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Allan endorses new leader Hipkins

East Coast MP and Cabinet minister Kiri Allan has paid further tribute to Jacinda Ardern and publicly endorsed Chris Hipkins, who will become the country's 41th Prime Minister on Wednesday. The Justice Minister said the outgoing Prime Minister's...

District Court news

WILLIAM Terrence Carrington, 63, breached a protection order for the first time since the order was made in 1993. Carrington pleaded guilty in Gisborne District Court and was ordered to do 90 hours community work. Judge Warren Cathcart said he wholly...

Teaching the little ones to swim

WITH no heated pool available on the East Coast, a group of mums decided to bring their pint-sized swimmers to Gisborne. Parents As First Teachers co-ordinator for Te Runanganui o Ngati Porou Marina Dewes organised a pick-up of parents and children...

NCEA results reflect best of a bad situation

High school exams are a stressful time of year with results having the power to decide which future study doors stay open. For last year's exam-taking students there was that same pressure to perform well combined with a global pandemic locking them...

Dr Libby here on her thriving women tour

Well-being advocate, best-selling author and public speaker Dr Libby Weaver, known as Dr Libby, is back in Gisborne on Tuesday as part of her From Surviving to Thriving tour. About 10,000 women attended the public appearances of the Australian...

PM’s presence influential

Re: Jacinda's “smoke and mirrors”, October 11 letter. I'm not sure what you mean by “smoke and mirrors show” — this seems pretty open to me, unlike the transferring of ownership, responsibility and funds between various entities. However...

Summer pool programme at Ilminster Intermediate school

Manus, bombs, staples or just a plain old leap were among the box of jumping tricks this group of Gisborne children performed as they leapt into the Ilminster Intermediate school pool last week to cool off as temperatures soared. Ka Pai Kaiti is...

Rakaiatane Rd, Manutuke works start Monday

Motorists can expect delays on Rakaiatane Road and State Highway 2 at Manutuke from Monday. Tairawhiti Roads advises motorists works will start on Rakaiatane Road as preparation work for a road upgrade takes place. Both lanes will be kept open for...

Rating proposal sounds Mahia costs-hike alarm

A statement by Wairoa Mayor Craig Little about the new rates proposal for the region has been described as “absolute nonsense” by Mahia ratepayer Bill Shortt.“His statement ‘a courageous and controversial’ proposal on changes to the...

Awarua open to public on Monday

GISBORNE District Council staff will be moving into their new administration building, Awarua, over the next two months. It will be open to the public from Monday. Chief executive Nedine Thatcher Swann said the staff move from the other buildings...

True account worth reading

I have just completed reading Into the Unknown: The secret WWI diary of Kiwi Alick Trafford, No. 25/469. For those interested, it is so well worth reading this documented, true account of what was endured. Our Dad was a veteran of World War One and...

Ecstasy to agony

DRUGS, particularly Ecstasy or E, were the major concern for police and St John ambulance staff at the Rhythm and Vines music festival. Police said alcohol was not such a major issue this time. Of the 15 people taken to Gisborne Hospital with severe...

Compassion urged in Wairoa Covid-19 case

Person self-isolating in Wairoa after positive Covid-19 test

‘Blown away’ by Gisborne generosity

It has been a “wow” week for SuperGrans Tairawhiti. In response to its appeal for duvet inners and outers to help people struggling financially keep warm this winter, more than 100 duvets, pillows and other items of linen had been...

Passengers full of praise

As an “Ask Me” volunteer for the cruise ship passengers yesterday, we received so many compliments about Gisborne it made you aware of just how lucky we are to live here. While I thanked him personally, I would also like to acknowledge the part...

City plants mostly from local growers

Love all the new plantings going on around the district. Could the council please tell us where these plants have come from? I have a sneaking suspicion they have not come from local growers. Am I wrong?Wendy LintonFootnote from GDC contracts and...