Clearance rates have been very high in the Angus bull sales here. Orere Angus sold 19 out of the 20 bulls they put up by auction in their first on-farm sale on Monday. Studmaster Ben Johnson steered them around the ring. Tangihau Angus set the price...
It's time for tamariki of Tairāwhiti to get ready to celebrate themselves at the region’s Children’s Day event on Sunday. Children’s Day was in March but because of Cyclone Gabrielle the Tairāwhiti event was postponed. “This event belongs...
New figures show the number of missions flown out of the Eastland Helicopter Rescue Trust hangar increased more than seven-fold in the days after Cyclone Gabrielle and the local crew says it was a massive team effort. But even that increase in...
Kaharau Angus off Riverside Road celebrated 50 years of bull sales on Monday night in style with a packed rostrum on-farm in Goodwin Road and a “brilliant” commercial sale. The iconic local stud sold all but two of the 62 rising two-year-old...
Whangara Angus kept the East Coast Angus Bull Week clearance wheels rolling yesterday afternoon when 29 out of 30 of their young bulls went off to new homes. In yet another highly successful commercial rising two-year-old bull sale, Whangar...
Iwi chairs of Ngāti Porou and Te Aitanga a Māhaki are disappointed by the update, released last week, on progress implementing recommendations from the Land Use in Tairāwhiti Inquiry report Outrage to Optimism. “We are witnessing ecosystem...
Tawa Hills Angus at Motu enjoyed a total clearance in their rising two-year-old bull sale at the Matawhero saleyards yesterday morning to keep the high clearance rate going among the Tairāwhiti studs. Blair and Paige Crawshaw sold nine out off 11...
Walker becomes patron as charitable trust takes over governance of Tauawhi Men’s Centre this week. Ralph Walker, aka Papa Rau, has been honoured as the patron of Tauawhi Men’s Centre at an event this week to mark the transition of the centre to...
A long-haul truck driver caught drink-driving has been sentenced to community work. Judge Warren Cathcart imposed 250 hours work on Nigel Ross Williamson, 41, when he appeared in Gisborne District Court this week. The judge also imposed a mandatory...
The cyclone-damaged Hikuwai No. 1 bridge on State Highway 35 will be completely dismantled and transported away later this month. A Bailey bridge was opened earlier this month replacing the Hikuwai No. 1 bridge north of Tolaga Bay which was destroyed...
Gisborne’s main internet link was restored quickly in the wake of Cyclone Gabrielle but ongoing monitoring will be needed for two more years, before a permanent solution, to put the the fibre optic cable underground, can be implemented. “The...
A Wairoa woman has been arrested and charged with supplying methamphetamine, following the execution of a number of search warrants as part of the ongoing Operation Kotare targeting organised crime. Eastern District Police executed four search...
Wairoa and Nuhaka firefighters were called out in the early hours of yesterday morning to a major house fire in Wairoa. They found the home fully ablaze. The 111 calls started to come in just before 1am on Tuesday morning. “Three fire appliances...
Gisborne District Council has 137 homes on its list for silt removal, according to latest figures, as its spend on silt removal climbs to more than $2 million. The figures relate to a total spend in the region following Cyclone Gabrielle, and...
A landowner out flying a drone one morning spotted a group of strangers on his property without permission. When they started taunting the drone, the man called police. Raana Walter Morice was subsequently charged with unlawful hunting and unlawful...
Billboards are popping up around the Tairāwhiti region to remind people about methamphetamine abuse in the community. This is a local initiative organised by Tuta Ngarimu the regional manager for NZ P Pull Movement and manager of Manaaki Moves...
Police intervention needed as level of abuse intensifies across all departments.
Another mid-winter week has started on a bleak note with little to brighten the news scene. Television One’s Sunday programme kicked things off with a sombre message around the damage that has been done here by extreme weather and the massive...
June was a fun month for news outlets, RNZ’s self-inflicted scandal aside. Maryanne Spurdle, Maxim Institute researcher How often does a Cabinet Minister resign, and for entirely preventable reasons? Reactions to Michael Wood’s brazen resistance...
What on earth are the Gisborne Churches doing? Do you all agree with last Saturday’s Christian Comment? Shame on you! How did you allow this to be printed? Two of the Churches on the page stated “ALL WELCOME”. Bernard Moran doesn’t say which...
A huge thank you and aroha to the Palmerston Rd Immunisation Hub. We were really grateful for our injections in such a caring and friendly atmosphere. It wasn’t something we wanted but it was something we needed and you all did it painlessly and...
Great letter-exchange on the population problem over the weekend, thank you. Roger Handford told how improved education and family health reduces population growth; Lara Meyer added the factor of contraception. This general effect is known as the...
Please wake up and fix the railway line. There are too many holes in the road, and a big election on October 14th. I am a great, great fan of trains and used to travel on the train a lot. I want to see the trains come back to Gisborne for...
RACING Having ridden on the East Coast since he was a child, Ngakau Hailey has always felt at home on the back of a horse and is enjoying turning that passion into a career. The 16-year-old apprentice jockey is in his first season of riding and is...
Monday, June 26 — Sean Shivnan Pharmacy Championship Pairs 5 North/South East/West Eileen Lee, Anne McCombe 63.10 Katrine Matthews, Hans van der Kuijl 58.04 Caroline Kirkpatrick, Robyn Cheyne 58.33 John Rouse, Murray Owen 55.06 Diana Styche, Joy...
A fourth-quarter blitz earned Waikohu (1) a come-from-behind 60-50 win over Horouta Koura in a hard-fought Premier Grade netball game at the YMCA on Saturday morning. Competition leaders Turanga FM YMP (1) turned on another powerhouse performance...
LAWN BOWLS Kahutia Bowling Club’s Karen Pinn narrowly missed out on making the semifinals of the national super singles tournament for players with up to eight years of bowls experience. In a field of 24, she finished ninth. After a stellar summer...
Different year. Same teams. The 2023 Civil Project Solutions Premier club rugby final will feature the same protagonists as 2022 after YMP and Waikohu booked their spots in the Lee Bros Shield decider with semifinal victories on Saturday. GT...
Planning a wetland restoration? The Gisborne District Council’s catchments and biodiversity team is working on developing some tools and resources to help landowners and community groups with planning biodiversity enhancement projects. Locals have...
Firefighters were called twice to a house at the Elgin end of Childers Road overnight Sunday after a fire started in a bedroom of the property early in the evening. Fire and Emergency NZ sent appliances to the home at around 6pm initially. “...
The Haka Party Incident may be revisiting a confrontation in 1979 that changed the nation’s race relations forever, but it is just as relevant today. Perhaps even more so ,says Te Tairāwhiti Arts Festival chief executive and artistic director...
One of the region’s favourite sons, Rutene Spooner, is back this week to delight young and old with the show he created, Pipi Paopao. It’s a homecoming that Spooner (Ngati Porou, Ngaruahine and Ngati Kahungunu) always looks forward to. “I find...
Orere Angus at Pehiri kicked off the Gisborne component of East Coast Angus Bull Week yesterday morning with an almost total clearance and a top price of $65,000. Ben and Kylie Johnson sold 19 out of the 20 rising two-year-old bulls they put up by...
A new high price of $68,000 was paid for a bull fairly late in the Tangihau Angus catalogue yesterday as the Rere stud continued the high clearance rate this rising two-year-old bull sale season. The stud also sold one for $62,000. Lot 25 sold for...