Latest from Gisborne

Looking after hospital doctors, dentists

Pauline E Tangiora It doesn’t seem right that we in Aotearoa do not give much respect to the senior doctors and dentists in our hospitals. Within our United Nations agreement there are three standing issues of human rights that we are signatories...

Teacher training issues

As a teacher I can’t help thinking that the reduction in New Zealand students’ achievement levels, in global comparisons, comes down to what happens before teachers teach. Firstly, the current model of user pays means there is no pre-selection...

Heartland leaders Old Golds a huge challenge for Kaupoi

A second straight Heartland Championship win for Ngāti Porou East Coast Kaupoi at Ruatōria would be huge and it could happen. A week after their 19-8 home victory against Mid Canterbury, Enterprise Cars Ngāti Porou East Coast have it in them to...

More than points up for grabs

Confidence is building momentum within the Poverty Bay squad as they look to extend on impressive first-half performances in their opening two Heartland Championship clashes. Civil Project Solutions Poverty Bay Wekas meet Wairarapa Bush in Masterton...

Same hole, same day, same perfect result

Gay Young and Carnie Nelson started playing golf at about the same time nearly 25 years ago, so it was a fitting coincidence the pair would achieve career-first perfection on the same day. And they did it on the same hole. Young sank her 9-wood tee...

Tūranga out to make it two for two tomorrow

Fresh from their victorious start to the inaugural North Island Heartland women’s rugby competition, Tūranga Wahine intend to make it successive wins in Gisborne tomorrow. Week 2 of the history-making championship will see Tūranga Wāhine and...

Thistle have role to play in Fed title race

Gisborne Thistle play reluctant kingmakers in the run-in to the end of their Central Federation League football season. On Wednesday night, Palmerston North United beat league leaders Palmerston North Marist 2-1 with a stoppage-time goal that could...

BPW nabs candidates

Gisborne Business and Professional Women (BPW) is hosting a meet the candidates evening on September 5. Believed to be the first candidates event announced so far for Gisborne, it is designed to allow each of the political candidates to address...

Bill actually makes case to Keep It 18

Jason Heale, Maxim Institute The voting age is once again causing a stir. Last week, a new bill was introduced into Parliament that seeks to allow 16-year-olds to vote in local elections. The issue remained dormant for a few months after the Supreme...

Art sale a big success

The community art sale held on Saturday, August 19 at the St Andrew's Church hall was a big success and raised $5370 for local charities. A total of 290 art pieces were donated, between paintings, prints, ceramics, weaving and sculpture, and most...

Indoor sports complex needed even more . . .

We deserve an indoor sports facility. There was such a huge turnout yesterday for the opening of the new Kiwa Pools, where our Mayor stated “our community deserves a complex like this”. Our community also deserves an indoor facility where we can...

Stand by for more cuts

I was pleased to read that the National Party campaigners are being told that people are struggling at the moment in our electorate. They must be dismayed to see that their political leaders are promising to ditch the very things that Labour has...

History on the mats

Paris, she’s coming for ya. Well, not quite yet, but Gisborne judoka Sydnee Andrews continues to make all the right moves towards wearing the fern at the pinnacle of global sport — the 2024 Paris Olympics. Creating a bit of New Zealand history...

Golf roundup

ELECTRINET PARK Karen Hay and Jo Kerr won’t forget the last time they met in a club championship final. It was two years ago and it took 37 holes before Hay sealed her 19th senior women’s crown in what Kerr described as “one of the best...

Winning start for Tūranga Wāhine

The “system” put in place in the Turanga Wāhine squad has immediately shown its worth. Turanga had a 31-15 victory over Thames Valley Vixens in their opening game of the inaugural North Island Women’s Heartland Championship in Te Aroha on...

United on track to complete four goals

Gisborne United won football’s Eastern League 1 title with a 100 percent win record and a nine-point margin over the runners-up. They won all 13 of their games, scoring 85 goals and conceding only 13 for a goal difference of 72. Heavy Equipment...