A new fund has been set up to help iwi, hapu and whanau protect taonga (treasures) on marae. Minister for Arts, Culture and Heritage Carmel Sepuloni yesterday announced the opening of the Matauranga Maori Marae Ora Fund— a $5.7 million contestable...
Wow! the recent appointment of Maori/other ethnic minority MPs to important political roles within the Labour Government as well as the inclusion of the Greens, shows us that after 180 years of tokenistic appeasement by all the major political...
Ki-o-rahi has been a front-runner in the revival of traditional Maori games, especially in Tairawhiti. The region has won and hosted numerous national ki-o-rahi tournaments, and now exponents of the game have given the thumbs up for a new app to...
Seth Piper and Malcolm Marfell are unlikely to soon forget Saturday's semifinal in football's Central Federation Cup. Gisborne United goalkeeper Piper put in a man-of-the-match performance in a 3-0 win against New Plymouth side Peringa at Park...
As principal sponsor for Horouta Waka Hoe, the team at Self Storage Gisborne are excited to be supporting the current Waka Ama NZ and World Champions at the upcoming 2022 IVF World Waka Ama Sprint Championships, being held in London from August...
WRESTLING mania will take hold of the Showgrounds Event Centre on Saturday night with the return of “We Wrestle”.The spectacular American-style wrestling event has an all-Gisborne line-up and is in its eighth edition since humble beginnings in...
Navigating by traditional methods, skipper India Tabellini was one of 16 crew to make the voyage to New Zealand from Tahiti on Fa’afaite, to be part of the Pacific flotilla for Tuia 250. Speaking at the open day on Sunday, she said they hit some...
Gisborne district councillors are gearing up to “get our community on board” after voting to introduce Maori wards for the 2022 and 2025 elections. A crowded council chambers erupted in applause following a unanimous vote in favour of...
It's two years since Daphne Caruana Galizia, the best investigative journalist in Malta, was killed by a car bomb. She had been using the huge leaks of financial data in the “Panama Papers” to track down suspicious dealings by members of the...
IT was expected the work would take less than a day and the playground would be open to the public again tomorrow
There are 245 active cases of Covid-19 in the district, according to figures released by Health New Zealand-Tairawhiti this morning.“We've had between 22 and 56 cases per day over the last week and our daily average is up to 36,” said a Health...
A Gisborne man who won $1 million in Lotto was speechless when he claimed the prize yesterday. Mangapapa Four Square sold the winning ticket for Wednesday night’s Lotto draw. Store owner Jitesh Ravla said when a winner of that size was processed...
WITH 30 food vendors booked and bands confirmed the Fiesta Street Food Festival will provide a lively Mexican-themed family-friendly event in Gisborne’s CBD this Labour Weekend.“The theme is important because it sets the scene and the vibe of...
A WOMAN in her 70s who was burgled while mowing her front lawn and then defrauded of more than $6500 from her bank account, has warned elderly people to be vigilant. The woman does not wish to be named but wants to make other senior citizens living...
Last month Eastland Group and Eastland Community Trust signed up to the Climate Leaders Coalition agreement to tackle climate change by reducing Greenhouse Gas emissions. Andrew Ashton delves deeper into how that will be achieved and how it will put...
Re: Clarity on rail required, May 2 letter. Further engineering work and freight studies have been done following the release of BERL's Turanga ki Wairoa Rail Feasibility Report in December. This work has provided confidence in the figures noted in...
Several bus passengers were taken to Gisborne Hospital yesterday morning after the Gizzy Bus vehicle they were travelling on struck a parked vehicle in Ormond Road. The crash happened near the Dalrymple Road corner shortly before 10.30am as the bus...
Turihaua Angus will offer a line-up of 25 yearling bulls and nine two-year-olds in their sale on Wednesday next week. The Spring Sale will be held on-farm at the Turihaua sale complex with online bidding and a livestream available on sale day vi...
Re: Understanding goes a long way to achieving unity, March 12 letter. Pat, what an outstanding letter. Bigotry is alive and well in Tairawhiti. So, thankfully, is a balance of views and enlightenment from significant people. Historical documents have...
A full-noise, orchestral montage of Abba opens Musical Theatre Gisborne’s production of Mamma Mia! and sets the tone for the show’s non-stop gloriousness. Even before the song and dance routines began the opening night audience had warmed to the...
Gisborne has received millions of dollars from government economic development projects but a new report shows the region will need more than job-focused cash incentives to improve its poor wellbeing ranking. Of the nine wellbeing categories used by...
Well done, great start. That's the feeling at the Riverbend Year 6B cricket camp in Hawke's Bay after the Poverty Bay boys' brilliant 68-run win against Johnsonville yesterday.“Everyone contributed in some way, to this performance,” Bay coach...
Gisborne should be in for a bumper tourism season, following the end of Tuia 250 Commemorations and the ongoing Te Tairawhiti Arts Festival events attracting visitors. With Gisborne in the national spotlight for the Tuia 250 events, Activate...
Some of Gisborne's most glorious gardens were on show at the weekend as the weather turned it on for the Gisborne Garden & Arts Festival. Around 1000 garden and art lovers visited 25 locations, including historic homesteads and vineyards, with some...
BEEF RECOGNITION: Three farms in this region have featured in the Silver Fern Farms regional ‘prime beef recognition' awards for last season. Mangatoitoi Station at Ngatapa, Landcorp Parikanapa and Mokairau Farms at Whangara have been presented...
Record numbers of students took up tertiary learning in Gisborne last year, new figures show. For the academic year 2018, Eastern Institute of Technology (EIT) recorded 10,330 students in total, 1000 more compared to 2017. Of these students 58 percent...
More than 60 young drivers will be in the starter’s hands tomorrow night in the Heavy Equipment Services Eastland Ministocks 100. Dirt bike racers from Gisborne Motorcycle Sports Club will also hit the banked track as part of the support...
The commentary surrounding Eastland Group's CEO salary rather begs the question of who is responsible and what can be done about it. Look at the Auckland City Council (ACC), by way of comparison. The ACC has a budget of $31.8 billion over 10 years...
Re: Op shops need to price competitively, May 7 letter. Shelagh, do you realise how much it costs to feed animals these days? It is bad enough trying to feed two cats let alone the many animals that have been treated cruelly or left abandoned. A bag...
Gisborne dogs will have a warmer winter, thanks to the generosity of the carpentry school at EIT Tairawhiti. The carpentry students built five dog homes, which the SPCA will deliver to dogs in the community who do not have outside shelter. EIT...
THE Green Machine produced the result of the weekend in hockey, ending the unbeaten run of YMP (1) in a hard-fought contest at Harry Barker Reserve. INA Contracting GMC Green won the top-of-the-table premier women's contest 2-1 in a thriller on the...
Re: Explicit details of sex life exposed in trial, August 15 story. What is wrong with our justice system? A man attempts to rape a woman, she presses charges, he hires a high-priced lawyer. The complainant ends up being torn to shreds on the stand...
UPDATED Saturday July 15:A GISBORNE man feared drowned in the Wairoa River and subject of an intensive six-day search is alive and well, and now wanted by police. Ray Taunoa, 54, drove off after police tried to stop him in Wairoa in the early hours...