Gaddums Hill could have been mistaken for a scene straight out of the wild west this morning. Cow boys were slinging guns like the good old days, as part of the Gisborne Pistol Club Gaddums Hill End of Year Shoot. Starting from 9am six-shooters...
A WOOLSHED burned to the ground on Whiorau Station between Morere and Nuhaka yesterday afternoon and the cause is still to be established. The four-stand woolshed caught alight at around 2.30pm. Firefighters from Nuhaka volunteer brigade and Wairo...
The value of New Zealand’s primary sector exports is set to grow by $505 million to a new record high over the coming year, says Labour’s locally-based list MP Kiri Allan. The Ministry for Primary Industries’ latest Situation and Outlook report...
East Coast MP and Cabinet minister Kiri Allan has paid further tribute to Jacinda Ardern and publicly endorsed Chris Hipkins, who will become the country's 41th Prime Minister on Wednesday. The Justice Minister said the outgoing Prime Minister's...
WILLIAM Terrence Carrington, 63, breached a protection order for the first time since the order was made in 1993. Carrington pleaded guilty in Gisborne District Court and was ordered to do 90 hours community work. Judge Warren Cathcart said he wholly...
WITH no heated pool available on the East Coast, a group of mums decided to bring their pint-sized swimmers to Gisborne. Parents As First Teachers co-ordinator for Te Runanganui o Ngati Porou Marina Dewes organised a pick-up of parents and children...
High school exams are a stressful time of year with results having the power to decide which future study doors stay open. For last year's exam-taking students there was that same pressure to perform well combined with a global pandemic locking them...
Well-being advocate, best-selling author and public speaker Dr Libby Weaver, known as Dr Libby, is back in Gisborne on Tuesday as part of her From Surviving to Thriving tour. About 10,000 women attended the public appearances of the Australian...
Re: Jacinda's “smoke and mirrors”, October 11 letter. I'm not sure what you mean by “smoke and mirrors show” — this seems pretty open to me, unlike the transferring of ownership, responsibility and funds between various entities. However...
Manus, bombs, staples or just a plain old leap were among the box of jumping tricks this group of Gisborne children performed as they leapt into the Ilminster Intermediate school pool last week to cool off as temperatures soared. Ka Pai Kaiti is...
Motorists can expect delays on Rakaiatane Road and State Highway 2 at Manutuke from Monday. Tairawhiti Roads advises motorists works will start on Rakaiatane Road as preparation work for a road upgrade takes place. Both lanes will be kept open for...
THE third annual on-farm auction at Puketoro Station has been described as an “incredible” sale. Yesterday’s auction drew a big crowd to the property inland from Tokomaru Bay. The McNeil Farming yarding included more than 7000 ewes and lambs...
Surfers and supporters donated so much equipment last year to get Gisborne Boardriders Club’s Surf for Life initiative started that this year’s “surf swap” will be a little different. The surf swap on February 24 will give boardriders an...
Former mayor Meng Foon has 'no memory' of pokies grant complaint
This year has been a most peculiar one, said Matapuna Training Centre board of trustees chairman Mike Eriksen at the centre's end of year prize-giving last week.“We've had to deal with things personally and globally but I came along this afternoon...
The rural community has seen highs and lows throughout 2022, and Focus on the Land has been there for it all
It has been more than two months since the body of Kathleen Kawana was found at an empty Ruatoria property on August 3. Gisborne Police Detective Sergeant Daniel Kirk told Police Ten 7 on TVNZ 2 last night that police immediately believed Ms...
A RARE native frog’s former quarry habitat near Te Puke has been classed as a conservation sanctuary, allowing it to be protected and giving it a chance at long-term survival. Twenty-four years ago, a volunteer discovered the Hochstetter’s frog...
The reality of what artificial intelligence and a robotic workforce will mean for the future of work will be the topic of discussion with a world-leading economist this week. Dual Harvard and Cambridge graduate, and World Bank economist Kinley Salmon...
SALVATION Army Family Store manager Heidi Parkes says the store has been donated so many quality household items that there is an urgent need to make some space.“We have about 4000 to 5000 books in one of our storage sheds, so we are going to have...
A statement by Wairoa Mayor Craig Little about the new rates proposal for the region has been described as “absolute nonsense” by Mahia ratepayer Bill Shortt.“His statement ‘a courageous and controversial’ proposal on changes to the...
GISBORNE District Council staff will be moving into their new administration building, Awarua, over the next two months. It will be open to the public from Monday. Chief executive Nedine Thatcher Swann said the staff move from the other buildings...
I have just completed reading Into the Unknown: The secret WWI diary of Kiwi Alick Trafford, No. 25/469. For those interested, it is so well worth reading this documented, true account of what was endured. Our Dad was a veteran of World War One and...
DRUGS, particularly Ecstasy or E, were the major concern for police and St John ambulance staff at the Rhythm and Vines music festival. Police said alcohol was not such a major issue this time. Of the 15 people taken to Gisborne Hospital with severe...
Person self-isolating in Wairoa after positive Covid-19 test
It has been a “wow” week for SuperGrans Tairawhiti. In response to its appeal for duvet inners and outers to help people struggling financially keep warm this winter, more than 100 duvets, pillows and other items of linen had been...
As an “Ask Me” volunteer for the cruise ship passengers yesterday, we received so many compliments about Gisborne it made you aware of just how lucky we are to live here. While I thanked him personally, I would also like to acknowledge the part...
Love all the new plantings going on around the district. Could the council please tell us where these plants have come from? I have a sneaking suspicion they have not come from local growers. Am I wrong?Wendy LintonFootnote from GDC contracts and...
The state of civil defence emergency for Tairāwhiti will be reviewed later today as the weather eases back to a few showers forecast for the next few days. MetService predicts showers today, becoming isolated tonight. The forecast shows possible...
Just as the ball seems to follow a fielder in a cricket match, the political spotlight followed Labour Cabinet Minister Andrew Little last week and the focus was not always welcome. Little's main portfolio of health was in the news during a week in...
Enabled Wairoa has attracted national attention with its multipronged approach to addressing social issues, specifically its housing strategy. Green Party Associate Minister of Housing (Homelessness) and Minister for the Prevention of Family and...
CREATIVITY is not optional, but crucial, say the Jarratts and they have created a programme to fuel it. They just need the community’s help. Jarratt Create and Educate is husband-and-wife team Ellen and Peter Jarratt, who are originally from...
AFTER 14 years as a stay-at-home mother of four, Bronwyn Scanlan wanted to help other people’s children too. Now she is an EIT Bachelor of Nursing graduate and has secured her dream job at Gisborne Hospital, starting next week. When her second...
Episode 2 of The Block NZ and thank God for “Gizzy Hard” couple Amy Moore and Stu Watts. Without their combined wit, banter and antics, last night’s show would have needed a defibrillator or LSD-laced muffins. The Block NZ is a Mark...