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Putting on the ritz at Gisborne high tea event

Stick to your knitting, they say. Do what you know best. Make your work your passion. Women’s Institute members around the country are taking these mottos to heart and – for once – are having a project to raise awareness for themselves. Fresh...

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John Gillies
21 Feb 2025
Sport

Lee, Cheyne hold all the aces in Wednesday bridge

Eileen Lee and Robyn Cheyne made a great start to the Gisborne Bridge Club competition year, scoring 72.92% last Wednesday. Special mention also goes to Vicki Taylor and Ann McCombe for featuring in the results each playing day of the week, together...

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Gisborne Herald
04 Feb 2025
Sport

YMP intermediate men dominate Waka Ama nationals with gold win

Months of training bore fruit when the YMP intermediate men’s double-hull crew powered to victory in the W12 500m at the Waka Ama NZ sprint nationals at Lake Karāpiro this month. The gold-medal-winning Manutūke-Epeha crew are Victor Newcomb...

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Gisborne Herald
31 Jan 2025
Sport

YMP Waka Ama shines at national champs with 6 golds, 2 silver

“New kids on the block” YMP gave notice to their more established opponents at the Waka Ama NZ sprint nationals . . . here they come. An eight-team YMP Waka Ama contingent returned to Tairāwhiti from the week-long championships at Lake Karapiro...

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Gisborne Herald
28 Jan 2025
Sport

Sprint queen Williams completes the double for Gisborne club Horouta Waka Hoe

Horouta paddler Akayshia Williams is Aotearoa’s waka ama sprint queen after completing the 500-metre/250m double at Lake Karapiro this week. She won the premier women’s W1 250-metre dash at the Waka Ama NZ sprint nationals on Thursday, a day...

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Gisborne Herald
18 Jan 2025
Sport

Waka ama paddler Akayshia Williams Queen of Karāpiro once again

Akayshia Williams has won her seventh premier women’s 500m title at the Waka Ama NZ sprint nationals at Lake Karāpiro. In other Tairāwhiti highlights on Wednesday, Maia Campbell had a poignant J19 victory, Hine Brooking successfully stepped up...

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Gisborne Herald
17 Jan 2025
Sport

Three eras in Gisborne football farewelled in 2024

Gisborne’s football community farewelled three notable players from different eras during 2024: Harry Kennedy from the 1970s and early ’80s, Malcolm Bland from the late 1960s and early ’70s, and Les Benge from the late 1950s and early to...

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Gisborne Herald
08 Jan 2025
News

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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Gisborne Herald
31 Dec 2024
Sport

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 Herald
21 Dec 2024
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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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Gisborne Herald
09 Dec 2024
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Sport

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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Gisborne Herald
09 Dec 2024
Gisborne Herald

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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Gisborne Herald
26 Nov 2024
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Kiwi ‘exceptional in truest sense of the word’

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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Gisborne Herald
25 Nov 2024
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