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Faith is not contrary to reason

Martin Hanson (October 6 column) claims that faith is usually defined as “belief without evidence”. “Fact on the other hand, is that which is strongly supported by empirical evidence.” Where then is the evidence that there is no soul and...

Just remove pest trees

Having seen at least two articles in this paper about the detrimental properties of silver birch trees, and that they should really not be anywhere near urban areas, I now wish to ask the GDC through this column why action has not been taken...

Historian enriched the community

There was a time when if anyone had a question about Tairāwhiti's history, the answer would be “ask Sheila”. Sheila Robinson, that is — former history teacher, Gisborne (later Tairāwhiti) Museum curator of history, Historic Places...

Support for Te Ao Maori welcomed

IKAROA-Rawhiti-based Green Party list MP Dr Elizabeth Kerekere has enthusiastically endorsed yesterday's Budget. The first-term MP said the Green Party's Te Matawaka (Maori and Pasifika) caucus acknowledged the new investment in Maori health...

Do visit da Vinci exhibition

Congratulations to the museum for the Leonardo da Vinci exhibition. Well worth a visit, as the museum is. Considering he lived from 1452 to 1519, da Vinci was extremely imaginative, ahead of his time and talented in so many ways. The exhibition is...

No parties won, yet

Now that the final election results are in, here’s a question for those moral mandators out there: with National on 44.4 percent and Labour/Greens on 43.2 percent, who has the moral authority to form a government?Others on the right, in an attempt...

Trust Tairawhiti Rescue chopper called to help in Hawke’s Bay

The Trust Tairāwhiti Rescue Helicopter was called to Waipatiki Beach in Hawke's Bay on Monday afternoon to winch an injured teenager out of harm's way. The teenager had fallen down a bank off a walking track on to a rocky area at the beach, which is...

Woman who stabbed partner ‘lucky not to kill’

JUDGE Warren Cathcart told a woman in Gisborne District Court that she was lucky not to have killed her partner when she stabbed him in the left side of his chest, nicking his lung. Sarah Colleen Gray, 22, was sentenced to 19 months imprisonment but...

Problems with screen use in education

The Ministry of Education (MoE) has recently published a study showing that computer or tablet-based learning in Year 5 students reduces reading enjoyment, as measured by data from the Progress in International Reading Literacy Study. It also showed...

Council books at half-year stage

A report to the council’s Finance and Audit committee tomorrow says capital expenditure for the first six months of this financial year was $12.4 million against a budgeted $18m — 69 percent of what was forecast — while a net surplus of $2.8m...

China’s ‘residential schools’

“Residential schools” were a common feature of European settler societies (except New Zealand) until quite late in the 20th century, and their purpose was not just to educate but to “deracinate” their aboriginal pupils: that is, to cut them...

Emergency pod on display at Poverty Bay Show

There is an important display at the Poverty Bay A&P Show this week that Tairāwhiti Civil Defence Emergency Management wants everyone in the community to see. It's an emergency pod — a six-metre shipping container packed with emergency equipment...

Health experts and NZ politicians right

There is a salutary lesson for us all in how our country and much of the world has responded to the coronavirus pandemic: that economies will be shut down to protect elderly and other vulnerable citizens from a highly-contagious disease that will...

East Coast vaccine roll-out starts on Monday

The region's Covid-19 vaccination programme will “stretch outside the national guidance” set by the Government and rural residents will not be disadvantaged, Hauora Tairawhiti board chairwoman Kim Ngarimu says. The vaccination of front-line...

Police dog team track down four after car stolen

POLICE made four arrests in the early hours of this morning after a dog team tracked down four people in relation to a stolen motor vehicle found in Gisborne city. The car was spotted in the city centre by a police patrol at around 2am.“The people...

Word on the street on Maori Language Week

SHOULD the region do more to promote te reo Maori?