THE three years it is expected to take to fix the region’s “fragile and broken” infrastructure will make it hard to continue with a new 10-year plan, district council documents show. In a submission to the Government’s proposed Severe...
Aratu Forests has revealed just how “complex” the cyclone clean-up has been. Having regained access to its forests following severe weather events in Tairāwhiti, crews have gained better understanding of the impacts of cyclones Hale and...
Mentors wanted for Big Brothers Big Sisters programme The world’s largest volunteer mentoring network is coming to Gisborne and the search is on for potential youth mentors to be part of it. Big Brothers Big Sisters of New Zealand (BBSS) is...
The man driving an iwi initiative to rehouse families displaced by Cyclone Gabrielle says the district council is getting in the way. It failed iwi during the cyclone and continued to do so now, Toitu Tairāwhiti Builtsmart Limited director Willie...
John Jones The final community hearing on the ministerial inquiry into land use highlighted anger and frustration in Tokomaru Bay at the forestry industry and how its practices and its waste had exacerbated the impacts of extreme weather events...
Nelson Before I begin, we need to get one thing sorted. My dictionary defines a “phobia” as “a fear, aversion, or hatred, especially (if it is) morbid or irrational”. The Merriam Webster dictionary says it is “an...
Posie Parker was guilty of the heinous misdemeanour of saying a woman is a female human being and that biological men should stay out of female spaces. GR Webb
Sometimes there is good reason to strike — however, the timing of the strike this week by secondary school teachers was disappointing. Students have already lost a lot of time at school with Covid-related shutdowns. Here in Gisborne and Hawke’s...
What a complete and utter disgrace. From violent trans-activists who fantasise Nazis in every shadow, to mainstream media who continue to pedal propaganda and division, to a negligent police force, to a Government that would appear to endorse the...
You write a letter stating facts and scientific truth and the woke left come out, claiming hatred and uneducated opinion. They claim this because they probably have a speck of common sense left and know they’re wrong, that a woman is a woman and...
Barring some unforeseen development that does not seem likely so far, the strikes by teachers’ unions look like going on for some time with the parties in what seems to be a sort of stalemate. About 20,000 members of the Post Primary Teachers’...
An iwi battling for formal recognition by the Gisborne District Council as being the owner of fresh water in its traditional territory has been dealt another blow by the courts but is vowing to fight on. This month the trust that represents Te...
Mike and Bridget Parker from Tolaga Bay had something to smile about at last when they got their organic Gold kiwifruit crop away recently. It was the first organically grown kiwifruit picked and packed in the country this season. The Parkers’...
Road users have been told to expect delays on SH2 at Otoko tomorrow morning, while tree stumps are removed. The work is part of the clean-up from Cyclone Gabrielle, to further improve the safety of the network north of Gisborne. “Waka Kotahi NZ...
Dave Brash, who led the Government rcovery effort after the Kaikoura earthquake, has been appointed to the panel conducting the ministerial inquiry into land use in Tairāwhiti and Wairoa. He fills the vacancy left when Bill Bayfield resigned, and...
A total of 1002 weaner heifers sold on day two of the weaner cattle fair at the Matawhero saleyards yesterday, plus about 80 older cattle. Prices paid were firmer on those paid at the 2022 fair but not quite as strong as the previous day’s weaner...
Part of Lytton Road will be closed for the best part of a week after contractors were called out to a sewer block on Tuesday night. They discovered the sewer main had collapsed and caused a sink hole at the edge of the Lytton Road – Stout Street...
Lack of equitable resources to clean up beaches, emotional and physical damage caused by forestry slash and impacts of extreme weather events on the people of Tokomaru Bay were shared at a ministerial inquiry into land use community hui yesterday...
More than $1 million from the New Zealand Disaster Fund is being provided to people living in Wairoa to help them to recover from the damage caused by Cyclone Gabrielle. The $1.1 million contribution to the Wairoa District Council-led Liveable Homes...
Artwork made using botanical material from Eastwoodhill Arboretum will be part of an upcoming exhibition by plant enthusiast and artist Felicity Jones and photographer Mark Smith. The pair went to Eastwoodhill to create and photograph artworks which...
Attending a blessing at Waingake Water Treatment Plant after the city’s water supply was restored on Monday are Tāmanuhiri Tutu Poroporo Trust trustee Parekura Brown Jr, Kāhutia Brown, Maraetaha Inc chair Bella Hawkins and Gisborne District...
In the aftermath of Cyclone Gabrielle, Power Farming Gisborne stepped up to help those in need of urgent animal feed by collecting and distributing donations of hay from farmers and contractors across the North Island. They worked together with Lucy...
Life ain’t a spectator sport . . . just ask Lucy Bond, who fell into a role helping farmers and equestrians access essential feed for their animals. It all started when she looked to put together a group to buy some hay and truck it in after...
Sue Wilson isn’t one to sit on her hands. Despite her own property and surrounding roads and infrastructure being hit in back-to-back weather events, her first thought was for others. She is the administrator for the Wairoa Community Development...
Katrina Duncan loves nothing more than to show off the very best of Tairāwhiti to visitors and locals alike, but for now, she’s part of an army of volunteers trying to restore some sort of semblance of normality to the cyclone-ravaged region...
Sandra Faulkner has clocked up a lot of hours — and kilometres — in the past few weeks. Her truck is her office, initially driving on roads that weren’t exactly fit for purpose as she headed out into the rural community to help, chat, and...
by Dr Andrew Cribb, East Coast Farm Vets With the abundance of feed across the district, it’s easy to forget about trace elements, and copper in particular has been on our radar while pregnancy testing cow’s. A national survey in 2021 showed...
by St John Craner Environmental challenge is a much wider concept when you think about it. The biggest environmental battle you face is the one inside your own head. It's the environment you live in day in, day out. Author Robin Sharma said, “The...
Prime Minister Chris Hipkins would have been the most harassed person in Parliament yesterday as he first watched one Minister trying to explain her comments in the House and then had to fire another who joined the House at the same time as he did...
The New Zealand Defence Force played a crucial role in supporting our rural and isolated communities in Tairāwhiti after Cyclone Gabrielle. They hit the ground running in the immediate aftermath of the cyclone, facilitating the establishment of...
Maxim Institute executive director What does politics produce when mixed with violence and intimidation? Sadly nothing constructive, plus a humungous helping of anger, division, recrimination, spleen and confusion. Oh, and...
Opinions? Have I missed something? I was under the impression that opinions were something everybody was allowed to have, and that everyone else respected our right to have. Sharing these opinions was considered to be a form of debate that gave us...
The people behind Torere Macadamias are so passionate about macadamias they have developed a 10-year NZ Macadamia Industry Growth Strategy (2018-2029) to increase organic growing of macadamias from 10ha in 2018 to 1000ha in 2029. The company is...
Tokomaru Bay farm manager Colin Skudder made the headlines after Cyclone Gabrielle when he cut a track across his farm to ferry nurses, technicians and other hospital workers from Tokomaru Bay to Te Puia Springs Hospital. The hospital was cut off...