A man has received his third jail sentence for child sex abuse after offending against his latest victim continued for five years, starting when she was just four years old. The girl was the man’s step-granddaughter. She was at Gisborne District...
The Maritime Union of New Zealand is the latest to back the permanent return of a “blue highway” linking Gisborne and other regions by sea. The temporary coastal service between Gisborne and Napier earlier this year was “proof of concept”...
The Tairāwhiti pubic need to be patient as contractors face real danger on parts of the district’s storm-ravaged roading network. Gisborne District Council director of community lifelines David Wilson, speaking at a full council meeting last...
The Silver Ferns playing strip for the 2023 Netball World Cup features designs created by Tairāwhiti tā moko artists Maia Gibbs and Henare Brooking. Titled Manawa Rau, the dress represents the connection of Silver Ferns past, present and future...
National looks to have stolen a march on Labour with its announcement yesterday that it would fund a third medical school at Waikato University. Either coincidently or by intent, the move came a day after Labour announced its plan to overcome the...
John Darkin I was disappointed when home fans at Lords on day 5 of the 2nd Test between England and Australia chanted “cheat” upon the dismissal of Bairstow. Under current rules the batter was out. He should not have wandered from his crease so...
We would like to extend our most grateful thanks to all those who are responsible for mending our roadways, etc, for our enjoyment and safety. Special mention to chief engineers, truckies, road workers, traffic light controllers, local stores...
No, Covid has not gone away, and rather than highlight the recent statistics mainstream media seem to have forgotten it is even a major issue — with the NZ Herald having inconspicuously put the latest statistics in a short “news brief” at the...
It seems to me that everyone these days has a grievance — perhaps it’s the weather, or perhaps it’s the cost of living. Unfortunately I too have come to you with a grievance. It’s an outrageous incidence of ageism and sexism that occurs in...
Daffodil Day is coming up fast but the once sunny Gisborne may not have enough daffodils because of the continuous “weather events”. It is an unprecedented situation for Gisborne-East Coast Cancer Society as they prepare for their biggest...
Campion College students have made history for their school by forming its first competitive kapa haka team. They took the stage at the secondary schools’ regional competition last month. The two best teams from each region qualify for the...
A woman has admitted smashing a glass bottle over another woman’s head during an unprovoked attack at a party. The incident happened at the end of a night in which about 15 people had been celebrating a 50th birthday at the Matakaoa RSA, Te...
Overseas Investment Office confirms sale of sheep, beef and deer farm on Tiniroto Road European retail giant IKEA has bought up more farmland here to transfer into forestry, the Overseas Investment Office has confirmed. The latest approval involves...
Gisborne District Council has closed the Tiniroto Road at ‘The Bluffs’ to all vehicles due to a tension crack that geo tech engineers have found in the bluff face. “It could come down onto the road without warning,” the council warns...
The police Operation Kōtare team have made further arrests in Wairoa as part of their ongoing methamphetamine inquiry and have seized “significant” amounts of methamphetamine, cannabis, weapons, and cash. Search warrants were executed on...
The Sunrise Foundation’s annual funding round is open for grant applications from any charity or community organisation with a charitable purpose in the region. Applications must be received by Sunrise before 4pm, July 18, and will be assessed by...
The Gisborne component of East Coast Angus Bull Week ended on an absolute high on Tuesday afternoon when the Turihaua stud produced a record-equalling top price that headlined another excellent sale. Turihaua Angus got one of their...
A group of waka ama paddlers got into difficulties at The Cut yesterday morning when their craft were capsized by swells as they attempted to get back into the Tūranganui River. Police, St John ambulance officers, the rescue helicopter and the surf...
Sharing korero about the Māori new year Matariki, or the 28 Maori battalion kaupapa are the focus of an early morning parakuihi (breakfast) Matariki event tomorrow. At the C Company Memorial House, starting at 6.45am, there will be a breakfast...
The largest pōhutukawa tree in Aotearoa, Te Waha o Rerekohu, has been infected with myrtle rust, but a hapū-led project is working to monitor and figure out ways to heal and protect the native plants. Te Waha o Rerekohu (the mouth of Rerekohu) in...
Chief financial officer says houses are being looked at on a case-by-case basis Rates are being remitted on red-stickered houses, Gisborne District Council chief executive Nedine Thatcher Swann has confirmed. She was speaking yesterday at a full...
Planning for a regional indoor recreation centre is one of the next focus areas for partners in the Tairāwhiti Sport and Recreation Facilities Programme, while the location of proposed waka ama facilities is being reconsidered in the wake of...
by Clive Bibby I rarely feel the need to publicly express my concerns about a politician who is in trouble — one senior journalist even came out on Sunday saying that Kiri Allan’s future as a Cabinet minister is hanging by a thread. Serious...
I tautoko Greg Mead’s letter to the editor on the council’s decision to choose an offshore company as the Learn to Swim provider at Kiwa Pools, over Comet Swimming Club. (June 27, What would they know?) Stop this madness. In my eyes, Comet is...
In July 1963, when the Kaimai air disaster occurred, I was in my first year at Hamilton Boys’ High School. My mother worked in Waikato Hospital’s laboratory. We didn’t yet have a black and white television and heard the news of the missing DC3...
In a further reply to Bernard Moran’s “Christian Comment” on Saturday, July 1st, Hebrew belongs to a group of languages that have grammatical gender. In Hebrew virtually every noun (as well as most verbs and pronouns of the second and third...
Clearance rates have been very high in the Angus bull sales here. Orere Angus sold 19 out of the 20 bulls they put up by auction in their first on-farm sale on Monday. Studmaster Ben Johnson steered them around the ring. Tangihau Angus set the price...
It's time for tamariki of Tairāwhiti to get ready to celebrate themselves at the region’s Children’s Day event on Sunday. Children’s Day was in March but because of Cyclone Gabrielle the Tairāwhiti event was postponed. “This event belongs...
New figures show the number of missions flown out of the Eastland Helicopter Rescue Trust hangar increased more than seven-fold in the days after Cyclone Gabrielle and the local crew says it was a massive team effort. But even that increase in...
Kaharau Angus off Riverside Road celebrated 50 years of bull sales on Monday night in style with a packed rostrum on-farm in Goodwin Road and a “brilliant” commercial sale. The iconic local stud sold all but two of the 62 rising two-year-old...
Whangara Angus kept the East Coast Angus Bull Week clearance wheels rolling yesterday afternoon when 29 out of 30 of their young bulls went off to new homes. In yet another highly successful commercial rising two-year-old bull sale, Whangar...
Iwi chairs of Ngāti Porou and Te Aitanga a Māhaki are disappointed by the update, released last week, on progress implementing recommendations from the Land Use in Tairāwhiti Inquiry report Outrage to Optimism. “We are witnessing ecosystem...
Tawa Hills Angus at Motu enjoyed a total clearance in their rising two-year-old bull sale at the Matawhero saleyards yesterday morning to keep the high clearance rate going among the Tairāwhiti studs. Blair and Paige Crawshaw sold nine out off 11...
Walker becomes patron as charitable trust takes over governance of Tauawhi Men’s Centre this week. Ralph Walker, aka Papa Rau, has been honoured as the patron of Tauawhi Men’s Centre at an event this week to mark the transition of the centre to...