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Hundreds of unregistered dogs

GISBORNE District Council has been sending out infringement notices to those dog owners around Tairawhiti who have not yet registered their dogs for the 2021-22 year.“So far we have sent out just over 700 infringement notices for unregistered...

Cape road reservations

All 10 kilometres of East Cape Road could be sealed under the district’s Integrated Transport Priority Plan, but Gisborne District councillors — who do want the whole road sealed — reject a suggestion to prioritise it for completion within the...

Council told opportunities exist for rail

Gisborne district councillors have been told to “seize the opportunity” and advocate for the restoration of the Wairoa-Gisborne rail line. Former council planner Hans van Kregten, in his Long-Term Plan (LTP) submission, said the silence of...

More cameras on way, to save lives

The decision of the NZ Transport Agency, Waka Kotahi, to back away from what it calls saturation of New Zealand roads with new speed cameras because of a feared public backlash could cost hundreds of lives. In a business case released to RNZ, the...

Rain closes roads to the north again

State Highway 35 from Opotiki to Gisborne around East Cape closed again at the weekend, as the weather continued its assault on the district’s roads. More rain in recent days has added to the list of closed roads, and to the large weather-related...

Brinkmanship needs to end

There is an ancient but dangerous dance that many living things perform. It is the dance of death, which involves posturing, flexing, threatening and sometimes attacking one another in a fight to the death. Mankind has historically performed this...

Who shot our cats?

A GISBORNE pet owner is struggling to find any clue as to why her cat was shot less than a year after another of her cats was shot and died from its injuries. Jennifer Burrell is still reeling after Chino, a seven-month-old tabby, was shot in the...

My experience in New Zealand

Leaving my family and friends in Pakistan was one of the saddest experiences I have ever had. However, I knew I was going to see them again and that there were many new things to experience ahead in a different part of the world. When I saw the...

Caring for Waikanae Stream

Twenty-four volunteers spent two hours collecting litter, weeding and spreading mulch at the Waikanae Stream on Sunday afternoon. The long-term community project to replace rubbish and weeds with native plants resumed for 2018, with workers clearing...

Putting the fun into physics

Children constructed prototype earthquake shake tables at a holiday programme workshop at the Tonui Collab last week. Large scale tables similar to the ones the children built are used extensively in seismic research, as they provide the means to...

Expecting a humanised child

It is great news that the Duchess of Sussex, Meghan Markle is 12 weeks pregnant. Congratulations to both Meghan and Prince Harry on setting an example of loving parents who welcome their child with joy. It is encouraging that the media are referring...

Good performance by Little . . .?but many will have missed it

If timing is everything in politics then Labour and the Greens may have made a bad choice for their joint campaign launch, which would be a pity for Andrew Little who made one of the best speeches of his career. For one thing the media was...

Radiology strike called off

A planned strike at Gisborne Hospital’s X-ray and radiology department has been called off. Medical imaging technologists (MITs), which covers staff conducting X-rays, CT scans, magnetic resonance imaging mammography, angiography or nuclear...

Kawai still top of bestseller list

Gisborne author Dr Monty Soutar's book remains No. 1 fiction bestseller in Aotearo

‘A survival decision’: Difficult choices for businesses as red light looms

WITH Tairawhiti's double-vaccination rate at 73.4 percent, the region is fast approaching an “unwanted” red light situation, forcing businesses to make “unideal” choices to survive. All of New Zealand will move into the Covid-19 Protection...

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