Kia ora tatau/Dear readers. Not long ago I used to be a regular contributor to this opinion page. I ceased when health challenges forced me to redirect my energy and interests to my immediate and extended whaanau. The internet and social media now...
Ann David The Shortland Street episode of June 21 portrays a scenario where an unconscious man on life support has written an advance directive rejecting precisely such support in that situation. His loving wife, believing she is doing the right...
Re: Pensioner bashed at Posie Parker protest. The 71-year-old woman is upset to hear the 20-year-old man who attacked her from behind with a blow to the head, then threw punches to her face, has been granted diversion and name suppression. He was...
Clive e hoa, Whitu tekau ma toru ōku tau. He Pakeha ahau. Kei te ako ahau i te reo Māori. Ki tāku whakaaro ko tāku kawenga i raro i Te Tiriti. Kei te pirangi au ki te mōhio ki ngā korero kei muri i ngā ingoa Māori o ngā wāhi. Ma te mōhio...
What is happening to New Zealand Post? It seems ironic that NZ Post will increase the cost of postage on July 1, yet have such poor service for mail delivery — one wonders how they can justify it. I ordered stamps from the stamp and collectable...
Teams from Manawatu and Wellington North will be in Gisborne this weekend for the second round of Badminton New Zealand’s North Island senior inter-association Central Division 1 competition. Badminton Eastland’s senior division team will play...
Popular rugby league columnist and sports blogger Dane Clarke has named three Warriors and a Gisborne-born prop in his “Most Improved Line-up of 2023 so far”. The 17-strong NRL list posted on Clarkey’s Rugby League Column features Warriors...
Gisborne United Firsts recovered from a two-goal deficit to beat Wainui Sharks 6-2 in Eastern League 1 football last Saturday. Sunshine Brewing Wainui Sharks got off to a flying start with goals to Tomas Campos Saez in the 17th minute and Ollie...
Understatement has its nuances. Rugby people aren’t in the habit of blowing their own trumpet but Hicks Bay’s 21-12 away win against Hikurangi Te Maunga to claim the Pirika Frederick William Huriwai-Jones Memorial Trophy at Kahuitara is worth...
Gisborne Boys’ High School under-14s won a great game of rugby on Saturday. The Mark Jefferson-coached side beat Akina Hastings BHS 19-17 away in a nail-biter that produced six tries. Having begun their season with a 47-0 win against East Coast at...
Defending champions YMP and Gisborne Girls High enjoyed clearcut victories in Premier Grade netball at the YMCA on Wednesday night. After racking up a 15-2 lead in the first quarter, GGHS Senior A defeated Farmlands Ngatapa 57-20. Turanga FM YMP...
The weather looks set to produce additional challenges in tonight’s Poverty Bay club hockey games at Harry Barker Reserve, particularly for the Masters and Waituhi. YMP A and B men got the weekend under way last night on the Hain Farming Turf...
IF Poverty Bay Premier club rugby gets the go-ahead on the district’s rain-hammered grounds tomorrow, competition leaders YMP will celebrate another milestone. Week 10 — the last games of Round 2 of the Civil Project Solutions Premier...
An elderly woman was rushed into the city fire station yesterday afternoon in pain and distressed, unable to remove a ring from her ring finger. A friend took the woman, whose finger was badly swollen, to the Fire and Emergency station at around...
Twelve bands from Tairāwhiti are poised to exhibit their musical prowess as they play off in the regional final of the Smokefreerockquest at the War Memorial Theatre on Saturday. The competition, now in its 36th year, involves thousands of young...
The wet weather has forced the postponement of the first of the Angus rising two-year-old bull sales in the region this season. Ratanui Angus at Tuai were to have started the ball, or should that be bull, rolling this afternoon. But it has been...
The Gisborne Volunteer Centre’s Two Minutes of Good Stuff film festival has been postponed. Centre manger Jenny Greaves said unfortunately they had to make the call to postpone today’s event, after taking into consideration the continuous rain...
A Mongrel Mob man aggrieved over a gang issue chased a woman around a residential street with a machete and used it to damage her vehicle. The incident in Hansford Court, Kaiti, on November 19, last year, resulted in Steven Christopher Fa’Ae...
Auditions for musical comedy School of Rock, produced by Musical Theatre Gisborne, are on this weekend. Andrew Lloyd Webber bought the rights to the show for a stage musical in 2013. The musical has a book by Downton Abbey creator Julian Fellowes...
The impact of Cyclone Gabrielle on the wine industry will be long lasting, says GisVin chief winemaker and chairman of Gisborne Winegrowers Mark Thompson. Like Hawke’s Bay, Gisborne received around two-and-a-half times the long-term average...
Kōrero and haka from rangatahi were centre stage at this year’s Ngā Manu Kōrero and Kapa Haka festival hosted by Lytton High School. This was the 58th year of the annual event which sees rangatahi from different kura across Tairāwhiti compete...
Reviving the retro (some might argue it never went out of fashion) skill of roller skating is the aim of local start-up Gizzy on Wheels. The first session will be at the YMCA in July. Founder and home-schooled Adriana Hoogland, 18, said she first...
When Janet leaves her daughter’s Vogel St house, she still locks the front door out of habit. The place has long been gutted of its contents, Cyclone Gabrielle having turned its interior into a muddy pool by way of a flooded Waimatā River...
Every time it starts to rain, I start worrying.” These are the fears of many Gisborne-East Coast residents as downpours once again deluge the district — fears that were realised when Te Karaka residents were given notice yesterday afternoon to...
Gisborne Mayor Rehette Stoltz declared a State of Emergency late yesterday afternoon as rivers rose and rain continued to fall across an already sodden region. “This gives our whānau and community a chance to self-evacuate tomorrow and make...
The MetService has extended the region's Severe Weather Warning through to midday, Sunday. The forecast is for a prolonged period of rain, which is expected to be heavy at times. "Expect 250 to 350 mm of rain to accumulate about and north of Tolag...
The Government has jettisoned a capable and hard-working minister with a major blindspot for conflicts of interest, after it emerged that Michael Wood had more undeclared shareholding interests in areas that clashed with his portfolios. Prime...
Natasha Baulis, Maxim Institute researcher Our collective noses have been crinkling at the distinct whiff of something not quite right in the press for some time now, but last week was a particular corker for unveiling some fishy elements of the NZ...
E nga whānau and community of the Tairāwhiti region. Ka nui te mihi ki a koutou kua tauawhi ki a matau whanau, ahakoa nga piki me nga heke ka titiro angawhakamua matau. As the former Race Relations Commissioner, I want to express my heartfelt...
Since my letter last month on my concerns about the potential closure of Alzheimer’s Gisborne, I am pleased to announce the heartening news of the appointment of a new coordinator. And next month the Sherwood Club will again be operating three...
It is winter and we expect rain but it's been a ridiculous year weather-wise, which continued on Gisborne sports fields over the weekend. The Ngatapa-OBM Poverty Bay Premier club rugby game at Patutahi's Paddy Park turned into a mudbath, with...
All games on Saturday — First Kicks 4v4, Watson Park, 8.30am: 5, Te Hapara Toru v Central Tahi; 6, Wainui Crays v Awapuni Black; 7, Wainui Paua v Te Wharau Kereru; 8, Wainui Kina v Te Wharau Kiwi; 9, Wainui Mussels v St Mary’s Asteroids; 10...
SNOOKER John Berry and Phil Thompson topped a nine-strong field to win the Cosmopolitan Snooker Club’s Ray Swann Championship Pairs last weekend. There were some good combinations which made for a well contested competition. Those to make it to...
POVERTY BAY Phil Allan didn’t know he and partner Chris Shaw were the No. 1 seeds for the 2023 Gisborne Motors Barns-Graham Cup men’s pairs until told three days after qualification. “What? Top qualifiers? How’s that, eh?” the scaffolding...