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Strong support for abortion reform

Catherine Gillies thinks all abortions are bad; therefore in her counselling she frames all psycho-social distress as a consequence of abortion, even up to the third generation later, according to her op-ed on August 6. This is frankly ridiculous...

Wharfside log yard taking shape

A retaining wall and stormwater catchment system are nearing completion as part of Eastland Port’s wharfside log yard development. The 1.8ha log yard will be able to store 10,000 tonnes of logs eventually, meaning fewer truck movements through the...

Frank Burgess - farmer pilot poet

FRANK Burgess from Poariki Station at Pehiri will be remembered as a thorough and good farmer, a great husband, father and grandad, but he was also a poet, a writer, a sometimes aviator and radio ham. Above all the “man of few words” was...

Library tender decision stands after challenge

GISBORNE company McCannics will not be allowed to take part in the tender process for the $5.5 million H.B. Williams Memorial Library extension after an emergency meeting of Gisborne District Council refused to reverse an earlier decision. But the...

Huge missed opportunity

Our region and all New Zealand has been let down enormously by Immigration NZ. A cancer specialist from Houston USA has spent recent years in the Palmerston North cancer treatment clinic as well as Gisborne Hospital, Dunedin Hospital and Otago...

Forestry impacts, funding for roads up for debate

How the forestry industry pays a fair share of local spending on roads, and what that might be, is set to be a hot topic during consultation for the Long-Term Plan early next year. A big step-up in funding is needed to make local roads, in...

Working day and night to clear blockage

Waka Kotahi NZ Transport Agency advises Gisborne District Council started emergency wastewater work on State Highway 35 Wainui Road today. Work started at 10am and will continue until Saturday.“This emergency work is required to remove...

TREE TROUBLE

This car left the road at the Mangapapa Road-Oswald Street end shortly before midnight on Friday, went through the fence of a property at the corner and struck a tree. Police said one person in the vehicle was reported to have been complaining of...

SHIPS AHOY

Relief, optimism as cruise industry gets the green light

Delight in fifth generation whanau

Not many people can say they have lived long enough to see five generations of their family. Lassie Mihaera (nee Rangihuna), 87, is one of the lucky ones. Last December she went to Brisbane Australia, as she does every year, to visit her family. This...

BoP lends hand

HELICOPTERS and health providers from Bay of Plenty have been called on to maintain health services on the flood-ravaged East Coast. Speaking at this week's health board meeting, Hauora Tairawhiti district health board chief executive Jim Green said...

Vaccine roll-out begins

Today is a big day for Tairawhiti. The national Covid-19 vaccination programme started in Gisborne this morning with the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine being administered to border workers. The local roll-out of the vaccine “signals an important milestone...

Fined for abuse of customary fishing

A Mahia man authorised to issue customary fishing permits for the peninsula has been fined $750 for enabling two known poachers to take paua. He was refused a discharge without conviction at an earlier hearing. Morehu Shane Cooper, 54, pleaded guilty...

A rose by any other name

Organisers are expecting a riot of colour and fragrance at the annual event at the Farmers Air Gisborne Event Centre this weekend. Rose and iris blooms will be on show along with other garden plants, produce and floral arrangements. An additional...

Gisborne cements reputation as go-to sporting destination

GISBORNE lived up to its reputation as a sporting paradise at the weekend. The city hosted major surf lifesaving and equestrian events in ideal, if challenging, conditions and its teams performed up to and beyond expectations. The three-day Bay...

Spark internet, landline outage

Spark customers in the Gisborne-East Coast and Wairoa area were affected by an outage from 4.30pm yesterday. The outage affected all broadband, including fibre and landlines until 3.30am this morning. A Spark spokesman said he was unable to give...