While it was a milestone for the Government’s housing programme, the opening of the first KiwiBuild houses in Auckland at the weekend showed how difficult the task of Housing Minister Phil Twyford is. The first 18 houses were opened in Auckland’s...
Mangaheia Station at Tolaga Bay were the winners in the Turihaua Angus Supreme Heifer Challenge. Competition convener Paul Williams presented the winner's award to Leo Edginton from Mangaheia. The farm's heifers were described as a very even...
No single food or food component can protect you against cancer by itself. But research shows that a diet filled with a variety of vegetables, fruits, whole grains, beans and other plant foods helps lower risk for many cancers. Squash and pumpkin...
POLICE stopped more than 1400 vehicles at the State Highway 35 Covid-19 checkpoint and nearly 130 at the East Cape checkpoint on the opening day of Alert Level 3 in the region. The figures for Wednesday, September 1, illustrate the flow of traffic on...
Wairoa's farming community and supporters left visiting MPs with no doubt that they were against the government's He Waka Eke Noa farm-level emissions pricing proposal, at a meeting this week. More than 250 people attended the Wairoa District...
More than half of respondents to this week's Herald web poll prefer a four-day working week. Fifty-two percent (156 people) answered “yes” to the question “Would you like to work four days a week and have a three-day weekend?”Twenty-six...
Re: Treatment insufficient, September 6 story. I know Alison Jackson’s daughter Leigh and her husband Wayne well. They are lovely people. The unfortunate demise of Alison at Dunblane Rest Home should not have occurred. However, throughout the lives...
Results of the Paddlez Up Gizzy waka ama regatta on SaturdayW6 mixed and men, 25 kilometres: Paikea (Horouta Waka Hoe) 2hr 11min 30sec, 1st overall, 1st in master men; Last of the Summer Wine (Horouta) 2:20:53, 2nd, 1st in senior master men; Horout...
Re: Aquifer recharge vs surface water storage, November 10 comments. And what of the fact that the aquifers in Turanganui a Kiwa, all known by Maori and which form part of the indigenous estate under the UN Declaration of Indigeneous Rights signed by...
Eastland Port expected a continued strong flow of logs through the port in June and that has become the case, with seven shipments scheduled between now and June 21. The logger Singan has been alongside the wharf loading for China since yesterday and...
TAIRAWHITI people have shown their creative streaks when it comes to face masks, as evidenced in the examples posted on The Gisborne Herald Facebook page. With the wearing of masks becoming mandatory in places such as supermarkets, dairies and...
IN the lead-up to the 30Forward show at the War Memorial Theatre tomorrow, Wellington-based Footnote dance company yesterday gave a sneak preview with a free performance at the museum.“It has been a real privilege to have you in the galleries,”...
Eastland Port is still feeling the effects of weather events over the past few weeks. Before the two floods on June 4 and June 12, there were about 12,000 tonnes of logs coming to the port each day. This dropped to as low as 5000 tonnes a day last...
Poverty Bay Kayak Club had some great performances at the Tikitapu 2 regatta held at Rotorua this month. Quaid Thompson and Zach Ferkins impressed in the open men's K1 racing. Thompson won the open men's K1 1000 metres, beating Olympian Max Brown and...
Forestry Minister Shane Jones has defended the Government’s One Billion Trees policy in the face of mounting criticism from the rural sector, saying the rise of forestry shows that land use in New Zealand is “in transition”.Increased tree...
THE finalists have been announced for the Gisborne-Tairawhiti Surf Lifesaving Awards of Excellence for the 2017-18 season — with almost all the finalists from the three city clubs. Members of the Waikanae and the Ngati Porou clubs are in the...
Tourism Eastland, Heart of Gisborne and the Gisborne District Council thank the people pictured for volunteering their time to host passengers and crew last summer for the cruise season
KITTEN season has hit Gisborne “like an H-bomb”, say SPCA staff. Each year from the end of spring to mid-January the SPCA becomes one big kitten nursery. Manager Robyn Toon said she had hoped the desexing programme the SPCA ran until January of...
A WOMAN visiting this district was sexually assaulted by two men on the Gisborne beachfront west of Stanley Road last night. Police have appealed for information from the public.“The woman, who is in her 30s, was attacked in the dunes near the...
Assaults on children were a no-go area, a judge reminded a defendant who admitted lifting a boy by the throat up off the floor and smashing a plate over his head. Stacey Robert Lloyd Greaves, 35, pleaded guilty to assault with a blunt instrument (...
The log ship Albany Sound began loading around 21,000 tonnes of logs for China yesterday, the first shipment of logs from the port in three weeks. The ship sailed this morning. Three more are due in the next six days. Eastland Port was given...
Contrary to the final sentence of Saturday’s editorial, newly-appointed Race Relations Commissioner Meng Foon remains our Mayor for now. In fact, as residents prepare to vote on who our new Mayor will be at the local body election on and leading up...
Oh what a night! Election 2020 has been intriguing, argumentative and, due to covid, a rather drawn out affair. The finale on Saturday night however was a real showing of winners and losers, and perhaps the overall winner was participatory democracy...
Eastern League 1, SATURDAY, 12.30pm: Harry Barker Reserve 1, Heavy Equipment Services Gisborne United v Lytton High School; Wainui, Sunshine Brewing Wainui Sharks v Carpet Court Thistle Massive; Childers Road Reserve 1, Thistle Reserves v Gisborne...
More than 60 nominations have been received for the Eastland Forestry Awards 2021. Awards organiser Eastland Wood Council is rapt with the response, which covers the full range of categories.“It is really gratifying to see so many worthy nominees...
Tourism officials here have taken a London newspaper to task after it published “misrepresentations” about James Cook’s time on the East Coast. Earlier this week, the Evening Standard newspaper’s website, named the UK media’s “‘website...
THE ECT rescue helicopter has flown four missions in the past four days. One of them involved an incident in Paremata Road at Tolaga Bay on Saturday, where a vehicle left the road and came to rest against a power pole. A 78 year old man in the vehicle...
Club cricket is a “no can do” here tomorrow. Tomorrow's fixtures in the two local competitions — the premier grade's DJ Barry Cup and Senior B's Hope Cup — have been cancelled by Poverty Bay Cricket Association.“We aimed to get the season...
ROOTS reggae with Pacific, international and old school flavours helped East Coast Vibes celebrate its fifth anniversary with a happy crowd of about 800 at the Soundshell outdoor theatre on Saturday. One Point Five Men opened the show with homegrown...
A Gisborne woman has been charged with accessing a computer system to steal about $150,000. The 48-year-old, who has interim name suppression, faces 14 charges alleging single incidents between November 2018 and September of last year, each involving...
Gisborne district councillors have decided to buy two Banks Street sites, where the wastewater treatment plant (WWTP) extension will be built, from Gisborne Holdings Ltd (GHL) in a decision councillor Bill Burdett describes as “sound commercial...
POLICE have an inquiry under way into an incident that involved a cyclist and a passing truck and trailer unit on SH35 at Makorori yesterday afternoon. Police were called about the incident at around 3pm.“The cyclist was not injured in the...