East Cape residents will get partial access to Ōpōtiki, after State Highway 35 was closed by multiple slips in the Motu Bluffs area. The biggest slip has occurred in the same location that brought logs and debris cascading down the hillside across...
A finger-pointing woman who approached Winston Peters at his Emerald Hotel speaking podium was described by the New Zealand First leader as a “plant”. Mr Peters was speaking at a public election campaign meeting yesterday before about 130...
A Government support package for Cyclone Gabrielle recovery will soon go out for public consultation in Tairāwhiti as the region faces repair costs of more than $1 billion. On August 24, Gisborne District Council was presented with a Government...
The uptick in political polling as the general election nears shows some clear trends in public sentiment, the most obvious and impactful of which is the continuation of falling support for Labour that began in late April. Another with potentially...
Gavin Maclean With the election upon us, three quotes spring to mind. Al Gore, 1992: “The future whispers while the present shouts.” The campaign is randomly shouting about immediate problems and hardly mentioning the overwhelming crisis. Yet...
To sell or not to sell Tauwhareparae farms? We need to know facts. How was the land acquired and for what reason? And what the income should be compared with for similar land in the vicinity. If not the same or better, why not? Can reinvesting the...
Found on Gisborne street, sadly run over, six military service medals — three regular size and three miniatures. They were cased and the name on the rim is Baker, NZ Army. One is a Malayan service medal, so possibly from the 1960s. Two are...
GDC, please see common sense and understand the danger that we face travelling the three-quarter-hour, life-threatening Parikanapa Road compared to five minutes travel on a flat, open road through the Hangaroa Bluffs. It just needs signs at each...
Re: Bridge to nowhere. Congratulations to whoever spawned this brilliant concept and was able to get it passed at the council table. How did you do it? Were your colleagues asleep? Ah, I know, you put something in their coffee. Come on councillors...
The owners of a dog mistakenly put down by Gisborne District Council staff are calling for an end to the controversial euthanising practice that was used on their pet. New information on the state of the dog — Sarge — has also been revealed...
Tairāwhiti rural residents are being given the opportunity to have rainwater collection tanks tested for free. A group of environmental engineers are conducting a study of rooftop rainwater quality and are keen for residents to register if they...
The emergency sewer valve near the Gladstone Road bridge was closed at 1pm yesterday afternoon and the council said all the discharge of wastewater had stopped. The valve was opened during the recent heavy rain due to overload in the wastewater...
Tairāwhiti Museum continued with the creative school holiday programmes this week with artistic workshops. Inspiration came from the exhibitions showing at the museum. The workshops were “really popular”, said museum director Eloise Wallace...
Up to 300 motorcyclists will be out on State Highway 35 tomorrow taking part in what they call ‘The Poker Run”. Some of the bikers belong to the Highway 35 Motorcycle Club, which has about 25 members, from Potaka at the top of East Cape down to...
CREATING a safe space for men who are wanting to change was the goal of a three-day hui in Tokomaru Bay organised by Tauawhi Men’s Centre. The “call to men” hui was organised by Papa Rau (Ralph Walker) after having a kōrero with his close...
Gisborne has broken yet another weather record, this time for the wettest year. Continuous rainfall records started at Gisborne harbour in 1878, and then MetService started its official record-keeping at Darton Field airport in 1937. From these two...
Frustration grows in the communities affected by the ongoing closure of Tiniroto Road at the Hangaroa Bluffs, and now residents have been told it could be between two and five years before a solution is found. Residents have told the Herald that...
Tairāwhiti Civil Defence is encouraging the community to register for the annual ShakeOut earthquake and tsunami preparedness exercise on October 19. “Register now,” is the call from Civil Defence Emergency Management. New Zealand ShakeOut is...
Celebrating the Tairāwhiti Alzheimers 50th birthday last week were Lynn Omer, Janet Willson, Marita Chisholm, Judy Ball, Tracy Robinson, Radar McGuinness and Rae McGuinness. It was also World Alzheimers Day and manager Tracy Robinson said, “We...
Poverty Bay have their toughest game of the season when they take on undefeated South Canterbury at Paddy’s Park, Patutahi, tomorrow. And unless things go their way, it could also be their last game of the year. The final round-robin matches of...
The Eagles Golfing Society of Gisborne Charity Golf Tournament is at the Poverty Bay course on Sunday. There is a two-tee start from 9am to 10.45am. Format is gross, net and stableford in men’s and women’s divisions; also a 9-hole section and...
The must-win game of the Ngāti Porou East Coast Kaupoi Sky Blues’ season is upon them. NPEC travel to Rugby Park, Waihi, to play the Thames Valley Swamp Foxes at 2pm tomorrow. The fourth-placed Coast — like Thames Valley and Whanganui — have...
Gisborne Country Music Club had another outstanding year at the New Zealand Country Music Awards, bringing home several top prizes. “We are very proud of everyone in the club who took part in the competition,” said Gisborne Country Music Club...
by Renae Lolohea A friendship that began at Gisborne Boys’ High School over two decades ago between Reihana Wyllie and Luke Bradley has opened the boarding gates for a group of Gisborne Boys’ High School students. A contingent of 30 students and...
Poverty Bay The top 10 of the Emerre and Hathaway Poverty Bay Men’s Open . . . 10 — Fly like an eagle: It’s just not a PB Open without Marcel Campbell doing something outrageous. This time the pizzeria owner nearly holed his drive on the par-4...
Barry Memorial Croquet Club members played a golf croquet teams tournament with a difference. Entrants were divided into two teams of eight, selected by captains Rob Hayes and John Wilson. Players competed in five rounds of either doubles or singles...
The council’s commercial arm Gisborne Holdings Ltd is set to draw a more vocal crowd than usual to its annual meeting tonight after making clear that a potential sale of its dominant asset, Tauwhareparae Farms, is on the table and it wants to hear...
Gwynne Dyer It’s nothing like the great breakthroughs of the mid-20th century wars, when combined air and ground forces would tear a hole in the enemy line, the tanks would pour through, and the front would roll back several hundred kilometres...
The front page of Tuesday’s paper so filled me with shock that I didn’t want to read the accompanying information. Tell me, how can a dog that is microchipped, registered etc be taken by a council staff member and mistakenly put down? It belies...
Was it the National Party or RNZ news that chose the wrong word, in admitting New Zealand First as a “possible” coalition partner, when history has proved it to be, when in coalition, quite an impossible partner? “Potential” would be better...
The Waiapu River is recognised as one of the North Island’s largest braided rivers, and is of great cultural and spiritual significance to Ngāti Porou. At approximately 130 kilometres long it winds through Ngāti Porou whenua where it passes by...
A reunion of former freezing workers at the Gisborne Refrigerating Company is planned for November 25. All ex-freezing workers who were there from 1948 to 1994, and their families, are invited. The man organising the reunion, Doug Symes, said they...
A new holiday programme featuring theatre, music and circus arts was a hit with the 40 children who took part this week. Chamber Music New Zealand and the Gisborne International Music Competition put on a three-day programme packed with discovery...
The fire that extensively damaged a residence in De Lautour Road in Kaiti on Tuesday morning was most likely caused by clothing and bedding left too close to a heater. The woman living there suffered smoke inhalation — described as minor by...