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Advance voting in Tairawhiti / Gisborne vo

18th Sep 2014

TAIRAWHITI / GISBORNE voters were quick to take advantage of advance voting, which began on the 3rd ... more

Advance voting in Tairawhiti / Gisborne vo

Date: 18th Sep 2014

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…

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Area School Best Option For Te Karaka

Date: 16th Feb 2010

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…

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Compromise in bay wastewater discharge bid

Date: 21st Mar 2007

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…

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Consents for wastewater system cost $3m so

Date: 21st Mar 2007

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…

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Electorate changes to go ahead

Date: 22nd Apr 2014

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…

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Great turnout for huge clean-up

Date: 21st Mar 2007

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…

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KidzaColl Adventures

Date: 19th Feb 2010

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…

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Koiwi found in courthouse dig

Date: 22nd Apr 2010

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…

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Let the centenary celebrations begin

Date: 4th Aug 2010

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…

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Mayor happy 'long wait' is over

Date: 19th Jul 2007

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…

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Mayor hopes for $7.2m grant

Date: 26th Jan 2010

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New Maori dictionary is free online

Date: 24th Jul 2008

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…

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Ngai Tamanuhiri; First Settlement signed

Date: 7th Mar 2011

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,…

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Outfall fallout might finally be behind us

Date: 29th Mar 2007

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…

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SIGN OF THE TIMES:

Date: 23rd Jul 2007

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…

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Tairawhiti Prepare for Te Matatini 2011

Date: 27th Feb 2010

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…

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Te Hau Tu

Date: 26th Mar 2007

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…

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Turanga Reo in the Hospital

Date: 14th Aug 2008

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…

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Wastewater consents granted for 35 years

Date: 19th Jul 2007

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…

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