Current weather trends indicate an autumn drought is a real possibility for the Gisborne region. The latest satellite monitoring shows the current El Nino is starting to weaken. As it does so, the dry weather and winds delivering pain to the...
The two-day East Coast Farming Expo at the Wairoa Racecourse got off to a great start yesterday with around 400 people through the Expo site during the day. Aimed at sheep and beef farmers it’s providing an opportunity for them to reconnect and...
The 2024 East Coast Ballance Farm Environment Awards finalists have been announced and three of the seven finalists are from Gisborne. A special awards presentation night will be held at The Vines at Bushmere Estate at Matawhero on March 6. The...
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Overall results did not stop the press, but Bowls Gisborne-East Coast representatives put in some performances that turned heads at the octagonal tournament in Whanganui last weekend. This tournament encompassed all centres in the lower half of the...
Monday, February 12 — Summer Pairs 2 North/South East/West Joy Marden, Vincelle Marvin 55.83 Katrine Matthews, Hans van der Kuijl 69.17 Caroline Taylor, Jean Turnbull 55.83 Helen Kerisome, Pippa Williams 53.75 Beverley Evans, Glenys Evans 54.58...
The junior surf athletes from the three Gisborne clubs head out of town today to join with their compatriots from across the country in the Oceans 24 national championships, full of high hopes for medal success. A total of 701 11-14 year olds will...
The Labour Party loses a wealth of knowledge and its strongest debater with the announcement yesterday by Grant Robertson that he will leave Parliament late next month and take up the role of Vice-Chancellor of the University of Otago in July. The...
by Maryanne Spurdle Maxim Institute researcher Maryanne Spurdle In an environment where we’re driven to take sides, navigating the centre of the road feels as dangerous as riding the median strip in rush hour. And few topics trigger stronger...
I am pedantic about recycling, have been for years, because it seems to me to be the right thing to do for the planet. All our containers, bottles, cans, cartons are washed and sorted. On Monday morning I was aghast as I witnessed the rubbish truck...
Our media have collectively failed by omission to uphold a fundamental principle in the NZ Media Council’s preamble. Multi-award winning Australian publisher and founder of Wikileaks Julian Assange has been in arbitrary detention since 2012 —...
Interesting reading in last Saturday’s newspaper regarding the clean-up after Cyclone Gabrielle. It wasn’t just locals involved in the clean-up. One young ex-Gisborne man, who I will call Antony, travelled from Auckland with the express purpose...
Whāngārā Farms has announced the appointment of Anthony Creswell as its first CEO. Anthony Creswell The appointment underscores the company’s commitment to growth in New Zealand agribusiness, says board chair Ingrid Collins. Mr Creswell has...
Beef + Lamb NZ will stage a Ewe Body Condition Score and Performance Feeding Workshop in Gisborne next week. It will be on Thursday February 29, from 1pm to 4pm at Papatu Station, 479 Papatu Road, Manutūkē. “This workshop will help sheep and...
by Katherine Klouwens, LeaderBrand As summer hits its stride, New Zealanders are in for a delightful surprise as watermelons are in abundance this week, offering unbeatable prices that will not burn a hole in your pocket. Some supermarkets are...
The cruise ship Noordam made a successful visit to Gisborne on Saturday and was a majestic sight as she sat at anchor in Turanganui-a-Kiwa/Poverty Bay. Almost all of the 1800 passengers on board came ashore for the day in the ship’s tenders. Wa165...
TaiTech Writers Group has been meeting since 2020 and have just published and launched its first collection of writing in a volume titled Voices from the TaiTech Hub. Some of the 13 contributors, invited guests and members of the public gathered on...
Wairoa’s Flood Protection Stakeholder Group is exploring a range of critical mitigation options, including spillways and stopbanks, to provide future flood protection for the township but a solution is still years away. Following Cyclone...
Māhia Beach residents and holidaymakers are finally to be connected to the Chorus fibre broadband internet network. Chorus fibre frontier general manager Anna Mitchell said Chorus was extending its network to 59 rural communities (10,000 homes and...
NZ Transport Agency roading crews will return to State Highway 2 next week for resurfacing work at Muriwai. The stretch of road between Nicks Head Station Road and Maraenui Road will close between 8pm and 5am each night from Monday, February 26, to...
Controversial plans to change Gisborne’s transport priorities by building more cycleways and pedestrian crossings appear unlikely to get Government funding after Transport Minister Simeon Brown hinted funding priorities are about to change...
The redevelopment of Mangapapa School completed an important milestone on Tuesday, with the pouring of the first layer of concrete foundations for the final stage of the project. Main contractor, Currie Construction, and their team of subcontractors...
Practices of Gisborne forestry company Ernslaw One are in the spotlight after its Forest Stewardship Council certification was revoked following a report from Geneva-based auditor SGS Société Générale de Surveillance. Ernslaw has appealed the...
A major aerial mapping project intended to gather information on the region’s underground water resources concluded with a survey of the Poverty Bay Flats at the weekend. The project was carried out by Aqua Intel Aotearoa (a partnership between...
Raukūmara Pae Maunga restoration project has started the year with a pre-feed application which sets the stage for a 1080 drop. Raukūmara Pae Maunga is the largest indigenous conservation project in the world. It is led by East Coast iwi Ngati...
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Gisborne surfer Hannah Kohn saved her best to last and booked a trip to the ISA world championships at the New Zealand Festival of Longboarding contest at Papamoa on Sunday. Kohn, 27, won the open women’s title while fellow Gisborne surfer Dan...
Midway came home from the Northern Regional surf lifesaving championships at Whangamatā at the weekend with a stack of medals with the squad producing another strong performance ahead of the nationals next month. The club’s Under-19 athletes were...
Gisborne Boys’ High student Tristin Williams won’t forget his Super 8 secondary schools golf tournament debut on the Awapuni Links course yesterday. Playing in the B Division of the 54-hole event, the youngster racked up an incredible 60...
SATURDAY — Premier Grade DJ Barry Cup, Round 2, Day 1: Gisborne Boys’ High School 164 all out in 54.1 overs (Johnathan Gray 40, Nathaniel Fearnley 38 not out, David Gray 29; Keegan Jooste 4-31, Nicholas Armour 3-25) lead Bollywood High School...
Prime Minister Christopher Luxon cast something of a shadow over the country with his weekend “state of the nation” speech where he described New Zealand as fragile, laying the blame for that on the former Labour government. In what often seemed...
Gwynne Dyer Vladimir Putin’s regime had been assassinating Chechen warlords, defectors from the Russian intelligence services and sundry wayward oligarchs for years, but its first political murder was the hit on high-profile journalist Ann...
Re: Look back to forebears, February 17 letter. Peter Best states that the building of a Buddhist stupa on Kaiti Hill is an insult to the memory of Christian missionary William Williams. I do not think Mr Best understands Buddhism at all. Buddha was...