Fine should be between $650,000 and $700,000 says WorkSafe prosecutor A judge is yet to decide how much meat processing company Affco should be fined for the death of a worker who was crushed when a steel frame full of cartons fell on him in a blast...
The World Meteorological Organisation caused a stir last month when it raised its assessment of the likelihood the global average temperature would cross the 1.5C threshold for heating the planet since its pre-industrial state in one year sometime...
Clive Bibby Enforced changes to our social behaviour are having the reaction one might expect, and it does not bode well. This is doubly unfortunate for a country that is capable of accommodating any new direction and making slow but good progress...
Re your front page article on June 9. It is interesting to note this Government’s u-turn with regard to the investigation now proposed to use forestry slash as a source of biofuel/bioenergy. In January 2021 the Government agreed in principle to...
I recently wrote a letter to the editor about teachers wanting more pay, smaller classes, etc, etc. Well, I’ve just gone through my school photos from 1946-1956 and there is not one class with less than 31 students photographed. Some had 45-50...
The Olympic Pool has been hit by boiler issues again this week that saw the 50 metre pool closed for a few days while those issues were dealt with. It reopened again yesterday. Aquatics manager Campbell Macgregor said they had a boiler fault that...
Discussing climate change and introducing the Green Party candidate for the East Coast electorate will on the agenda at Evolution Theatre on Monday. Green Party co-leader James Shaw will speak on the climate challenges facing the country and the...
A proposed temporary law change would enable rural Tairāwhiti and Hawke’s Bay dealing with masses of cyclone and flood debris to burn mixed waste so they can replant and return their land to productivity. Environment Minister David Parker said...
In a small East Coast town two hours from the nearest city, community is everything. Local Democracy Reporter Matthew Rosenberg met with those in charge of the local iwi radio station to find out what makes the locals tick. Radio Ngāti Porou’s...
A Gisborne woman fighting proposed medicine law changes is buoyed by the support she received during a recent trip to Parliament to present her petition. Theresa Zame was diagnosed with stage four lung cancer in June 2022, but has outlived her...
Gwynne Dyer California’s fall from grace has been steep and swift, and now even the insurance companies are pulling out. The two biggest American home insurance companies, State Farm and Allstate, announced last week that they will stop selling...
Captain Cook’s voyage observations of a transit of Venus from Tahiti and a transit of Mercury from the Coromandel Peninsula in 1769 will be the topic of discussion this evening. Professor Wayne Orchiston and his wife and research assistant Darunee...
Midway were named Club of the Year last night at the Surf Life Saving New Zealand Gisborne-Tairāwhiti Awards of Excellence for the 2022/23 season. The club operated out of containers next to their clubhouse site while their new complex was being...
A man caught driving an unroadworthy vehicle has tried to divorce himself from the charges with a sovereign citizen theory — one judges have repeatedly warned will never succeed. Benjamin Te Pairi, 68, was driving in April, 2021, when he was...
Te Kowhai Road residents in Whatatutu are again cut off, after a $200,000 causeway designed to replace a cyclone-damaged bridge washed away. Resident Chris Hannah said she had effectively been “imprisoned” in Gisborne city, while her husband was...
Prime Minister Chris Hipkins says he is firmly resolved to supporting the “resilient” people of Tairawhiti in flood recovery. He made a quick visit to the region on Thursday including meeting roading contractors near Tolaga Bay and visiting...
A pilot bioenergy plant alongside research into woody biomass market options and forestry slash recovery, transportation and processing methods are encouraging first steps for dealing with our slash problem by making productive use of it. Prime...
I was incredibly upset to hear the comments of Mike Hosking’s followers regarding the award of a damehood to our former Prime Minister, Jacinda Adern. Those National and Act supporters don’t have the guts to put their names in the public eye. It...
Norman Maclean’s inquisition of Iain Boyle’s recent letter was bemusing, to say the least! With the patience of a saint, Iain replied to all the questions. However, some of Norman’s assertions need further elucidation. He refers to the...
As the regional tourism industry advocate for tourism operators in Tairāwhiti Gisborne, we met last week for the first time since Cyclone Gabrielle. It was unanimous that a vote of thanks be conveyed to all those involved in the business recovery...
by Sisilia Teu Sisilia Teu Maxim Institute communications coordinator The internet has always been a “problem child” for society. It has completely transformed our lives for the better and, at the same time, has been a destructive troublemaker...
Powerhouse Kat (Hubba) Kaiwai is used to digging in for her community and quickly mobilising her Ruatōria roading business to fix roads on the cyclone-ravaged East Coast. “You feel an obligation and a duty of service as part of the community to...
Gisborne supermarkets have escaped a huge rise in reported crime but only because of Cyclone Gabrielle, Those are the findings of a new report from supermarket cooperative Foodstuffs, which the National Party’s East Coast electorate candidate says...
Should wedding couples pay a $110 fee to Gisborne District Council to get married on a beach? Some councillors have their doubts, but the answer is still yes after councillors, sitting this week as the finance and performance committee, adopted the...
Firefighters were called to Banks Street in the industrial subdivision yesterday morning in response to a car fire in a wreckers yard. The call came in at around 9am. “The fire was started by gas cutting gear which set fire to flammable materials...
A Gisborne air traffic controller picked up an award at last weekend’s New Zealand Association of Women in Aviation Rally. About 80 women gathered at Hamilton Airport over the weekend for the rally, with the event’s visual air navigation contest...
by Max Frethey Independent fishers are calling for the recommendations of the ministerial inquiry into forestry slash to be implemented nationwide. Ministers commissioned the report — titled Outrage into Optimism — into woody debris and sediment...
The first five months of 2023 have seen Gisborne deluged with almost as much rain as a full year . . . but has it really been wet? Those first five months brought two sub-tropical cyclones, Hale and Gabrielle, and huge rainfall figures have been...
Matt King, the leader and founder of new party Democracy NZ, will be in Gisborne next week to introduce the party’s candidate,Chris Robinson, who will contest the East Coast electorate seat in the general election in October. Mr Robinson is...
Watching farmers and dogs at work was the inspiration for Gisborne teenager Harley Teepa (Te Aitanga a Māhaki) to enrol in agriculture at EIT|Te Pūkenga. The 17-year-old loves the outdoors and watching farmers and their dogs moving sheep spurred...
A farm manager who lost his job and the house that came with it when a Māori Incorporation decided to exit farming, has been granted a temporary court order to remain in the house. Michael Ferris (snr) is a shareholder in the Nuhiti Q Incorporation...
A brief window of blue sky opened over the district yesterday, but then MetService arrived with a bucket of cold water in the shape of another rain forecast. As earlier indicated, a south-east flow has developed over the North Island, and an...
Wilencote Polled Herefords at Ngatapa kept the good news coming on Wednesday afternoon when it comes to the rising-two-year-old bull sales season in this region, with another near sell-out result. The Humphreys family got two of their young bulls...
Roger Handford The end of the three-month coastal service between Gisborne and Napier raises a number of questions which have not been answered. In total $2.75 million of taxpayers’ money was spent on this venture, but no assessment has yet been...