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Beach safety ‘shopping list’ from surf lifesavers

Surf Life Saving New Zealand (SLSNZ) wants Kiwis to consider beach safety when they purchase those beach activity-based Christmas gifts over the next few weeks. SLSNZ has compiled a “shopping list” of common beach activity-themed gifts, along...

Mangaheia takes out top award

Mangaheia Station at Tolaga Bay were the winners in the Turihaua Angus Supreme Heifer Challenge. Competition convener Paul Williams presented the winner's award to Leo Edginton from Mangaheia. The farm's heifers were described as a very even...

On roads for right reasons

POLICE stopped more than 1400 vehicles at the State Highway 35 Covid-19 checkpoint and nearly 130 at the East Cape checkpoint on the opening day of Alert Level 3 in the region. The figures for Wednesday, September 1, illustrate the flow of traffic on...

Farmers frustrated: heated discussion at Wairoa meet

Wairoa's farming community and supporters left visiting MPs with no doubt that they were against the government's He Waka Eke Noa farm-level emissions pricing proposal, at a meeting this week. More than 250 people attended the Wairoa District...

Jeanswest closes but it is business as usual at Animates

Half of poll respondents keen on four-day working week

More than half of respondents to this week's Herald web poll prefer a four-day working week. Fifty-two percent (156 people) answered “yes” to the question “Would you like to work four days a week and have a three-day weekend?”Twenty-six...

A place that cares

Re: Treatment insufficient, September 6 story. I know Alison Jackson’s daughter Leigh and her husband Wayne well. They are lovely people. The unfortunate demise of Alison at Dunblane Rest Home should not have occurred. However, throughout the lives...

Sucked dry by who?

Re: Aquifer recharge vs surface water storage, November 10 comments. And what of the fact that the aquifers in Turanganui a Kiwa, all known by Maori and which form part of the indigenous estate under the UN Declaration of Indigeneous Rights signed by...

Smashed plate over boy’s head

Assaults on children were a no-go area, a judge reminded a defendant who admitted lifting a boy by the throat up off the floor and smashing a plate over his head. Stacey Robert Lloyd Greaves, 35, pleaded guilty to assault with a blunt instrument (...

Deciding mayoral replacement . . .

Contrary to the final sentence of Saturday’s editorial, newly-appointed Race Relations Commissioner Meng Foon remains our Mayor for now. In fact, as residents prepare to vote on who our new Mayor will be at the local body election on and leading up...

Sustainable Tairawhiti, and nation

Oh what a night! Election 2020 has been intriguing, argumentative and, due to covid, a rather drawn out affair. The finale on Saturday night however was a real showing of winners and losers, and perhaps the overall winner was participatory democracy...

Log ships back but no shore leave for crew

The log ship Albany Sound began loading around 21,000 tonnes of logs for China yesterday, the first shipment of logs from the port in three weeks. The ship sailed this morning. Three more are due in the next six days. Eastland Port was given...

Rush of entries for forestry awards

More than 60 nominations have been received for the Eastland Forestry Awards 2021. Awards organiser Eastland Wood Council is rapt with the response, which covers the full range of categories.“It is really gratifying to see so many worthy nominees...

Article puts readers crook about Cook

Tourism officials here have taken a London newspaper to task after it published “misrepresentations” about James Cook’s time on the East Coast. Earlier this week, the Evening Standard newspaper’s website, named the UK media’s “‘website...

Rescue helicopter called out four times in four days

THE ECT rescue helicopter has flown four missions in the past four days. One of them involved an incident in Paremata Road at Tolaga Bay on Saturday, where a vehicle left the road and came to rest against a power pole. A 78 year old man in the vehicle...

Woman facing 14 charges of theft involving $150k

A Gisborne woman has been charged with accessing a computer system to steal about $150,000. The 48-year-old, who has interim name suppression, faces 14 charges alleging single incidents between November 2018 and September of last year, each involving...