by Trevor Brown PRICES were buoyant at yesterday’s Matawhero weaner fair where 2736 steers and bulls went under the hammer, many from the Wairoa and Ruakituri districts. There was a large bench of buyers, most from outside this district, and they...
APPLES from Gisborne have been hitting international markets since February. About 30 percent of the crop has been picked to date, and local industry sources say the quality has been “OK” , despite the weather. T&G Global reported this week...
Strong winds to gale force are forecast to hit the eastern coast of the North Island today and tomorrow, as far north as Mahia. MetService has issued a Watch for severe gale-force south to south-westerlies, with a deepening low lying to the east of...
Lytton High school students helped the Manutuke community carry out a clean-up last week. School learning support teacher John Ingram said that ever since Cyclone Gabrielle hit the region, causing widespread damage, the school wanted to helping...
THE MetService has issued a Wave Warning for the coastline from Mahanga Beach at Mahia up to Potikirua Point at East Cape, with big seas from the south from tonight. The warning is valid from 9pm tonight to 1am on Friday. It involves a southerly...
The trailing suction hopper dredge Albatros has been working out in Turanganui-a-Kiwa/Poverty Bay and around the port since last Saturday. The dredge has been removing the naturally accumulating sediment along the shipping channel, turning basin and...
More than $350,000 of council money went towards accessing water from an industry site following Cyclone Gabrielle, but the project never got off the ground. At a Gisborne District Council meeting on March 2, an agenda item said the council planned...
The sacking of Forestry Ministry Stuart Nash last night may have implications for the ongoing ministerial inquiry into land use in Tairāwhiti and Wairoa. Mr Nash, who is also the Napier MP, was sacked as Forestry Minister, after it was revealed he...
TAIRĀWHITI health officials are launching winter immunisation events across the region. The campaign is a collaborative approach between Ngāti Porou Oranga, Turanga Health, Te Whatu Ora-Tairāwhiti and Pinnacle Health. “In gearing up for winter...
Waerenga-o-Kuri school students shared their experiences of Cyclone Gabrielle with Beef + Lamb New Zealand advisers Pania King and Charles Taituha last week. School teacher Rebecca Denton said the kura was pleased to have the reps come in and hear...
The niece of a woman who died after being struck by her own car in a chain of events caused by a careless driver says, “the justice system is flawed”. Sarah McPhail says the 100-hour community work sentence imposed yesterday on the driver...
Gwynne Dyer The final report of the United Nation’s climate body, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), has come out at last. The desperate optimism that characterised the last few volumes (this is Part Four of four) has frayed...
Re: A direct threat, stop her — March 23 letter. Debate is always good but I draw the line at hate speech. Posie Parker gains followers because she pretends to be pro-women but she’s not really. She seems intent on excluding any woman who is...
Kellie-Jay Keen-Minshull stands up for women’s rights — you remember women, right? The female half of the human race. The ones born with female genitals and able to produce another human being out of their body. Women attacking a woman who is...
QUICK work with a hose by Corrections Department staff stopped a deliberately lit fire in a small toolshed in its tracks at the skatepark in Grey Street yesterday afternoon. Fire and Emergency NZ sent one appliance and had another on standby at...
Hangaroa and Bushy Knoll residents will soon have a temporary bridge. Residents have been cut off for six weeks since Cyclone Gabrielle destroyed the Bushy Knoll Bridge that connects them to Tiniroto Road. “A Bailey bridge is coming, but that’s...
An iwi joint venture is providing temporary houses for Wairoa whānau while their devastated homes are repaired after Cyclone Gabrielle. Toitu Tairāwhiti Builtsmart has offered 12 solar-powered relocatable homes on loan to Tātau Tātau o Te...
Construction has begun on the pier for a Bailey bridge in the Waikare Gorge which will temporarily replace what was washed away during Cyclone Gabrielle. Waka Kotahi NZ Transport Agency says the much-anticipated work will enable people to access...
PANEL member Bill Bayfield has stood down from the ministerial Inquiry into land use in Tairāwhiti/Gisborne and Wairoa. Inquiry chair Hekia Parata said Mr Bayfield had acknowledged that entering into discussions with Hawke’s Bay Regional Council...
A total of $72.1 million of government-funded construction projects in Gisborne should all be completed by the end of the year. Crown Infrastructure Partners (CIP), a Crown-owned company, has funded four projects either fully or partially to the...
A bypass road allowing improved access to Tokomaru Bay was blessed and officially opened in front of a crowd of about 150 people yesterday. The 2.2km route, named Pourau Road, provides a way around State Highway 35’s Hikuwai No. 1 Bridge which was...
Sam McIvor, Beef + Lamb New Zealand CEO by Sam McIvor, Beef + Lamb New Zealand CEO It’s been a little over six weeks since the eastern North Island felt the brunt of Cyclone Gabrielle. My heart goes out to everyone affected in those communities...
A High Court decision that reverses a long-established legal privilege has produced a rare victory for the Pike River families and given them new hope that someone might face prosecution for the deaths of 29 men in the West Coast mine in 2010. High...
New research suggests seabirds that have ingested high levels of microplastic debris from their environment may have altered gut microbiomes, including an increase in some pathogens, as well as antibiotic-resistant and plastic-degrading microbes...
Conservationists believe they are close to defining the ideal formula for re-introducing kiwi to wilderness areas where existing populations have been greatly reduced or eliminated by predators. In February Hawke’s Bay-based Forest Lifeforce...
The first Ngāti Porou primary school surfing competition was not just about catching waves. It was also about connecting whānau to taiao (the environment) and the moana (ocean) through the shared experience of surfing, organisers say. Ninety...
IWI leaders from across Tūranganui a Kiwa and Tairāwhiti say they were shocked by the news of Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern’s resignation but understand her reasons. Te Runanga o Turanganui a Kiwa chair Pene Brown said the iwi of Turanganui...
GETTING basic connectivity and much-needed supplies to those isolated across Tairāwhiti is the main priority but there remain big questions about the resilience of the infrastructure, Prime Minister Chris Hipkins said in Gisborne yesterday. After...
TAIRĀWHITI Museum staff are helping to protect taonga from damage as whānau of cyclone-stricken Te Karaka marae Takipu and others around the region continue their recovery efforts. Takipu Marae whānau were devastated to find the marae had been...
AN East Coast marae badly flooded during Cyclone Gabrielle is looking at ways of making sure it never happens again. Puketawai Marae trustee Victor Walker remembers dropping to his knees at the sight of the marae — located just north of Uaw...
AFTER several “frustrating” weeks of being closed due to water supply issues, Manutuke School is hoping to reopen on Monday. The kura (school) has not been able to open as there is no water supply and a boil water notice in the Manutuke township...
Iwi-led events are making sure people around the rohe complete their 2023 Census forms. The big count for New Zealand, giving a snapshot of life, people and communities, was meant to have been done by Tuesday, March 7. But late in February the...
RAISING awareness and putea for those affected by the impacts of Cyclone Gabrielle is the goal of social media star Te Aorere Pewhairangi’s “Waewae the 35” kaupapa. Waewae means foot, but in this context it means to walk the 280 kilometres of...
TOITŪ Tairāwhiti Housing has been working hard to provide temporary accommodation for whānau displaced due to damage to whare from Cyclone Gabrielle. Over 200 people from Te Araroa to Wairoa have been displaced from their homes. The hardest hit...