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Lay off medicinal plants, fight P epidemic

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...

Red light move OK for 55% in Herald webpoll

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...

NO ENDLESS SUMMER

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...

SOLD

Record median house price $570k; 34 percent increase on 2019

Petition to raise house price cap

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...

Holiday weekend action

Woman critical after two-vehicle city crash

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...

Time for Maori wards has come

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...

Tairawhiti's Covid outbreak grows: 332 active cases

Huge weekend of vaccinations as outbreak intensifies

Realtors ‘ready to rock’

GISBORNE'S housing market is out of an enforced lockdown and with just nine houses sold last month, realtors are prepared for change. Latest data from the Real Estate Institute New Zealand shows sales fell to single figures in April while the...

Marijuana lies

We have just listened to an interview of Colorado author Ben Cort talking with Bob McCoskrie. This issue of legalising marijuana is full of lies — lies of ommision. We are not being informed of the huge increases in the THC of plants today. In the...

Using music as a tool to motivate little learners

The founder of The Kids Music Company will be in Gisborne next week to give teachers of 2 to 5 year olds, and parents and caregivers with children in that age range, the opportunity to discover the value of music as a motivator. Janet Channon’s...

Rich possibilities ignored

Gordon Webb seems to be working overtime to persuade people to do nothing about climate change. He projects no visions but the status quo and a ridiculous extreme, ignoring the rich possibilities in between. This paucity leads to something more...

Hands off our fireworks, Akld bludgers

Well, 7000 Auckland screamers say the country can’t have Guy Fawke’s sales of fireworks any more, as the 1.5 million of them bludging off the rest of the country for their roads etc want this. What is so wrong with this picture?Well, I’m sick...

Kia kaha e hine ma

Re: ‘Undermining democracy', Jan 13, and ‘We want to see equity', Jan 14.A big shout out to Josh as well as Aimee Milne, Lara Meyer and Maree Conaglen — mighty waahine toa who have publicly expressed their condemnation of and opposition to the...

Log ships loaded 273,000 tonnes

Final figures for export trade through Eastland Port last month show a total of 273,042 tonnes of logs shipped from Gisborne in July. The wood went overseas on 11 ships during a month when loading was disrupted by bad weather. The cart-in rate of logs...