested. A woman was alone in the house with her five daughters at around...
In my letter of August 2, I said that on the Opoutama side of the big slip at Blacks Beach, there was an old, 1 metre slump, 40 metres long and covered in blackberry that I bet no one else had seen . . . and that it could go any day. Note, the slump...
I read of councillor concern that “GHL’s dominant asset is being lined up to be sold”. This is not a new plan, as our community has watched assets being sold off by sell-off types meant to represent us before. National and local...
by Clive Bibby It is hard to differentiate between those who walk out of meetings, probably to gain a headline on the 6pm network news, and those who attend because they desperately need to hear of some government action that might ease the pressure...
by Marcus Roberts Maxim Institute director of research Nigel Lawson’s aphorism “to govern is to choose” reminds us that there is no such thing as a free lunch. When a government chooses a particular course of action, it necessarily has less...
A new report on funding for general practices has highlighted what has been a growing risk — the pressure on the country’s front-line doctors. Prof Des Gorman, who co-authored the report Lifeline for Health: Meeting New Zealand’s Need For...
by Doug Laing A wave of shearing record attempts in the New Zealand summer means a record has fallen even before the shearing has started. The World Sheep Shearing Records Society has now received seven applications for challenges in New Zealand...
Veteran triallist Barney Strong from Taupo headed home the field in the final runoff for the Charity sheep dog trial championships at the Gisborne Riding Club for the Disabled on Saturday morning. The finalists were Merv Utting with Guy and Steel...
Iain Boyle refers to Winston Peters as “wily and duplicitous”, suggesting that votes for NZ First would be wasted (August 5 letter) — but not so! Mr Boyle blames Winston for installing Jacinda Ardern in 2017 but in effect it was the misguided...
Re: Testing year but progress noted, July 29 story. I note the expensive investment in Flick Energy came to an end in the financial year ended March 31, 2023. Is the CEO able to detail the exact loss on the investment? It looks to be around $6...
by Pat Seymour It is really regrettable to see the continued degradation of the seafront at Makorori and Turihaua threatening the state highway along this section of SH35. And not just by the sea. There is further damage to the dunes at Makorori by...
by Roger Handford Predictable — entirely predictable, the outcome of the forestry/slash issue. At each step, the debate has moved further away from a sensible response and plan of action on a matter crucial for the future of this district. Make no...
The energy transition under way around the world will cost trillions of dollars annually and require a large wealth transfer from developed countries — which grew wealthy off the back of cheap fossil fuels — to poor countries in order to reduce...
Thousands got out to visit the Gisborne Home & Lifestyle Expo over the weekend. Event coordinator Andy Searle said the expo, held at the Farmers Air Event Centre over Saturday and Sunday was “very successful”. “Everyone had a great time...
Central School held its annual cross-country event at Waiteata Park on Monday. Principal Stu Barclay said it was great to hold it at the park which was right on the school’s doorstep and where students do a lot of planting and are kaitiakitang...
People will soon have the opportunity to buy art by well known local artists such as Graeme Mudge, Val Bos and Peter Ireland at an art sale which will benefit three local charities, but organiser Diana Whakapapa is seeking more donations. She had...
Gisborne Host Lions Club and the Wainui Lions Club, in association with New Zealand Lions Clubs, have donated generators to two marae recovering from Cyclone Gabrielle. The marae are Te Heapera Marae in Ruatoria and Te Putahi Marae in Wairo...
Gisborne medical research institute Mātai has agreed a space sharing agreement with Tōnui Collab that will provide a physical space for Tōnui to continue to provide science and technology learning opportunities for tamariki in Tairāwhiti. Under...
The beach erosion that occurred north of Gisborne last week was not unusual for this coast. Gisborne District Council records show the dramatic give and take of the sea over the decades when catchment staff used to measure the Wainui beach profile...
Six months on from Cyclone Gabrielle, a Gisborne family’s spirits have been lifted thanks to the generosity of Phil and Maria Wilkens, owners of panel beaters DJ Mac Panel & Paint. The idea to recondition and donate a vehicle to a family in...