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‘You’ve just got to carry on’: Fishers off the water since October

This season has been a tough one for Eastern North Island (CRA3) fishers. Bad weather, lower than average catch numbers and declining cray population generally, lower than average port prices, and now - in the middle of it all – a toxic algal...

Cruise ship double over weekend

The cruise ship season rolls along this weekend with two callers. The Silver Whisper will anchor in the bay for the day tomorrow with 375 passengers on board, then the 96-passenger National Geographic Orion will dock at the port on Sunday. The usual...

Active travel plans approved for consultation

Gisborne District Council is not trying to throw a bicycle down everybody’s throat. So says Mayor Rehette Stoltz, who along with councillors, defended their draft mode shift plan and draft active travel strategy at their first meeting of 2024...

Rates rises outlined, and the challenges

The first full council meeting of the year is being held today, with councillors regathering — no doubt having received lots of helpful advice over the summer break — to consider the Three-Year Plan 2024-2027 draft estimates and branding as well...

Humans recklessly wiping out life

Bob Hughes Mother Earth and Aotearoa have a limited, fixed quantity of finite resources which don’t regenerate once they are used. Minerals and fossil fuels — coal, oil and gas — are finite resources that people of the future won’t have...

Follow-up to the Census

Re: Intrusion. Around 16,500 households took part in the 2023 post-enumeration survey. It was a follow-up to the last Census and is a standard procedure to measure the completeness of the count. It appears that your correspondent on 23rd January was...

Don’t need more cycleways

Who is it at GDC that has a fetish for cycleways? We need more cycleways like a hole in the head. How about concentrating on the state of the roads, the footpaths — both city and suburbs — the filthy state of the main street and last but not...

Quinn back on board: Stoked and relieved to be surfing again

New Zealand surfing legend Maz Quinn has recovered from a broken back suffered in an accident at Māhia. It has been a challenging and life-changing journey and he is keen to share that story to help others. Maz Quinn is sitting on his board out...

Woman critical after two-vehicle crash

An elderly woman was critically injured when the car she was driving collided with a goods truck at the corner of State Highway 2 and Back Ormond Road on Tuesday. Emergency services were called to the crash at around 4.45pm. Firefighters assisted in...

Mangatu Blocks protest: Shareholder concern over $47.3m loss from Canadian investment

A small group of protesters converged outside the Mangatu Blocks head office in Childers Road yesterday and today to raise awareness of what they allege are bad investments, mismanagement of the whenua and waterways, and ignoring concerns from those...

Sentencing on hold for house-crashing drink-driver

Sentencing has been postponed for a drink-driver who seriously injured a woman when he ploughed into a house while trying to evade police. Alec Thoreson Thomson, 37, turned up at Gisborne District Court as scheduled on Tuesday for his sentencing but...

DIAMOND DUO: 60 years since they said ‘I do’

Beverley McMillan can still recall the words of father Donald as she approached the aisle for her wedding to Arnold Hutchins on January 25, 1964. “Do you really want to go through with this?” her father asked. She did and 60 years later the...

National moving to reduce tension

National’s leadership is trying to address some of the concerns within Māoridom over the direction the coalition Government is taking with regard to Māori and the Treaty of Waitangi, with Māori Development Minister Tama Potaka telling RNZ on...

Israel has to destroy Hamas and Hezbollah

by Patrick Cooper Had Hezbollah attacked Galilee in northern Israel whilst Hamas terrorists were raping and murdering civilians on October 7, the IDF (Israel Defence Forces) would have been hard-pressed to prevent a far greater massacre. Patrick...

Who is driving these plans?

Re Tairāwhiti Moves and the council’s plans to tinker with our city roading network, I have two questions. Who asked for Gisborne to be made New Zealand’s cycling centre? Who asked council and its staff to keep coming up with unrequested ideas...

An opportunity to educate

In yesterday’s editorial you cite a group of people who have, to use your words, “a slightly warped view of the Treaty”. After the recent hui at Ngaruawahia, I asked myself what I thought the “principles of the Treaty” were and the answer...