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Alarming suicide figure

A GREATER community response and an ‘‘enormous cultural shift” towards more connectedness, more kindness, togetherness, support and love is needed as the number of suicides rises in Gisborne, says district health board Hauora Tairawhiti’s...

Fourth arrest after home invasion

Police have arrested a fourth man in relation to the alleged assault on a man in his Riverdale home last month. The man suffered serious injuries in the attack by a group of people at his Park View Place home on November 19. Police allege the group...

Fire in the Sky gets a 2016 revamp

LASER lights, ultraviolet lights and 10,000 glow sticks . . . Fire in the Sky has had a makeover this year. The Walter Findlay Ltd Quality Bakers of Gisborne Fire in the Sky event each New Year's Day has been sponsored by the bakers since 2002. That...

Hunting licences on sale

Licences for the 2019 game bird hunting season are on sale from today. A hunting licence means people can hunt waterfowl including ducks, along with upland game birds such as pheasants when the season starts on Saturday, May 4. Licences are available...

Business and Professional Women keep flame alive

THE Gisborne branch of Business and Professional Women (BPW) celebrated its annual candle-lighting ceremony this week. Members lit coloured candles, displayed on a decorated table, to represent the members and countries that have BPW affiliation. BPW...

Expanding chamber changes location

JUST a month after appointing its first chief executive, Gisborne Chamber of Commerce has announced more changes. For the past nine months, the chamber has been based in the Tairawhiti Business Hub in Childers Road, along with Activate Tairawhiti...

Put them back

Regards the boats, why did we not have all this fuss at the time of the originals going up? Come on council, get some spine. Put them back. Mike Scandlyn

Change ahead for more liberal NZ

Two of the biggest conscience issues of all for politicians, abortion and euthanasia, will be voted on in the near future. Our Parliament has also shown backing for the legalisation of medicinal cannabis and MPs are working out details, while...

Funeral changes welcomed

The Funeral Directors Association of New Zealand has welcomed the Government's change of exemption when it comes to to funerals and tangi numbers allowed at Alert Level 2. The initial limit for funerals/tangi in Level 2 was 10. However, under the new...

Operation dune dog

THE collective effort to rescue a dog abandoned at Midway Beach has been described as “fantastic” by Gisborne District Council animal control team leader Ross Hannam. After many attempts by Mr Hannam and his team over seven days, they were...

Discharged without conviction for ‘stupid mistake’

A drink-driver who crashed and rolled her car on Gisborne's “Mad Mile”, seriously injuring some of her passengers, has been discharged without conviction. Shantay Destany Marsh-Smiler, 20, pleaded guilty to two charges of drink-driving (...

Gisborne Hospital busy but planned care proceeding

Gisborne Hospital has been “pretty full” in the last three weeks. That is how Hauora Tairāwhiti chief executive Jim Green described the hospital in his final report to his board as the country's 20 district health boards were incorporated into...

Age no barrier to veteran clubbies

SURF lifeguards of all ages from 30 years upwards took to the water at Midway Beach today in the New Zealand Masters Championships — among them veterans aged in their late 60s and 70s. The day-long masters competition included the full array of...

Impact spoilt by silliness

I watched the TV1 programme “That’s A Bit Racist” on Sunday night, with the hope that I might learn something. One segment asked the public, at random in the street, if they knew who was on the $5 note and then asked who was on the $50 note...

Eternal Verities: Gizzy-borne

Writhing in rhythmDivining in vines’Tween Mary Christ-massAnd New Year timesThe town is buzzingWith out-of-town classFrom young hippie campersTo “Golden Princess” cruisersAt the busy harbourTraffic flows smoothlyBridge-borne...

Parking, isolation: Simple

Two letters on Monday (Gisborne Herald, July 10) took my attention. The subjects of parking and the rail link were mentioned. The cost to ratepayers for modern “smart” meters is out of all proportion to the benefit. The parking regime should be...