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‘Remarkable together’

That is what it says on the shirts of several of this group from Lytton High School who started a 24-hour Relay For Life Cancer Society fundraiser at the school yesterday. Students, staff and supporters have got behind the event which involves all...

Vegetation fire at Manutuke

FIREFIGHTERS from Gisborne and Manutuke responded to what was initially reported as an “explosion” at Rickards Garage at Manutuke yesterday afternoon, but turned out to be a fire that spread to vegetation. Fire and Emergency NZ sent an appliance...

Speaking up for arts in the community

Changing the way Kiwis see creativity and promoting the importance of arts in the wider community was the focus of a talk during an arts-based roadshow at Tairāwhiti Museum this week. All in For Arts is a series of annual breakfast events that...

Best prices at weaner fair

These 12 Angus weaner heifers from Rangiata Partnership near the East Cape Lighthouse received the best price of $910 at the Matawhero saleyards on Wednesday. They weighed in at 267 kilograms and were among a total yarding of just over 1000 young...

Prices ease at Matawhero

THERE was a much smaller yarding of 1085 sheep in the weekly sheep sale at Matawhero yesterday. Bruce Farming sold eight prime two-tooth ewes for $117. The 84 prime mixed-age ewes sold from $111 down to $90. Rau White, at Ruatoria, received the best...

Red meat sector steering through the challenges

Mel Poulton NEW Zealand’s red meat sector was well positioned to leverage its strengths and navigate the global volatility, special agricultural trade envoy Mel Poulton told attendees at the New Zealand Meat Board annual meeting. “While there...

Taskforce Green prepared to work

Vicki Crosswell As cyclone-affected farms and horticulture blocks continue to dry out, it is time to bring in the Enhanced Taskforce Green teams, says Tairāwhiti Rural Support Trust coordinator/facilitator Vicki Crosswell. These trained workers...

History repeats 35 years later

SHORTLY after Cyclone Bola, Ginny Sherriff, who farmed at Ngatapa with husband Tim in 1988, wrote a poem that summed up the devastation and challenges that came with that major event. It was printed in The Gisborne Herald that year. Ginny brought...

‘Igniting youth potential’

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...

‘Get out of the way’: Call for iwi-led response to natural disasters

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...

Anger, frustration at Tokomaru Bay

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...

Am I a transphobe?

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...

Parker found guilty . . .

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

More learning disruption

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...

Insular and intolerant

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...

Facts casually overlooked

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...