It has been a big week for the Government, with the relaunch of its disastrous KiwiBuild scheme and the announcement of its plan to restore the country’s rivers, lakes and wetlands. Both projects, however, face challenges and...
As someone who hadn't skateboarded since he was a teenager, I took it up again in my early 50s for the exercise. I'm now 60. Gizzy is great for skating — dead flat, good roads and good walkways. The thing that pisses me off is the number of times...
Families must immunise. That is the message from Hauora Tairawhiti as a board report on immunisation turned into a discussion on the national measles outbreak and the 32 fatalities in Samoa. Families had to keep immunisation up-to-date to prevent the...
Five members of a prominent Gisborne family — three siblings and two of their cousins — last week celebrated a two-day period when all of them were 60 years of age. Although they could not get everyone together for a photo, the Parker family —...
JUST days after foregoing Australia Day celebrations in favour of ensuring smooth going for motorists on East Coast roads, bosses of the Victoria-based roading company Services South East (SSE) are giving the district a big tick. Since SSE was...
FIREFIGHTERS were called to Opou Road just south of the Waipaoa River Bridge roundabout last night after flames from a rubbish fire spread to grass in a nearby drain. Fire and Emergency NZ sent an appliance and two water tankers at 6.35pm.“We were...
THE special licences sought by Rhythm and Vines for its 2015 festival have been granted in a reserved decision by the district licensing committee, subject to a number of conditions including a one-way door policy and limits on the number of alcohol...
After a 27-day mini-drought, the Gisborne district can expect wetter, cooler weather from tomorrow evening, for about the next week. The last significant rain fell on March 12 and 13, with only a few thin showers amounting to 11.2mm since...
A plan to improve the safety of children on roads near their schools moves a step closer tomorrow when a $2.6 million proposal comes before Gisborne District Council’s Assets and Infrastructure Committee. Tairawhiti Roads has received frequent and...
A 3D digital simulation of Gisborne Airport, designed in Norway by Orbx technician Finn Hansen, was released last week. The Gisborne Airport simulation is one of many modelled locations around the globe. The designs offer flight-simulator pilots the...
All sorts of pets turned up for Gisborne SPCA first birthday fun pet show at Treble Court. One year ago, all SPCA Centres joined into one SPCA. Joining into one organisation means centres like Gisborne get more resource and support. SPCA centre...
EIGHT “digi-mamas” graduated on Friday from Tairawhiti REAP’s Computers in Homes Digi-Mama programme. The Kaiti women made up the first intake for the course that gave them skills in the use of software such as Microsoft Office and furnished...
Stevedoring company ISO Limited has been convicted and ordered to undertake significant health and safety improvements in relation to the death of a Gisborne employee Shannon Brooke Rangihuna-Kemp. It must also pay her family $100,000. Ms...
GISBORNE Ukulele Underground turns two this month and to celebrate, the ensemble has invited Taranaki’s Tony Hansen back to Gisborne to help develop players’ ukulele skills. Hansen last visited Gisborne in 2015 to run a weekend of beginner...
Hauora Tairāwhiti chief executive Jim Green estimates 80 percent of people hospitalised in Gisborne with Covid-19 have been admitted for other reasons, and are then tested and found to be positive for Covid. He was speaking at the monthly DHB...
RIVER and stream levels are plummeting, irrigation restrictions loom over the Gisborne Flats and city water use has skyrocketed. The Waipaoa River level has dropped to 0.859 of a metre at the Kaiteratahi Bridge, while Te Arai Stream has dropped by...
Wines produced from Gisborne grapes featured in the 17th annual New World Wine Awards that were announced yesterday, with the wines judged champion aromatic, champion pinot gris and champion “bubbles”, from more than a thousand wines. Coopers...
What do you think about the news New Zealand's 20 district health boards will be centralised into a single organisation?
A LONG road to recovery is expected for a dog the SPCA has dubbed "Jimmy" after he was found malnourished and with severe head injuries, a likely result of being mistreated. An SPCA spokeswoman said Jimmy was found with bad wounds, bruising to his...
GISBORNE District Council is not changing its budgeted spending for the Waipaoa Flood Control Scheme upgrade, despite being faced with a big shortfall in the proposed budget for the project. The Future Tairawhiti committee of all councillors has...
Para swimmer Sophie Pascoe lead a 200-strong New Zealand contingent of athletes and support staff at the opening ceremony of the 21st Commonwealth Games on the Gold Coast last night. The Kiwis received a huge ovation surpassed only by Australia —...
First I want to congratulate Peter Jones for his timely letter regarding the United Nations (November 22). It is scary stuff reading the Global Compact of safe and regular migration. This will mean that peoples wishing to come to your country, in...
When English pop singer Cliff Richard’s band rehearsed in a London cafe across the road from the cafe bass player Brendon Gill’s band rehearsed in during the 1960s, the two once got together to perform Dream, Dream, Dream. The Cliff Richard...
The laws against cannabis have been a spectacular failure, yet people regularly argue in support of the present law by citing road crashes involving cannabis-affected drivers. Since such crashes occur in spite of the present law, they cannot be an...
Wet weather in the past two weeks has disrupted the very end of the region’s grain maize harvest. Some paddocks were flooded but growers hope they can salvage the crops. Corson Grain has around 5 percent of its crop still to be harvested.“We had...
Call to vaccinate children as soon as possible
I must admit it has been a bit of a roller coaster ride these past few weeks. I would like to extend my congratulations to the new government. It’s a huge privilege and responsibility to be in government, and I wish the new ministers all the best...
The miserable, wet night didn’t put a dampener on the Eastland Community Trust annual meeting last night, with about 100 people in attendance and at least a dozen expressing gratitude for the financial support ECT had given their community...
Big Wednesday claimedTHE unclaimed winning Big Wednesday ticket from last week’s final draw has been claimed. Bought from Ideal Store, the win was claimed at Countdown Gisborne. The ticket was one of three winning $87,272 tickets sold here. The...
Three Gisborne firefighters have won a Fire and Emergency Region 2 ‘‘Celebrating Success’’ award for teaching te reo Maori to their firefighter colleagues in order to better connect with the Maori community. Senior firefighter George Clarke...
A new Mayor stamping their mark or a planned reorganisation prepared well in advance?It is hard to say, as Gisborne District Council has been making more of its governance decisions over recent years in public-excluded or “workshop” sessions...
THE SHIP used by Captain James Cook for his voyage to New Zealand may have been found on the bottom of the ocean floor in a US harbour. The Rhode Island Marine Archaeology Project (RIMAP) believes it may have discovered the HMS Endeavour in Newport...
Half-a-dozen dog triallists from this region remained in the running in three events when the Tux South Island and New Zealand dog trials ended for the day yesterday in Blenheim. Waimata’s Merv Utting and Prince came on to the top seven leaderboard...