Mr Sunderland of Brisbane, re your letter of September 1. Thank you for your concern about about my writing hand. It isn’t often that someone from so far away shows such compassion. Let me assure you, sarcastic comments such as yours shall in no way...
A community meeting at Patutahi this week to bring residents up to date on progress after a child was shot in March, attracted about 50 people. A nine-year-old boy had been riding a quad bike on a road in the rural area on March 5, and had stopped...
US Ambassador to New Zealand and Samoa Scott Brown, and The Mind Lab by Unitec general manager Fee McLeod, have been announced for the Eastland Group speaker series. Mr Brown, who took up the position of ambassador in June, will be visiting Gisborne...
It has been just over a month since the Tairawhiti Roads joint venture between the NZ Transport Agency and Gisborne District Council was disestablished — and the Transport Agency’s focus on the region is stronger than ever. Previously, Gisborne...
Two ships berthed at Eastland Port started filling up with logs and squash today with the arrival of Solent Star and Kaiti Hill. The Solent Star came from Lyttelton and is loading squash. It is expected to leave for Napier to load further cargo on...
The bad weather has forced the postponement of tomorrow's hui planned by the Te Araroa Barge Facility Working Group. The hui, advertised in the Public Notices section yesterday, was to provide feedback on the environmental and social impacts of the...
A man who continued to deny indecently assaulting a nine-year-old boy was jailed for 23 months and refused leave to apply for home detention at his sentencing in Gisborne District Court. The man received a three strikes warning and his name will be...
More jargon joy from the business page. On Thursday's article on data sovereignty, we find these brilliant technical types trying to keep their cloud onshore, with lawyers advising “being onshore is no hedge”. Clouds on the ground with hedges...
I had the privilege a few days ago of being in a village outside the Beehive. Unlike what Jacinda and the media portray, “a place of intolerable living conditions, which children should not be exposed to”, it was quite the contrary!Being an...
Striped skink have been discovered for the first time in the Gisborne region. Described by the Department of Conservation as a nationally threatened species, the lizard is included in a national recovery plan. The first striped skinks were discovered...
Gisborne Mayor Meng Foon has been appointed as Race Relations Commissioner. He takes over from Dame Susan Devoy, who left the role in June last year after major changes at the Human Rights Commission. The position has been vacant for more than a year...
Turihaua Angus bulls are reaching “almost unheard of” prices, following last Wednesday’s 2019 yearling bull sale.“It went exceptionally well,” Turihaua Angus stud manager Paul Williams said.“It was a very strong sale, particularly...
Guide dogs offer freedom and independence by acting as eyes for people who are blind or have poor vision. Each year the New Zealand Blind Foundation holds a Red Puppy Appeal, the annual fundraiser for breeding and training guide dogs. This year’s...
A1 Homes says all homes will be finished as originally contracted if that is what the clients choose in the wake of Fargher Construction Limited going into liquidation. Around 20 families, many of them in Gisborne, were left with unfinished homes...
FIREFIGHTERS were called to a house in Townsley Street off Centennial Crescent in Te Hapara last night after a fire started in the home's oven. Fire and Emergency NZ sent a crew to the property at about 8.30pm. “The fire was out on arrival,”...
Māhia's coast-to-coast walk is shaping up to be a future gem for the peninsula after a big opening month. The work done to create Whangawehi walkway, or Te Aratia Walkway, has helped bring back birdsong and some native fish, and it has captured the...
Memory walkers Walter Walsh, Cheryl Morley, Kobe Donnelly, Arihia Mataira-Kapa and Dick Neill strode out with purpose on Sunday to raise awareness for Alzheimer’s. September is World Alzheimer’s Month and people across the country took part in...
One can’t write about council matters without acknowledging the Government boost for infrastructure projects in our region announced at the end of last week. The assistance to three tourism projects and the further development of the managed...
THEY come from everywhere for a classic Kiwi-style beachside Christmas-New Year holiday at Mahia; from Gisborne, Palmerston North, Hastings, Napier, Dannevirke, Tauranga, Auckland, Wellington, Christchurch and even Australia. Like many holidaymakers...
THREE New Zealand companies whose fishing trawlers operate in East Coast waters have committed to installing monitoring systems on their vessels. Commercial fishing vessels that operate under Aotearoa Fisheries, Sanford and Leigh Fish — and catch...
Re: A different kind of hero to look up to, April 24 letter. It is an absolute pleasure to read such a balanced and articulate letter by a young person whom I suspect knows about the “years of academic study and hard work” that she has...
Having heard and read much in the news lately about the incredible stress our health system and health workers are under, I would like to give a shout out to the staff of our local hospital. I have had cause to have many dealings with the local...
THE Enhanced Taskforce Green crews helping clean-up after the June rain storms have worked on more than a dozen properties so far and have been doing a great job, says agriculture recovery facilitator Patrick Willock. The 15 workers are divided into...
The Odeon Multiplex will host a one-off screening of the shearing documentary She Shears, featuring Matawai’s Catherine Mullooly, on Friday, October 12. There will be a question-and-answer session with Mullooly and film director Jack Nichol as part...
The grain maize harvest in the region is nearing its end and two of the companies involved say it has been a good one, with above average yields. An estimated 40,000 tonnes of grain maize will have been picked by the season’s end.“We have about...
Well, it’s that time of year, when “Da Plane, Da Plane” is zooming around our Ngati Porou district, wasting petrol and taxpayers’ money; poisoning our whenua and native trees, spraying that disgusting blue shit all over a plant that is grown...
More than half of the respondents to this week's Herald web poll support the Government's decision to move to a red traffic light setting. The question was: “Do you agree with the Government's move to a red traffic light setting?”From a total of...
It has been lean pickings for surfers at Wainui and Makorori in recent weeks, so yesterday's clean, one-metre waves had them out in force. Herald photographer Liam Clayton and videographer and keen surfer Ben Cowper headed out yesterday to shoot some...
The Government is being petitioned to change its stance and increase the house price cap for Gisborne first-time home buyers to access its First Home Loan Scheme. The scheme allows qualifying people to take out loans for properties up to a certain...
A woman was taken to Gisborne Hospital in critical condition this morning after a two-vehicle crash at the intersection of Roebuck Road and Aberdeen Road. The crash happened at around 8.35am. Police said a 25-year-old woman in one of the vehicles was...
Our columnist today can rest assured he is not misusing the term “some of my best friends are Maori”; it is indeed a common deflection for people who wish to make comments or take positions that could be seen as anti-Maori or racist, and serves...