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Clean up forestry slash

This never-ending nuisance of forestry slash must stop. What other industries are allowed to discharge their waste products into the environment? Surely it should be possible to establish regulations that require the logging companies to process the...

Faith pavilion for COP28

For the first time a faith pavilion will be part of COP28, the United Nations Climate Change Conference, to inspire ambitious goals and call for concrete commitments on climate change. The Pope is attending the opening. Shane Goldie, a 22-year-old...

Sheep and beef farmers enjoying the benefits of bringing in Cashmere goats

by Hamish Barwick Three years ago, Glenn and Carolyn Prebble on the Whakarau Road took the plunge into running Cashmere goats in their sheep and beef operation and are now reaping the benefits of weed control, Cashmere fibre and meat. The...

Apology for comment while challenging GDC to do better

A Gisborne district councillor has called the local authority’s risk management practices into question, earning a request to apologise in the process. At Tuesday’s audit and risk meeting, Colin Alder said the council needed to add “another...

Woody debris on beaches a case of déjà vu for region

The clean-up of debris on the city beaches brought in by the weekend storm was likely to begin today or tomorrow, with contractors to initially clear driftwood away from in front of the Waikanae and Midway surflife saving clubs. The council...

Police go after dead murderess's ill-gotten inheritance

Even before Lynne Martin was found guilty of murdering her father Russell Allison, police were getting ready to recover $225,000 she received from his estate after he died. Martin, 63, was found dead in a police cell the morning after jurors...

Careers day outing to The Gisborne Herald, NZME radio station

Tolaga Bay Area School junior students came to town this week for a careers day outing. They visited The Gisborne Herald where managing director Michael Muir gave them a tour of the business. “What a great opportunity for our tamariki to visit...

Girls’ High Learning Support students clock up the kilometres for Cancer Society fundraiser

Learning Support students and teacher aides are well ahead of their fundraiser target in the Cancer Society’s Marathon for a Month. The Gisborne Girls’ High School group can often be seen walking on the return trip from the Beacon car park to...

Malone surfs world waves

Gisborne grandparents Dennis and Cynthia Malone are closely following the fortunes of the New Zealand team at the ISA World Junior Surfing Championship in Brazil. Their grandson Navryn Malone, son of 1998 national surfing champion Chris, has been...

Considerable costs in Smokefree repeal

The new Government wants to crack on with important work but it will find itself dealing with distractions if third-time deputy prime minister Winston Peters keeps grouching at the media and entertaining conspiracy theories. The sooner he jets off...

Team effort: our future is in our hands

Clive Bibby It may seem somewhat ironic suggesting that we are are still in charge of our own destiny, given the challenges that have emerged during this last year — Cyclones Hale and Gabrielle with their unprecedented damaging effect on the...

Glad to get your head around Grey St project

Re: No reason to fiddle with major city road, November 28 column. Roger, my word, you seem to have a bee in your bonnet around change. If you haven’t noticed (but you more than likely have, apparently) our city is in dire need of some aroha. This...

Huge potholes remain . . .

I note with interest that the speed restriction signs, that were never legally compliant, have been removed on Wharekopae Road. Should we assume that the huge potholes that remain on the road are no longer dangerous enough to warrant restrictions...

Welcome to stand with us

I want to thank the general public of Gisborne for supporting our peaceful gatherings to show solidarity with the marginalised people of Palestine. As we stand in absolute grief and distress for the loss of 14,000 Palestinian lives, over 6000 of...

Powering up for a brighter future

Te Hapara School students have been exploring the wonder of energy this term as part of Engineering New Zealand’s Wonder Project. The free nationwide programme for schools is designed to get young Kiwis excited about science, technology...

Call to push booster vaccines as fifth wave sweeps country

Official figures for the week up to midnight, Sunday, show 69 Tairāwhiti residents have Covid-19. The country recorded 41 deaths from Covid in that week, but none from this district as the “fifth wave” of Covid-19 continues to strike New...