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Rocket Lab expects to be back in action by end of year
Rocket Lab anticipates it will resume rocket launches from Mahia by the end of the year, after it received Federal Aviation Administration authorisation to resume. The authorisation comes after Rocket Lab experienced an in-flight anomaly on...
Information sought after man, 71, found seriously hurt
Police are appealing for information after a pensioner was found with serious injuries in Wainui at the weekend. The 71 year-old man was located in a serious condition on Moana Road, under the Okitu Bridge, around 10.30am on Sunday, October 22. The...
Waka Kotahi contractor threatened at gunpoint on SH35
Extra security has been drafted in after a security guard working for a Waka Kotahi contractor was threatened at gunpoint. “Our contractors working at a site on State Highway 35 at Mangahauini have confirmed one of their security guards was...
Community invited to take part in second Tairāwhiti wellbeing survey
The community is invited to participate in the second Tairāwhiti Wellbeing Survey (TWS), to help build comprehensive data about how the region is doing. The survey was designed to improve local data to better understand the wellbeing and needs of...
Trust Tairāwhiti approves nearly $200k in grants
Community grants totalling just over $196,000 were approved in the latest funding round from Trust Tairāwhiti. The biggest recipients were Toitu Tairāwhiti and Te Runanga o Ngāti Porou, which each received $75,000 towards their emergency...
Personal message from Dame Kiri about Ryman Healthcare’s Village of the Year award
Kiri Te Kanawa Retirement Village has been crowned Ryman Healthcare’s Village of the Year for 2023 in what has been a true roller-coaster ride of a year for the resilient Gisborne team. Village manager Penny Forrester accepted the trophy at this...
New Kiwis welcomed in Gisborne citizenship ceremony
Gisborne residents from overseas became New Zealand citizens this week at a ceremony at Gisborne District Council
Radio pioneers leading the way a century ago
One hundred years ago today Gisborne became the home of one of New Zealand’s first radio broadcasting stations. Station 2YM was started by three Gisborne amateur radio operators — Percy Stevens, Ivan O’Meara and Bob Patty — who obtained one...
Anglers club offering chance to learn about fly fishing, filleting and other fish-related matters
An old Irish saying goes, ““Listen to the sound of the river and you will get a trout”. There is something serene about fishing, where time stands still, and the only sound is the swishing of the fishing line being cast and the waters running...
Woman's weekend of hell: abused, assaulted, shot at on Wainui Rd
She had invited her ex-partner for a weekend of reconciliation but, high on meth, all that jealous and mentally-unstable Rimu Morrell could dish out was terror — not just for the woman but the general public too. Assaults, verbal abuse, dangerous...
Growing pains for TREC alliance
The Transport Rebuild East Coast (TREC) alliance is coming to Gisborne in a big way, taking over the three-storey heritage building on Gladstone Road that formerly housed Eastland Group, recruiting locals — some likely to come from businesses...
A world awaiting peace
Bob Hughes I was born in September 1932 during the Great Depression and was an infant when Hitler, leader of the Nazi party, became the chancellor of Germany in 1933. Woodville was our home. Our Mum read us bedtime horror stories like Hansel and...
Humbled, will do best to represent all with integrity
I just wanted to write and thank the voters in the East Coast electorate for trusting in me to deliver for the electorate over the next three years. I am deeply humbled by the support and will always do my best to represent you all fairly, with...
After an old mate
Seeking school friend Joseph Francis Sheriff of East Cape area, born about 1952. Any information appreciated. D. Bourchier hambears@xtra. co. nz
New format features in club season
by Rockin’ Robin The first meeting of the Eastland Kart Club’s 11th season was held on Sunday, featuring a different format for the year. Just the rookies and juniors run under the 3 heat format front, middle and back. However, the added feature...
HSOB begin defence
Gisborne Boys' High School Blues and Royals' six-wicket win over the Campion College second 11 in round 1 of the secondary schools’ Year 9-11 Challenge Cup officially led off organised cricket in Poverty Bay on Wednesday. All three junior leagues...
GOLF ROUNDUP
PATUTAHI MONDAY — Men’s net: Dave Skudder 65, CharlieTaylor 68, Graeme Holland 68, Lindsay Jamieson 68. Twos: Dave Skudder. SATURDAY — Patutahi open closing day and Ruka Tupara Memorial Trophy, Canadian foursomes stableford: Tony Green/Helen...
Poverty Bay Golf life member Arthur Bacon farewelled
OBITUARY: ARTHUR BACON Half-hearted wasn’t in Arthur Bacon’s vocabulary. If he was going to do something, he was going to give it his best shot. And giving it his best shot almost always meant doing it well. Especially in the sporting aren...
Opening the door on council workshops
Chief Ombudsman Peter Boshier is calling on councils to open workshops to the public by default, to reduce the perception that decisions are being made behind closed doors. This follows an investigation of eight councils (not including Gisborne or...
Insipid call for a tea break before slaughter continues
The New Zealand Government announcement yesterday at the United Nations calling for a “humanitarian pause” in the Israeli war on Gaza is an insipid response to the slaughter of Palestinian civilians in their thousands in Gaza. Already over 5000...
Voice referendum result a kick in the teeth!
Thank you Lara Meyer for your October 24 letter: Vote upsetting, immoral. You said it all from your own experience of the indigenous Australians’ position. I agree with all your comments 100 percent. You said it was a punch in the face; I will add...
Abundant life: an approach
When sufficiently motivated, we will purposively work in the best interests of each other. It is meaningful to do so. We need confidence in each other and the system. Faith is helpful in the face of adversity. Presently, without fundamental change...
Allowed own opinions
Whoop, whoop Murray Ferris, absolutely brilliant letter (Over left-leaning vitriol, October 24). I couldn’t have said it any better. I have been wanting to write in for a while about the same thing. I have had a few run-ins with Mary-Ann de Kort...
Hawke’s Bay flood schemes under scrutiny
The process to independently review the performance of Hawke’s Bay’s flood scheme assets and river management programmes in response to Cyclone Gabrielle is under way. The review has been instigated by Hawke’s Bay Regional Council (HRBC) in...
Barber discharged for indecent assault that left woman ostracised
A man’s persistent and unwanted advances on a woman one night at a social function has ruined her life, she says, causing her sleep disturbances, health issues, and decimating her career. And because Corey Te Urikore Walker, a 30-year-old barber...
$100k grant to help protect Whakakī Lake
by Jack Ward, Wairoa Star Protection against pests in native fauna and flora is coming to the Whakakī Lake Trust. The trust will receive $113,900 for the pest control project from the Department of Conservation Community Fund Pūtea Tautiaki...
Concerns for deaf people as services limited
Sign language interpreters are becoming a more familiar sight with seemingly never-ending civic emergency announcements and regular government announcements during the peak of the Covid-19 pandemic. But what about the general election, and everyday...
Employed at 14, worked her way up to manager
Tyla Gordon knows a thing or two about managing a fast-paced and popular fast food restaurant. She’s been a manager of the McDonalds restaurant chain for over 15 years, starting at the tender age of 14 and now approaching 30. “I needed money...
Seabed detail ‘as if the water had been drained away’
Toitū Te Whenua Land Information New Zealand is holding an open day to explain how data captured through seabed surveys helps to improve nautical charts and knowledge of the marine environment. The open day is on Tuesday, November 7 at 11.30am at...
Mum silences sex abuse complaint, spared prison
A woman has narrowly avoided being jailed after her desperate attempt to stop Australian police acting on her daughter’s complaint of being sexually abused by two relatives in New Zealand. In a two-hour video call to her 12-year-old daughter...
Bikers on countrywide Baton Relay to raise money for cyclone victims
Ulysses Motorcycle Club of NZ Inc will be in Gisborne next month as part of a new nationwide initiative — a countrywide Baton Relay — to raise money for victims of Cyclone Gabrielle. From November 5 to 19, hundreds of bikers will travel the...
Sunrise Foundation gifted extra $200k in aftermath of Cyclone Gabrielle
In its ninth annual funding round, the Sunrise Foundation has given a funding boost to 35 worthy causes in Tairāwhiti-Gisborne, awarding $200,753 of grants across the arts, education, environment, health, social and sports sectors. Sunrise invites...
Gisborne Girls’ High NCEA art boards on display
A striking selection of artworks by senior art students at Gisborne Girls’ High School including painting and photography is part of a special exhibition opening at the school tonight. Prints of the artworks have been hung on the walls of the...