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Gisborne artist Glenn Brown wins national art prize with futuristic Battle of Wellington. Gisborne artist Glenn Brown has won the Supreme Award in the Feilding and District Art Society’s 2024 Art Awards with a work which depicts a futuristic vision of New Zealand’s capital city. The painting, titled Battle of Wellington, is 1800cm x...
Five Gisborne marae, including Puketawai, to relocate due to flood ...
1 day ago · Ablution facilities were almost finished and piles were about to be put in for a new whare kai when Cyclone Gabrielle struck in February 2023. Five Gisborne marae at risk of flood and erosion will be relocated under Gisborne District Council plans. Local Democracy reporter Zita Campbell looks at Puketawai Marae’s “earth-shattering ...
Tairāwhiti news digest: Gisborne’s Kōpūtūtea zone enters …
1 day ago · The Kōpūtūtea zone of Fire and Emergency New Zealand’s Tairāwhiti District is now in a restricted fire season. The season began at 8am on Wednesday and is until further notice. This zone covers Gisborne City and the Poverty Bay Basin, including Manutūkē, Pātūtahi and Ngatapa. During a restricted fire season, anyone planning to light ...
News, results from around Gisborne Tairāwhiti golf courses
1 day ago · It is played as a front-nine-net-minus-back-nine-stableford format. Christophers was the overall winner with 33-20-13. Andy Hayward was one back on 34-20-14 while Tene Goldsmith was third-best man with 37-21-16. Colebourne was top woman with 35-19-16 from Jan Steele 34-16-18 and Maxine Francois 37-18-19.
Gisborne roads to convert from sealed to unsealed amid budget cuts
6 days ago · Council director of sustainable futures Joanna Noble said the policy provided a “bigger strategic context” for decision-making before going to the community-led conversations. According to the report, reverting Totangi Rd will cost $129,000 and Russell $89,000. Most of the costs are associated with drainage improvements and top-up aggregate.
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Gisborne residents transform main street with art and teamwork
Nov 5, 2024 · Gisborne’s main street has been “spruced up” and “revived”, with local artists painting bright colours to uplift the community. About 30 residents swept the streets, painted over unwanted graffiti, and cleaned up rubbish, and the outsides of shop windows as part of the Spring Clean on Sunday.
Hard work pays off: Gisborne high schools celebrate top students
Nov 7, 2024 · Gisborne city high schools’ top scholars have been named and all four are heading to university next year with a focus on science and psychology.. The respective duxes of the city’s four main secondary schools for 2024 are Marcus Bull (Gisborne Boys’ High School), Joanna Burn (Gisborne Girls’ High School), Melissa Lamb (Lytton High School) and Angus McInnes (Campion College).
Three cyclone destroyed bridges to not be replaced, two others …
Oct 11, 2024 · Gisborne District Council director of community lifelines Tim Barry said on Thursday that two of the lost bridges had been indicatively endorsed for replacement, while two others required further economic and design considerations. “Three of the destroyed bridges will not be replaced,” he said. The Hollywood Bridge on Bushy Knoll Rd, one of ...
Households self-evacuated across Tairāwhiti, emergency crews …
Jun 26, 2024 · Welfare/evacuation centres in Gisborne have been opened at Te Poho o Rāwiri Marae and the House of Breakthrough. Homes self-evacuated by the Waipaoa River overnight included those in Te Karaka, Lavenham Rd and Branson Rd. There were also evacuations in Ūawa and in Gisborne, with residents on Thompson St and Fergusson Drive leaving their homes.