Business and Media
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Victoria University might play fair
- 8 Aug 2010
- Salient
- Pat Walsh buys bananas Victoria University might be one step closer to becoming a Fair Trade University with VUWSA President Max Hardy presenting Vice-Chancellor Pat Walsh with a fair trade information pack last week.
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Vintage wear just as loved second time around
- 23 Apr 2010
- Newswire.co.nz
- ANYONE with an interest in vintage clothing would do well to buy now while the time is right, says Aeon store owner Amy Oakes. The Cuba St retailer says at the moment vintage is pre-1970s, when most garments were handmade in New Zealand and better quality than the cheap imported clothing of more recent decades.
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This Newswire.co.nz newsitem has 2 comments.
- ‘Hi I am helping Lilian look for one of our past Guests – Yvonne Ragen who works at Particles of time in Cuba Str Wellington. can you assit with her e mail address please? Kind Regards Elizabeth and Lillian’
- ‘Hi there, Good article. How come there is no option to email to a friend, who isn’t on Facebook. Thanks for your reply. Cheers. Jo.’
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Blink throws fests that are the best
- 15 Apr 2010
- Newswire.co.nz
- In a weakened state in the aftermath of Campus A Low Hum 2010, its mastermind, Blink Jorgensen, was laying low.
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mandrewnz Good article about Blink RT: @wellynews Newswire.co.nz - Blink throws fests that are the best http://tinyurl.com/y4k84dt
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Crime scene investigation: Miramar
- 3 Apr 2010
- Wellington Scoop
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This Wellington Scoop newsitem has 2 comments.
- ‘The pubs are unwilling to challenge the Easter Trading laws because by breaching the Terms of their liquor licenses they risk far more than the $1000 fine.’
- ‘Whilst you cannot visit a garden shop or take the kids to Toyworld, you can go and spend that money at the TAB. Nice to see the Government keeps its priorities in order!’
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Wellywood: good idea, dreadful idea
- 9 Mar 2010
- Wellington Scoop
- It’s a great idea to put a Hollywood-style sign on the Miramar peninsula. But it’s a dreadful idea for the sign to use the cliched “Wellywood” word, which does nothing except show that we are hankering after older and bigger film industries rather than having confidence in our own identity and our own name.
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This Wellington Scoop newsitem has 10 comments.
- ‘You should put Middle Earth on the hill or something that shows how New Zealand has succeeded and created.’
- ‘Our Mayor was quoted in the local press as saying that it was clear that people supported the idea of a sign such as the proposed “Wellywood” on the Miramar Peninsula. Is it really so clear? No one asked me before resource consent was granted. Is not ’
- ‘Just another aspect of recognition of the name Wellywood…..for tourists arriving from the UK they may think they are in Fred Dagg land as what we call “gum boots” they call “wellies”…..’
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Capital city goes fair (trade) on coffee and tea
- 9 Dec 2009
- Newswire.co.nz
- WELLINGTONIANS now have another reason to be proud as their city becomes the first Fair Trade Capital in the southern hemisphere.
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This Newswire.co.nz newsitem has 1 comment.
- ‘Thanks for the great article Sabrina & team. If you want to know more about our initiative go to http://www.fairtradewellington.org.nz. Also, a small correction to the photo caption – the Fair Trade City initiative was not started by me! I have been part’
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Grocery bag charge lifted
- 6 Sep 2009
- Salient
- Foodstuffs’ decision to stop charges on plastic bags at Wellington city outlets New World and Four Square has been met with surprise by a number of pro-environment groups. Since initiating the five cent charge on 3 August this year, plastic bag usage has dropped by twelve million bags, a reduction of over 60 percent from last year.
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Wellington a proving ground for cinema's next big thing
- 20 Aug 2009
- Newswire.co.nz
- A CINEMATIC revolution is coming and Wellington will be on the frontline, says a leading international exponent of film production art.
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Upper Hutt bed shop says goodnight and goodbye
- 11 Aug 2009
- Newswire.co.nz
- UPPER Hutt will lose one of its three bed shops soon because people are buying beds from Wellington instead of using their local shop.
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Wellington shops close by dozen as recession hits
- 3 Aug 2009
- Newswire.co.nz
- SHOPS along Wellington’s “golden mile” are emptying at a faster rate than the rise in unemployment, with nearly 7% showing “for lease” signs.
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This Newswire.co.nz newsitem has 2 comments.
- ‘Dearest Tory, Loved all your Articles! Thoughtful, local news, meaningful to the Local Community,and loved all the photos, made the issue much more real. Well done!!! HUGE LOVE, Mary xxxxx’
- ‘I think you also need to look at Council planning decisions in Upper Hutt. 1.Whay did they let a new Mitre 10 mega complex go ahead across the railway line when it contravenes a report done at a cost of $300,000 which they adopted and recommended that de’
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Design students go on Futurama bender
- 2 Aug 2009
- Salient
- Teams of students from Victoria University’s School of Design have recently completed projects for the Design Led Futures (DLF) exhibition on display at Wellington’s Film Archive.
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IT Rockstar prize goes to young Drupal geek
- 10 Jun 2009
- Newswire.co.nz
- NEW ZEALAND’s newest and brightest IT star this year is a 21-year-old Wellington software developer whose leading-edge projects are bringing corporate and community groups into the future.
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Thousand dollar DVDs
- 10 Jun 2009
- Capital Times
- YOU can watch it on television, but you’ll need to pay $1000 to get it on DVD. Aro St Video proprietor Andrew Armitage has had enough of costly classification laws and double standards in the industry, and is campaigning for change.
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570 community websites under threat
- 18 May 2009
- Wellington Scoop
- Council annual planning rounds are by their nature a stressful time for community groups, and this year is a classic. The latest round creates the prospect of losing the Wellington Community Net, a free website hosting and support service for community groups.
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This Wellington Scoop newsitem has 10 comments.
- ‘I signed the petition and it appears there has been no decision made ,yet. Theres a lot of miss information put around by vested interests ,including the author of this article. I received an E mail from the Mayors office an it appears from that there ar’
- ‘Two years ago I established the website for the Hutt Valley Angling Club and have been supporting it ever since. I was most impressed with the assistance offered by WCN in establishing the Website, and by the generosity of WCC for providing all funding.’
- ‘I host the Mt Victoria website at http://mtvictoria.org.nz, which is not part of WCN. To be able to do so, I have re-purposed $1,000 worth of existing PC, loaded a server operating system, installed Drupal (an open source content management system), inst’
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Good on ya, mate
- 13 May 2009
- Capital Times
- RUMBLES is boycotting DB Brewery products. The independent wine merchant on Waring Taylor Street will not stock Heineken, Tiger, Tui, Export Gold, Amstel, Budvar or Monteith’s beer in protest at the brewery taking legal action against a small Dunedin boutique organic brewer called Green Man.
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Real Groovy's Wellington-owned
- 5 Nov 2008
- Capital Times
- WELLINGTON is not going to lose its Real Groovy. Former store manager Mark Thomas has bought the business from the ailing chain, Real Groovy Records Limited, news that will be welcomed by Wellington’s music community.
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Reflections on Film Studies
- 18 May 2008
- Salient
- As many of you will know, the recent proposal to incorporate the film programme into a new school of ‘Visual Culture’ was defiantly routed. With some 108 proposals made to the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, there was a clear indication that the proposal made little sense, both administratively and academically. To be frank, it reeked of bureaucratic wankery. (more…)
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Film School decision made
- 27 Apr 2008
- Salient
- A “working group” will be established by the University to develop a proposal for a Centre for Film Studies and Digital Media in response to staff and student feedback on earlier proposals to replace the existing Film Studies programme with a Visual Arts degree.
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Film school closure receiving national coverage
- 23 Mar 2008
- Salient
- The proposal to close Victoria’s Film programme to create a Cinema Studies programme is receiving growing national media attention, as two protests and a forum with University management earlier in the month contesting the closure have so far appeared meaningless. The closure of Victoria’s film programme adds to the proposed closure of Canterbury’s Film Studies and American Studies programmes, causing growing alarm for staff, students and the New Zealand Union of Students’ Associations (NZUSA). (more…)
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Free Wi-Fi in Wellington
- 27 Feb 2008
- Capital Times
- A group of Wellingtonians aim to make wireless internet connection free nationwide – starting with Wellington’s CBD.
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“University Redefines Robust”: Questionable future for Film at Victoria
- 25 Feb 2008
- Salient
- Out of the eighty or so students currently enrolled in Film 231 this year (the compulsory second-year paper for a film major) few would suspect that in a year or potentially less, the degree they unwarily signed up for will effectively become defunct. Students this week were unexpectedly made aware of a new proposal to dissolve the Film programme as we know it and create a new school of Visual Arts in the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences.
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Old opshop on the out
- 23 May 2007
- Capital Times
- WELLINGTON’S oldest fundraising shop is closing. The 45-year-old Presbyterian Support (Central) Opshop, at 247 Cuba Street, has been sold so the charity can focus on welfare (getting people to hospital appointments, counselling services).
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Picture this
- 18 Apr 2007
- Capital Times
- THE Gallery has proposed a joint venture with the NZ Centre for Photography to take over Shed 11 as a permanent exhibition space for the nation’s portraiture.
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