The Kaiti community has selected a new ‘‘dream playground’’ to be built at Waikirikiri Park following a six-month consultation process. Initial ideas and input were provided through an online survey and ‘‘dream playground’’ exercises...
Craig Bauld, I have known you for many years and although you can be a bit flaky at times I have always considered you the sensible one on the council. This time though you have let me down with your adamant views on this waka-inspired edifice. When...
ANOTHER young woman was injured in an accident at the Rere rockslide on the Wharekopae River yesterday. It was the second accident at the popular spot since New Year’s Eve. A young Palmerston North woman was hit in the back of the head by another...
Contractors are turning the former Soho and Plunket building into office space for Eastland Port staff. About 20 staff are to move into the Crawford Road building, which is owned by Eastland Investment Properties Limited. Eastland Port general manager...
Martin Hanson (October 6 column) claims that faith is usually defined as “belief without evidence”. “Fact on the other hand, is that which is strongly supported by empirical evidence.” Where then is the evidence that there is no soul and...
Having seen at least two articles in this paper about the detrimental properties of silver birch trees, and that they should really not be anywhere near urban areas, I now wish to ask the GDC through this column why action has not been taken...
There was a time when if anyone had a question about Tairāwhiti's history, the answer would be “ask Sheila”. Sheila Robinson, that is — former history teacher, Gisborne (later Tairāwhiti) Museum curator of history, Historic Places...
IKAROA-Rawhiti-based Green Party list MP Dr Elizabeth Kerekere has enthusiastically endorsed yesterday's Budget. The first-term MP said the Green Party's Te Matawaka (Maori and Pasifika) caucus acknowledged the new investment in Maori health...
Now that the final election results are in, here’s a question for those moral mandators out there: with National on 44.4 percent and Labour/Greens on 43.2 percent, who has the moral authority to form a government?Others on the right, in an attempt...
Congratulations to the museum for the Leonardo da Vinci exhibition. Well worth a visit, as the museum is. Considering he lived from 1452 to 1519, da Vinci was extremely imaginative, ahead of his time and talented in so many ways. The exhibition is...
The Trust Tairāwhiti Rescue Helicopter was called to Waipatiki Beach in Hawke's Bay on Monday afternoon to winch an injured teenager out of harm's way. The teenager had fallen down a bank off a walking track on to a rocky area at the beach, which is...
JUDGE Warren Cathcart told a woman in Gisborne District Court that she was lucky not to have killed her partner when she stabbed him in the left side of his chest, nicking his lung. Sarah Colleen Gray, 22, was sentenced to 19 months imprisonment but...
A Christmas market with a difference took place on Saturday at the Albert Cox Skatepark — all the stall holders were under the age of 18. The fine weather coupled with the delicious offerings on sale made for a successful market and organiser Cain...
A lack of ability to enforce bylaws creates “perennial” issues, says a senior Gisborne District Council staff member. Senior policy adviser Chris Gilmore made the comments at a Sustainable Tairāwhiti meeting two weeks ago where approval was...
An American teenager was murdered and her body buried on Kaiti Hill, letters sent to police and The Gisborne Herald claim. Police have started an inquiry after receiving the letter three weeks ago. The Herald received a similarly-worded letter...
It's way past time for this Government to get tough on the increasing violent crime in this country. This weekend a dairy worker is once again attacked and loses fingers to a machete-wielding scumbag. Labour seems to be able to change laws pretty...
Gisborne primary and intermediate school principals and teachers will strike tomorrow to send a message to the Government that they are not satisfied with the offer on the table. This is part of a nationwide strike that started in Auckland today and...
Come on Jacinda, you visit Turanganui a Kiwa and pay your respects to another iwi that has no mana whenua or mana moana in our rohe. Labour’s Maori caucus should have known better.“Turanga Tangata Rite,Turanga Ararau,Turanga Makaurau,Turang...
A GISBORNE mother has sounded a warning after a phone charger malfunctioned and caused a fire in her son's bedroom. The teenager's iPhone SE was charging on a bed in the sleepoout earlier this month.“My son had fallen asleep and was woken by the...
A NEW action plan has been launched designed to help manage parasite resistance to drenches in New Zealand. Encouraging the responsible marketing and sales of drench, more accurate and easier parasite testing, research to demonstrate the costs and...
THE Gisborne-East Coast branch of the New Zealand Farm Forestry Association believes a field day tomorrow will benefit the whole commercial forestry industry when it comes to the right tree in the right place on East Coast steep hill country. The...
The Ministry of Education (MoE) has recently published a study showing that computer or tablet-based learning in Year 5 students reduces reading enjoyment, as measured by data from the Progress in International Reading Literacy Study. It also showed...
“Residential schools” were a common feature of European settler societies (except New Zealand) until quite late in the 20th century, and their purpose was not just to educate but to “deracinate” their aboriginal pupils: that is, to cut them...
There is an important display at the Poverty Bay A&P Show this week that Tairāwhiti Civil Defence Emergency Management wants everyone in the community to see. It's an emergency pod — a six-metre shipping container packed with emergency equipment...
A report to the council’s Finance and Audit committee tomorrow says capital expenditure for the first six months of this financial year was $12.4 million against a budgeted $18m — 69 percent of what was forecast — while a net surplus of $2.8m...
The region's Covid-19 vaccination programme will “stretch outside the national guidance” set by the Government and rural residents will not be disadvantaged, Hauora Tairawhiti board chairwoman Kim Ngarimu says. The vaccination of front-line...
There is a salutary lesson for us all in how our country and much of the world has responded to the coronavirus pandemic: that economies will be shut down to protect elderly and other vulnerable citizens from a highly-contagious disease that will...
POLICE made four arrests in the early hours of this morning after a dog team tracked down four people in relation to a stolen motor vehicle found in Gisborne city. The car was spotted in the city centre by a police patrol at around 2am.“The people...
SHOULD the region do more to promote te reo Maori?
GISBORNE will celebrate Chinese New Year this Sunday with a special get-together at the Chinese Hall on Disraeli Street. Attendees will bring a dish for a pot luck lunch to the celebration organised by the Gisborne Branch of the Chinese...
Ikaroa-Rawhiti MP Meka Whaitiri says the Government is backing regional New Zealand by continuing to create opportunities for rangatahi to get into employment, education or training. She was speaking after the Government announced the next tranch of...
COOLER, dry conditions dominated November’s weather in the Gisborne region, and the district remains on the edge of drought. Figures from MetService and Niwa (National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research) show rainfall was half the 30-year...
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Vaccination providers say whānau efforts are behind Tairāwhiti's eligible Māori population inching closer to the 90 percent partially-vaccinated milestone. Turanga Health chief executive Reweti Ropiha said a range of whānau efforts were behind...