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‘Training days’ for community Civil Defence support

The Tairāwhiti Emergency Management Roadshow starts in Tokomaru Bay on Sunday with stop one of its five-weekend tour. The roadshow brings together emergency services in Tairāwhiti to train in partnership with community Civil Defence volunteers...

Alzheimers Gisborne Tairāwhiti face imminent demise due to lack of funding

Alzheimers NZ’s Gisborne services face permanent closure due to government funding restrictions, it was revealed yesterday. “We’re clinging to the lifeboats,” Alzheimers Gisborne manager Tracy Robinson said. “We may have to close down...

Maori Caucus in town to talk Budget 2023

The Labour Party Maori Caucus ministers were in Gisborne yesterday to spread the word on the Budget 2023 funding announcements for Maori. The total Māori package this year is just over $825 million. Funding announced included $23m for extending Te...

Kerrah just one bull away from sellout at auction

Kerrah Simmentals from Whakaki kept the bull sales season success going in the region on Tuesday when they achieved an almost total clearance in their on-farm auction. The Knauf family put up 73 rising two-year-old bulls and sold 72 of them at...

Increased cost of postage pushes up bill for election

The cost of the Gisborne District Council election of 2022 has been determined at $217,000 plus GST for 35,000 electors, or $6 plus GST for each elector. The figures came from Gisborne electoral officer Dale Ofsoske in a report prepared for the...

Improving measles vax rates in Tairāwhiti, a priority as part of the recovery from Cyclone Gabrielle.

Only 28 Māori in Tairāwhiti received a measles vaccination over a two year “massive” measles vaccination catch-up campaign. Health Minister Ayesha Verrall says the Ministry of Health had “good intentions” when it planned the campaign...

Honours shared in top-of-table thriller

Close encounters highlighted Week 4 of Poverty Bay club hockey including a classic duel between last year’s men’s competition grand finalists. As predicted, defending champions YMP A and Lytton Old Boys Traktion produced the men’s game of the...

Ovation innovation at Gisborne plant

Ovation New Zealand Ltd is partnering with inMR Measure Ltd (inMR) to test the development of an intramuscular fat (IMF) lamb grading technology at its Gisborne plant in Dunstan Road. The concept has been developed with the support and co-funding...

King’s Birthday derby an opportunity for Heartland hopefuls

With the King’s Birthday Weekend local derby looming, Poverty Bay selectors believe they have a balanced and exciting squad to take on Ngāti Porou East Coast in Gisborne. A 44-man squad were named this week — 15 of them from the Premier club...

HortNZ defends its recovery effort

HortNZ has been heavily involved in providing the Government with numerous reports on Cyclone Gabrielle’s impact. The organisation started working with the Government immediately after the cyclone struck. “We strongly advocated for the...

Gold Creek start season strongly

Gold Creek Simmentals from Te Karaka kicked off the Gisborne stud bull sale season on Monday afternoon on a very positive note with an almost total clearance, a bull sold to stud and a healthy average. The on-farm auction drew a great crowd with the...

Last time experts’ answer was pine trees

by Peter Jones It was comforting to see that all sides of the debate are genuinely concerned about the impact of recent storms on the viability of humans living throughout our district. Who could doubt that Hekia Parata did the best that she knew...

A relocation rift for the TK community

by Tony Harvie Forty years back as chairman of Te Karaka Federated Farmers, I made a public statement that TK was living on borrowed time and relocation was a growing threat. City engineers at the time labelled this alarmist but it has eventuated...

GDC release misleading

When I read the front-page article of Saturday’s Gisborne Herald, I could not believe my eyes regarding the huge amount of money allegedly being given to help Tairawhiti’s cyclone recovery. On Sunday I emailed the editor and voiced my concerns...

This round to US in ‘geopolitical games’

The security deal signed this week by Papua New Guinea and the United States is a major counter-manoeuvre in the battle for influence in the South Pacific between the US and China. Over the past decade, China has strengthened its ties in the...

Day of shooting ‘a blur’

Forty minutes after Maraea Smith was shot dead in Titoki Street, Mongrel Mob affiliate Mercedies Grace wandered up to a police cordon, beer in hand, slurring her words, and claiming she knew nothing about it. She initially said she’d been at...