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GDC keeping up engagement with Rau Tipu Rau Ora

Gisborne District Council has retained a relationship with regional forum Rau Tipu Rau Ora (RTRO) despite removing itself from the group in March. The forum was set up three years ago to lead a regional response to Covid-19, but the council left it...

Gisborne, TAK darts results

GISBORNE CLUB DARTS ASSOCIATION INDIVIDUAL HIGHLIGHTS 180s: P Stewart (Gunz); C Holmes (RSA1); A Cross (2) (6 Shooters); C Reiri (Rebels); A Charlie (Stallions); O Pohio (2NZ3). Highest start: (160) K Morrell (Roseland). Highest finish: (110) J...

ON THE MATS

It’s been a busy time on the Indoor Bowls Mats . Dylan Foster won the Friday Night Singles, Defeating his older Brother Matthew in the 3 end final 3-1. 14 bowlers started the competition with 6 qualifying for the 3 end play offs. In the last 6...

Brexit played part in move Down Under

GISBORNE Thistle’s latest recruit might never have come to New Zealand if it hadn’t been for Brexit. English midfielder Hugo Elwood, 23, arrived in Gisborne from Australia last week and was expected to make his debut in football’s Central...

Gisborne’s Hutchings and Majstrovic to help coach Fins

Caption Surf Life Saving New Zealand (SLSNZ) has announced the management team for the 2024 Lifesaving World Championships in Australia and two members of them are from Gisborne. Caption The group has been selected for crucial roles in coaching...

Region’s $1bn-plus request with Govt

It’s no surprise that roading makes up the lion’s share of the $1.168 billion requested from the Government in the Cyclone Recovery Plan released this week by Gisborne District Council — $820 million, or 70 percent of the total. The funding...

Urgent need to fix 111 system

Kerry Worsnop It has been more than three months since Cyclone Gabrielle’s destructive rampage. Three months of mucking in, cleaning out, patching up, and reviewing myriad horrible things that have collided with people’s lives, the local economy...

How much do we care?

Recently scientists warned our world is likely to breach the 1.5C climate threshold by 2027. The world is almost certain to experience new record temperatures in the next five years, and the global average temperature is likely to rise by more than...

Boost for Thistle as they return to Fed League action

Gisborne Thistle have been without Federation League football for three weeks, but are still in touching distance of the frontrunners. And they have strengthened their squad with the addition of a midfielder who has come through English professional...

Defence key to Super success

Gisborne Boys’ High School have a big game in them. And tomorrow first 15 rugby will take centre stage at the historic Rectory ground for the second week in a row. A week after hosting Napier Boys’ High in Round 1 of the Super 8 — a 29-5 loss...

Tamatea 200: but ‘just another day in the office’ for YMP stalwart

Loyal YMP servant Willis Tamatea will achieve a rare milestone when he runs on to the paddock at Te Karaka tomorrow. Tamatea will make his 200th Poverty Bay Premier club rugby appearance in the black and white jersey as his competition-leading team...

A 4.30am wake-up truck

The number of logging trucks that rumble along Ormond Road and around the Esplanade has increased so much. The first starts at 4.30am and the last is about 4.30pm. The noise and vibrations are constant. We get woken up every morning. Why can’t...

Chose profession to teach

It was good news this week that teacher unions have suspended industrial action following a meeting with the Education Minister, but I really have been so disappointed to see the present era of teachers striking to get more pay. Sure, times are hard...

A special show, not to be missed

I had to continually pinch myself as I sat in the War Memorial Theatre the other night, to be reassured that I was in Gisborne watching an amazing amateur production. The production of Chicago by our Gizzy people could equally take its place on...

How wage inflation supports the Government

High inflation is not only reaching further into our pockets for almost everything we need to buy, the wage inflation it has engendered also has an insidious and perverse impact that is further worsening many family budgets in this cost-of-living...

Teams at Taiki e! continue their Startup projects

Six entrepreneurial teams gathered this week, a month after they first got together, to give one-minute updates on their progress. They first met at the fifth edition of the Tairāwhiti Startup Weekend initiative at impact house Taiki e! on April...