The Trust Tairāwhiti Eastland Rescue Helicopter team have received special acknowledgement for their work in the days and weeks after Cyclone Gabrielle. It came in the form of helicopter-shaped trophies — also presented to key members of the...
My son and I thoroughly enjoyed the Friday acrobatics and flying manoeuvres with the crowd of spectators at Waikanae Beach. The display of dried arrangements of logs and debris from a washed up tidal floodline in front of us was instantly forgotten...
The korora/little blue enguins that nest here have been mentioned by David Attenborough to be the smallest of all penguins. They are beautiful to see in real life and we still have an opportunity to see them at Gisborne’s Kaiti Beach — if we can...
More houses are being built to accommodate a larger population . . . where will more water come from to serve those families? When he was our mayor Meng Foon suggested requiring water tanks on properties for new residential construction. The GDC of...
When people of Alex Boyd’s stature speak of energy transition without promoting degrowth, they fail to acknowledge the urgency of the climate crisis. The more we talk about renewables only, the more we covertly support the mindset of continuing...
I suspect that I am not alone in struggling to understand how the new Affordable Water Reforms structure will be composed and how the charges will be billed. Can the council please confirm that our rates will go down? In examining my rates bill I...
Weekend scenes of national protests by nurses would not have been a welcome sight for the Government six months out from an election in which the overall health sector situation is going to be a key attack point for the Opposition. Nurses from...
Connecting mothers who breastfeed their pēpi (baby) with others was a main focus of The Big Latch On event at the HB Williams Memorial Library on Friday. The Big Latch On aims to promote and celebrate breastfeeding, as well as support and connect...
Māori ward councillors of the Gisborne District Council say the Mayor did not have full support from the council when deciding to leave the regional forum Rau Tipu Rau Ora. Rau Tipu Rau Ora (RTRO) was set up in 2020 to lead the development of the...
The emergency services were called to Atkinson Street near the Taruheru Crescent corner in Riverdale last night after a ute rolled. It happened at around 9pm. When police, firefighters and St John officers arrived no one was at the scene. “The...
Nursing is “horrible” and some go home from Gisborne Hospital crying. So say two of the Tairāwhiti nurses who campaigned on Saturday for better conditions, more nurses and better pay to resolve a “nursing crisis”. Nurses met at...
by Phil Pennington, RNZ Gisborne’s main water supply pipe was identified as being at unacceptable risk of catastrophic failure months before Cyclone Gabrielle wrecked it. The cyclone broke the pipe in 10 places, plunging the city’s 39,000 people...
A lot ‘still very much against it’: Tuatara collective A group hoping to establish a controversial barge facility at the northern tip of the East Coast is confident it will get the project across the line in the coming months. But the initiative...
A girl was admitted to Gisborne Hospital yesterday with serious pelvic injuries after she was struck by a log and partially buried in the sand at a spot along Centennial Marine Drive. The accident happened at around 4.30pm about a kilometre along...
Retired warrant officer Jack Donnelly looks back at Anzac Day from the era of universally respected Great War veterans to more recent times featuring veterans from the more controversial Vietnam War . . . The days when the Gisborne community...
Debate on the Three Waters makeover called Affordable Water Reforms has centred initially on the contentious parts that remained, such as co-governance and the removal of assets from council balance sheets, but as time goes on the focus may well...
It will be interesting to see if Gisborne District Council agrees with its southern counterpart on the subject of the wood debris left after Cyclone Gabrielle. Hawke’s Bay Regional Council has released a report which concludes the majority of the...
Very disappointed in VTNZ customer service on Tuesday, April 12. The girls in the office are top notch — the workers doing WOF and COF are the ones I am complaining about. I arrived in the line at 10.45am and by the time I got to enter no workers...
When we first came to Gisborne some 20 years ago, walking though Kaiti Mall I spotted a well-dressed gentleman sitting at a table whose face was tattooed with beautiful images. Thinking he might have something interesting to say, I sat down, said...
I understood there was a ruling years ago that “road worker” signs on our roads were to be removed over the weekends when there was no one working. Has this slipped through the cracks, and no one polices this now? I know our roads are in a state...
There were 2394 sheep sent for sale at Matawhero yesterday — almost all were store lambs and came from the Matawai and Te Karaka districts. Waikohu Station sold pens of Wiltshire ewe lambs for $155, $140 and $120. KJ and RE Fisher at Motu topped...
The recent Open Farms Day event achieved its highest visitor turnout last month, with 3680 Kiwis stepping foot on a farm. Despite having the lowest number of hosts partly due to Cyclone Gabrielle, the event had a 35 percent lift in visitors compared...
Three people are in Gisborne Hospital with Covid-19. A Te Whatu Ora Tairāwhiti spokeswoman said cases were trending up with a daily average of 17. There were between six and 30 cases this past week. The Ministry of Health’s latest figures, dated...
The need for a swift energy transition and securing devices from potential cyberattacks were topics of discussion at the monthly Gisborne U3A meeting at the Cosmopolitan Club. U3A aims to nurture minds and bodies and provide social engagements for...
A man has admitted deliberately lighting a fire last year at an unoccupied Tokomaru Bay house where the owner was murdered in 2019. Jamie Migowl Thomas, 33, pleaded guilty in Gisborne District Court this week to two charges of arson — one at 15...
The Royal New Zealand Air Force’s Black Falcons aerobatics display team drew hundreds of people to the city foreshore and Tītīrangi/Kaiti Hill at lunchtime yesterday. The team turned on a 15-to-20-minute display that had the big crowd on the...
A Royal New Zealand Air Force squadron known as the Black Falcons accomplished a mission to entertain Gisborne in the air and on the ground yesterday. Gisborne Mayor Rehette Stoltz enthusiastically accepted an invitation to sit in the cockpit of an...
There is a sense that land has been exploited because forestry companies were “unregulated” and “unmonitored”, says the chair of a ministerial inquiry into land use in Tairāwhiti and Wairoa. The inquiry was set up in the wake of Cyclone...
A woman accused of stealing more than $16,000 worth of alcohol and other goods — including a water feature — from local shops, failed to front at court when her case was called this week. Krystal Kelly Love, 38, who is listed on court documents...
Plans to hold a charity auction to raise funds for our flood-stricken region in the aftermath of Cyclone Gabrielle are well under way, with the opportunity for local businesses, organisations and services to become sponsors or donate to the event...
Tairāwhiti kaumatua Stan Pardoe has received an honorary doctorate from Te Whare Wānanga o Awanuiārangi for his contributions to Mātauranga Māori — an honour that humbled and surprised the 80-year-old. When told of the honour in a phone call...
Having already extracted more than $50,000 from a Wairoa man by essentially blackmailing him, a woman went to his workplace to demand more money. But police were there waiting to arrest her. Diane Sandra-Leah Winter pleaded guilty in Gisborne...
Gwynne Dyer China has been having conniptions again. President Tsai Ing-wen of Taiwan had a courtesy meeting last week with the Speaker of the US House of Representatives, Kevin McCarthy. Beijing reacted by issuing a “stern warning” to the...