For the second year in a row the Kratos film crew has won this region’s VF 48Hours filmmaking competition. A twist to the theme of time travel earned team Kratos first place in last year’s filmmaking competition in which entrants are given...
Re: Wastewater issues. Saturday’s editorial and Ron Taylor’s contribution should be required reading for all councillors who appear hell-bent on inflicting large rate increases on the long-suffering ratepayer. Do they honestly think that 5 percent...
Gisborne’s newest centenarian Helen (Ellen) Scott turned 100 today. Her nephew Alan Gee says his aunt, the eldest of six, has outlived her husband and all her siblings.“Her longevity can be possibly put down to being a non-smoker, a non-drinker...
THE GISBORNE to Makaraka railway line is a step closer to reopening after East Coast Museum of Technology received a $10,000 grant from Gisborne District Council this week. ECMoT is behind the project to restore and reopen the disused railway line...
EFFORTS to create a “road map” for the future of tourism here are moving into a public consultation phase. Australian-based consultants the Stafford Group were appointed to create a Destination Development Plan (DDP) for Tourism Eastland last...
Maori Language Week is an opportunity for us to reflect on how fortunate we all are to have te reo Maori designated an official language of our country. The opportunity for members of indigenous populations to learn, speak, write and communicate in...
In your August 12 editorial John Jones claims that there are two groups, religious conservatives and feminists, who are totally opposed to each other in relation to abortion. This is not a religious issue, this is a human rights issue. It is not...
I would like to thank the five very kind locals who stopped to give assistance outside our home this afternoon, the 18th, to help pick up my husband who had fallen on the footpath. No broken bones or wounds, so all is well. I was stunned to see four...
Re: Revamped R&V a winner for all, Dec 31 letter. Good on Mr Foster for endorsing the RnV festival. It’s always good to have council and councillors get in behind local business and entrepreneurs. However, I’m not sure if this year’s RnV...
Gisborne District Council hears submissions tomorrow on what is its first real effort to consider the establishment of Maori wards, drawing a line under successive councils where majority feeling has been that this region elects Maori candidates and...
Rocket Lab has announced a new launch window for the third flight of its Electron rocket. The rocket, named It’s Business Time, is on Launch Complex 1 at Mahia and “gearing up”.The 14-day launch window opens this Saturday and extends to Friday...
The district's sheep farmers have had a great lambing season this year as part of a lambing result across the country that has been called “remarkable” in a challenging year. Beef and Lamb New Zealand's Lamb Crop Outlook Report indicates a near...
Covid-19 has passed its peak in Tairawhiti, but a residue number of cases can “definitely” be expected for many months to come. Cases will not go down to zero, Hauora Tairawhiti chief executive Jim Green told the Hiwa I Te Rangi advisory...
Cr Larry Foster, a few queries on your powerful opinion piece of January 9. You stated that you look around the council room and see a wealth of very intelligent, passionate and committed people working hard to achieve the best possible results for...
The Gisborne Presbyterian Parish has a new minister and the Rev Jin Sook Kim has been overwhelmed by the warmth of the welcome she has received. Rev Kim took up her pastoral duties at St Andrew's two weeks ago. The 61-year-old becomes the first Asian...
FOR common assault arising out of a domestic disagreement, Arapeta John Te Rauna, 25 , was sentenced to six months supervision and ordered to pay court costs of $130. Counsel Michael Lynch said Te Rauna admitted the offending, which was at the lower...
The district’s tourism upswing reported yesterday — a 14 percent rise in visitor spending for the year to January 31, the highest in the country — is absolutely what we should be seeing, and expect to continue and even gather further...
ALMOST 70 percent of voters in this week's Gisborne Herald web poll voted “yes” to the question: “Do you agree with the Government's move to ban the exporting of livestock by sea?”The main reason for the 69.3 percent (228 votes) who voted...
CLOSURE of the business banking section at Kiwibank in Gisborne will have minimal impact on its business customers, says Kiwibank communications manager Bruce Thompson. From the end of January, Kiwibank staff will now travel from Tauranga, Rotoru...
Gisborne’s premier new years event for those under-18 is touting an impressive lineup this year. With the absence of BW, YOLO has migrated from the Kaiti Mall to the Gisborne Soundshell
The heavens opened up and unleashed a record deluge on the hills behind Tolaga Bay in the early hours of Monday morning. At the height of the torrential downpour, the District Council’s rain gauges recorded almost 150 millimetres in just three...
A child thought to be unconscious was pulled from a swimming pool at a house in Waverley Street in Elgin yesterday afternoon. She was successfully revived by family members. Police, St John Ambulance and firefighters responded to the emergency at...
Re: Editorial on log levy. Great to see the investigation by the council into other options to fund the spiralling costs of maintaining our roads. There has been a lot of focus on the $25 million required to upgrade rural roads, to better facilitate...
KAINGA Ora housing residents left with smelly bathrooms in newly-built houses should see things fixed by the end of the week. Kainga Ora east north island regional director Naomi Whitewood confirmed the issue was being fixed.“We take the wellbeing...
A REMINDER the year begins for the Farming Women Tairawhiti (FWT) organisation tomorrow evening at The Vines at Makaraka. Registration for the social event was essential. The mix and mingle get-together to start 2017 begins at 6pm with a glass of...
To my mind, Meka Whaitiri’s removal from her ministerial and associate portfolios is deeply unfortunate for te Tairawhiti, given the relevance of her roles to our region — which included Minister of Customs, Associate Minister of Agriculture...
The new $500,000 roundabout at the intersection of Peel Street and Palmerston Road is in place and steady progress is being made on the "courtesy" pedestrian crossings (pictured above) being installed as part of the project. Work has been done at...
Re: Impacts of colonisation and systematic racism ignored, October 12 letter. The difference between Mr Mulrooney, Mr Bibby and I suppose myself is that we live in the now. I’m not speaking for these two I quickly add. You and John Porter seemingly...
THE 2019 Myrtle Rust Science Symposium in Auckland on September 9 and 10 will bring together organisations passionate about safeguarding and sustaining New Zealand’s precious myrtles for future generations. First detected in New Zealand in 2017...
A CHILD drowned in a swimming pool in the backyard of a house at the city end of Clifford Street yesterday afternoon. Emergency services were alerted at about 4pm yesterday. The girl, who would have turned two next month, was found lying face-down in...
Two of Gisborne's chartered clubs are operating under Alert Level 2 while the Cosmopolitan Club will make a decision next week. Gisborne Tatapouri Sports Fishing Club president Roger Faber said club officials met on Wednesday morning and the club was...
A RESTRICTED fire season will probably be introduced across the district some time next week as the scrub fire risk continues to climb, says principal rural fire officer Ray Dever. Recent rain has done very little to reduce the fire risk.“We are...