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New bus service wonderful

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...

Taiwan: Nancy Pelosi’s last hurrah

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...

Support appreciated

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...

If you go up Gaddums Hill today . . .

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...

Ormond shed destroyed in a suspected electrical fire

A shed on a property at Ormond was destroyed in a fire on Saturday night and an electrical fault involving multi-boards has been blamed as the probable cause of the blaze. Fire and Emergency NZ sent an appliance and a tanker from Gisborne, and called...

Nightmare on their rooftop

Queen’s Birthday Weekend will be remembered for a long time by a family in a farm house in Mangatokerau Road, north of Tolaga Bay, who were airlifted from their roof early yesterday after a four-hour ordeal. They woke in the dark on Monday to...

Grieving family’s plea for barriers

The family of a woman killed in a crash on Tatapouri hill last year have made a heartfelt plea to Gisborne district councillors to install safety barriers and improve the region’s transport network to prevent future deaths. Erica Jones died in...

Who will apologise in the future?

Through the years, many countries have allowed horrific discriminatory treatment of minority groups. It is common nowadays for state leaders to apologise for shocking historic wrongdoings. In most cases, much strife could have been avoided if...

Pool investment appreciated

The Gisborne Olympic Pool Complex has done it again with an outstanding summer of community support through its valuable services. The many smiles of happy people tell the story. Recently Autism New Zealand had a community afternoon at the pool that...

All go at Coxco

Gisborne agri-business Coxco will take on more than 400 local employees as their busy season approaches, with training, mentoring and ongoing employment as part of the package. The company, founded by former Gisborne farmer Mark Cox in 1996, has...

Quarantine where they land

Jacinda Ardern and her Government have been very proactive with Covid-19 but the numbers are rising and we have cases in the provinces now. To prevent this scourge of misery through GodZone, all Kiwis travelling home should be made to quarantine...

Lockdown but no slowdown for our three MPs

EXPERIENCING the Alert Level 4 nationwide lockdown has been “weird” but the community is coming to terms with the seriousness of Covid-19, says East Coast MP Anne Tolley. The National Party MP believes the first confirmed Gisborne case of the...

East Coast MP Kiri Allan backs the kea for Bird of the Year

East Coast MP Kiri Allan is backing the cheeky kea for the high-profile Bird of the Year title. Online voting for the Forest and Bird of the Year/Te Manu Rongonui o Te Tau 2021 started on Monday. The Labour MP declared her support for the highly...

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Knights and dames likely to be a fixture here for some time

Australia’s brief dalliance with a return to knights and dames last year was condemned along with Tony Abbott’s premiership by what he now admits was the “injudicious” awarding of a knighthood to Prince Phillip. Abbott, a keen monarchist, had...

Transparency a necessity . . .

Three Waters feedback request. I want my rate payer dollars paid towards the Three Waters to be spent efficiently. I want the engineers and administrators of Tairawhiti's Three Waters to be honest and transparent in all their dealings with the...