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Gisborne Citizens Civic Award winners for 2024

A hockey umpire, photographer, ballet teacher and marine radio operator are among those recognised in this year’s Citizens Civic Awards. The Gisborne District Council-run awards are a celebration of the commitment, contribution and passion people...

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Gisborne’s most popular pet names revealed: Are your pets among the favourites?

Data from New Zealand’s largest microchip database has revealed Gisborne’s most popular pet names of all time and how that list has shifted in 2024. A name sounding “glamorous”, links to popular culture or even just a vague feeling are some...

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Successful Alzheimer’s walk draws 72 participants

Bring on 2025 is the call after a successful Te Kurī-Young Nicks Head Walk for Alzheimer’s fundraiser. Those who experienced the 2024 edition so enjoyed viewing the native birds and tuatara that they are already looking forward to next year’s...

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Unity Theatre casting call: Badjelly The Witch auditions coming up

Unity Theatre is on the hunt for a witch, a giant, a tree goblin, a worm and two sweet children for its upcoming play Badjelly The Witch. The casting call is on. Auditions are being held on Sunday, December 8, for the Jill White-directed adaptation...

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Report reveals massive growth for Turanga Health amid changing health sector

Tairāwhiti-based Māori health organisation Turanga Health has sustained strong growth in its enrolments amid a rapidly changing health sector. Turanga Health’s 2024 annual report Reke Tū released this month reveals that the iwi health service...

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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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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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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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Gisborne regenerative farming trials showing promise

Regenerative farming trials in Gisborne, in partnership with Woolworths, LeaderBrand and Plant & Food Research, are uncovering promising opportunities for sustainable vegetable farming in New Zealand. At a recent field day on site, partners...

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Award-winning Gisborne singer Rawinia Gordon forms new band

Gordon started singing as a young girl with the Whatatutu Variety Club before joining the Gisborne Country Music Club

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Baby’s rapid arrival leads to fast Gisborne flight for Māhia whānau

A little girl caused a big noise after she arrived in the world last Tuesday when she and her parents were helicoptered from their Māhia home to Gisborne Hospital. Ihaia and Breearna Maxwell had planned to make the just-over-an-hour’s drive to...

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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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Sport

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News, results from around Gisborne and East Coast golf courses

Te Puia Hot Springs Waka Donnelly returned to where his golfing career began to be crowned the 2024 East Coast Open champion for the first time on Sunday. Donnelly defeated Ōpōtiki’s Micky Huriwaka 1-up in the championship 16 final of the Te...

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Gisborne Bridge Club results

MONDAY, November 11 – Emerre & Hathaway Pairs 3 North/South: Eileen Lee/Anne McCombe 58.63; Stephen Francks/Amanda Matthews 57.14; John Hudson/Liston Meintjes 54.76. East/West: Graham Maclaurin/Gary Chalmers 58.04; Bette Parker/Joy Marden...

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Reedy standout as Tairāwhiti consigned to wooden spoon at Freyberg Masters golf tournament

One of the greatest individual performances in Tairāwhiti and Poverty Bay-East Coast history wasn’t enough to avoid the wooden spoon at the Freyberg Masters national interprovincial last week. Tairāwhiti finished 15th and last at the week-long...

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Slash and churn: Water polo back up and running in Gisborne after 60 years

If Tairāwhiti Slash sounds like a play on words for a water polo team intent on water-borne mayhem, it probably is. Gisborne had a water polo team “60-odd years ago”, but then the sport took a break in this district. Now Gisborne has the...

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East Coast Open: Back to where it began for Donnelly at Te Puia Hot Springs

Waka Donnelly has returned to the golf course where his successful amateur career began. Donnelly is among the field competing in the Te Puia Hot Springs Hotel East Coast Open, starting on Saturday. The seven-time Poverty Bay Open champion and...

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Top-seeded Tigers advance to TAK darts league final in Gisborne

No 1 seeds Tigers are through to the final of the Tūranganui-a-Kiwa Darts Association competition after top-four games on Thursday night. They will play the winners of next week’s game between Kennels and Ruahine. Tigers beat second-ranked team...

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Speedway rocket ships set to burn up Gisborne track Saturday night

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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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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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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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Arts & Entertainment

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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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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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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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Focus on the Land

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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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