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Cruel policies, more poverty

We are sad and fearful that New Zealanders have voted for some pretty cruel policies. National have never been friends of the poor and have said they’ll sanction beneficiaries once again. We remember Ruth Richardson and then Paula Bennett and Anne...

A and P, not AMP!

For goodness sake! Our newspaper has the intellect to name our Show the A and P Show; not A.M.P. The radio has taken their own direction in this naming. It is no more difficult to say “A and P” than it is to say A.M.P. Does radio have their own...

Top five finish at Motu Challenge

All three teams flying the Hear4U flag finished in the top five of the mixed teams section of the Motu Challenge multisport race on Saturday. Bragging rights between the three were shared as their order chopped and changed over the 172-kilometre...

Trophy stays with Cornwall

Cornwall Oaks have retained the Brough-Thompson Trophy. The Hawke’s Bay Division 4 2B side beat local Senior B stalwarts Breakers Horouta by eight wickets at Gisborne’s Nelson Park. Former Poverty Bay men’s senior representative Blake Taylor...

Gis Int have good hit-out tourney

A man with a passion is bringing out the best in junior cricket. Former Rere School principal David Milne, the driving force behind the West Gisborne Rural Schools team, will coach a Gisborne Intermediate School boys’ first 11 on the rise to the...

Around the greens

Poverty Bay July Hoepo-Williams and Karen Pinn won a 2-4-2 mixed pairs tournament at Poverty Bay Bowling Club. Sixteen teams contested the Mangapapa Garage-sponsored tournament on a sunny but very windy day. Each team played four 90-minute games...

Stock sale raises $33,583 for local Cancer Society

A whopping $33,583 was raised for the Gisborne-East Coast Cancer Society at the 25th stockyard fundraising sale held to support Daffodil Day. Expressing gratitude, Cancer Society fundraising and events coordinator Shay Podjursky said to everyone...

‘Set up to fail’ says Tairāwhiti nurse

Before election candidates spoke at the New Zealand Nurses Organisation’s Maranga Mai Election Evening Hui held recently, several nurses spoke of their experiences in the health sector. The following slightly abridged coverage comes from a Te...

Pensioner let down

Attention service providers! Recently I helped a 77-year-old homeless person. Her eftpos card was worn out and needed replacing, and as she has no fixed abode they hadn’t been able to update it. When she rang them, they told her she needed proof...

Short-term governments, long-term climate issues

The 2023 general election results are in and National will lead a new Government for the next three years. Climate change and the environment are a low priority for National and its Act coalition partner, which wants to repeal the Zero Carbon Act...

Friendly, patient with his little passengers

The chap driving the children’s Fonterra barrel rides for two days at the Show, with a smile on his face the whole time and showing untold patience with his little passengers, deserves a medal. Maire Overbye, Vivienne Cooper and Raigh Franks

Another Bay comeback falls just short in Lochore Cup final

There’s something about comebacks that gets Poverty Bay firing on all cylinders. Civil Project Solutions Poverty Bay Weka fell agonisingly short of winning the Heartland Championship’s Lochore Cup (fifth to eighth) final for the fifth time on...

Multiple sclerosis not stopping Grand Prix champion Davey

Julie Davey saved the best for last in the major class on the final day of equestrian at the Poverty Bay A&P Show on Saturday. She and her imported grey mare Just D were the last to go in a classy field in the Property Brokers Horse Grand Prix...

Bridge results

Congratulations to Bette Parker and Caroline Kirkpatrick for a top score of 70.63 percent on Friday, October 6. Monday, October 2 — Bayleys Pairs 1 (Howell movement) Amanda Matthews, Pippa Williams 64.19 Murray Owen, Mark Fleming 63.81 Elizabeth...

Rescue helicopter missions already eclipsing last year’s

With just three-quarters of the year gone the Trust Tairāwhiti Eastland Rescue Helicopter had already completed more missions than for the whole of last year. During 2022 the team flew 248 completed missions from their Gisborne hangar, as well as...

Ikaroa-Rāwhiti election 2023 results: Cushla Tangaere-Manuel in; Meka Whaitiri ousted

by Gary Hamilton-Irvine Just hours before Cushla Tangaere-Manuel was elected as Ikaroa-Rāwhiti’s new MP, she made a trip to an urupā to visit her parents’ graves. Labour’s Tangaere-Manuel defeated long-standing Ikaroa-Rāwhiti MP Mek...