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THE GIG GUIDE

THIS WEEK Friday Night Karaoke Breakers Jandal Bar, from 8pm. Free entry. Te Aka Rangatahi: The Teen Vine Anime Club for 14- to 18-year-olds. Watch and discuss anime with other aficionados. Light refreshments supplied. HB Williams Memorial Library...

Two home-grown bands to play on one great night

Gisborne audiences will have the chance to hear two home-grown bands play a mix of rock covers and original music when Machete and Uni-fi take to the stage at Smash Palace this Saturday. Machete Three-piece power trio Machete is made up of Lawrence...

Exquisite Gisborne artistry on display

This is the last chance to see the work of some of Gisborne’s finest painters, printmakers, potters and photographers in a group exhibition now on at Tairāwhiti Museum. The exhibition is a carefully curated collection created by Gisborne artists...

Gisborne audiences in for a treat with the return of NZIFF

Gisborne film lovers are in for a treat this month when the New Zealand International Film Festival (NZIFF) makes a welcome return to our beloved Odeon Theatre. Gisborne audiences will get a reduced programme, but one that is jam-packed with...

Will Luxon get off the fence on Peters?

It is no surprise that National Party leader Christopher Luxon doesn’t want to talk about Winston Peters. Most recent political polls have delivered numbers that have National able to form a coalition government with Act, but only just. At the...

Getting schooled on teacher training

Maryanne Spurdle, Maxim Institute researcher Education is firmly on political parties’ radars this election. As the ink dries on the Government’s pay agreements with teachers, the Māori Party is campaigning for every school to have at least one...

Senior football draw

Central Federation League, SATURDAY, 12.30pm: Childers Rd Reserve 1 (CRR), ALH Limited Gisborne Thistle v Watson Integrity PN Marist FC. Eastern League 1, SATURDAY, 2.30pm: Nelson Park 1 (NP), Heavy Equipment Services Gisborne United 1st’s v 1st...

United in class of their own

Eastern League football is rushing towards its conclusion, with two of the three titles already decided. Heavy Equipment Services Gisborne United Firsts have won the men’s first division in emphatic fashion, a 10-2 demolition of Coates Associates...

Rapid Relief Team bringing support for 300 farmers

The Rapid Relief Team, operated globally by the Brethren Church, have a “Farmers Community Connect” planned for Gisborne on September 1. They aim to bring 300 Tairāwhiti farmers together for the event. “The farming industry are doing it tough...

Fund help for Matapuna

Matapuna Trust’s special interest fund set up this year with the Sunrise Foundation is expected to benefit their students for years to come. The fund is the 50th to be seeded with Sunrise. The education centre’s trust board could see that...

‘Green shoots’ in housing market

House prices here are still falling but realtors say “green shoots” and encouraging signs are starting to emerge. Latest sales data provided by the Real Estate Institute (REINZ) for last month show the median price in Gisborne decreased by 8.6...

Spreading kindness at Tiniroto Plunket event

The tight-knit Tiniroto community has shown its support for tamariki at a heart-warming Whānau Āwhina Plunket event. Despite the area still being severely impacted by Cyclone Gabrielle, local whānau gathered at the Tiniroto Community Hall this...

Poor response forces Alzheimers Gisborne Tairawhiti to cancel festive fundraiser, spuds still on

September is World Alzheimers month but for Alzheimers Gisborne Tairawhiti it is not quite the glitzy, high profile month they were hoping for. Alzheimers Gisborne Tairawhiti has had to cancel its proposed major fundraiser on September 2, due to...

Auditing our rubbish: Gisborne's food waste excesses 37.4 tonnes per week

Every week, 42.8 percent of what Gisborne households throw away in their kerbside rubbish is food waste, a new survey shows. “That adds up to a whopping 37.4 tonnes every week of uneaten food that we then pay to truck out of town to a landfill,”...

Takeaway frontage demolished in crash

The front doors of the Kwangchow Takeaway shop in Wainui Road were demolished on Tuesday afternoon when a car went out of control and smashed into the store. It happened at around 3pm, much to the shock of takeaway shop proprietors Sam and Jaia Su...

Catering for sports, culture

I write in support of the high need for an indoor sports event centre. Tairāwhiti is recognised across the nation within many sporting codes, yet at this time our region does not have many, if any, indoor facilities to cater for our sports. Our...