9 Mar, 2010
POSTAL customers still reminisce about New Zealand’s longest-serving postie, Dave Smethurst, nine years after his retirement...
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3 Mar, 2010
- Brown, Trevor
Bill was born at Tokomaru Bay, his parents being Wimaraurau and Te Reremoana Aupouri (formerly Rangiwaha)...
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1 Mar, 2010
However, it was Mr Watchman’s outstanding business leadership, community involvement and outrageous sense of humour for which he is best remembered...
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24 Feb, 2010
- Barbara Scott
Writing was only one facet of Diane Greig’s phenomenal grasp on life. The Gisborne woman who died at home this month, only days short of her 80th...
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24 Feb, 2010
- Murray Ferris
Gisborne has lost another of its characters and, given the number of people who joined the family for his farewell, he was loved and respected...
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22 Feb, 2010
- Shortt, Bill
Mahia lost one of its most genuinely caring individuals when quietly-spoken Frank Ormond died at the age of 70. He lived all his life...
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21 Jan, 2010
When Wa 165 chugged out of the Gisborne station on January 2 with capacity-filled carriages of excited passengers aboard...
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20 Jan, 2010
‘Our mother was the earth’...
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9 Jan, 2010
Lifetime of service given to teaching...
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9 Jan, 2010
A MAJOR role in the vast changes on the Poverty Bay Flats from the 1950s and the development of the district that followed the Waipaoa River Flood...
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6 Jan, 2010
School teacher, story teller, commentator...
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30 Dec, 2009
- Martin Gibson
Coast great lived by his words: ‘Say what you mean and mean what you say'...
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29 Dec, 2009
- Kristine Walsh
Curtain falls on life of theatre stalwart ...
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21 Oct, 2009
A lifetime in her reo...
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12 Oct, 2009
- Norman Maclean
Humanist and Renaissance man...
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8 Oct, 2009
Trudy the trailblazer...
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19 Sep, 2009
Work no job for humble Bert...
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18 Sep, 2009
Positive attitude and zest for life...
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19 Aug, 2009
Large bequest to SPCA work...
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22 Jul, 2009
She was a champion of the creative arts...
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18 Jun, 2009
Keys finally go quiet after many decades devoted to music...
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4 Jun, 2009
Forged a second career as an entertainer...
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30 May, 2009
Passion for dogs, stock and horses...
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