Bob Hughes cannot be allowed to blame colonisation and Pakeha farming methods for all of the deforestation and damage to Aotearoa. “When Māori arrived, about 1250-1300 CE, they burned large tracts of forest, mainly on the coasts and eastern sides...
It’s ironic in an age of information-sharing progressed by technological advancements, that we have self-appointed Information Czars who from their positions in society, determine what information they deem we should know — based solely on their...
An enduring popular myth suggests that in the 1970s the climate science community was predicting “global cooling” and an “imminent” ice age, an observation frequently used by those who would undermine what climate scientists say today about...
I am worried about the trains and the washout. I would like to get the Green Party or the Labour Party to fix our rail line. I have had enough. I am so angry. We will not give up!! Please wake up KiwiRail. We will have another Rail Action Group...
One game in, the outlook for Eastern League men’s football this year seems OK. Eight teams in the first division, nine in the second, and promotion and relegation to take effect at season’s end — the ingredients are there for a modicum of...
Poverty Bay It was not the feat that earned them the “unofficial” honours of world golfing upset of 2018, but it did prove that some dogs have more than one day. Paul Rickard and Brad Morgan won the Tom Shaw Memorial 27-hole open pairs...
Five gymnasts from the Gisborne Gymnastics Club competed in the Mid Island Gym Sports competition in Rotorua at the weekend. For these five gymnasts, who compete in the upper national level, it is important to compete in other regions to gain...
A man facing jail time for two drink-driving charges — both involving high readings — was instead put on home detention, largely because he had been declared legally blind since the offending. Selwyn George Te Puni, 57, was ushered into Gisborne...
A heritage building that the Gisborne District Council placed on private property without the landowner’s permission has a new home with a Tairāwhiti iwi. But a council report on the building — the Inner Harbour Wharf Shed — reveals its...
“There are no small parts, only small actors,” modern theatre innovator Konstantin Stanislavski once said. With a variety of meaty roles behind him, Gisborne actor/singer Andrew Stevens is certainly no small actor — but for an upcoming...
Watch out for the string band The Eastern playing at the Dome next month. The group describes itself as a band which roars like a punk band, swings like a gospel band, drinks like a country band, works like a bar band, hopes like folk singers, sings...
In one of Gisborne photographer Tink Lockett’s large-scale silk prints, a model dressed in a creation by anti-fashion designer Dave Roil poses before a desolate, sun-baked service station. The setting could be somewhere around Barstow, Californi...
Gisborne's Sandra Matthews is standing for election to the Beef + Lamb New Zealand board of directors, an election that was postponed due to Cyclone Gabrielle. Voting papers were sent out on April 12 and should start arriving in the mail this week...
OLIGOI JUG INTERCLUB RESULTS, ROUND 1 — Electrinet Park (1) 6 Waikohu 2 (Park names first): Daniel Collier def David Solomann 4 and 3, Anaru Reedy halved with Glenn Solomann, Peter Stewart def Terry Reeves 6 and 5, Silas Brown halved with Percy...
A couple of rising left-handers could be an important part of the future for Poverty Bay-East Coast representative golf. Zach Rolls, who turned 18 this week, has been steadily progressing since bursting on to the scene as a youngster. He has been...
Co-governance isn’t always race based. We had the National Party government which did, and will do, co-governance under the guise of public-private partnerships, partial asset sales and management contracts. Each one of these were with corporates...
I read in Saturday night’s paper (in a letter to the editor) that I am not the only one who is appalled at the service at the local VTNZ vehicle testing station. I had the unfortunate need to take my daughter’s car back through for a recheck on...
Reaction to the announcement school funding for Years 4 to 8 will increase equivalent to class sizes being reduced by one will have been disappointing for the Government. Prime Minister Chris Hipkins and Education Minister Jan Tinetti, a former...
Most people remember their first few days in a new job, but for Tairāwhiti Police Constable Jacob Samuel only his second shift as a police officer will go down in the history books. Constable Samuel was starting a late shift on his second day on...
The police Impairment Prevention Team ran checkpoints in Gisborne over the weekend targeting drink-driving and speed, and 18 motorists were caught over the drink-drive limit. The focus of the two-day operation was on identifying impaired drivers and...
The first home built at Te Wharau o Hineakua, the Toitū Tairāwhiti Builtsmart facility, has been completed and delivered to a whānau in Whāngārā. On Monday, a significant milestone was reached when the first three-bedroom home was delivered to...
Local Government Minister Kieran McAnulty says Tairāwhiti’s voice will be heard under the relaunched Affordable Water Reforms. The minister, who was in Gisborne yesterday, also says the National Party is trying to scare the public over...
National Party MP and spokesman on water and the environment Scott Simpson is in Gisborne tomorrow and is keen to hear local views on water reforms and the environment. National released its Local Water Done Well policy recently which will replace...
An East Coast harbourmaster is calling for changes to the country’s boat ownership rules after a man abandoned his vessel and successfully evaded authorities for 12 months. It has been a year since ex-fishing trawler San Rosa washed up on a remote...
RUGBY The rugby draw for SATURDAY. Civil Project Solutions Poverty Bay rugby, premier grade, Week 3. 2.45pm: Larsawn Ngatapa v East Coast Farm Vets YMP, Paddy’s Park 1, Patutahi. Referee: Ben Holt. GT Shearing Waikohu v Enterprise Cars OBM, Te...
by Marilyn Callahan The red leotards of Gisborne Trampoline Club were again to the fore in all areas at the Tri Star Competition in Auckland this month. From a team of six athletes, each team member won at least one medal. They returned with a total...
A Tolaga Bay man had what firefighters said was a lucky escape from serious injury or worse yesterday when his car went off State Highway 2 near the Waihau Bay corner, down a bank and struck a pine tree. Fire and Emergency units from Tolaga Bay and...
A young girl seriously injured when a log rolled on top of her on the city beachfront on Sunday afternoon was flown to Christchurch Hospital last night. Juliana Marston, 10, from Christchurch, suffered pelvic injuries in the mishap. Her father...
Victim suffered permanent hand damage, dogs destroyed, owner fined A man says he never wants to own dogs again after his two French mastiffs attacked a neighbour, leaving her traumatised and with permanent nerve damage in her hand. Shaun Vernon...
The United Nations has been called upon to investigate “the harm caused by the pine industry in Aotearoa New Zealand”. Gisborne woman Renee Raroa, a member of land use practice interest group Mana Taiao Tairāwhiti, presented the group’s...
Meat exporter with Gisborne beginnings helps cyclone recovery efforts by Andrea Fox, NZ Herald Exporter Greenlea Premier Meats has given $2 million to rural recovery efforts in the storm-battered East Coast, Northland and Hawke’s Bay regions and...
Gisborne’s first Chinese art exhibition, “Nature Harmony & Balance” opened at He Rau Aroha in Peel St on Friday night. Artworks of three Auckland-based Chinese artists – Jinshui Lin, Lei Shuqing and Xiaoming Tang — now adorn a section...
It was a roller coaster of emotions for Leo Hunter and Alys Mauheni from the Gisborne Hospital services team during an 11th-hour, two-day patient transfer, following Cyclone Gabrielle. Patients who had just received chemotherapy needed to return...