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Jeremy
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Jeremy Muir is Editor of The Gisborne Herald

Medical and trauma callouts for rescue chopper

An eight-mission schedule took the Trust Tairāwhiti Eastland Rescue Helicopter to areas from Hicks Bay to Hawke’s Bay in the seven-day reporting period from Monday, August 26. Carrying out an inter-hospital transfer and responding to four medical...

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Jeremy Muir

02 Sep 2024

News

Sunday wind incidents prompt Fenz call-outs

Gisborne firefighters were called out twice on Sunday to issues relating to the strong winds. They went to St David’s Church at the corner of De Lautour and Rutene roads after it was reported roofing iron was lifting. “There were just two or...

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Jeremy Muir

19 Aug 2024

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Gisborne woman killed in Tauranga crash

Police have released the name of a woman who died in a two-vehicle crash in Tauranga earlier this month. In a statement, police said she was 51-year-old Joanna Teresa McMillan of Gisborne. The crash happened on Takitimu Drive in Tauranga at 7.30pm...

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Jeremy Muir

16 Aug 2024

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Woman seriously injured in ute collision at Hexton

Emergency services were called to two vehicle crashes over the weekend and several people were transported to Gisborne Hospital. The first happened on Friday night around 6.30pm at the corner of Harper and Tucker roads at Hexton when two utes...

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Jeremy Muir

12 Aug 2024

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New leaders and plan at Trust Tairāwhiti as it seeks ‘transformational outcomes’

Trust Tairāwhiti will present a new face to beneficiaries at its annual meeting next week, with new leadership and a new strategic plan since its last AGM a year ago. The trust’s dominant asset, Eastland Group Ltd (EGL), has also shrunk back to...

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Jeremy Muir

09 Aug 2024

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State highway recovery work in Tairāwhiti allocated $162m: Minister expects value for every dollar

State highway recovery projects in Tairāwhiti have been allocated $162 million of the $609m announced as North Island Weather Event funding in the Government’s 2024 Budget. A regional breakdown announced on Friday last week said $250m had been...

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Jeremy Muir

31 Jul 2024

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Dumped car set ablaze on Centennial Marine Drive

Firefighters went to Centennial Marine Drive on Thursday night to put out a burning car that had been dumped towards the mouth of the Waipaoa River. They were called to the scene around 7.30pm. They believed the car, which was fully ablaze when they...

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Jeremy Muir

19 Jul 2024

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East Cape shellfish health warning lifted

New Zealand Food Safety (NZFS) has removed its East Cape public health warning, which was issued due to elevated levels of paralytic shellfish toxins in rock lobster. “It’s great news that, just in time for Matariki, rock lobster can again...

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Jeremy Muir

25 Jun 2024

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Rotorua quake felt here as ‘tiny jiggle’

An earthquake centred in the Rotorua area early this morning was felt in this region. It happened at around 2.20am and measured Magnitude 5.1, centred 168km deep, 10km from Rotorua. A Gisborne resident who felt it said it “felt like a tiny...

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Jeremy Muir

06 Jun 2024

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Drier weather helping maize harvest

The annual grain maize harvest still has about three weeks to run and the companies involved in Tairāwhiti have welcomed the drier weather. “It has definitely helped us with harvesting and has helped dry the crop out,” a company spokesman said...

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Herald offices closed to the public from Monday

The Gisborne Herald offices on Gladstone Rd will no longer be open to the public from next week. Our journalists will still be working hard in the background, producing important, interesting local stories to keep you, our readers, in the know. Your...

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Welcome to your new-look paper

Today’s newspaper is the first one produced in the systems of NZME (New Zealand Media and Entertainment) by our team of journalists here in Gisborne supported by the wider NZME team. As you will have read in March, The Gisborne Herald is now owned...

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Jeremy Muir

01 May 2024

News

New-look Gisborne Herald starts tomorrow

The new format and features for The Gisborne Herald start tomorrow. As a taste of what’s to come, we have included your new Travel magazine in today’s paper. Moving forward, you will also find some changes to regular features such as farming...

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Jeremy Muir

30 Apr 2024