Frustration with local Government was a big issue for about 70 people who attended an open conversation with Minister for Crown/Maori Relations Kelvin Davis at Manutuke last Saturday. Manutuke township was the seventh of 16 places a hui was held as...
A crowd of around 180 attended the First Fresh “Freshies” awards in the NZ Fruits packhouse in Lytton Road last Thursday night, and were throughly entertained by special guest, comedian Ben Hurley. Waerenga-a-Hika grower John Macpherson took home...
STU Blair and his good Marist mate Kevin Ford were tired but still joyous after the All Blacks’ successful defence. Following the semifinal victory against the Springboks, Stu detoured off to Poland. There he enjoyed the attractions of Krakow and...
A SECOND trial burn of tree debris on the Tolaga Bay beachfront last Friday was so successful, the decision was made to continue with the fan-burning technique this week. Tens of thousands of tonnes of forestry slash, logs and other debris on the...
A woman likened her partner to a caveman when she described to Gisborne District Court how he bit off part of her cheek during an assault. Aaron Ross Groube, 30, was jailed for 25 and a half months after pleading guilty to a reduced and...
Firefighters battled a large shed fire on a property at Waerenga-a-hika on Friday night and the cause is yet to be determined. Fire and Emergency NZ sent six appliances to the scene after the fire broke out at around 6.30pm on a property opposite...
The arrival of Eastland Port's new tugs from China — the Ika Nui and the Maki — has resulted in new duties for previous harbour tugboats Waimata and Titirangi. The port company has sold Titirangi alongside port vessel Rere Moana and...
Re: Up for the challenge, August 30 comment. Hmmm, so Bob was born before 1907 when the first plastics were invented? I didn’t realise he was as mature in years as that. With the impending abolition of the so-called single-use bags, our plastic use...
WaikohuTop honours were shared around the clubs at the Waikohu Ladies Open on Saturday. The six winners came from six different clubs. Wairoa’s Fairlane Wesche (83) won the 0-18 gross, Gisborne Park’s Carney Pipi (73) the net and Poverty Bay’s...
Aotearoa has a special place in the heart of United Kingdom reggae band Black Slate. The band, whose fame peaked in the 70s and 80s and who are known for their hits Amigo and Boom Boom, revisited Gisborne this month as part of a pilgrimage to New...
A second negative Covid-19 test from Gisborne City wastewater samples this week is a huge relief, coming after the sewer valves were closed so encompassing the city's whole wastewater catchment again. The negative results this week indicate that...
Councillor Foster, in the Monday column, gives figures for the additional costings for the Endeavour models which included $8000 plus GST for resource consent. Really? The models are a community enterprise supported by the council. Many in the...
Children, parents and teachers at Sonrise Christian Pre-School have celebrated an “absolutely wonderful” 10th birthday. This month marks a decade of operation for the pre-school and the milestone was marked this week with a fun day of pony rides...
A GISBORNE winery, and a sheep and beef farm have been named among five finalists for the 2017 East Coast Ballance Farm Environment Awards. The awards will be presented in Gisborne at the Bushmere Arms on March 1, where the regional supreme winner...
The compilation book featuring the work of Colin Wheeler - “Historic Sheep Stations of New Zealand” - was won by the Willis family from Ngapuke Station at Rere and congratulations to them. Thanks to all those who entered the draw. Between 1967 and...
RYAN Majstrovic won’t like me calling him “Mr High School Old Boys” . . . but it’s a title he fully deserves for the amount of work he does for a club that once dominated local cricket. In recent seasons, as Tamarind HSOB struggled to reach...
Laksa is a nutritious and flavourful Malaysian recipe with heaps of variations. I adapted the recipe to local ingredients and came up with a thick, delicious and spicy soup to ward off the winter chills. Fish stock2-3 snapper heads and...
“A goat track” was a Patutahi resident’s description of Knight Road. She outlined her frustration at the state of the road at a Gisborne District Council community meeting attended by nine residents. Knight Road is on the outskirts of the...
TAIRAWHITI Roads has lodged applications worth more than $10.6 million with the New Zealand Transport Agency to fund emergency repair work on the district’s roads and to buy additional heavy metal for unsealed roads. The largest application of $9.1...
After five years on the Kapiti Coast where she ran the successful Salt Shack Surf School, former national surfing champion Holly Quinn has set up the school in her hometown of Gisborne. Holly and brother Jay — members of one of New Zealand's most...
A woman already warned several times by police for breaching Covid-19 lockdown conditions, was charged with obstruction under the Health Act after further flouting the rules. This time she was discovered in the early hours of April 24, driving in...
The Government finds itself thoroughly on the back foot over its Health and Safety Reform Bill — facing ridicule in fact, which is a great pity because reform is badly needed. Problems for the Government and its embattled Workplace Relations...
Gisborne District Council contractors demolished the Waikirikiri Playground on Thursday morning. A statement from GDC said the playground failed to meet safety standards in a recent safety audit and was unable to be repaired.“Work is already...
BARS have been installed across four bench seats in Gisborne's central business district to prevent homeless people from lying on them. But an advocate for the homeless says education is needed, rather than putting up a barrier. A business in the city...
GLENYS Whiteman preferred tennis to bowls, but her husband Alex’s encouragement wore her down and she tried the game at Riverhead, near Kumeu north of Auckland, in the late 1970s. Almost 40 years later she has reached the milestone of 50 centre...
Gisborne Judo Club members came away from the Western Bay of Plenty Area Judo Championships with nine gold, nine silver and six bronze medals. Twenty Gisborne athletes were represented in all fighting classes — from juniors to masters — in the...
THE question of when to start feeding babies solids is among the most worrying decisions parents have to make, says 'The Nourished Baby' author Julie Bhosale. Dr Bhosale will talk about her research and findings in a presentation in Gisborne on...
Drug treatment centre 'desperately needed': anti-meth community advocate
KRAKOW, at the bottom of Poland is turning into a destination city, and for good reason. After a week in Northern Ireland, we decided it was time to step out of our comfort zone. So we booked a plane to Kraków on a friend’s recommendation, found...
I was interested, but not surprised, that TV coverage of the Tolaga Bay flood meeting was disallowed. Was it at the public or council’s request?Another question, after previously reporting in a Q&A forum — where the question was how often does...
“LET the Games begin” will ring out over Rio tomorrow when the 2016 Olympic Games are officially opened and it is fitting that Poverty Bay club hockey’s champions will be decided on the same day. The intensity, thrills, agony and ecstasy of...
I don’t know whether it’s just my perception or whether the election circus has developed new dimensions this year — so many promises of things bidding politicians are telling us we want — to be paid for with our money. It is so easy to lose...
The council is set to make a major backtrack on its approach to the Long-Term Plan (LTP) which will repair its position with regard to wastewater treatment and disposal commitments, and rile those who accuse it of fiscal profligacy. There was...
Hauora Tairawhiti has apologised to a Gisborne couple and says it will review processes around how people receive help from its mental health team. At around 2am on Wednesday of last week, a Gisborne woman told her husband she wanted to end her...