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Day after fixed in memory

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...

Things of this world . . .

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...

Angus bull sale clearance rates going strong

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...

Time for children to celebrate ‘the taonga they are’

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...

Eastland Rescue Helicopter crew flat out since Cyclone Gabrielle

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 marks 50 years

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 sale average rising, 29 of 30 in stud’s offering sold

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...

Land inquiry progress report found wanting

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...

Spreading the word about meth abuse

Billboards are popping up around the Tairāwhiti region to remind people about methamphetamine abuse in the community. This is a local initiative organised by Tuta Ngarimu the regional manager for NZ P Pull Movement and manager of Manaaki Moves...

GDC staff safety at risk

Police intervention needed as level of abuse intensifies across all departments.

Only 10 days now until Matariki

Another mid-winter week has started on a bleak note with little to brighten the news scene. Television One’s Sunday programme kicked things off with a sombre message around the damage that has been done here by extreme weather and the massive...

Swelling bureaucracy, ministerial fumbles

June was a fun month for news outlets, RNZ’s self-inflicted scandal aside. Maryanne Spurdle, Maxim Institute researcher How often does a Cabinet Minister resign, and for entirely preventable reasons? Reactions to Michael Wood’s brazen resistance...

Comment not Christian

What on earth are the Gisborne Churches doing? Do you all agree with last Saturday’s Christian Comment? Shame on you! How did you allow this to be printed? Two of the Churches on the page stated “ALL WELCOME”. Bernard Moran doesn’t say which...

Well looked after at immunisation hub

A huge thank you and aroha to the Palmerston Rd Immunisation Hub. We were really grateful for our injections in such a caring and friendly atmosphere. It wasn’t something we wanted but it was something we needed and you all did it painlessly and...

Degrowth and regrowth

Great letter-exchange on the population problem over the weekend, thank you. Roger Handford told how improved education and family health reduces population growth; Lara Meyer added the factor of contraception. This general effect is known as the...

Fix our rail line

Please wake up and fix the railway line. There are too many holes in the road, and a big election on October 14th. I am a great, great fan of trains and used to travel on the train a lot. I want to see the trains come back to Gisborne for...