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Warm welcome to all for Combined Services Day

The Gisborne Returned and Services Association invites the public to attend a Combined Services Day service on Sunday. The commemoration features a parade of ex and current service personnel, emergency services personnel and cadet forces. The...

50,000 expected for Mission concerts, care urged on roads

Go gentle, don’t do something stupid and have no regrets while tripping around Hawke’s Bay roads this weekend, was the message yesterday from Waka Kotahi NZ Transport Agency. “They may be lyrics from Robbie Williams’ songs but they hold an...

Wairoa Mayor Craig Little sees real need in district for mental health support

by Shannon Johnstone, Newstalk ZB The sound of rain used to be a welcome and relaxing sound, but for some people affected by Cyclone Gabrielle 10 months ago, it now brings back terrifying memories and feelings of anxiety. Heavy rain and flooding in...

Changing travel habits: Wednesday Challenge stats show car usage down, other ways of getting to school going up

Schools here are “shifting the dial” on travel habits as part of a pilot programme. Launched in September, Te Wero ia Wenerei (The Wednesday Challenge) encourages students to opt for better ways of getting to and from school. Run by the...

Test site for alternative electricity generation on track

Auckland-based Vortex Power Systems (VPS) has made good progress on the construction of a test site for its world-leading technology on the East Coast, Vortex chief executive Perzaan Mehta reported yesterday. The company will further develop an...

Roll out the barrels

The “Kegged” team of experienced surfers set up to help instruct the district’s young boardriders held a successful workshop for the “groms” at Pines, Wainui Beach, last weekend. It attracted 30 riders under the age of 18. “The kids all...

Monkey off Tairāwhiti’s back: Masters wooden spoon handed on to Southland

There is a huge difference between 14th and 15th at the Freyberg Masters men’s national interprovincial tournament . . . the length of a wooden spoon to be exact. Tairāwhiti men’s team know that all too well. For the past three years, under the...

Thompson on cue on Cossie Club tables

Phil Thompson emerged the champion from Gisborne Cosmopolitan Snooker Club’s President’s Trophy held last weekend. The trophy brings together winners and runners-up from all club competitions over the year and is played off handicap. A full...

Never mind the climate, watch the wars

Gwynne Dyer With practically all the media bandwidth for non-local news taken up by two tribal territorial struggles that would not have seemed out of place in the 15th century AD — or indeed the 15th century BC — you may have missed the latest...

Design delights in Rotterdam

Mike Yardley unravels Rotterdam’s post-war rebirth into a thriving mecca of architectural innovation and design excellence. If your idea of a dream European destination is charmingly quaint, cute and cobbled, Rotterdam is not for you. But like an...

Tiny space, big harvest

Explore the world of mobile vege gardening and learn how to grow your own produce in small living spaces. You don’t need a big space if you want to grow a vege garden — in fact, you don’t even need to own your own home. Creating a mobile vege...

A fusion of Flavours

Eat Up New Zealand: The Bach Edition by Al Brown is a revised edition of Al’s iconic book Eat Up New Zealand. This book includes more than 150 delicious recipes especially aimed at easy bach living. Meatballs with spiced tomato lentils is my...

Solomann ends BoP star’s winning streak

He’s known to most as “Solly” but David Solomann has earned himself another nickname at the Freyberg Masters men’s interprovincial tournament in Gisborne this week . . . “Afternoon Specialist”. Solomann collected a huge scalp as his host...

Trio wins annual ‘Fun Day’

Poverty Bay Bowling Club members held their annual Melbourne Cup Fun Day Tournament on Tuesday. The winners, with three wins and 15 ends won, were Dayvinia Mills (skip), Marion Jones (director) and Margaret Parsons (lead). The runners-up — Bruce...

Mills bowls perfectly

Impressive draw bowls by Dayvinia Mills proved decisive in the final of the centre 2-4-2 mixed pairs completed at Gisborne Bowling Club on Sunday. Mills combined with Geoff Pinn to defeat Marcus and Jasmine Merrick 15-8 in the decider. The...

Greenless Tolaga win men’s interclub champs

No green, no problem. Tolaga Bay won the men's section of the senior interclub competition at the Kahutia Bowling Club on Saturday, even though their home green is still out of commission. Cyclone Gabrielle caused the Tolaga Bay green damage that...