It's a big week for lambing around the region as the ewes mated around April 9 have their youngsters arrive in the world. AgFirst consultant Peter Andrew said this week and next is when the largest number of ewes deliver their lambs.“This high...
THIS week’s Gisborne Herald web poll shows most people here are keen to vote in the election, with a slight majority intending to do it on the day itself. When asked if they would be voting in the General Election, and if so when, 44 percent of...
More Mahia rocket launches can be expected after rocket launch company Rocket Lab confirmed it is building a second launch pad that will enable it to launch two rockets at the same time. The new pad is designed to streamline launch operations and...
“Huge orders” of rock and metal supplies should ensure the district’s unsealed roads are well maintained through winter. A report to the Gisborne District Council’s assets and infrastructure committee stated that the council was forecast to...
Mathew Bannister is not alone in his despair at people who use the blanket word “communism” in ignorance of its many forms. He should be heartened by the imposing majority of voters who on Saturday favoured ostensibly left-wing parties in spite...
FIVE New Zealand Symphony Orchestra musicians entertained people from two ends of the generational spectrum in Gisborne yesterday. Kiri te Kanawa Retirement Village residents were entertained by tunes from the 1940s to 1960s, while the afternoon...
IT'S no surprise the third generation of the McVean family are winning ribbons on the opening day of the Larsen Sawmilling Showjumping Championships. Vicki and Jeff McVean first competed in Gisborne at the Poverty Bay A&P Show in 1976. It was early in...
Speaking again of “Wally regimes”, we have to look no further than Tuesday's national news to see that even our NZDF is steeped deep in “wallydom” when they reject a plan to mark rifle magazines to identify them as NZDF property. In the next...
THE KORANGA Forks and Tawa huts in the Waioeka Gorge will be much warmer and more comfortable places to stay after a spruce up by the Department of Conservation (DoC).The huts are on the Moanui, Tawa, Koranga loop track, and are regularly used by...
The Wharf 7 project at Eastland Port is “coming along nicely” says port infrastructure manager Marty Bayley. More than 115 of the steel piles for the new dock have been installed, with only 40 left to be put in place.“The team at McConnell...
A harrier hawk (kahu) found in Wairoa this week died a “slow miserable death” and the Department of Conservation (DoC) is appealing to the public for information.“I’ve never seen anything like this,” said DoC biodiversity officer Jamie...
Eight candidates will contest the Gisborne District Council city ward seat vacated by Amber Dunn who unexpectedly resigned last month. Clive BibbySydney ClarkeAthena EmmersonPeter JonesFrank MurphyTe Aturangi Nepia-ClampIsaac Te Atawhai HughesNick...
In the following observations I follow the example set by Pythia, the oracle of Delphi, whose pronouncements were always artfully ambiguous — one never knew exactly which way she was leaning, but she couldn't be wrong!Despite very little signage...
Heavy rain hit the top of the district overnight, as forecast, but so far rainfall levels have not been of concern. No major highway problems have been reported to the NZTA but the Gisborne District Council has reported surface flooding up the coast...
THE value of New Zealand's red meat sector exports reached $693 million during October, a 27 percent increase year-on-year, according to an analysis by the Meat Industry Association (MIA).Sheepmeat was a standout performer with the value increasing...
After launching 10 rockets into orbit from Mahia last year, rocket launch company Rocket Lab is readying to ramp up to a full dozen this year. Work has now started to build a second launch pad at the Rocket Lab Launch Complex 1 at Onenui...
Facial recognition technology will be used to help problem gamblers from losing money in Gisborne pokie machines. New Zealand Community Trust chief executive Mike Knell said the NZCT had installed the technology at all six of its Gisborne gaming...
Ormond School has won a nationwide poetry competition and a visit from a well known poet. Paula Green is a children’s poet based in New Zealand. This year she ran the The Fourth Fabulous Poetry Competition, supported by the New Zealand Book...
A SERIES of billboards showing increasing concern among farmers about the sale of farmland for forestry are going up around Matawai, Makorori, Muriwai, Waipaoa and Wairoa. Farmers and businesses have funded the billboards featuring a simple message...
A RUATORIA kapa haka group will be the first Coast group north of Tokomaru Bay to compete at Te Matatini National Kapa Haka Festival later this month. Hikurangi Pariha, a former Anglican church choir and kapa haka group from Ruatoria, qualified at...
Another busy Saturday of sport was even busier for Herald photographer Paul Rickard, who added club hockey to his coverage list. Eastern Bay of Plenty club sides made the trip through Waioeka Gorge to take on Poverty Bay premier men's club sides at...
THE New Zealand Rally Championship could return to Gisborne and the highly-regarded Motu Road. Mayor Meng Foon told Gisborne District councillors he had received a request from rally organisers to return to Gisborne. Mr Foon said he had forwarded...
Use it or lose it, said one of the 275 voters who clicked yes to this week's web poll question. Is it important to you to support local businesses, the Gisborne Herald asked on its website. Out of the 336 online readers who responded there was a clear...
Future Gisborne Mayor Sir Harry Barker was an early enthusiast of aviation back in the pioneering era between the two world wars. A century ago, on April 1, 1922, Mr Barker, as he was at the time, was a passenger on the first direct Gisborne to...
Gisborne sits on the geological equivalent of a “bowl of jelly”, 37 times bigger than Mt Everest, scientists have discovered. Analysis of seismic waves from the 2016 Kaikoura earthquake has enabled scientists to identify a “wedge-shaped” body...
Concerns about New Zealand's border defences against Covid-19 and our inability to have best-practice contact tracing as a secondary line of defence have been dramatically increased with the community case in Northland announced yesterday. A group of...
Ten games played, 10 wins, 30 points disappear. This is totally unfair Central Football. The top grade of local senior men’s football was divided into two groups on Saturday and points from the previous 10 games were wiped. United won all their...
Recently the council has made changes to the “Gizzy Bus Timetable” to include a new service along Potae Avenue to Beetham and Ryman retirement villages. What a wonderful extended service this is for many residents. I have used it on several...
We at the Women's Institute would like to thank the great Gisborne and Wairoa community for the lovely letters, emails and phone calls for our National Women's Institute Awareness Month, starting with the biscuit drop to our seniors. Thanks to our...
Nancy Pelosi's brief visit to Taiwan last week caused great if somewhat confected anger in Beijing, but the Chinese Communist regime was not her main target. The Speaker of the House of Representatives has long supported Taiwan, and she will be...
There's no need to go down to the woods for a teddy bear surprise. Just head up Gaddums Hill. Residents Warwick and Odette Thompson have been entertaining the neighbours and others who venture that way with a teddy bear sequel to last year's...