Latest from Gisborne

Bottle smashed on head from behind

A woman has admitted smashing a glass bottle over another woman’s head during an unprovoked attack at a party. The incident happened at the end of a night in which about 15 people had been celebrating a 50th birthday at the Matakaoa RSA, Te...

IKEA buys more farmland

Overseas Investment Office confirms sale of sheep, beef and deer farm on Tiniroto Road European retail giant IKEA has bought up more farmland here to transfer into forestry, the Overseas Investment Office has confirmed. The latest approval involves...

Tiniroto Road closed to all vehicles

Gisborne District Council has closed the Tiniroto Road at ‘The Bluffs’ to all vehicles due to a tension crack that geo tech engineers have found in the bluff face. “It could come down onto the road without warning,” the council warns...

Further arrests in Wairoa operation

The police Operation Kōtare team have made further arrests in Wairoa as part of their ongoing methamphetamine inquiry and have seized “significant” amounts of methamphetamine, cannabis, weapons, and cash. Search warrants were executed on...

Sunrise annual funding round opens

The Sunrise Foundation’s annual funding round is open for grant applications from any charity or community organisation with a charitable purpose in the region. Applications must be received by Sunrise before 4pm, July 18, and will be assessed by...

Turihaua stud shines at East Coast Angus Bull Week with record-equalling sale

The Gisborne component of East Coast Angus Bull Week ended on an absolute high on Tuesday afternoon when the Turihaua stud produced a record-equalling top price that headlined another excellent sale. Turihaua Angus got one of their...

Waka paddlers rescued at The Cut

A group of waka ama paddlers got into difficulties at The Cut yesterday morning when their craft were capsized by swells as they attempted to get back into the Tūranganui River. Police, St John ambulance officers, the rescue helicopter and the surf...

C Company whare, Matariki, focus of novel fundraiser

Sharing korero about the Māori new year Matariki, or the 28 Maori battalion kaupapa are the focus of an early morning parakuihi (breakfast) Matariki event tomorrow. At the C Company Memorial House, starting at 6.45am, there will be a breakfast...

Updates on sport, recreation facilities

Planning for a regional indoor recreation centre is one of the next focus areas for partners in the Tairāwhiti Sport and Recreation Facilities Programme, while the location of proposed waka ama facilities is being reconsidered in the wake of...

Ignore ‘lynch mob’, judge on performance

by Clive Bibby I rarely feel the need to publicly express my concerns about a politician who is in trouble — one senior journalist even came out on Sunday saying that Kiri Allan’s future as a Cabinet minister is hanging by a thread. Serious...

Comet is whanau, period

I tautoko Greg Mead’s letter to the editor on the council’s decision to choose an offshore company as the Learn to Swim provider at Kiwa Pools, over Comet Swimming Club. (June 27, What would they know?) Stop this madness. In my eyes, Comet is...

Day after fixed in memory

In July 1963, when the Kaimai air disaster occurred, I was in my first year at Hamilton Boys’ High School. My mother worked in Waikato Hospital’s laboratory. We didn’t yet have a black and white television and heard the news of the missing DC3...

Things of this world . . .

In a further reply to Bernard Moran’s “Christian Comment” on Saturday, July 1st, Hebrew belongs to a group of languages that have grammatical gender. In Hebrew virtually every noun (as well as most verbs and pronouns of the second and third...

Angus bull sale clearance rates going strong

Clearance rates have been very high in the Angus bull sales here. Orere Angus sold 19 out of the 20 bulls they put up by auction in their first on-farm sale on Monday. Studmaster Ben Johnson steered them around the ring. Tangihau Angus set the price...

Time for children to celebrate ‘the taonga they are’

It's time for tamariki of Tairāwhiti to get ready to celebrate themselves at the region’s Children’s Day event on Sunday. Children’s Day was in March but because of Cyclone Gabrielle the Tairāwhiti event was postponed. “This event belongs...

Eastland Rescue Helicopter crew flat out since Cyclone Gabrielle

New figures show the number of missions flown out of the Eastland Helicopter Rescue Trust hangar increased more than seven-fold in the days after Cyclone Gabrielle and the local crew says it was a massive team effort. But even that increase in...