The theatrical education programme Smashed, staged at secondary schools around the country, helped many Year 9 students determine to wait until they are 18 to drink alcohol. This was one finding from an analysis of data gathered before and after the...
The children of pioneer Maori filmmaker Merata Mita are glad that her story has been told on film by one of them. Awatea Mita was in Gisborne for the Mother’s Day screening of the film Merata: How Mum Decolonised the Screen, and said she and her...
Elderly residents are frustrated and feel “further isolated” because of too much digital focus around vaccine passports. Since the Government introduced its My Vaccine Pass digital proof of vaccination earlier this week, Age Concern Gisborne...
POLICE responded to a break-in at the Enterprise Cars Swim Centre in Nelson Road early this morning and a dog team tracked the alleged offenders for two kilometres to make arrests. The call to the burglary came in at 3.55am.“Two people allegedly...
Scott Tallott and Baxter Mackay are great entertainers. Their match-winning partnership of 112 in pursuit of 120 saw Bollywood High School Old Boys beat Old Boys Rugby by nine wickets to stay at the top of the premier grade table two games into the...
Gisborne Vehicle Testing is likely to be sold to Vehicle Testing NZ. Gisborne Holdings Ltd, the district council's commercial arm, announced at its annual meeting this week that it was in an advanced stage of negotiations with VTNZ regarding the...
A Gisborne woman remains in a critical condition in Waikato Hospital after a two-car crash at Rotoma in the Bay of Plenty on Friday afternoon. The crash happened on State Highway 30 near Braemar Rd just after 2pm. The 31-year-old Gisborne woman was...
Te Kura Kaupapa Maori o Nga Uri a Maui celebrated Matariki with a night market on Wednesday this week. As part of Te Wiki o Te Reo Maori we went down to the night market to korero about how te reo enriches their lives
Elderly people are facing continuing challenges in the wake of the Covid-19 lockdown, the Tairawhiti Positive Ageing Trust has found. For this reason the trust is establishing a resilience framework to not only help those affected by isolation but...
A community meeting at Patutahi this week to bring residents up to date on progress after a child was shot in March, attracted about 50 people. A nine-year-old boy had been riding a quad bike on a road in the rural area on March 5, and had stopped...
Mr Sunderland of Brisbane, re your letter of September 1. Thank you for your concern about about my writing hand. It isn’t often that someone from so far away shows such compassion. Let me assure you, sarcastic comments such as yours shall in no way...
US Ambassador to New Zealand and Samoa Scott Brown, and The Mind Lab by Unitec general manager Fee McLeod, have been announced for the Eastland Group speaker series. Mr Brown, who took up the position of ambassador in June, will be visiting Gisborne...
It has been just over a month since the Tairawhiti Roads joint venture between the NZ Transport Agency and Gisborne District Council was disestablished — and the Transport Agency’s focus on the region is stronger than ever. Previously, Gisborne...
Two ships berthed at Eastland Port started filling up with logs and squash today with the arrival of Solent Star and Kaiti Hill. The Solent Star came from Lyttelton and is loading squash. It is expected to leave for Napier to load further cargo on...
The bad weather has forced the postponement of tomorrow's hui planned by the Te Araroa Barge Facility Working Group. The hui, advertised in the Public Notices section yesterday, was to provide feedback on the environmental and social impacts of the...
HOCKEYTHE female component of the weekend hockey draw has “close call” written all over it. All four women’s matches are likely to be tight affairs in the most even-looking round so far this season. The pick of them will be the game between YMP...
More jargon joy from the business page. On Thursday's article on data sovereignty, we find these brilliant technical types trying to keep their cloud onshore, with lawyers advising “being onshore is no hedge”. Clouds on the ground with hedges...
A man who continued to deny indecently assaulting a nine-year-old boy was jailed for 23 months and refused leave to apply for home detention at his sentencing in Gisborne District Court. The man received a three strikes warning and his name will be...
Striped skink have been discovered for the first time in the Gisborne region. Described by the Department of Conservation as a nationally threatened species, the lizard is included in a national recovery plan. The first striped skinks were discovered...
I had the privilege a few days ago of being in a village outside the Beehive. Unlike what Jacinda and the media portray, “a place of intolerable living conditions, which children should not be exposed to”, it was quite the contrary!Being an...
Gisborne Mayor Meng Foon has been appointed as Race Relations Commissioner. He takes over from Dame Susan Devoy, who left the role in June last year after major changes at the Human Rights Commission. The position has been vacant for more than a year...
Turihaua Angus bulls are reaching “almost unheard of” prices, following last Wednesday’s 2019 yearling bull sale.“It went exceptionally well,” Turihaua Angus stud manager Paul Williams said.“It was a very strong sale, particularly...
ACCORDING to the 80s camp anthem from the musical Chess, “One Night in Bangkok and the world’s your oyster.”Or not. Within minutes of landing at Bangkok’s Suvarnabhumi Airport, a pickpocket or two has swiped my wallet and my proverbial...
Guide dogs offer freedom and independence by acting as eyes for people who are blind or have poor vision. Each year the New Zealand Blind Foundation holds a Red Puppy Appeal, the annual fundraiser for breeding and training guide dogs. This year’s...
A1 Homes says all homes will be finished as originally contracted if that is what the clients choose in the wake of Fargher Construction Limited going into liquidation. Around 20 families, many of them in Gisborne, were left with unfinished homes...
FIREFIGHTERS were called to a house in Townsley Street off Centennial Crescent in Te Hapara last night after a fire started in the home's oven. Fire and Emergency NZ sent a crew to the property at about 8.30pm. “The fire was out on arrival,”...
Māhia's coast-to-coast walk is shaping up to be a future gem for the peninsula after a big opening month. The work done to create Whangawehi walkway, or Te Aratia Walkway, has helped bring back birdsong and some native fish, and it has captured the...
Memory walkers Walter Walsh, Cheryl Morley, Kobe Donnelly, Arihia Mataira-Kapa and Dick Neill strode out with purpose on Sunday to raise awareness for Alzheimer’s. September is World Alzheimer’s Month and people across the country took part in...
One can’t write about council matters without acknowledging the Government boost for infrastructure projects in our region announced at the end of last week. The assistance to three tourism projects and the further development of the managed...
THEY come from everywhere for a classic Kiwi-style beachside Christmas-New Year holiday at Mahia; from Gisborne, Palmerston North, Hastings, Napier, Dannevirke, Tauranga, Auckland, Wellington, Christchurch and even Australia. Like many holidaymakers...
TWINS Cory and Kodi Campbell are on the cusp of new beginnings. This weekend they contest the Waka Ama New Zealand long-distance nationals in Hawke’s Bay. As individuals they will compete in the Junior 19 women’s rudderless W1 10-kilometre race...
The world premiere of a work commissioned for a classical concept marimba will be part of the Yoshiko Tsuruta’s programme in Gisborne on Saturday. Composer Andrzej Nowicki wrote Snowplay for Tsuruta’s upscaled marimba and threw in passages for...
THREE New Zealand companies whose fishing trawlers operate in East Coast waters have committed to installing monitoring systems on their vessels. Commercial fishing vessels that operate under Aotearoa Fisheries, Sanford and Leigh Fish — and catch...
Re: A different kind of hero to look up to, April 24 letter. It is an absolute pleasure to read such a balanced and articulate letter by a young person whom I suspect knows about the “years of academic study and hard work” that she has...