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The Ensign-Gore, 15 Jul 2026

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The Ensign, based in Gore, was established in 1878, and is distributed to homes in Eastern and Northern Southland and West Otago. It features coverage of local government, local sports, arts and recreation, and farming news. The team is proud to have serviced this area for more than a century and is an active sponsor of many local activities and sporting events.

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ArticleBaabaas tri­umphant

Cheers and beers flowed at the MLT East­ern North­ern Bar­bar­i­ans Bury St base on Sat­urday night after their Gal­braith Shield win. The Baabaas defeated Inver­car­gill’s Pir­ates Old Boys 40­28 to win the shield for only the second time in 10 years.

Baabaas tri­umphant

ArticleSchool’s elms axed

A dozen exotic trees deemed a health and safety risk on the grounds of St Peter’s Col­lege were cut down last week. The row of golden elms were axed by Power­Net con­tract­ors in Coutts Rd, near the school’s rugby field. A Power­Net spokes­per­son...

School’s elms axed

ArticleExpan­sion plans for ED

Gore Health is upgrad­ing its ED and primary care facil­it­ies to meet a surge in demand. More than 1000 people were seen in the hos­pital’s ED last month, a record num­ber for the hos­pital. Chief exec­ut­ive Karl Met­z­ler attrib­uted the rise in...

Expan­sion plans for ED

ArticleThe new way to clean your water tank.

Don’t waste your exist­ing water! Did you know that an empty bur­ied or par­tially bur­ied water tank can hydraul­ic­ally lift itself out of the ground if the water table is high and it’s left empty for any length of time break­ing pipes along the way.

The new way to clean your water tank.

ArticleExpan­sion plans for ED

Gore Health is upgrad­ing its ED and primary care facil­it­ies to meet a surge in demand. More than 1000 people were seen in the hos­pital’s ED last month, a record num­ber for the hos­pital. Chief exec­ut­ive Karl Met­z­ler attrib­uted the rise in...

Expan­sion plans for ED

ArticleTVNZ upholds Gore Dis­trict Coun­cil com­plaint

TVNZ has issued an apo­logy to the Gore Dis­trict Coun­cil over an incor­rect state­ment broad­cast last month con­cern­ing local gov­ern­ment amal­gam­a­tion. TVNZ’s com­plaints com­mit­tee upheld a formal com­plaint from the coun­cil regard­ing the...

TVNZ upholds Gore Dis­trict Coun­cil com­plaint