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Light clean-up on city beaches

THE driftwood build-up on the city beaches is minimal this year as summer and the annual beach clean-up approaches. Long-time driftwood remover Trevor Jukes believes the debris on the sand is the lightest in five to seven years. Gisborne District...

Show time on the trials course

The Poverty Bay A&P Show started this morning for competitors in the Tux Yarding Challenge. There will be up to 250 runs, culminating in a 15-dog final on Saturday morning.“We hope to get through more than 75 runs today,” said head steward Rod...

School bus driver still in intensive care

THE woman driving the school bus that crashed on Hereheretau Road at Whakaki on Monday afternoon remains in a serious condition in Hawke’s Bay Hospital. She is in the hospital’s intensive care unit. The woman, aged in her 50s, was badly injured...

Omicron on rise here

Another 61 cases of Covid-19 were reported yesterday, as the number of people dying with Covid here rises to 21.“We had 73 cases of Covid reported on Friday, 36 on Saturday and 35 cases on Sunday,” a Health NZ Tairawhiti spokeswoman...

Logical move for Labour and Greens to team up for election

The announcement of a memorandum of understanding between Labour and the Greens to work together towards the 2017 election should lift their chances of becoming the government, but it is not a without some problems. Going on recent polls, the two...

Not Eastern Bloc, believe in democratic process still

Re Lara Meyer's attempt to further blur the truth (Invitation, Nov 3).I never said or intimated that clean water was a bad idea, or that I was against the principle of clean water. Even I'm not that bloody stupid. I have no idea what the...

Beach log burns

FIREFIGHTERS were called to the city beachfront early afternoon yesterday after reports of a driftwood log on fire on the beach opposite the Beacon Reserve. The call came in at about 1pm and one appliance responded. The crew used a high pressure hose...

Time for the city to go bilingual?

Bilingual signage, reo classes, karakia to start formal hui and weekly waiata practice. This is how the waka rolls at Te Kaunihera o Te Tairāwhiti and not just during Te Wiki o Te Reo Māori (Māori Language Week).While Aotearoa this week...

Wrestling alligators for education,‘ Don’t talk software?. . . tell us about your old job ’

WHILE most students have a job or two to help fund their way through university, wrestling alligators might be a step too far. Yet for Florida native Doug Rosen, it was the ideal summer job. That and milking rattlesnakes. Mr Rosen was in Gisborne...

Jackknife on Back Ormond Road

THE accident happened on Back Ormond Road near the Hansen Road corner at about 6pm on Saturday.“The pole will have to be replaced,” a senior firefighter said. “We diverted traffic around the accident scene until it was cleared.”

‘Virus spreading’ in Tairāwhiti as positive cases confirmed outside established clusters

Tairāwhiti has 13 new cases as the Covid-19 virus continues to spread but there are no plans to extend testing in the district.“There are now positive cases outside of our established clusters,” a Hauora Tairāwhiti spokesman said. “The...

Over 1550 cattle sold at Matawhero

PRICES were firm on the better quality lines as buyers from other districts bid strongly at Tuesday’s Matawhero Cattle Fair. Over 1550 cattle were sent for sale, including annual drafts of steers and bulls from Waitangi Terrace Station at...

Pokie-free Gisborne, says 80 percent of population

An opinion poll voted on by 386 online readers of The Gisborne Herald showed 80 percent want Tairawhiti to be a pokie-free community. Community organisation Ka Pai Kaiti has asked Gisborne District Council to make the district free of the gambling...

Back by poplar demand

The One Billion Trees programme is a good idea, however a fodder tree like willow or poplar would do the same job as pine but better. The areas we have already planted in pine are as much as our roads can handle and population can staff. Silviculture...

A takeaway for McD’s and drive-in diners

I’d like to write about the dozy drivers we have in Dizzy Gisborne, especially at our local McDonald’s drive-in. There are two bold yellow lines indicating to drivers to stop there until the order speaker is vacated by the vehicle in front, but...

Why not a Wainui bus?

On the subject of buses, why the blue billy goat isn’t there a bus service out to Wainui/Okitu? I would take the bus from time to time for sure, and I bet others would too. Adam Simperingham