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Cruise ships locked in for 2022-23

Twenty-one visits to Gisborne confirmed — music to the tourism industry's ears

Walking for Life hikoi put on hold

A man on a mission to walk around New Zealand to raise awareness of mental health issues and suicide prevention has put a pause on his hikoi. Ivan Miller started his Walking for Life journey the weekend after Waitangi Day 2019. He has clocked up 4802...

Mixing it up with chess and hip hop at the pool,Mixing it up with chess and hip hop at the pool

About 300 people made the most of the Ilminster Intermediate swimming pool when it opened to the public last Friday. For over a decade Ka Pai Kaiti has run the pool programme and this year it’s as popular as ever, says Tuta Ngarimu. Four paid life...

Necessary changes will become easier

Our columnist today has many questions and points to make following yesterday's editorial, and fair enough. An overarching answer is that everyone's circumstances are different, and the goods we buy and infrastructure around us are going to change...

Urged to clean hull to avoid marine pests catching a ride

The district's boating fraternity has been asked to keep hulls clean to ensure harmful marine pests like Mediterranean fanworm do not enter the port over summer. In a statement on Gisborne District Council's website, boaties are urged to pay close...

Longer barrier to stop rubbish dumpers

THE second stage has begun in an effort to reduce the number of places people can drive in and dump rubbish along the 7km foreshore on Gisborne’s prime town beach. This week a start was made on the installation of close to 2.5km of more bollards...

Pregnant teen assaulted by pair in Elgin

A PREGNANT teenage girl was “set upon” as she walked along Chalmers Road on Monday afternoon. The incident happened between Cochrane Street and Birrell Street at around 3pm on Monday.“The 16 year-old girl was set upon by two males in their late...

Heavy rain forecast from 6pm tomorrow

A SEVERE weather watch is in place for Gisborne with heavy rain forecast from 6pm tomorrow until noon on Sunday. The MetService website says Gisborne and Hawkes Bay, north of Napier, could be in for “warning amounts” of rain, 90mm over those 18...

Strong showing from National but Winston Peters holds main card

The smoke of battle is fading after one of the most unusual elections in many years and now the end game, the hard work of negotiating a government for the next three years, begins. There were three big winners from Saturday night. Bill English...

Happy to hold ladder . . .

My annual visit to your fair town to deliver telephone books has now ended. As usual the weather was perfect and everybody was friendly. Last October a fitting commemoration of James Cook's landing of 250 years ago was celebrated nationwide. It was...

Tidy sale for Whangara stud’s ‘new generation’

A new generation made a good start when Whangara Angus presented their bulls for sale on-farm yesterday and went close to a sell-out sale. New stud operators Tom Sanson and Andrew Cribb took over the stud from Patrick Lane earlier this year. They put...

Support for structure change

CENTRAL North Island health boards, including Hauora Tairawhiti, have changed the structure of their regional governance group to include equal iwi representation in an attempt to reduce inequity in health. Hauora Tairawhiti chairman David Scott told...

Cynical view of rosy items

I would not normally reply to comments on any letter I have written, but in this case my qualifications for doubting the workforce population statistics have been called into question. I have been a journalist for over 40 years covering all manner of...

Homestay rest for cyclists on the Rere trail welcomed

Cycling between Gisborne, Matawai and Opotiki has got a little easier, with a new place to rest up. Motu Trails Charitable Trust has announced Te Wera Homestead as an official partner. Trust chairwoman Kathy Sheldrake said the homestay provided...

Gisborne Farmers' Market continuing . . . with conditions

New hygiene requirements and social distancing practices were on display at the Gisborne Farmers' Market this morning as organisers look to continue it during the coronavirus outbreak.“We believe the Farmers' Market is an essential service with...

Gisborne houses lying idle

TWENTY-seven of the 38 Housing New Zealand (HNZ) state houses around the country that have been empty for three years or more are in Gisborne, official HNZ figures show. Of the 27 empty Gisborne houses, 16 are “pending sale”.An HNZ spokesman...