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Mongrel Mob member Stephen Parkinson loses appeal; sentence for Gisborne tomahawk attack could have been longer

By Ric Stevens Mongrel Mob member Stephen Parkinson attacked his victim with a tomahawk, inflicting a compound fracture to his arm. He was sentenced to two years and two months’ prison for wounding with intent to injure. Now his appeal against his...

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NZ Herald
23 hours ago
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What’s on: A&P Spring Show, art exhibition and short films in Tairāwhiti this weekend

About Dementia is a non-clinical presentation for people wanting to learn more about the disease. 10am-12pm, Alzheimers Building, Gate 2, Gisborne Hospital. $10 registration fee. Registrations essential: phone 867 0752 or email...

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Gisborne Herald
22 hours ago
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Feasibility study for Gisborne Boys’ High School hostel seeks public input

Gisborne Boys’ High School’s board of trustees is investigating the feasibility of re-establishing a boarding hostel for the school and wants community input. “We value the input and support of our community in order to make this happen,”...

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Gisborne Herald
22 hours ago
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Memorable Poverty Bay A&P Spring Show beckons in Gisborne

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Murray Robertson
21 hours ago
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Gisborne-born country music star Camille French lauded at Entertainer of the Year

By Kelly Makiha, Rotorua Daily Post Gisborne-born country music star singer Camille French (nee Te Nahu) stood on the stage at the Sir Howard Morrison Centre in Rotorua and told a line-up of performers waiting to hear competition results that dreams...

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NZ Herald
23 hours ago
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Minister Shane Jones speaks out for forestry in Gisborne at Regional Growth Summit

Regional Development Minister Shane Jones says forestry will remain a key component of the Tairāwhiti economy. Those people who wanted forestry to disappear “are at the wrong meeting”, Jones said at the Tairāwhiti Regional Growth Summit held...

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Wynsley Wrigley
21 hours ago
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‘No place for hatred and division’: Gisborne Mayor and rainbow community condemn repeat vandalism

Gisborne’s main street rainbow crossing has been vandalised for the second time in less than a week after it was repainted following the first incident. The crossing was repainted after black graffiti writing was sprayed on it Thursday last week...

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James Pocock
21 hours ago
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Passion for healthcare: Week with mobile surgical unit fuels student’s future path

Tairāwhiti rangatahi Lena Keenan hopes to one day help fill the gaps in the health system by providing consistent care along the East Coast. This dream is becoming reality for the Year 13 Tolaga Bay Area School student after spending a week...

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Matai O’Connor, Kaupapa Māori Reporter
16 Oct 2024
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NZ team doctor taking on Te Araroa Trail to raise funds for Huntington’s Disease research

One of New Zealand’s leading high-performance sports doctors is swapping his stethoscope for walking poles to trek the length of the country to raise funds in support of Huntington’s Disease research. Dr Bruce Hamilton has resigned from his role...

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Gisborne Herald
16 Oct 2024
News

Community celebrates launch of new state-of-the-art MRI at Gisborne Hospital

A new $2.8 million MRI machine at Gisborne Hospital will allow hundreds of patients in Tairāwhiti to more quickly access state-of-the-art imagery and non-invasive diagnostics close to home. Hauora Tairāwhiti staff and management officially opened...

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Wynsley Wrigley
15 Oct 2024
News

700 pests eradicated in Whāngārā cull contest

More than 700 predators and pests were eradicated at Whāngārā Community Catchment Group’s inaugural Catchment Cull competition last weekend. The competition brought together local farmers, foresters and iwi members together with a common cause...

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Gisborne Herald
16 Oct 2024
News

New JPs welcomed: Tairāwhiti’s rural areas need Justices of the Peace

Overwhelmed and extremely humble. That is how Kevin Situ described himself minutes before being sworn in as a Justice of the Peace (JP) at Gisborne’s courthouse. Situ had been approached by another JP, who met him and convinced him he was worthy...

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Wynsley Wrigley
16 Oct 2024
Sport
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Gisborne’s former world croquet champ gives ‘gateball’ a go

Former world croquet singles champion Joe Hogan has spread his wings to take in the sport’s equivalent of Twenty20 cricket. Gateball is a mallet team sport inspired by croquet and invented in Japan in 1947. Men and women compete together in teams...

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John Gillies
21 hours ago
Sport

IronMāori a special event for Gisborne couple – 14th for Whetumarama “Mitch” Mita

For more information visit www. ironmaori. co. nz

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Gisborne Herald
22 hours ago
Sport

Setting Suns make the triple

Rare are the teams who win three titles in a row. The Matt Tong-led Setting Suns achieved that status in Gisborne Basketball Association Men’s Open Grade final — 62-56 over the Astros at the YMCA on Monday night. “That was a great final...

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Ben O’Brien-Leaf
23 hours ago
Sport

Golf roundup

ELECTRINET PARK It’s semifinals time in the long-running 2024 edition of the Park men’s club championships. Sunday will see the top four in each of the four divisions come together to decide who will contest finals day next month. Senior men’s...

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Chris Taewa
23 hours ago
Sport

Feature race win to Eastland Kart Club’s ‘quiet assassin’ Vita on new Gisborne track

By Robin Trueman Some call Mike Vita “the quiet assassin”, in the nicest possible way. He started Eastland Kart Club’s feature race on Sunday at the back of the field and 12 laps later ended it at the front. It was the first points meeting of...

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Gisborne Herald
15 Oct 2024
Sport

Rugby: East Coast pipped by King Country in Heartland’s Lochore Cup semifinals

TLC King Country Rams 34 (Patrick Hedley, Liam Rowlands, Logan Patterson, Zach Wickham-Darlington tries; Hedley 2 pen, 4 con) Ngāti Porou East Coast Kaupoi 31 (Will Bolingford, Tevita Nabura, Manahi Brooking, Billy Priestly, Joe Royal tries; Te...

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Ben O’Brien-Leaf
15 Oct 2024
Sport

Gisborne surfers among medals at NZ scholastic champs

Three Gisborne teenagers returned home from the New Zealand Scholastic Surfing Championships last week in Dunedin with medals in their age divisions. Charlotte McDiarmid (Under-14 girls), William Matthews (U18 boys) and Te Waiotu Fairlie (U18 girls)...

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Gisborne Herald
15 Oct 2024
Business
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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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Gisborne Herald
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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Gisborne Herald
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 Herald
04 Sep 2024
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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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Gisborne Herald
03 Sep 2024
Arts & Entertainment
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Entertainment

Gisborne artist Cate King showcases emotional resilience in new exhibition Layers Within

The complexities of womanhood and motherhood are explored in the latest works by Gisborne artist Cate King. Her exhibition, Layers Within, which features portraits of women’s faces and some larger abstract works, opens this weekend at Matawhero...

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Kim Parkinson
22 hours ago
Entertainment

Te Tuhi supports Gisborne artist Melanie Tangaere Baldwin’s residency at renowned Yorkshire Sculpture Park

Gisborne multi-disciplinary artist, curator and arts educator Melanie Tangaere Baldwin (Ngāti Porou) has been selected to do a four-week artist’s residency at the acclaimed Yorkshire Sculpture Park in England next month. Baldwin was selected by...

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Kim Parkinson
22 hours ago
Entertainment

NZ/DC brings heavy metal energy to Gisborne with full AC/DC setlist

Audiences can expect to hear all of AC/DC’s banging tunes in a full-on explosive show when tribute band NZ/DC take the stage at Smash Palace this week. “It’s the sort of show I need to warm up for,” says lead guitarist Dan Cosgrove. This...

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Kim Parkinson
14 Oct 2024
Focus on the Land
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Focus on the Land

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
Focus on the Land

Large yarding of prime sheep at sale on Friday

The weekly Matawhero sheep sale was back on again yesterday after a week off and the yarding came to around 800 head. Last week’s sale was cancelled due to insufficient stock numbers. “Yesterday’s sale drew the largest yarding of prime sheep...

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Gisborne Herald
28 Sep 2024
Focus on the Land

Beef + Lamb NZ reminds farmers about docking tail-length regulations that came into effect in 2021

As docking gets under way across Tairāwhiti and around the country, Beef + Lamb New Zealand reminds farmers about the tail-length regulations that came into effect in 2021. Beef + Lamb senior animal welfare adviser Will Halliday says the length of...

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Gisborne Herald
26 Sep 2024
Focus on the Land

Call to join sheep-poo study: Only eight local farmers so far in important facial eczema research

The region’s farmers have been encouraged to join the Beef + Lamb New Zealand sheep poo study and the clock is ticking. The study has been described as a crucial part of the Eliminating Facial Eczema Impacts programme, ahead of the new season next...

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Gisborne Herald
21 Sep 2024
Opinion
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Letter

Thanks to the wonderful folks of Elgin and Gisborne

We want to thank the wonderful folks of Elgin, and Gisborne as a whole, for helping us find our young dog. Packing for home after a week-long visit from Palmerston North, our pup wandered up the street behind a young child on their bike. We searched...

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Gisborne Herald
14 Oct 2024
Letter

What are businesses and The Gisborne Herald thinking of by publicising the alleged poor state of the CBD?

Describing the CBD as ‘‘filthy and shabby’’ and like a ‘‘third-world country’’ is, in my opinion, hardly likely to encourage anyone to shop in the CBD, let alone people planning to visit Gisborne. I also believe it does not help to have...

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Gisborne Herald
14 Oct 2024
Editorial

Is Sotutu part of long-term plan for impact?

The most interesting All Blacks selection didn’t come among the 36 names that Scott Robertson put forward on Monday. Blues and Counties star Hoskins Sotutu had been the most notable omission from the All Blacks’ first squad of the season. He had...

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NZ Herald
11 Oct 2024
Letter

State of Gisborne CBD

Responding to the article in The Gisborne Herald on Saturday, October 5. Well, for me, I used to love coming to town but not now, it’s so depressing. I blame some businesses for not keeping their windows clean. I also think our town needs some...

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Gisborne Herald
10 Oct 2024
Letter

Gisborne great for Waka Ama

Kia ora, ngā mihi mahana mai Te Hiku o Te Ika. I wanted to thank The Gisborne Herald for acknowledging our national waka ama long-distance nationals. The venue was a great site, and the event organisers ran a good, safe four-day programme for more...

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Gisborne Herald
10 Oct 2024
Editorial

Wellington quake shows WFH needed

Public servants have been under intense scrutiny in Wellington this year as the coalition Government continues its drive to cut costs and find efficiencies. The latest expectation placed on their shoulders: save a “dying” Wellington by returning...

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NZ Herald
10 Oct 2024
Editorial

A Defence Force in dire straits

The sinking of the HMNZS Manawanui couldn’t have come at a more fragile time for our Defence Force. Seventy-five crew and passengers were rescued by Samoa’s Fire and Emergency Services Authority after the $100 million Navy vessel ran aground...

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NZ Herald
09 Oct 2024
Editorial

Boardroom mood reflects in ratings

Education (children going to school), Transport (potholes and orange cones), Finance (pay), Infrastructure (new homes, fixing old pipes), Defence/Space (flying to the Moon), Foreign Affairs (making sure our international voice is heard), Police (law...

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NZ Herald
08 Oct 2024
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