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08 Jan 2025

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Member of the New Zealand Order of Merit honour for Kaiti School principal

Snow greeted Billie-Jean Potaka Ayton in September 2009 as she travelled through the Waioeka Gorge to take up her new job in Gisborne. A decade-long winter of falling rolls and resulting teacher losses showed no sign of abating at Kaiti School...

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31 Dec 2024

Gisborne teen drifter says thanks with winning performance in MSC Challenge NZ

Thanks, Dad. Corbyn Wilson said as much through his performance over the last two rounds of the MSC Challenge New Zealand drifting series. The 16-year-old won round 3 and was second in round 4 at Meremere Drift Park last weekend. Those results meant...

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Gisborne teen driver Corbyn Wilson drifting up the ranks

Driving a car sideways with the gauge showing 150km/h might not be everyone’s cup of tea. But the driver’s seat of a car drifting around a bend at one and a half times the open road speed limit is Corbyn Wilson’s happy place. Last year, at 15...

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Gold for Gisborne’s Mills at Oceania tournament in Auckland

Gisborne bowler Dayvinia Mills won gold as a member of the Aotearoa Māori women’s four at the World Bowls Oceania Challenge tournament in Auckland. Kahutia Bowling Club member and former national singles titleholder Mills played lead; former...

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09 Dec 2024

Paddlers keep off water to honour waka ama ‘queen’

Gisborne city rivers were near empty yesterday in a mark of respect to a fallen great of the sport of waka ama. World and national championship-winning coach and paddler Kiwi Campbell died in Gisborne at the weekend. She was 43, the mother of two...

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Kiwi ‘exceptional in truest sense of the word’

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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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21 Nov 2024

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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15 Nov 2024

Gisborne farmer runs 11 marathons in three days

Glenn Tomlinson is not quite sure how he ended up doing ultramarathons but here he is, having recorded the third-biggest lap total of a 15-strong New Zealand team last month. Tomlinson, 42, completed 69 laps of a 6.706-kilometre course in the...

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05 Nov 2024

Under-18 crown to Gisborne teen at Aotearoa Māori Surfing Titles

Disappointments only heightened motivation for Tairāwhiti surfer Max Phillips, who has won his first major title. Phillips (Ngāti Mutunga, Ngāti Porou) won the male under-18 division of the Aotearoa Māori Surfing Titles held at Ahipara, Te Tai...

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30 Oct 2024

Eastern, western conferences proposed to replace Fed League football competition

Central Football’s Federation League will disappear under a proposed new format for clubs aiming to climb the competition ladder. It would be replaced by eastern and western conferences, essentially a reworking of the three premierships that have...

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28 Oct 2024

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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