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‘Great, green way’ to mark St Paddy’s Day

Twenty volunteers spent a sunny Saint Patrick’s Day clearing weeds and litter from native plants at Alfred Cox Skate Park next to the Waikanae Stream on Sunday. Organising team member Jason Akuhata-Brown said that in two hours the team filled...

Heart and gusto in ‘Ladies Night’

Has any Gisborne show enjoyed such a responsive, raucous, ribald crowd as the audience at Centre Stage’s opening performance of the New Zealand comedy, “Ladies Night” ? Unlikely. The play centres on a group of jobless blokes who hit on the...

GDC adopts new policy to cover 175 homes in category to be elevated to prevent flooding

Owners of homes that require lifting after the weather events of 2023 will soon be able to access a fund of $15 million for the work. Gisborne district councillors have adopted their Elevate Tairāwhiti Policy which applies to about 175 Tairāwhiti...

Lamb-killing drink-driver jailed

by Erin Cox, Otago Daily Times A Dunedin woman has been jailed for drunkenly ramming into a flock of lambs, killing 29 of them as a Tolaga Bay shepherd attempted to steer them to safety from the impending Cyclone Gabrielle. Annabelle Wyant, 43...

Log truck rollover causes highway closure at Muriwai, quick response ensures minimal disruption

A log truck rolled on State Highway 2 at Muriwai at around 9.30am yesterday. The empty vehicle tipped over onto it side and blocked both lanes. Light traffic was diverted through an orchard adjacent to the road. The truck driver was checked over by...

Looking for buyers for Juken NZ Matawhero mill site

Juken NZ is seeking buyers for its Matawhero mill site after concluding a transitional period and closing down. Juken NZ managing director Hiroyuki Kawado said from this week and for the rest of March and April, the company would be meeting with...

Gisborne's weekend packed with sports action

Winter is coming and the district got a taste of it weather-wise and sporting-wise as a few winter codes were in Saturday action. YMP’s Jayda Banks goes high to try to block Horouta’s Becky Hindmarsh from sending the ball on to a teammate at the...

Gisborne Herald 19.03.24

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Haiti: The curse of history

by Gwynne Dyer It may seem that the violence and chaos that have gripped Haiti are finally being addressed. The unelected acting president nobody wanted, Ariel Henry, has resigned. An international police force may soon arrive in the Caribbean...

Quake an early-morning wake-up call

An earthquake on a fault beneath Ngatapa might have disturbed light sleepers yesterday morning, a day after a similar quake near Matawai. Yesterday morning’s light shake lasted no more than 5-10 seconds at 4.31am and was recorded at magnitude 2.9...

Visitors finding other places to stay in region

More baches and holiday rentals helping as hotel and motel accommodation caters for emergency housing . . . While many hotels and motels have moved into housing the region’s homeless in emergency accommodation, the regional tourism organisation...

Clean-up duties for two Gisborne war memorials

Two Gisborne monuments honouring the country’s soldiers who died in battle are being cleaned ahead of Anzac Day. The Gisborne Cenotaph and the Pātūtahi Returned Services Monument will have scaffolding and fences put around them to enable...

Ready for take-off at Te Araroa

New aerodrome at Te Araroa will ‘unlock the tourism and general economy of the . . . area”.

Autumnal nip likely as equinox approaches

The next few days are forecast to bring the first touches of autumnal weather to Gisborne and the East Coast, with lower temperatures and southerly winds. Not much rain is in the offing — a bit over five millimetres yesterday — and March has so...

Morere hot pools reopening delayed

The Morere Hot Pools, one of the region’s most popular tourist attractions, will remain closed until at least July. A failing septic tank system forced the closure of the Department of Conservation-managed hot pools in 2022, and effects from...

Smoke from roof leads to calls to firefighters, house saved

Alert passersby and neighbours made the difference yesterday morning when they saw smoke coming from the roof area of a house in Ormond Road and firefighters got there in time to stop a fire inside from spreading. The alarm was raised at around...

Call for master plan to protect Kaiti

Deputy Mayor speaks up for a suburb he says is nervous about ‘intensification’.

Gisborne Herald 16.03.24

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