Latest from Gisborne

Gizzy: a place to call Holmes

Homegrown sportswoman and Black Ferns rugby player Renee Holmes was in town on Monday meeting a team of a different sort. Holmes toured the Lytton Road packhouse of First Fresh NZ Ltd and met the staff there and in the field. She visited local...

Wicket-hunting

Poverty Bay paceman Connor Starck fires down a delivery in a 50-overs game against Waikato Valley on Day 3 of the Emerging Rangatahi Northern Districts under-19 cricket tournament at Harry Barker Reserve. Starck took 1-35 from six overs as the...

Campion win a ‘total team effort’

Jacobus Du Preez is officially a match-winner. The Campion College No. 11 batsman cleared the infield with a hefty hoick to give the school side their second win of the cricket season. Du Preez (8 not out) split George Gillies and Lukas Fry with...

Champion fours unbeaten in tournament

Both winning teams went through the tournament unbeaten when Poverty Bay Bowling Club members held their championship open fours. Jan Powell (skip), Lesley Seymour (director), Joy Davis (two) and Erin Sutherland (lead) won the women's competition...

Golf roundup

Poverty Bay Mark Karalus and Phil Mickelson share two things in common. Both are left-handers. Both have shot sub-60 — albeit Mickelson’s was off the stick (59 in winning the Grand Slam of Golf at Poipu Beach, Hawaii, in November 2004) while...

Interesting first poll taking in new Govt

The first poll since the coalition Government was sworn in at the end of last month identifies two significant gainers, New Zealand First and Te Pāti Māori, two losers in Act and the Green Party, and numbers that would deliver power to the same...

Tenants in our own land

Re: Government considering different funding models to build new hospitals, Dec 9 RNZ story. This is what I’ve been saying. It looks like our new Government wishes to privatise our public services in partnership and co-governance structures and...

A new Palestine in Sinai?

When considering the Gaza war, aside from the grief and inhumanity of it all, it is interesting to hear the commentary on Al Jazeera from the political experts and previous UN attachés, as they pontificate on blame and offer solutions as to how the...

Coastguard rescues stricken boat off Mahia

A Coastguard crew from Napier rescued three people from a disabled 12-metre pleasure craft off Mahia Peninsula late on Tuesday night. Police and the Coastguard were called at about 10pm on Tuesday to assist the people on board the Gitan II. In the...

House struck by lightning in Tuesday's thunderstorm

Lightning from Tuesday night’s severe thunderstorm struck a house with a family inside and narrowly missed a car with people in it. Firefighters were called to the house in Riverside Road — near the Waimata Cheese factory— that was hit by...

Sarge investigation shows ‘human error’, communication issues

An investigation into the death of a Gisborne dog at the hands of council staff has detailed the sad state the animal was returned to its owners in. On September 22, family pet Sarge was euthanised by Gisborne District Council staff after being...

Gizzy Gig Guide

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 Fusion...

Rising Stars present The Magic Toy Box & A Christmas Carol

Evolution Theatre’s newest recruits, the Rising Stars, will showcase their talent this weekend when they take to the stage to perform two special Christmas plays. Rising Stars is the acting programme for youth which helps keen young actors to...

Wonka a world of pure imagination

Hugh Grant learned some years ago that if a filmmaker doesn’t make something from the heart, it shows. The films that work best, and are most loved, he’s found, are the ones that the directors really meant. It applied to his romantic comedies...

Gisborne Film Guide

DOME CINEMA Calypte Torren Martyn and Aiyana Powell had a combined sailing experience of a few days when they borrowed a 35-foot yacht, Calypte, and left east Thailand early in 2022, bound for eastern Indonesia. They learned to sail as they went...

Wild storm over Gisborne: 500 lightning strikes, large hail stones

A fast-moving cold front collided with hot air over the East Coast on Tuesday night, resulting in one of the most spectacular lightning storms seen in recent years. The whole sky and landscape was lit up by huge flashes of sheet and forked...