Latest from Gisborne

Call for water-only policy at all schools

Renewed calls by dentists for a ban on soft drinks in schools should be heeded, backed up as they are by damning statistics. New Zealand Dental Association spokesman Dr Rob Beaglehole says soft drinks are “decimating” the country’s children...

Believe the science on our climate and act

Bob Hughes Re: Following, questioning — March 20. Here, Simin Williams supports Iain Boyle’s “Science debate overdue” letter and I explain the Media Council findings of the Neil Henderson against The Gisborne Herald case of 2015. “The...

On the call for urgency over land use changes

Re: Petitioners slam regulatory caution, demand swift land use rule overhaul — March 19 story. Mana Taio Tairāwhiti are out of line calling for immediate changes to land use in our region. Yes, we need to make changes to both forestry and...

GDC joins local authority push for urgent Govt funding

Gisborne District Council is backing a proposal from Regional and Unitary Councils Aotearoa - Te Uru Kahika that seeks urgent government funding for flood protection work. The chairs of 10 of the 11 regional councils and four of the six unitary...

DoC plea after headless shark found on beach

The Department of Conservation is appealing for information from the public after a protected great white shark was found decapitated on Māhia beach last Friday. The incident comes just weeks after an attempted pygmy sperm whale refloat coincided...

Noordam sails on by

The heavy southerly swell in Turanganui-a-Kiwa/Poverty Bay forced the cancellation of the cruise ship Noordam’s visit to Gisborne yesterday. A ships’ agent said the skipper decided on Tuesday that sea conditions would be too difficult. The big...

River flows a ‘balancing act’

Genesis energy company shared its experience of Cyclone Gabrielle during a media tour of the Lake Waikaremoana Power Station last Thursday. The company was keen to dispel rumours that they “opened the floodgates”, causing the flooding of Wairo...

Iwi seeks plan about lake weed

Tūhoe say Genesis has ignored a promise to engage with them on an invasive weed growing in Lake Waikaremoana, in northern Hawke’s Bay. “We spoke to them, we wrote to them, and they ignored any response,” a Tūhoe iwi representative said. The...

‘I can’t get there on my own’

Gisborne’s Alicia Hoskin likely to be member of K4 crew that will head to Paris Olympics.

Farm forestry field day at Wensleydale

“Trees for all reasons” is the theme of the next field day by the Gisborne East Coast branch of the NZ Farm Forestry Assocation. It is on Sunday, at Wensleydale, 901 Waiomoko Road, Whangara. The branch will also hold its annual meeting on that...

Kainga Ora told to strike new balance

The Government’s crackdown on unruly state house tenants will be welcomed by many long-suffering neighbours, some of whom are living a nightmare existence — but will it still leave a huge social problem? The Housing and Finance Ministers have...

A slow-moving, silent revolution

Last year, our population boomed. After two years of anaemic population growth, 2023 saw the country grow by a whopping 2.8 percent or 145,100 people. We haven’t seen anything like this amount of growth for at least a generation. But this was...

Hard to keep up lately

Re: Ex-MP, not ex-Green MP — March 19 letter. Gosh, it’s been so hard to keep up lately: First we have Dr Elizabeth Kerekere, ex-Green MP, then ex-MP. Then we have Golriz Ghahraman, Green, ex-MP. Now we have Darleen Tama, Green MP — Suspended...

‘Waka Bridge’ concerns — worth investigating?

I have a few concerns about the Waka Bridge. Has anyone even noticed that Te Maro actually faces diagonally away from the proposed viewing platform and will likely be obscured (or even potentially blocked) by the base of Titirangi and its...

Underinvestment costly

People have voted for those who say they’ll hold rates or those who don’t increase taxes for decades. As a consequence, there hasn’t been enough money to pay for new infrastructure or maintenance — even though money did need to be spent...

‘Fantastic’ to see kiwifruit shipments back again

Eastland Port is gearing up for a bountiful time over the next three months, with the return of kiwifruit ships, and seven charter ships scheduled to visit marking an exciting milestone for both the port and local horticulture industry. Over 8000...