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Tolaga Bay jobs boost thanks to growth fund

TWO new employment initiatives will help create job opportunities for more than 100 people at Tolaga Bay. The projects were announced by Regional Economic Development Minister Shane Jones and Employment Minister Willie Jackson yesterday. They will be...

Gisborne-designed contact-tracing app here to help

A Gisborne business has come up with a way to make contact tracing for other businesses simple. It's an app you can use from your smartphone or laptop. Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern announced last week businesses would have to keep track of other...

SAVING THE RAUKUMARA

A PLAN to restore the Raukumara Forest Park by eradicating pests through different methods such as 1080, traps, ground culls and bait stations is proposed by the people who are directly connected to the area. The Raukumara Pae Maunga Restoration...

Honour ‘belongs to many’ says Juanita Whitiaera Timutimu

Gisborne policewoman Juanita Whitiaera (Whiti) Timutimu says her Queen’s Birthday honour is one that “belongs to many others in the community”.Ms Timutimu has been awarded a Queen’s Service Medal for services to criminal justice programmes...

Eastland Group 'well-positioned' to weather the storm

Despite being at the heart of Covid-19 economic impacts, the operator of Gisborne's airport, port and regional lines company owner, Eastland Group, says it is “well-positioned” to weather the storm — with no need for displays of...

Rocket Lab's Humanity Star is no more

If you have not yet seen Rocket Lab’s Humanity Star, you have missed it. It came out of orbit at 2.15am on Friday. It burned up completely on re-entry, leaving no trace said Rocket Lab’s communications manager Morgan Bailey. It re-entered...

PCR test experts from Gisborne company dnature speak to Covid-jab doubters

Low Covid vaccination rates in Tairawhiti are not being helped by misinformation, experts behind one of New Zealand's Covid-19 polymerase chain reaction (PCR) tests say. Gisborne biotech company dnature supplies Covid-19 PCR test kits to hospitals...

An uplifting performance

I attended the performance of Mozart's Requiem by the Gisborne and Hastings Choral Society yesterday afternoon. Mozart wrote this in 1791 when he was 35 years old and died before he finished it. It was finished by one of his pupils. I wonder if he...

An Olympic reservoir . . .

Dear Clive Bibby,The council has arranged for extra water storage with large amounts of funding from the Government. It's called a swimming pool . . . recreation beats productivity. You need to recognise the council's priority. It's called monument...

New rules on reporting wandering stock

The new regime to respond to reports of wandering stock on the region's state highways is now in force and the NZTA hopes local motorists take note of the new reporting number. The NZ Transport Agency has taken over stock control on State Highways 2...

Local TV company wins funding for docu-drama rainbow series

A gisborne production company has received $350,000 in funding for a docu-drama television series on the history of Pasifika rainbow people living in New Zealand. Tairāwhiti TV received NZ On Air funding to produce the series, called Manalagi. The...

TOP PRIMES

This pen (above) of 96 Waitangi Terrace Station ewes sold for $211 at Friday's Matawhero sale. These ewes were mixed aged, with good mouths and condition, had been scanned-in-lamb at 168.75 percent and mated to a Romney ram on April 1. A second cut...

Vulnerable to predator influence

Reports of a “sale by tender” of one of our most iconic livestock farming properties — Mangaheia Stn, inland from Tolaga Bay — is welcome news for most of us who have been nervously watching the process since it was listed for sale. Foremost...

Ute stolen from Awapuni Rd driveway

POLICE are on the lookout for a distinctive yellow Toyota Hilux that was stolen last night and the owner said the theft has disappointed him because he thinks it’s a bit of a Gisborne icon. Boyd McGregor previously operated the Surfit fishing...

What is Govt doing to make NZ safer?

In the aftermath of the Christchurch terror attack, New Zealanders are asking ourselves many difficult questions. Why has this happened in Aotearoa? How can we help the victims? How we can we heal as a nation? Are we safe?New Zealanders have come...

Bullies on boardwalk

We are blessed our child’s grandparents have taken their grandchildren on so many outings these school holidays. Unfortunately, yesterday’s outing to our city’s amazing boardwalk was tainted. Grandparents were on foot with grandfather leading...