Consents for wastewater system cost $3m so far
by John Jones - Gisborne Herald
Wednesday, 21 March, 2007
THE consent process for the upgrade of the city’s wastewater system has cost ratepayers $3 million so…
Compromise in bay wastewater discharge bid
by John Jones - Gisborne Herald
Wednesday, 21 March, 2007
THE concerns of tangata whenua and the issue of discolouration of the waters of Poverty Bay have been met in a…
Great turnout for huge clean-up
by Gisborne Herald Staff Reporters
Wednesday, 21 March, 2007
A beautiful March day gave 50 keen people the ideal accompaniment to their clean-up of Te Wherowhero and Brown’s…
Te Hau Tu
Te Runanga o Turanganui a Kiwa have currently completed the first phase of a success indicator project with the Ministry of Education. Auntie Horiwia Bradbrook, Pimia Wehi and Peter Moeau have worked with Maringi Brown…
Outfall fallout might finally be behind us
by John Jones - Gisborne Herald
Wednesday, 29 March, 2007
A CONTROVERSY that has raged for more than a decade and cost ratepayers millions of dollars may finally reaching a…
Mayor happy 'long wait' is over
CONSENTS granted by the independent commissioners for the wastewater treatment plant and submarine outfall pipe have been welcomed by Mayor Meng Foon.
The conditions for the 35 year…
Wastewater consents granted for 35 years
by John Jones - Gisborne Herald
Thursday, 19 July, 2007
A WASTEWATER management committee will be established as one of the conditions accompanying the grants of 35-year consents…
SIGN OF THE TIMES:
Picture by Roger Handford - Gisborne Herald
Monday, 23 July, 2007
Transit New Zealand gets into the swing of Te Reo Maori with its new welcome signs at the city's Makaraka…
New Maori dictionary is free online
Thursday, 24 July 2008
By Kiri Gillespie
Maori Language Week has included the launch of the first te reo monolingual dictionary via a free electronic interface.
I-Papakupu will…
Community Based Language Initiative was a project managed by Thelma Karaitiana for Te Runanga O Turanganui A Kiwa. The project was completed around 2005. There were many valuable insights, research, partnership and relationships…
Area school best option for Te Karaka
Te Karaka will begin 2011 with a new area school, Associate Education Minister Dr Pita Sharples has confirmed.
He signalled he preferred the area school option when he spoke with parents and…
Media Release 19th February 2010
Carers offered chance to apply for holiday break
Te Kainga Whaiora Children's Village in Gisborne is calling for applications for special April school holiday programme for children in care…
Te Matatini 2011 will be our first National Kapa Haka Festival for 34 years and Tairawhiti wants to make it the best ever! It will certainly be different - not in a concrete and chrone environment, but on our whenua - natural amphitheatre…
Archaeologists have discovered partial human remains on Haipipi Endeavour Park - believed to be part of a leg dating back to Pre-European times.
OPUS Archaelogists have been working on the site since last week before work begins to expand the…
YMP Celebrations Begin
KAHU Tamatea was the toast of a YMP side who won their eighth Lee Brothers Shield premier club final 23-22 over Kevin Hollis Glass Pirates in a thriller at Rugby Park on Saturday.
In one of the best…
Muriwai Iwi Ngai Tamanuhiri became one of the Turanga tribes to settle its historical treaty claims when it signed a final deed of settlement at Muriwai Marae on Sunday 6th of March, 2011.
One of the eldest Kuia of Ngai Tamanuhi Hera Smith,…
MAYOR Meng Foon has labelled the rules for determining local body and central government constituencies as “depressing” after confirmation of the East Coast electorate boundaries for 2014 and 2017 by the Electoral Commission.
The East Coast…
TAIRAWHITI / GISBORNE voters were quick to take advantage of advance voting, which began on the 3rd of September.
The first voters were at the polling booth in Treble Court (at the McDonalds end) when voting in the 2014 general election…