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And that’s a wrap –TTAF 2023: 'Genius in the curation'
Review by Avery Lavelle A look back over some of the highlights of the Te Tairāwhiti Arts Festival. Te Tairāwhiti Arts Festival’s 2023 “RĀ” season was a triumph and brought the Gisborne community together through the activities and events...
New artists join She Shed Tour
Six new artists will join the She Shed Tour this year extending the already wide offering of more than 30 artists who show their arts and crafts on the tour. The first is Steph Barnett, a visual artist, animator and educator whose work orients...
Honoured to be part of Te Papa exhibition
An artwork by Year 13 student Fiona Walker from Te Kura Kaupapa Māori o Ngā Uri a Māui was chosen to be part of the Ringa Toi Student Exhibition at Te Papa in Wellington. She felt honoured to be chosen to participate in the exibition which...
Gizzy Gig Guide
This Week Build-a-band Every Thursday night at Smash Palace, from 7-11pm. Motivate your muso mates or just turn up — everything’s set up and ready to go. Let’s jam! Free entry. Fusion Bellydance Every Thursday at 5.45pm. Join vibrant and fun...
Auditions for Ladies Night - male strippers wanted
Global hit Ladies Night is on the hunt for new blood. Gisborne Centre Stage is looking for actors who are comfortable shedding their clothes for its next production which was labelled New Zealand’s sexiest comedy. The popular production was penned...
Anatomy of a Fall uncomfortable
Of all the ways that a relationship can end, a fundamental disagreement about a work of art is in some ways extremely silly. And yet, a film or a book exposing an irreparable rift in a love that perhaps wasn’t as compatible, as symbiotic or as...
Gisborne Film Guide
Odeon Multiplex Killers of the Flower Moon In the 1920s, members of the Osage Native American tribe are murdered after oil is found on their land, and the FBI decides to investigate. Stars Leonardo DiCaprio, Robert De Niro Lily Gladstone and Jesse...
‘Best to fund iwi for own health needs’
Many Māori are nervous about what the change in Government will mean for them, so it was interesting former Māori Party co-leader Dame Tariana Turia telling Whakaata Māori/Māori Television last week that she believes more can be accomplished for...
To the new Govt: let’s not abuse urgency
Tim Wilson, Maxim Institute executive director Remember the word “unprecedented”? It was deployed during the pandemic — with some validity. The virus moved quickly. Countries were caught out. Death tolls mounted. Because the threat posed by...
Go fishing . . .
Murray, swap your pen for a trout rod, go fishing. “Relax, Winston’s back.” Frank Murphy
Multi-award-winning movie sparked chess club boom
It’s been almost 10 years since the 2014 multi-award-winning movie, The Dark Horse, shone a spotlight on the game of chess. Noble Keelan and Bailey Sadlier reflect on how the movie changed the perspective of the game. Before the movie the game of...
Rare long-tailed native bats found to be widespread in Tairāwhiti
Gisborne is home to native bats also known as pekapeka. “This is often a surprise to people,” Ecoworks NZ’s Steve Sawyer says. “Don’t worry — they aren’t bloodsucking vampire bats or anything that will hurt you or spread disease...
'Surfing for Farmers' initiative wins national award
The Surfing for Farmers initiative created by Gisborne’s Stephen Thomson won the FMG-sponsored Rural Champion Award when the Beef + Lamb New Zealand Awards were handed out in Christchurch recently. The now nationwide farmer mental health and...
Another death from Covid brings toll in Tairāwhiti to 39
Another Tairāwhiti resident has died of Covid-19, taking this district’s death tally to 39. Figures updated at 2pm on Monday show Tairāwhiti has 20 active cases and a total of 25,338 cases since Covid-19 broke out in early 2020. There are 4013...
Car fragments removed from Rimu St shooting victim's leg: alleged gunmen appear in court
A man wounded during one of the recent gang-related firearms incidents that have Gisborne police on high alert, has been discharged from hospital after bullet and car door fragments were surgically removed from his leg. Meanwhile, two men accused of...
No numbers yet on job losses at Gisborne Hospital
It is still not known how many back office jobs at Gisborne Hospital are on the chopping block as Te Whatu Ora Health NZ undergoes a massive restructure. Te Whatu Ora earlier this year said some 1600 positions across New Zealand could potentially be...
CAA investigation into light aircraft crash: fuel found in one tank but not the other
The Civil Aviation Authority has released its findings into a light aircraft crash in the Waimata Valley last year. An investigation was started after an Air Ruatoria Cessna P206E suffered an engine failure while cruising at 2500 feet (762 metres)...
Twice in a night Zambrero suspect doubly charged for Pretty Nails and Beauty
A man suspected of burgling Gisborne’s Zambrero Restaurant twice in one night is also accused of twice burgling a beauty business four days earlier. Aidan Wesches, 40, made a brief appearance during an arrest list in Gisborne District Court...
New portable flight simulator -‘Sim’ - a step up for rescue chopper crews
Sitting in the helicopter cockpit, an instructor beside them, the pilot pulls a hood down over their face and flies with just cockpit instruments to guide them. That’s the traditional technique pilots use to train for flying in conditions like...
River silt clogs Marina ramp
Waka ama clubs were ready to engage contractor but council now aims to have ramps cleared next week.
Gisborne Intermediate claim nine wicket win against North City
A lot of hard work has paid off for the Gisborne Intermediate School boys' first 11. The David Milne-coached side played some brilliant cricket to beat North City by nine wickets in a 40-over match, went down to Wellington Collegians by 30 runs in...
Challenge Cup opener sees Blues, Royals against Campion
The Challenge Cup kicks Poverty Bay Cricket off this afternoon at Nelson Park. Poverty Bay Cricket's first competition game of the season will pit the Gisborne Boys' High School Blues and Royals against the Campion College second 11 in a 20-over...
FOSAL framework reduced by over 1000 properties as council ‘works through the process’
More than 1000 properties have been removed from the Future of Severely Affected Land (FOSAL) framework after further assessments. Letters have been sent to these property owners, as well as those remaining in FOSAL Category 2A to provide an update...
Coast keeps rescue crew busy
The East Coast was once again a high-demand destination for the six missions completed last week by the Trust Tairāwhiti Eastland Rescue Helicopter. The schedule of flights for the week starting Monday, October 16, began that day when the team...
Vibe was strong at Longline Classic
It’s three and counting for organisers of the Longline Classic summer music festival. Around 3000 people enjoyed an event organisers described as “a showcase of some of New Zealand’s best talent” at the Gisborne Soundshell on Saturday...
Raise your glasses
Good wine, good food and good mates added up to good times for the 1500 people who took part in the First Light Wine & Food Festival on Sunday. Souvenir globelet glasses were filled with white, red and rose from Matawhero Vineyard and TW Wines...
Three arrested after firearms incidents
Police arrested three men on Friday and charged them with firearms-related offences following two search warrants executed as part of inquiries into recent gang-related shooting incidents in Gisborne. The warrants were conducted at addresses in...
Keen for Te Pukenga students to create community connections
Encouraging students to action their learning outside of the classroom is the focus of new EIT | Te Pūkenga art and design tutor Steph Barnett. Steph, who describes herself as a “creative from day dot”, recently joined the IDEAschool team in...
Members the lifeblood of Rotary
Rotary district governor Bill Robinson returned to his birthplace last week with a message for the Gisborne members of the service organisation. “Membership is the lifeblood of Rotary,” he said. “If we don’t have membership we are out the...
Tireless worker for community
OBITUARY Tuta Ngarimu Tuta Ngarimu, a staunch advocate for the people of Tairāwhiti, died unexpectedly but his legacy will live on forever. Tutarangi Hohepa Ngarimu, 61, of Ngati Porou, passed away at midnight on Monday October 9 after suffering...
Flushing out our worst water polluter
There’s a pollutant rapidly accumulating in our waterways and seabed — one that’s arguably more serious than even forestry slash but features far less in media reports. It’s sediment. New Zealand is losing 192 million tonnes of soil each...
Air of expectation and apprehension
With the Labour Weekend behind us, there is an air of both expectation and apprehension about the coming week for many, with the excitement of a Rugby World Cup final tempered by concerns over the growing Middle East crisis. Looking at the Gaz...
Over left-leaning vitriol
Re: Cruel policies, more poverty — October 18 letter. I am all for the right for others to have differing political views to my own, but Mary-Ann de Kort has been banging away almost nightly in the letters to the editor with her left-leaning...