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Police Assistant Commissioner Penny seconded to Oranga Tamariki

Former Gisborne woman, police Assistant Commissioner Tusha Penny, is set to leave the police top brass on a temporary basis. Asst Comm Penny begins a two-year secondment to Oranga Tamariki next month. She is in charge of front-line capability for...

Resource Recovery Centre feasibility study looks at options to reduce waste going to landfill

Tairāwhiti has taken another step towards having a resource recovery centre (RRC) aimed at significantly reducing landfill — but only if funding can be sourced. Gisborne district councillors, sitting at a full council meeting, decided to proceed...

Vortex ready to build world-first power plant

Vortex Power Systems (VPS) expects to begin building its revolutionary electricity generating trial plant at Whangara by the end of May. The Auckland-based company has developed technology that converts low-grade waste heat into carbon-neutral clean...

History repeated in power pole crash

Emergency services were called to a crash in MacDonald Road near Juken NZ last night in which a vehicle struck a concrete power pole. But when they arrived at the scene, no one was with the station wagon. “It was the third time we’ve been to...

RMA breaches alleged at Ngakoroa Road forest

Another of the region’s forestry companies is facing prosecution by Gisborne District Council for alleged poor harvesting practices said to have come to light after storm events in March of last year. A case against Forwood Forest Management...

Golf croquet titles to Humphreys and Elzen

Barry Memorial Croquet Club’s golf croquet club champs are done and dusted. The championships were split into open and intermediate sections, the latter for players with handicaps of nine and over. Unfortunately, entry numbers for both sections...

Winning start for Senior 1 new boys Uawa

The Senior 1 club rugby season is off to a rip-roaring start. Two-time defending champions Charteris Choppers Wairoa Athletic beat their hosts OBM 29-5, the Nuhaka V8s — team No. 3 in last year’s semifinals — beat Ngatapa Harvest Matawhero...

Swansong match for Uawa vet Mathias

He and his boy came in, did a job and did it well. Veteran tight-forward John Mathias — who is shortly to return to Otago after three seasons with Ngāti Porou East Coast club rugby titans Uawa — played for five different clubs down south over...

‘Gutsy effort’: premier wins to YMP, OBM, Ngatapa

YMP continued their strong start to the Poverty Bay premier club rugby season with a hard-earned 26-7 win over Waikohu at Barry Park on Saturday. Earthwork Solutions HSOB showed grit at the Oval but Enterprise Cars OBM came out on top 55-22 to...

Black Falcons acrobatic display impressive

My son and I thoroughly enjoyed the Friday acrobatics and flying manoeuvres with the crowd of spectators at Waikanae Beach. The display of dried arrangements of logs and debris from a washed up tidal floodline in front of us was instantly forgotten...

We can protect and enjoy little blue penguins

The korora/little blue enguins that nest here have been mentioned by David Attenborough to be the smallest of all penguins. They are beautiful to see in real life and we still have an opportunity to see them at Gisborne’s Kaiti Beach — if we can...

Adding water tanks in city makes sense

More houses are being built to accommodate a larger population . . . where will more water come from to serve those families? When he was our mayor Meng Foon suggested requiring water tanks on properties for new residential construction. The GDC of...

Degrowth required as well for sustainability

When people of Alex Boyd’s stature speak of energy transition without promoting degrowth, they fail to acknowledge the urgency of the climate crisis. The more we talk about renewables only, the more we covertly support the mindset of continuing...

A big cut to rates bill?

I suspect that I am not alone in struggling to understand how the new Affordable Water Reforms structure will be composed and how the charges will be billed. Can the council please confirm that our rates will go down? In examining my rates bill I...

Nurse protests a worry for Government

Weekend scenes of national protests by nurses would not have been a welcome sight for the Government six months out from an election in which the overall health sector situation is going to be a key attack point for the Opposition. Nurses from...

Big Latch On brings parents together on breastfeeding

Connecting mothers who breastfeed their pēpi (baby) with others was a main focus of The Big Latch On event at the HB Williams Memorial Library on Friday. The Big Latch On aims to promote and celebrate breastfeeding, as well as support and connect...