'We're trying to understand the future of cash'

WAIROA mayor Craig Little faces two declared challengers for his job in this year’s local body elections. Three-term councillor Benita Cairns and retired teacher Roland Matley announced their candidacy this week. Mr Little was elected in 2013 after...

Judith Collins may have thrown down a marker for the next general election with her comments that the Government is planning to stealthily establish more separate Maori organisations in addition to the one already planned for health. National has...

Re: ‘Put it underground!’ October 28 story. Can you put one down my street Chorus? Internet speed in Elgin is crap. TONY N.A “first world problem” if ever there was one. It’s not blocking any views at all — it’s 5cm wide for goodness...

ROWEN Tuauau Aupouri, 26, shearer, pleaded not guilty to rape and was remanded on bail by Gisborne District Court for a Crown case review hearing on March 9. Counsel Alistair Clarke said Aupouri elected trial by jury. Mr Clarke sought a variation to...

WAIROA Athletic are setting the pace in the senior division one rugby competition and should make it five wins from five games when they host bottom-of-the-table High School Old Boys tomorrow. Wairoa go into the game unbeaten after three wins...

A perfect Poverty Bay morning greeted the first cruise ship visit of the season today when regular caller Golden Princess nosed into the bay and dropped anchor for the day. The first passengers were tendered ashore just after 8.30am in ideal...

SIONE Ngatu celebrated his 151st game for Poverty Bay with a try in their 43-29 win against King Country at Rugby Park on Saturday. The six-tries-to-four victory over King Country kept alive LeaderBrand Poverty Bay’s hopes of a place in the...

Only 66 young people in Tairawhiti were vaccinated against measles during the “massive” central government-led immunisation campaign that followed 2019's national outbreak. It represents 0.4 percent of the 18,500 immunisations delivered...

TWO cows managed to keep afloat for an hour inside a water tank yesterday before emergency officers rescued them. The cows got into their predicament after walking on top of a water tank in Ormond, which collapsed under their weight. New Zealand Fire...

HE WENT to America last month with humble expectations. He will return home a world mixed martial arts champion. Gisborne’s Byron “Young Blood” Chivers competed as a member of the New Zealand MMA team under American Top Team New Zealand (ATTNZ)...

THE council’s consultation process on the transfer of assets debacle continues to be a mockery. We can now add a series of additional breaches to the council’s claims of proper process and transparency. The original breach, back in August 2015...

MONDAY, April 16 — Harcourts Vicki Taylor Pairs 3North/South East/WestEileen Lee/Robyn Cheyne 69.94 Vicki Taylor/Anne Maclaurin 64.58Lois Grose/Gretchen Ivess 57.74 Joy Marden/John Hudson 51.79Raewynne Cook/Trish Corson 52.68 Jean...

THE launch of Tairawhiti Voyaging Trust’s educational waka hourua is in sight. There has been great progress with the double-hulled waka named Tairawhiti and over the weekend 30 people keen to be volunteer crew took part in Coastguard training...

PAK’nSAVE Gisborne Netball, Saturday —Senior Round 3, Week 4. Duty teams to put up goal pads, set up team benches (courts 1 and 2) and take out bins: Lytton Senior B, Gisborne Girls’ High School Junior A. Duty team to control scorecard room for...

Justine Tyerman behaves in a far from ‘age-appropriate’ manner on a recent trip to the Catlins . . .Woohoo! Book those Easter flights NOW, I shrieked as I spotted the $99 airfares to Queenstown. Feeling daringly-spontaneous, we jumped on the Air...

Do you have any getaway plans for the two consecutive long weekends?

A new crop of talented university graduates have begun to build careers in New Zealand’s rapidly changing agricultural industry thanks to Ravensdown’s development programme. The successful initiative — now in its fifth year — has supported 39...

'They are taking from a service they may need'

SURF LIFESAVINGGOLD medals to Waikanae beach sprinter Chloe Kapene and Midway board rescuers Jack Lepper and Tyron Evans were Gisborne highlights from Day 1 of the Ocean Athletes New Zealand junior surf lifesaving championships at Mount Maunganui...

At home vox pop: What are you missing most during the Covid-19 lockdown

The excitement of a romantic adventure and sex in a triad is at the heart of New Plymouth vocal loop artist EJ Barrett's music video recorded at the War Memorial Theatre on Saturday. The song, Paint Me A Picture, is about representation for the...

Woolly hats will be the order of the day over the next few weeks for nurse Kelly Norris after she shaved her hair off on Saturday in the Shave for a Cure event for Leukaemia and Blood Cancer New Zealand.“My head is much colder than I expected,”...

ENTHUSIASTIC firewood collectors need to be patient to get access to free wood from gum trees that Gisborne District Council will fell on Kaiti Hill/Titirangi Reserve. A group of gum trees alongside the road is being removed because they are dead and...

As a self-confessed (sometimes vehement) critic of this Government, l find being a supporter of at least one of its major announcements all a bit challenging. I base my support in this instance purely on a belief that criticism is only effective when...

Eastern Whio Link wins inaugural grant from new partnership

Uawa just picked up their first win of the season — 28-27 against Ruatoria City on Saturday. The score at Enterprise Cars Whakarua Park in Ruatoria was as true a measure of City's courageous match-effort as it was of Uawa's rugby nous and ability...

HE Pou a Rangi, the Climate Change Commission (CCC), delivered their final advice to the Government at the end of May, and now the Government must release its first emissions reduction plan by the end of the year. The advice outlines how Aotearoa can...

A young Gisborne dancer has been accepted into Australia’s leading commercial and performing arts dance school. Chello Ngata, 17, found out last Thursday she had been accepted into Brent Street Studios on Australia’s Gold Coast — which is like...

Campion College beat Bohemians 4-0 on Sunday to win the Braybrook Cup final and complete the double for Gisborne women's football. Campion had clinched their first women's Eastern League title with a late goal in the last game of the competition...