11 Mar, 2010
- Debbie Gregory
A hard-working Matawhero family has had enough of produce thieves. About $2000-worth of kumara was stolen from their property over the weekend...
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11 Mar, 2010
- Martin Gibson
With their motorbikes on an old trailer towed by the farm truck, the Thomas family did not look at first much of a threat to competitors...
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11 Mar, 2010
The investigation into a fire that razed former All Black Murray Mexted’s holiday home at Mahanga, Mahia a week ago has been completed...
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11 Mar, 2010
- Jackson Payne
Robert DeLong had the “holiday from hell” in Rarotonga after an airline lost his luggage containing medication he needed to stay alive...
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11 Mar, 2010
The actions of a man on trial for dangerous driving causing death did not cause the accident, a crash investigation consultant told the jury...
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11 Mar, 2010
A YOUNG man was considered lucky to escape with only minor injuries after his car rolled many times on State Highway 35 near Makorori Beach...
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10 Mar, 2010
- Kiri Gillespie
More young people are wandering around Gisborne’s streets drinking late at night because, for some of them, the streets are better than home...
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10 Mar, 2010
- Roger Handford
A year after the big fire at Mahia there’s hardly a sign that flames shooting high into the sky raced through tinder-dry pines and scrub...
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10 Mar, 2010
- Jessica Wauchop
MORE than two years after the 2007 earthquake rocked Gisborne, the church bells are ready to chime again at St Andrew’s Presbyterian Church...
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10 Mar, 2010
- John Gillies
WAIROA district’s rates collection would go up nearly 6.8 percent under the draft annual plan presented yesterday, but councillors have not finished...
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10 Mar, 2010
RIDING from Gisborne to Opotiki and back would be a challenging task for anybody . . . even more so for a 75-year-old stroke victim...
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9 Mar, 2010
- Jessica Wauchop and Christine McCafferty
Gisborne posted the country’s biggest drop in unemployment and the largest increase in electronic spending over the past month...
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9 Mar, 2010
- Christine McCafferty
IT took just four minutes for the Gough family to lose everything they owned in a house fire that left nothing but a smouldering pile of rubble...
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9 Mar, 2010
- Kiri Gillespie
When Donna Cullingford stepped foot in the Gisborne SPCA looking for a puppy 15 years ago, she did not realise it would be so long before she finally...
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9 Mar, 2010
New Tairawhiti Polytechnic conservation corps tutor Andrew McCulloch has the perfect job. He is tasked with teaching 16 to 24-year-olds...
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9 Mar, 2010
A MAN has been found guilty of trying to intimidate witnesses from the public gallery during a court hearing involving his cousins...
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9 Mar, 2010
Act MP David Garrett might be hogging the political headlines over his suggestion that some people should be given incentives to get themselves...
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8 Mar, 2010
- Alice Te Puni
GENTLE rain during the closing moments of Gisborne’s 2010 Relay for Life blessed those involved in the 24-hour community fundraiser event for cancer...
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8 Mar, 2010
- Jessica Wauchop
THREE years ago, taking part in the Relay for Life was one of the last things Gisborne woman Shelley Wyllie did...
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8 Mar, 2010
Gisborne teenager Wi Poutu Ngarangione again stamped his mark in the shearing world, winning the Golden Shears intermediate title at Masterton at the...
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8 Mar, 2010
- Marianne Gillingham
A family living in Paroa Road near Tolaga Bay lost everything they own, apart from their car and the clothes they were standing in, when a fire...
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8 Mar, 2010
- Kiri Gillespie
A Mahia holiday home belonging to former All Black Murray Mexted has been destroyed in a possible arson attack. The shed, which doubled as a bach for...
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8 Mar, 2010
Stormy wet weather predicted for the Gisborne district over the weekend did not eventuate but a slow moving low is likely to keep things damp and...
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6 Mar, 2010
- Martin Gibson
Gisborne fisherman Daren Coulston does not care about the $70-worth of wine that former Minister of Fisheries Phil Heatley resigned over...
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6 Mar, 2010
The voices were a little weaker as the “Maori Battalion” song rang out across Orakei Marae yesterday Only 50 frail warriors now remain of 28 Maori...
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