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What about Cook’s feats?

QUESTIONS were asked at the Tourism Eastland annual meeting about where the achievements of Cook would feature in the Tuia 250 events this weekend, and also about the return on money spent to grow tourism in Tairawhiti. Those two matters of concern...

CEO rejects consultation 'mockery' claim

GISBORNE District Council chief executive has rejected claims that it is making a mockery of a so-called public consultation over the proposed transfer of its commercial assets to Gisborne Holdings Limited. Information provided to Tairawhiti...

Beach rescues at Midway and Wainui

NEW Zealand surf lifesaving representative Olivia Corrin was in the right place at the right time last night to save an 11-year-old boy who got into trouble in a rip at Midway and to assist a woman who tried to help him. The 18-year-old Midway...

Recognising the role of nurses and midwives in 2020

Last Sunday — International Women's Day — was a great opportunity, not only to remember the work of all women, but to acknowledge 2020 is World Health Organization's International Year of the Nurse and the Midwife. New Zealand Nurses Organisation...

A city garden overlooked . . .

What has happened to the garden in the middle of the road from Clarence Street to Chalmers Road? It’s dull, full of weeds and has no colour at all. The rest of the strip down Gladstone Road is full of flowers and looks nice. Pamela Gregory

Firefighters tackle nearby house before dealing to shed blaze

FIREFIGHTERS arrived just in time last night to stop a shed fire on a property in Kaiti spreading into a neighbouring house. Fire and Emergency NZ sent two crews to the Coldstream Road property in outer Kaiti at about 8.30pm.“The small...

Dogs ‘like wolves’ in Stout Street attack

Two men left their “bubbles” to rescue a 70-year-old woman and her dog from a wolf pack-like attack by two Staffordshire terriers in Gisborne on Sunday. The woman was walking her dog, Kevin, back from her daughter's house when the incident...

More old colonial ‘ginks’?

Gee Tracey, your angst over Poverty Bay certainly resonates with me. When I was growing up in Timaru we lived on the corner of Brunswick and Church Street. As everyone knows Brunswick is the historical English name for the German city of Braunsweig...

GDC looking to up rates intake

The total rates take in Tairawhiti could increase by 6.5 percent annually for the next three years, backtracking on a commitment to keep rises to a 5 percent maximum. Gisborne District Council said it would cap rates rises at 5 percent in its...

Shotgun, ammunition, machete, knives, drugs found in his car,No choice but jail: judge

A driver routinely stopped on a residential Gisborne street was travelling with a double-barrelled shotgun on the back seat, Gisborne District Court has heard. Also in the car were 14 rounds of shotgun ammunition and three knives. Jacob Noanoa, 23...

Mr Nobody?

A question for the council — when having a house built, who is responsible for damage done to the footpath by the contractor's vehicles? Or is it a bit like the roads, Mr Nobody?Mike Scandlyn

Answer should be simple

I have read with interest the letters and articles written by Tony Robinson about the Gisborne District Council buildings. I took the view that there must be a reasonable answer to the points Tony raised. I have waited, and waited. But nothing...

Soft targets for Islamists

Being born here in New Zealand to French parents, I must have a say in these horrible killings of innocent civilians by radical Muslims. Firstly, the French and Belgian “nationals” who media say have done this are all legal and illegal...

Odeon to remain closed for now

Moviegoers in Tairawhiti will have to wait a bit longer to go to the flicks at the Odeon Multiplex, which will not reopen today. Under Alert Level 2, movie theatres around the country can reopen today providing steps are taken to ensure social...

Divert logging trucks to Awapuni Road

Two months ago I wrote to Gisborne District Council about our concerns over how logging trucks are ruining Lytton Road and other inner-city roads. I never received a reply. Lytton Road is a busy road and needs to be treated with respect. A logging...

More govt funding ‘top priority’ for Robinson

Significant impending reforms, a new-look council and a love for Tairāwhiti has encouraged first-term councillor Tony Robinson to stand again in October's local body elections.“This next term will see greater reform changes from central...