Getting tough on gangs is popular with the public and in the face of escalating gang membership and gang violence, driven in part by an influx of 501 deportees from Australia, National and its coalition partners campaigned on and won a mandate at...
Bruce Holm Ah, beliefs, aren’t they wonderful things to have — especially as they offer such certainty. If I were to stand at the corner of the Sheepfarmers building in Tokomaru Bay and declare to all and sundry that I am Jesus Christ returned...
Re: Religious protection equal, February 29 letter. I would suggest that you are right. Mr Best’s argument is not that something is being erected, but that it is Buddhists — a group of people who are not, through colonialistic motives, forcing...
I admit to some anger addressing those who made comment on the editorial re media and democracy. It annoys the hell out of me as a long-standing journalist trying to serve the public good that such people appear to have no real understanding of the...
Poariki Station on Burgess Road, Pehiri has almost come to a standstill for the first time in its 120 years. The only access to the sheep and beef farm, a bridge across the Hangaroa River, was destroyed in Cyclone Gabrielle. Station owners Ian and...
The Rotary Foundation annual Tractor Trek headed down the East Coast over the weekend, driving into Gisborne on Sunday. The convoy of vintage and modern tractors started their journey in the Waikato, continuing through Matamata, Rotorua, Ohope...
Registrations are still open for Thursday’s Ways to Keep your Brain Healthy workshop run by Alzheimers Gisborne Tairāwhiti. The two-hour workshop is a non-clinical presentation that is easy to understand with activities that make it interactive...
NZ Post is urging charitable organisations and social enterprises here to apply for free courier services. NZ Post’s Delivering for Good programme aims to foster stronger, healthier communities around the country by offering up to 34,000 free...
A strategic review into the possibility of selling off Gisborne District Council-owned commercial assets, including Tauwhareparae Farms Limited, is now five months overdue. GDC-owned Gisborne Holdings Limited last year began a strategic review after...
Boaties are being warned of large swell conditions off the Gisborne-Mahia coast over the next few days. The wave warning is for the area from Mahanga to Potikirua Point. For the Portland Island marine area MetService has put out a gale and a swell...
A woman was seriously injured in a surfing accident at Wainui Beach on Sunday afternoon and Wainui SLSC lifeguards at the beach played a key role in looking after her before she was taken to Gisborne Hospital. The incident happened at around 3pm...
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After 34 years on Tūranga FM, Walter ‘The Wiz’ Walsh is moving on. He spoke to kaupapa Māori reporter Matai O’Connor. Walter Walsh, 56, is definitely the whizz who is The Wiz, on the mic at Tūranga FM after entertaining the communities of...
Tina Ngata (Ngāti Porou) is looking forward to the opportunity to kōrero about urgent issues facing Māori, on the stage of M9. M9 is an event that is a mix between the modern-day TED talks and the age-old practice of oratory. The two-hour event...
Craft your own versatile garden with mobile planter boxes on wheels, personalised to fit your gardening needs and easily movable to any desired location. Planter boxes on wheels are pretty handy. They create a portable garden that you can move...
Prepare a quick dinner with Cheat’s Chicken Pomodoro — a delicious dish perfect for an effortless meal. Traditionally made with fresh cherry tomatoes, this dish makes a great speedy dinner. If you’re cooking for two, this recipe is easily...
A group from the Gisborne Canoe and Tramping Club enjoyed hiking a section of the reopened Lake Waikaremoana Great Walk, soon after it opened on January 10. Beautiful new information panels greet visitors inside the Lake Waikaremoana Great Walk...
by Trevor Mills Kahutia Bowling Club members Dayvinia Mills and Mere Nepia earned bronze medals at the Bowls New Zealand national women’s fours at Taranaki last weekend. With teammates skip Kaye Bunn (Thames Coast) and Janeen Noble (Whanganui)...
The Tairāwhiti apple harvest has been going since the beginning of February, with the Royal Gala variety the first picked in the country this season, and it has been going well. Local apples have been packed and shipped to export customers in Asi...
Five vendors were brave enough yesterday to send store lambs to the weekly Matawhero sale but prices for these lambs remain very depressed, with no sign of improvement until meat schedule prices lift. The larger lambs, of which there were few, still...
A fascinating development in the Newshub shutdown saga emerged yesterday with the revelation of a meeting just over a week ago, where TV3 bosses floated a plan for a joint newsgathering service with the leaders of TVNZ and RNZ. The proposed news...
INVESTMENT VIEWS Brent Sheather What’s the biggest worry when investing in shares? For many people it’s the fear of losing the lot in some huge crash, like what happened in the 1930s. That scenario is routinely dismissed by most experts as being...
Gwynne Dyer Neutrality used to be a European thing, but it is now in steep decline. If it were an animal, we’d have to declare it an endangered species. For hundreds of years Europe was the “cockpit of war”, but if a country got sick of the...
Five days has made all the difference to what was shaping up to be a near-record dry month for Gisborne. Up to February 24, the Gisborne Airport gauge recorded just 0.6 millimitres but a wet end to the month pushed the total to 32.7mm. However, it...
Around 150 people will gather next Wednesday night at the Vines Restaurant at Bushmere Estate for the East Coast Ballance Farm Environment Awards. Organisers are delighted with the response to ticket sales, which have closed. “It’s been a great...
Ikaroa-Rāwhiti MP Cushla Tangaere-Manuel is yet to give her maiden speech in Parliament, but she spoke out this week against two high profile government policies. These are the disestablishment of the Māori Health Authority and the repeal of the...
by Doug Laing Wairoa College student Ashlin Swann claimed bragging rights for the growing number of female shearers competing at the Golden Shears by winning the novice final in Masterton on Thursday. It was a family affair for the 15-year-old, who...
Invaluable insights into the lives of their ancestors were revealed to a group of Te Aitanga-a-Hauiti researchers during a recent journey of exploration to Wellington. Led by Raewyn Nikora, the team of marae researchers “embarked on a significant...
Eastern Fish and Game dealt with up to 2000 mallard and grey ducks during their banding and population monitoring programme in Tairāwhiti over summer. The observations from that process were that waterfowl populations in this region were...
Graham Elliott has been through more ups and downs in the travel industry than he cares to remember. But after nearly 50 years in the business he and wife Kathy are to hand over ownership of Elliott Travel to Luisa and Grant Walsh. “I’m not...
Major construction works are going on at great pace as stopbanks around the region are built up following Cyclone Gabrielle. Gisborne District Council regional rivers manager Joss Ruifrok said the eastern (city) side of the Waipaoa stopbank flood...
Nearly 100 proud whānau attended the launch of the East Coast Services Academy at Ruatōria RSA on Thursday. Ten students from Ngāta Memorial College and two each from Te Kura Kaupapa Māori o Te Waiu and the Correspondence School were issued...
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