Gisborne Herald

21 Nov 2024

The Gisborne Herald

Portraits of faith: Artist tells nuns’ stories

The result is a collection of paintings that make up the Tairāwhiti exhibition and Hansen’s book titles Wimples, Crosses and Lepers: Women of Influence

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20 Nov 2024

Tolaga Bay resident urges council action on historic wharf and hall

An East Coast farmer is urging Gisborne District Council to uphold a “historic commitment” to transfer two significant Tolaga Bay landmarks to the council’s records for restoration and maintenance. Tolaga Bay man Clive Bibby presented to...

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News

Changes to happen at Gisborne’s Grey/Kahutia intersection

Work to reinstate the Grey St/Kahutia St intersection to normal traffic flow will start Monday night next week. At its meeting on November 6, Gisborne District Council considered options for the intersection after a safety audit, and agreed on...

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Murray Robertson

News

Council flips decision: Grey St/Kahutia St intersection reverts to normal

Contractors have made rapid progress in reinstating the Grey St/Kahutia St intersection. They began a three-night project to restore the corner to normal traffic flow on Monday night. By Tuesday morning, traffic was passing through the intersection...

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The Great New Zealand Road Trip: Tui Keenan building Tairāwhiti’s food sovereignty

Tui Keenan reclaimed her identity and found her own “food sovereignty” while hunting. Now she has dedicated herself to helping whānau and rangatahi at a Gisborne school learn key skills to provide food and connect with their taiao. Eventually...

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What’s On: Events in Tairāwhiti during the next week

• Sun City Spinners: Poverty Bay Bowling Club, 111 Ormond Rd, 9am-11.30am, fees apply. Ph Dale 867 5083 or email eastland@creativefibre. org. nz

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Bats thrive in Tairāwhiti: How Aratu Forests is protecting them

A Gisborne-based forestry company says it is committed to protecting colonies of critically threatened long-tailed bats discovered in Tairāwhiti forestry blocks. The bats are the New Zealand native pekapeka-tou-roa, which are listed as...

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20 Nov 2024

News

Gisborne Herald reporter Murray Robertson’s warning after stroke

Veteran Gisborne broadcaster and journalist Murray Robertson returned to work this week after being hospitalised for a fortnight when he suffered a mild stroke. The well-known 72-year-old radio personality urges those people with a history of...

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Faulkner family ‘beyond grateful’ for support after devastating woolshed fire

“The incident is still under investigation,” a Fire and Emergency New Zealand (Fenz) fire investigator told the Gisborne Herald

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20 Nov 2024

Sport

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Jackson/McMurray score gets special mention at Gisborne Bridge Club

Congratulations to Elizabeth Jackson and Carolyn McMurray for their score of 73.51 last Wednesday. Frank Roach and Anne Roberts get an honourable mention for featuring in the results each day of the week. MONDAY, November 18 – Sean Shivnan...

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Blaker, Crosby lead HSOB to T20 win in Gisborne Senior B Grade cricket

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Ben O’Brien-Leaf

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Shaw, Holden star in HSOB and OBR Doleman Cup Gisborne Premier cricket wins

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Ben O’Brien-Leaf

Bounceback win to Ngatapa in Gisborne Senior B club cricket

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Ben O’Brien-Leaf

Kennels to face Tigers in Tūranganui-a-Kiwa darts league final

Kennels will mark their first year in the Turanganui-a-Kiwa Darts Association league by playing Tigers in the competition final. A 10-7 semifinal win against Ruahine on Thursday night secured their place in the decider. Kennels captain Chris Stevens...

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Waka ama world rocked by ‘untimely’ death of coach and paddler Kiwi Campbell

By RNZ The waka ama world has been rocked by the death of one of Aotearoa’s most successful paddlers, Kiwi Campbell. A member of the Horouta Waka Hoe Club in Gisborne, she contributed to the sport as an elite paddler and coach, and recently joined...

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Hogan renaissance: Ex-world champ on the rise again at 66

Joe Hogan has hit the ground running as the croquet competitive season gathers momentum. Gisborne’s former world singles champion contested the silver-medal round of the Waireka Labour Weekend Association Croquet Tournament in Ashburton. Two weeks...

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John Gillies

21 Nov 2024

Business

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Business

Employers urged to follow fair process: Restructuring requires clear proposals and consultation

COMMENT: Jannine O’Meara is a Business Central employment relations consultant for Hawke’s Bay and Gisborne. She has had extensive HR experience with Fletcher Challenge Forests and most recently with Wattie’s. Jannine O’Meara With the pressure...

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25 Sep 2024

Business

Burke to leave LeaderBrand after 30 years

Gisborne horticultural business LeaderBrand has announced Richard Burke will be leaving his chief executive role at the end of the year. LeaderBrand chairwoman Susan Huria said Burke had been “an integral member of the LeaderBrand whānau” for...

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06 Sep 2024

Business

Buyer sees potential in Gisborne apples: German company plans to upgrade its new fruit property

by James Pocock A foreign interest that sees potential in the future of Gisborne’s apple industry has purchased 61 hectares of land for an orchard. Che Charteris German-owned company Beehive Demetra Ltd bought the property at Lavenham Rd and Judd...

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Gisborne vineyard a tourism wine award finalist: ‘We were totally blown away’

Wrights Vineyard & Winery missed out on the top gong but still ranked among the country’s top three wine tourism vineyards at the Altogether Unique 2024 Awards. Wrights was a finalist in the inaugural Qualmark New Zealand Tourism Wine Award...

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03 Sep 2024

Arts & Entertainment

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Entertainment

Priscilla Queen of the Desert review: Musical Theatre Gisborne’s production is a high energy extravaganza

Take three drag queens, some singing divas, a very busy ensemble cast, upbeat disco music a dizzying number of costume changes and a bus with sparkling lights and a large stiletto shoe on the roof and you’ve got Musical Theatre Gisborne’s...

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Kim Parkinson

15 Nov 2024

Entertainment

Te Wānanga o Aotearoa hosts Tōku Ake exhibition, raising over $6000 for C Company

A striking range of students’ artwork is being exhibited at Te Wānanga o Aotearoa Tōku Ake, My Journey, My Pathway is a culmination of work completed over the year. The exhibition has been artfully curated by Johnny Moetara including the use of...

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Kim Parkinson

15 Nov 2024

Entertainment

Panto magic: Sleeping Beauty brings festive fun to Lawson Field Theatre

Audiences can expect fun and frolics when the pantomime Sleeping Beauty is staged by Evolution Theatre at Lawson Field Theatre in December. It’s the traditional fairy tale of Sleeping Beauty but with lots of slapstick humour. “People can expect...

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Kim Parkinson

14 Nov 2024

Focus on the Land

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Gisborne farmer Sandra Matthews new president of Rural Women NZ

Matthews said she was honoured to be elected and taking on the national president role

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Cyclone stories of Gisborne farmers feature in Farmstrong book

The cyclone stories of Gisborne locals featured in a book launched by a nationwide rural wellbeing programme could help others through tough times. Farmstrong launched Getting Through to support farmers going through the recovery process from...

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18 Nov 2024

Gisborne shearing course for women a huge success

World record-breaking shearer Catherine Mullooly ran a successful advanced course for women this week in the woolshed on Hamish and Amanda Cave’s Ngātapa property. The programme was sponsored by Ovation, Trust Tairawhiti and the Mayors Taskforce...

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Murray Robertson

21 Oct 2024

Farriers compete in age-old craft in Gisborne

Farriers from throughout the North Island took part in the New Zealand Farriers Association Central Districts P3 Farrier Supplies competition at Showgrounds Park in Gisborne last weekend. Nineteen were involved in what was described as a busy and...

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Murray Robertson

14 Oct 2024

Opinion

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Grey St woes

OPINION Reading Conrad Lewis’ letter (Nightmare on Elm St, November 2) was amazing and joyful, and I hope others follow his example to rid Grey St of this mess. From the day it was implemented, I couldn’t believe the council approved the design...

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Environmental impact of meat works closure

OPINION The pending closure of a significant South Island meat works is a worrying sign of Government failure to control the environment in which our major export industries operate. The stated reason for this disastrous Mid Canterbury decision is...

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Investing in sustainable jobs

We were once told that farmers were the backbone of our economy and essential to our survival. Now, we’re told that extracting minerals is crucial for wealth and job creation. Are we being fooled again? Surely, we can invest in research and...

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Nightmare on Grey St

It beggars belief that the Gisborne District Council has approved the design of the chaotic, ideologically heterogeneous, multicoloured maze of speed bumps and concrete blocks now clogging Grey St. This erudite, verbose, crapulous nonsense is...

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Take Health and Education out of politics

OPINION Doctors Art Nahill and Maple Goh have shone with their focus on health promotion and early intervention (Opinion, October 22). I have felt for so long that we must take health and education out of the political arena and let someone like...

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30 Oct 2024

CO₂-driven climate change

*(The study referenced in this letter was published in Communications Earth & Environment on October 14, 2024, under the title A recent surge in global warming is not detectable yet)

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30 Oct 2024

Look beyond wealth

Opinion Let’s create a world of abundance for everyone, where we reconnect with each other and our potential. Addiction harms us, and while methamphetamine’s damage is obvious, excessive wealth can be equally harmful. Money, unlike meth, can be...

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30 Oct 2024

Minister Shane Jones a refreshing change

OPINION For those of us farmers here in the East Coast provinces – many of whom have just been through the most dreadful experience of our lives – listening to a Cabinet minister who has our back is a refreshing change from all the broken...

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