KAHUTIA and Te Karaka pairs won the Bowls Gisborne-East Coast Champion of Champions Pairs tournament for senior women and men at Kahutia Bowling Club. Lucy Shanks (skip) and Glenys Whiteman of Kahutia beat Wairoa’s Glenda Kapene (s) and Jo Sturmey...
Indoor bowls by Horsey Andrew Rickard showed total class on his way to winning the Poverty Bay East Coast centre open singles final 13-6 against Jay Casey . Rickard was unbeatable all day. He defeated Kaye Easton in his first game, drew with Bryan...
Gisborne Club Darts Association INDIVIDUAL HIGHLIGHTS 180s: L Kaa (Rebels); A Taukamo-Pohio (Tao Valkyries); J Waikawa-Nepe (Tao Vikings); J Collier (Roseland); M Reedy (Done n Dusted); I Eyles (Gunz); T Irwin, J White, M Awatere (Brezz’n Gold); L...
WHEN Gisborne teenager Claire Ellmers lined up at the start gate for her first New Zealand pole ski race meeting on Lake Taupo, she couldn’t help but notice that not only was she the only novice, she was also the sole female. That did not stop the...
A rugby ball for every registered JAB player is the aim of the Poverty Bay Rugby Football Union/Bayleys Gisborne initiative Balls4All. Started three years ago, it is about promoting the game by directly “getting a ball in the hands” of all JAB...
“We can substantiate all of it.” Land Use in Tairawhiti inquiry chairwoman Hekia Parata adamantly defended her panel’s report when it was released at a press conference in Gisborne yesterday. Responding to Mayor Rehette Stoltz’s concerns...
Cyclone Recovery Minister Grant Robertson has set out the next steps for property assessments in areas affected by the severe weather events earlier this year. “I am encouraged by the work the taskforce, councils and insurance companies are doing...
Storm-doomed cannabis plot found during police search of offender’s property Armed police sent to the home of a Ruatoria man after he threatened a local with a firearm discovered he was growing a huge outdoor cannabis crop likely to be worth...
The piles required to support the new Hikuwai Bailey bridge on State Highway 35 north of Gisborne will be going deeper to ensure a solid footing for construction. The Bailey bridge will replace the Hikuwai No. 1 bridge, which was damaged in Cyclone...
Federated Farmers Gisborne-based forestry spokesperson Toby Williams is urging the Government to act quickly on the recommendations made in the Ministerial Inquiry into Land Use report. “The Government needs to take the recommendations in this...
The Eastland Wood Council — Te Kaunihera Pororākau o Te Tairāwhiti (EWC) has welcomed the release of the Ministerial Inquiry into Land Use report. “This thorough report is an important step forward for our community, as we all make changes...
Predictably there has been a swift back-slash to the so-called slash report which came out yesterday afternoon. Mayor Rehette Stoltz has come out fighting, expressing “our disappointment”, “serious concerns” and that “we fundamentally...
Gavin Maclean (May 10) obviously missed my point, along with the fact the percentage of tax our wealthiest New Zealanders pay is now being compared and criticised based on their unrealised capital gains over 2021, a year of fast-rising asset prices...
Natasha Baulis Maxim Institute researcher As a foreigner newly arrived here, there’s much to delight in, but I don’t think I will ever be able to get behind “gumboot” tea. Don’t get me wrong; I think the analogy is perfect: the te...
The trepidation with which calls for an independent inquiry into land uses associated with the mobilisation of woody debris and sediment were met in some quarters has been justified by the hard-hitting report released yesterday. That included the...
Turkey’s elections are fairly free, and there is going to be one this Sunday (May 14). President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has been in power for two decades, and he should really lose by a landslide. Imagine what the United States would be like if...
Travel writer Mike Yardley discovers a trip to Queensland is incomplete without seeing some of the world’s most amazing and endangered animals. If you’re treating the family to a Sunshine Coast winter escape, spend a night at Australia Zoo. The...
Adorable, colourful and easy to make, these popcorn pops are the sweet treat every celebration needs. If you’re short on time, this is a quick, simple Mother’s Day recipe for kids. These delicious popcorn pops are really easy to rustle up and...
A desire to always be in the forest has subtly inspired Renee Raroa’s mahi. After making headlines for speaking at the United Nations, she caught up with kaupapa Māori reporter Matai O’Connor. I was blessed to grow up in a place where the hills...
A former Gisborne family is setting sail on a two-year odyssey to bring medical help to poor regions of Africa. Fred and Maria Kuo told the Herald why they were embarking on their mission of mercy. Relocating their family of five to volunteer on...
Seven reserves around the region remain closed following the damage caused by Cyclone Gabrielle in February. Gisborne District Council has confirmed Doneraille Park, De Costa Park, the small reserve at the junction of Fitzherbert Street and Clifford...
Reporting their stepfather’s sexual offending against them cost four sisters their mother but even so, the girl who first spoke up says she has “absolutely no regrets” about doing so as it gave her sisters the strength to come forward too. On...
Gisborne and Wairoa businesses have been given a helping hand as they continue to work through the impacts of Cyclone Gabrielle. Business Mentors New Zealand is supporting the ongoing recovery of those affected, with $20,000 worth of mentor...
A woman says a previous sentence of home detention didn’t stop her peddling drugs, but a recent stint on remand in jail was the “big wake-up call” she needed. Standing in the dock of Gisborne District Court yesterday, Darling-Delicia Kaui, 45...
Forestry here has “lost its social licence” due to poor practices faciliated by Gisborne District Council’s “capitulation to the permissiveness of the regulatory regime”. Those are two main findings released yesterday by the Panel for the...
It’s yet another blow to our society and the commercial fabric of Tairawhiti. I write to express my sympathy, empathy, gratitude and moral support to the owners of both Gisborne Herald and Evans Meats. As a dedicated loyal customer and follower of...
When will we learn that when we create electronic equipment that needs metals such as lithium etc, there is a fine art to this creation? It seems that above ground we are running out of these metals. It is disappointing to find that Parliamentarians...
Re: “Didn’t feel heard”, GH 10 May 2023. I know what it feels like “not to be heard” because when Sir Robert’s messenger approached this Minister for veteran support in 2021 he was told: “I don’t work 24 hours a day bro, make an...
Oh, how I do love the extravagant, hyperbolic claims of some of our perennial writers to the editor! “Our economy is in ruins . . .” and “. . . thanks to our luckless attempts to save ourselves from a common cold” — the last comment...
by Clive Bibby This column will be seen by some as premature because it is written prior to the reporting of the Hekia Parata-led inquiry into land use on the East Coast. My response to that is — it needs to be! Because the alternative would most...
After a string of political polls showing a finely balanced electorate tilting back towards Labour since Chris Hipkins took over as leader and Prime Minister, National and the Act Party will take heart from the latest Taxpayers’ Union-Curia poll...
Makauri School Room 4 and 5 students have made their school a little wealthier and helped people take note of the city’s water crisis after their song won Gisborne District Council’s Wero Tiaki Wai — Embrace the Challenge conserve water...
by Sherrill Beale Premier sides Gisborne Girls’ High Senior A and Horouta Koura hit the court running with emphatic wins in the first of the Challenge round games on Wednesday night. Girls’ High outgunned YMP (2) 59-22 and Horouta eased past...
The cream has risen. Rounds 5 and 6 of the Oligoi Jug men’s interclub pennants were expected to be Moving Day for those hunting semifinal berths in the matchplay series. And move they did. Patutahi (1), as they have done since Round 1, virtually...