Gisborne Herald

Warning: shipping containers scam

Eastern District Police have become aware of scammers offering shipping containers for sale on Facebook Marketplace and some local community pages on social media. The scammers have offered delivery at an additional cost, and will even offer cheaper...

Gisborne Herald

13 hours ago

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Wounded while helping in dog attack on the Coast

A man who intervened in a dog attack in Tokomaru Bay on Wednesday morning suffered moderate wounds to a hand and an arm. The incident happened at the Waimā end of Tokomaru Bay at around 8.30am. Another man, who was first on the scene after the...

Aratu Forests loses FSC certification

A second Gisborne forestry company within the space of two months has lost its sustainability accreditation. Aratu Forests’ (formerly Hikurangi Farm Forests) Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) Certificate was suspended on March 28 by Swiss auditing...

Zita Campbell, Local Democracy Reporter

13 hours ago

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Navy veteran Donnelly to speak at Anzac Day service in Sydney

Royal New Zealand Navy veteran Gisborne’s Jack Donnelly will give an Anzac Day address in Australia. The former Chief Petty Officer will speak at Woronora, a small suburb in Sutherland near Cronulla in Sydney. Mr Donnelly told the Herald he had...

Gisborne Herald

18 Apr 2024

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Six60 in the house in Tairāwhiti next week

Kiwi band Six60 are making their way across small-town New Zealand on their Grassroots Tour and that road will bring them to the East Coast early next week. The band’s shows at Te Puka Tavern in Tokomaru Bay on Monday and War Memorial Theatre in...

Talking to staff affected by Govt’s proposed cuts

The local impact of mass job-cutting proposals by the Government at Oranga Tamariki, the Ministry of Education and the Department of Conservation will not be known until consultation with staff affected has been completed. The departments contacted...

Council backs speeding up consents process for housing, roading and water storage

A bill to allow fast-track consents was debated among Gisborne district councillors yesterday, with some labelling it an “over-reach” from the Government and others believing it will stop developments being “held to ransom”. At an operations...

Zita Campbell, Local Democracy Reporter

13 hours ago

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Sport

Coast rugby ready to rumble

The buzz that surrounded Whakarua Park at Ruatōria last weekend is once more in the air. Tokararangi pipped Tihirau Victory Club 7-5 on fulltime in a thrilling men’s final at the inaugural Morgan Waitoa Memorial Day Tournament on Saturday, Waim...

Ben O’Brien-Leaf

14 hours ago

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Busy summer for Gisborne’s lifeguards

Tairāwhiti surf lifeguards were kept busy over summer with multiple rescue situations and assists, hundreds of preventative actions and many first aid situations. The summer season patrols concluded on March 24. “There were challenges around...

Power outage risk reduced through Waingake tree-felling programme

In the wake of the impact of Cyclone Gabrielle on Tairāwhiti, the critical importance of a resilient and robust water supply has never been clearer. The Firstlight Network vegetation team and their tree contractors recently completed a three-week...

Gisborne Herald

13 hours ago

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Event chance to show skills in care

The public appreciate the skills of Gisborne Hospital staff but an inaugural “skills-a-thon” by staff provided for the benefit of other staff has proved popular. Staff across the spectrum of medical disciplines took part including from ostomy...

Cruise ship season repeat on the cards

The 2024-25 cruise ship season in Gisborne looks set to be a busy one again with 24 ships scheduled at this stage to call here, about the same as the successful season that ended in March. The National Geographic Orion (pictured) was a regular over...

Gisborne Herald

18 Apr 2024

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Coast rugby ready to rumble

Young tumblers win medals in Auckland comps

Gisborne Trampoline Club took six tumblers to Auckland for the Counties Manukau power tumbling. Simultaneously, the competition included the NZ Schools competition where a few of the team also competed. Lily Arnold, competing in Junior...

Two key clashes to sort pecking order

There’s nothing like a country derby and week three of Civil Project Solutions Premier Rugby has thrown up two of the best. Two-time defending champions East Coast Farm Vets YMP will be guests of Kahu Scaffolding Tapuae at their sports ground in...

Defending champions handed second defeat

Defending premier grade champions Whangara Old Girls suffered a second consecutive loss in the mid-week netball matches in the Gisborne YMCA on Wednesday night — an intense battle that could have gone either way. TR Builds Horouta Koura led almost...

Thistle relying on emerging players

Liverpool great Alan Hansen secured his place in the history of football punditry when he said, “You can’t win anything with kids”. Never mind win . . . Electrinet Gisborne Thistle coach Tam Cramer would settle for a draw when his “kids”...

Can the Youth A team outshock the Shockers?

Shockers Gold have taken the early lead in Eastern League first-division football but face a genuine test against Gisborne Thistle Youth A tomorrow. A second-division team last year, Shockers have started their league campaign with two wins — 2-1...

Kiwis outgun Aussies in Showjumping Challenge at Equestrian Champs

New Zealand triumphed in the Trans-Tasman Teams’ Showjumping Challenge at the Larsen Sawmilling Equestrian Championships in Gisborne on Sunday. Led by best-performed Kiwi Johanna Wylaars (Christchurch) on Central Zone, the team finished the...

Diana Dobson

31 Jan 2024

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At home in Ūawa

Thabiso Mashaba from Botswana in southern Africa moved with his whānau to Ūawa Tolaga Bay. He talked to kaupapa Māori reporter Matai O’Connor. Moving to Tairāwhiti is one of the best decisions Thabiso has made in his life, he says. Thabiso...

Matai O’Connor, Kaupapa Māori Reporter

13 Apr 2024

Lifestyle

A thriving enterprise focused on waste minimisation, conservation, biodiversity and education

Gillian Cowperthwaite looks into the not-for-profit Tairāwhiti Environment Centre which operates a thriving enterprise focused on waste minimisation, conservation and biodiversity and education for the community. The Tairāwhiti Environment Centre...

Gillian Cowperthwaite

13 Apr 2024

Travel

Seafaring adventure

Seven-year-old Viggo Mikkelsen Steele shares his final adventure tale from the trip, filled with Caribbean wonders and heartfelt farewells. Hello, it’s Viggo again. Since I last wrote a lot has happened. My dad crossed the Atlantic Ocean in our...

Gisborne Herald

13 Apr 2024

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Participants encouraged to bring entrepreneurial spirit to Startup Weekend Tairāwhiti event

Under the banner of Rise Up, Start Up!, this year’s event will inspire people to overcome challenges, seize opportunities and bring their ideas to life.

Gisborne Herald

17 Apr 2024

News

Third kiwifruit shipment of season leaves Gisborne by sea

The refrigerated cargo ship Cool Royal joined the logger Atlantic Spirit alongside the Eastland Port wharf on Monday to load the third kiwifruit shipment of the season to leave Gisborne by sea. The logger sailed for Tauranga yesterday to load...

Gisborne Herald

17 Apr 2024

News

Ready for take-off at Te Araroa

New aerodrome at Te Araroa will ‘unlock the tourism and general economy of the . . . area”.

Murray Robertson

16 Mar 2024

News

‘Inspire Inclusion’ encouraged on International Women’s Day

A small group of Gisborne Business and Professional Women (BPW) members marked International Women’s Day by laying flowers on the Margaret Sievwright monument. March 8 was International Women’s Day (IWD) — a day to mark a collective action and...

Gisborne Herald

13 Mar 2024

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Taking the audience on a journey

A new performance piece by celebrated musician, producer and innovator Tiki Taane(Ngati Maniapoto) and multidisciplinary artist Kereama Taepa (Te Arawa, Te Ati Awa), Mai te Uira, combines digital visual art with music in a progressive and...

Kim Parkinson

18 Apr 2024

Entertainment

Named among Adam finalists

Gisborne artist Tyler Wray is a finalist in the prestigious Adam Portraiture Award after being selected from a record-breaking number of entries. The 19-year-old has always loved to draw and paint but said the portrait was the first large scale...

Kim Parkinson

18 Apr 2024

Entertainment

Happy (back) together

The cast of colourful characters in The Vicar of Dibley plays are back together again, in the latest offering from Musical Theatre Gisborne, with first-time director Jill White putting her own mark on the production. The Holy Trinity is the third...

Kim Parkinson

11 Apr 2024

Focus on the Land

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Cattle fair prices down from March

Just over 800 cattle were sent for sale at Tuesday’s Matawhero Cattle Fair and they were all keenly sought by local farmers. Only a few buyers were operating from outside the district through Bidr. Prices paid were down slightly on the March...

Trevor Brown

18 Apr 2024

Focus on the Land

Strong support for Waingake trial

Henry Gaddum, John Foss, Jono McIntyre and Jake Roche and their dogs top scored to take out events one to four at the Waingake Dog Trial club’s trial on Friday and Saturday. McIntyre and Roche scored particularly well, both of them on 98 points in...

‘Thoughtful koha’ for rural communities

An initiative to get food on tables in the East Coast has wrapped up with more than 450 freezer meals finding their way to homes across Tairāwhiti and Wairoa. FMG partnered with local community groups to deliver locally made, quality meals to the...

Gisborne Herald

17 Apr 2024

Focus on the Land

Better quality, prices

There was a slight lift in prices paid for the best of the store lambs yesterday at the Matawhero Saleyards. A total of 2080 store lambs were offered and all were sold; generally the quality was higher this week. KJ & RE Fisher, at Motu, were...

Trevor Brown

13 Apr 2024

Opinion

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Editorial

Taming inflation beast, slowly . . .

Inflation isn’t down on the canvas yet. But it is on the ropes. News this week that annual inflation dipped to 4 percent in the first quarter (from 4.7 percent), was welcome — although, as economists have pointed out, there were some worrying...

NZ Herald

15 hours ago

Column

On rewriting the definition of hate speech

Clive Bibby During one of the rare occasions l was home in time to watch the lunch-time news, l was intrigued to note the main headline for the day being a call to update legislation governing the crime of hate speech. Perhaps because l am somewhat...

Opinion

15 hours ago

Letter

Keep NZ nuclear free

Re: Aukus, Gaza on agenda plus Full-scale war ‘now a real possibility’ — April 13 articles. No mention here of the 1984-1990 Labour government’s South Pacific Nuclear Free Zone law. Yet Foreign Affairs Minister Winston Peters slammed...

Opinion

15 hours ago

Editorial

Visionary? Or an old pipe dream?

Picture the scene: a capital city with pedestrianised streets, bustling shops, affordable housing sprinkled through inner laneways while a mega underground tunnel diverts noisy traffic away. It’s hard to deny the appeal of such a major...

NZ Herald

18 Apr 2024

Column

Inward-looking US a global concern

Ewan McGregor The 20th Century was rightly known as the American Century as it became the industrial powerhouse of the world. However, it was not until World War 2 that it became the absolutely dominant political force. It emerged from the war with...

Opinion

18 Apr 2024

Letter

Intensification paradox

Kiwis should not live on productive land and enjoy a “useful” amount of space — because, relatively speaking, they don’t “produce” much that the market values. That’s exactly where Kiwis should be living because it “produces”...

Opinion

18 Apr 2024

Letter

Fixing Corrections

Corrections — should we correct Corrections or not? I leave it to the readers to decide. In the 1980s the National Party did some very good work with Sir Doug Graham as the Minister of Justice. Having met with him many times, we were able to...

Opinion

18 Apr 2024

Letter

MPI should share crayfish pot survey data

Can anyone tell me why commercial crayfishers are allowed to take crayfish 2mm smaller than amateurs? Do people know the juvenile catch is down 80 percent? That means the adult catch will be down in approximately four to five years. Why can’t MPI...

Opinion

18 Apr 2024

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