Extended meteorological outlooks indicate a decent spell of fine weather lasting up to 10 days for the Gisborne-East Coast region. New Zealand and overseas weather agencies are all looking to indications of a change as a result of El Nino conditions...
A woman was taken to Gisborne Hospital suffering burns after fire extensively damaged her home at the city end of Awapuni Road in the early hours of Tuesday. Fire and Emergency NZ and St John ambulance were called to the blaze at around 1.15am...
Food bank struggling to keep up with demand The Salvation Army Winter Appeal has come at a time of great need as the Gisborne branch struggles to keep up with growing demand for food parcels. The Sallies used to give out around 10 parcels a week but...
Emphasis on employing locals; more funding to be made available: Grant Robertson.
Doris Higgins has been volunteering at Gisborne Hospital since 2007. “After moving from the country into town and finishing up work, I was looking for something to do,” said Doris. Her role as a volunteer involves directing people where to go...
The Te Puka Hunting & Fishing Club competition held recently in Tokomaru Bay was a big success with more than 420 entries and 700-plus pigs, deer, goats, possums, turkeys and hares weighed in. Co-organiser Rozzi Pethybridge said it was a big...
Gisborne’s community pharmacies are celebrating after the High Court in Wellington ruled that licences issued to five Countdown pharmacies, including the Gisborne store, are unlawful and invalid and should be quashed. The Ministry of Health and...
Staff from the Gisborne branch of accountants BDO hope they will inspire other companies here to follow their lead after stopping work for a day to help local volunteer organisations. BDO consultant Pete Jarratt said the initiative turned out to be...
A group of Gisborne musicians have raised $55,000 to aid the efforts of charitable trust and men’s mental health organisation Hear4U. The band with no name’s manager Dana Kirkpatrick said since Cyclone Gabrielle, they wanted to put on a party...
Congratulations to Yvonne Waide and Ann McCombe for scoring 69.84 percent on Wednesday. Monday, July 3 — Woodward Chrisp Restricted Pairs 1 North/South East/West Beverley Evans, Bette Parker 59.17 John Hudson, Vicki Taylor 61.67 Patricia Corson...
High-scoring and one-sided games are likely in Gisborne premier grade netball at the YMCA tomorrow night. At 6pm, Claydens Waikohu (1) play Farmlands Ngatapa. Waikohu had a big win when these teams met soon after Ngatapa’s promotion to premier...
Poverty Bay and East Coast club rugby results from Saturday — Civil Project Solutions Senior 1 men’s club rugby final: Roseland Tavern Tapuae Taniwha 25 (Eneriko Tupou 2, Iowane Filimoni, Kyoni-Tyrese Te Amo-Poki, tries; Te Amo-Poki con, pen)...
The perfect season ended in the perfect way. East Coast Farm Vets YMP are the Civil Project Solutions Poverty Bay Premier club rugby champions for the second year in a row. They defeated GT Shearing Waikohu 15-0 at a rain-drenched Barry Park on...
Gisborne speedway racer Ethan Rees was named Superstock Competitor of the Year at the New Zealand Speedway awards presentation in Christchurch at the weekend. The 25-year-old had 3NZ on his car by the end of the season. Before that it was 127G...
A police inquiry continues into the “unexplained” death of a man at an address on Kaiwaitau Road in Mahia on Thursday last week. Police were called to the home at around 12.25pm that day. “At this time the death is being treated as...
Emergency services responded to two incidents over the weekend — a vehicle crash in Tucker Road and an unattended cooking fire at a house in Makaraka. At around 4pm on Saturday, appliances were sent to a property at the corner of Ora Street and...
Māori author Witi Ihimaera will be the guest of honour at the 33rd International First Peoples’ Festival in Montreal next month. The multidisciplinary festival includes concerts, dances, poetry and more than 60 films. It is billed as a flagship...
More rain, more flooding, more damage . . . the latest rain has inflicted more of everything the district does not want. The Gisborne-East Coast roading network now could hardly be called that as a monumental amount of damage has made road travel...
Eastland Generation today announced a strategic capital raise to help fund the expansion of its renewable generation portfolio. The company intends to raise funds by offering a 50 percent ownership stake. Matt Todd, chief executive of parent...
Yet another in what seems like an endless succession of wet weekends could have left the people of Tairāwhiti as prime victims of the seasonal affective disorder SAD. Every time it seems we might be getting a break from the wettest winter in most...
Re: ‘Shop local’ great advice, July 8 letter by N. Miller Yes, “shop local” certainly did not come into consideration when the decision-making panel appointed Belgravia. Perhaps that is because, as previously mentioned, one of that panel was...
Re: Degrowth and regrowth. As Richard Whitley says (July 6, “Worst case”), Japan is facing a tanking birthrate and an increasingly aged population, and this was not achieved in a stable and controlled manner. However it is not, as he claims...
Re: Weather events, fewer fires. Here on Saturday Iain Boyle attempted to disprove the Ministry for the Environment information I offered that climate change is increasing the frequency and intensity of extreme weather events, and will continue to...
The front page banner heading on Friday, “Support builds for coastal shipping”, is misleading. The only support that counts is that from customers who might use ships — and they have already made it clear they prefer road transport. As a Port...
Reading the column by Jack Marshall (8th July), I thought of how lovely to have. 1) The last time I saw Sam Stubbs (founder of Simplicity) he said he had been to see the council and Mayor that morning and offered the Simplicity building programme to...
With the recent floods, have you or someone you know had an insurance swimming pool claim? I would welcome a quick chat about your circumstances and outcome. Please phone me on 027 2777 345. Craig
Brothers Matthew and Dylan Foster, their cousin Kayla Trowell and the boys’ father Mike Foster won the Tom Duffin Fours with three wins and a draw. They were the only qualifiers in the event. The day before, Mike Foster teamed up with his...
Submissions are pouring in for the review of New Zealand’s electoral laws that will land in the lap of the next government. The panel has received more than 2000 submissions to its draft recommendations in the space of just over a month. This has...
What have we come to when we start picking on people in the public arena, on the word of someone who goes to the news media but will not give their name? Shame on them. If it’s good enough to mention someone else, then you should stand by your...
I do feel very upset that the Learn to Swim contract for the new Kiwa Pools has not been awarded to a local provider, namely Comet. This hit me again on Wednesday when I read the advert on page 19 of The Gisborne Herald, “Support Our Community —...
I read with interest the view of the community that Comet “should” have been given/ was “entitled to secure”, etc, the learn-to-swim contract for the Kiwa Pools. The reality is that we live and operate in a corporate environment. The world...
GISBORNE CLUB DARTS ASSOCIATION July 4 — Individual highlights 180s: T Reeves (Outlaws); A Taukamo-Pohio, H Eyles (Vikings); B Leach (Done n Dusted); I Eyles (Gunz); Q Stevens (2) (Rebels). Highest start: (170) A Charlie (Stallions). (Stallions)...
Gisborne triathlete Tayler Reid is again among the elite athletes contesting the Super League Triathlon Championship Series. The series comprises four races – on August 27 in London, UK; September 3 in Toulouse, France; September 30 in Malibu...
$72,000 Angus the star of the show The bull sale season generated more than $5.1 million dollars for the Gisborne-East Coast-Wairoa economies this year. It was highlighted by extremely high clearance rates across all the region’s studs. East Coast...