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• • John McMenamen

    • 3 Oct 2025
    • Friends of Karori Cemetery
    • The night of Friday 12th February 1909 bore witness to New Zealand’s worst 19th century maritime disaster. The inter-island ferry SS Penguin struck, what was surmised to have been, Thom’s...
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    Karori Cemetery, Northland, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
  
  

• • Weekly E-news for 26 September 2025

    • 26 Sep 2025
    • St Andrews on the Terrace Presbyterian Church
    • Mōrena e hoa mā, We had a beautiful Animal Blessing Service on Sunday. Five dogs were present in person, and two joined us in spirit as their carers were unwell. […]
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    St Andrew's on the Terrace, 30, The Terrace, Paekākā, Wellington Central, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, 6011, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
  
  
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    Small but mighty: The kiwi pukupuku in the spotlight

    • 24 Sep 2025
    • Wellington City Council
    • Bird of the Year is back and it’s time to get behind the feathered treasures of Aotearoa. This year, we’re backing two amazing birds, the kororā, little penguin and also the tiny, tough and unforgettable, kiwi pukupuku, also known as the little spotted kiwi. Though small in size, this taonga carries a big story of resilience and survival.
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• • Greater Wellington warns dog owners to avoid the Orongorongo River and Wainuiomata Beach following heavy rain

    • 22 Sep 2025
    • Greater Wellington Regional Council
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    Wainuiomata, Lower Hutt, Lower Hutt City, Wellington, New Zealand/Aotearoa (OpenStreetMap)
  
  
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    Stunning new cages revealed

    • 13 Sep 2025
    • Cats Protection Wellington
    • The CPW shelter is looking pretty sharp now, with fresh new cages throughout!The cages in the main lounge, New Entrants, and Timids were originally built in 2007 and had started to wear out, with the wire on the cage door degrading and woodwork needing regular attention.
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    Kettlebelle's amazing new life

    • 2 Sep 2025
    • Cats Protection Wellington
    • Zoe’s snores were legendary during her stay in the CPW shelter, all the more because we knew she couldn’t hear herself.
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    Olly gets his best life

    • 31 Aug 2025
    • Cats Protection Wellington
    • Sometimes a cat comes through our doors who really has a hard time finding their perfect home.
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    AGM report 2025

    • 30 Aug 2025
    • Cats Protection Wellington
    • The CPW Annual General Meeting was held this year on 31 August online. The President's Report can be downloaded below.Above: CPW President Iona Anderson at the start of the shelter renovations to replace all the cat cages with newer, more resilient facilities....
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    Stoat detector dog gives Miramar a clean bill of health

    • 31 Jul 2025
    • Predator Free Wellington
    • This article was written by Justin Wong for The Post on 30 July 2025. Wero the dog and his best friend Brad Windust have just completed a sweep of the Miramar Peninsula and Mt Victoria looking for signs of unwanted stoats and weasels. They were pleased to have picked up none at this check, but Windust said…
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    More than a job: Meet the animal control officer who’s fostered over 50 dogs

    • 24 Jun 2025
    • Wellington City Council
    • From working at a dog groomer to training German Shepherds in the military – Wellington City Council Animal Control Officer Emily Aitkenhead will always be drawn to roles that work alongside dogs. Not only has she built a career around them, but she has taken the time to foster over 50 dogs on top of her day job, helping them feel safe and loved before finding their forever homes.
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    Pāua Hut Family Trip – Remutaka Forest Park

    • 7 Jun 2025
    • Wellington Tramping and Mountainneering Club
    • Saturday – 10 May On the weekend of 10 – 11 May, my mum, our new friends, me and a small dog called Sophie decided to walk to Pāua Hut. The hike started at the Catchpool Carpark (Remutaka Forest Park). We had our photo taken by the sign at the start of the track and ... Read more
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    Stay Swag, Get your Tag

    • 21 May 2025
    • Upper Hutt City Council
    • Thinking of owning a dog or do you have one already? Did you know that all dogs from the age of three months need to be registered?
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    How Did I Get Hear? #17 - Alan Gregg on Ed Cake's "Downtown Puff"

    • 6 May 2025
    • Slow Boat Records
    • Behold the Golden Man! Some time in the mid-1990s I was sitting on a sofa in Auckland watching a Saturday morning kids’ TV show called What Now? A band came on and played a song which featured the lyric “If I go to hospital / Will you administer my pill?” I had no idea who they were, but the song was brilliant, and one of the band members appeared to have springs attached to the soles of his shoes. A few weeks later I met two members of that band, Edmund McWilliams and Geoff Maddock, at a Supergroove show at Auckland University. We talked about our shared enthusiasm for the music of Jonathan Richman, and they gave me a cassette(!) of some songs they were working on. When I got home and played the cassette it was a revelation. It contained intensely melodic songs with absurd lyrics and unusual arrangements. I felt like I’d stumbled upon some kind of secret treasure. They were pop songs, but not like anything I’d heard before. The songs on that cassette later turned into the eponymous Bressa Creeting Cake album (Flying Nun Records 1997), which is still spoken of in reverential tones in certain circles. The three piece Bressa Creeting Cake band, with Joel Wilton on drums, came on tour around New Zealand with The Mutton Birds (who I played bass with), and it felt like a privilege to watch them play these amazing songs to baffled audiences each night. By that time Edmund McWilliams was becoming better known under the moniker Edmund Cake. In 1999 Edmund and I played together in Bic Runga’s band, when she supported Paul Kelly on a tour of Australia. On that trip I saw first hand how Ed’s approach was not like other musicians I knew. At one show Bic’s band was invited to join Paul Kelly and his band onstage for their encore, and during the song Ed played Paul Kelly’s acoustic guitar with such intensity that his hand bled all over the body of the guitar. At soundcheck the next day Paul Kelly’s unimpressed guitar technician greeted Ed with the guitar and a cleaning cloth. Ed set to work making it spotless, and we weren’t invited onstage for the encore again. Bressa Creeting Cake split up around that time, and Geoff Maddock formed the band Goldenhorse, which went on to become hugely popular in New Zealand. All of this is a very longwinded way of getting to the point that after the demise of Bressa Creeting Cake, Edmund Cake made a solo album called Downtown Puff (Lil’ Chief Records 2004), which I consider to be a masterpiece. Around the time Bressa Creeting Cake ended, an A&R man from the Dreamworks record label in LA came to visit Ed in New Zealand and gave him an advance to make some demos. Ed recorded three songs and sent them to the label. After not hearing from the A&R guy for a while, Ed called him in LA to ask what he thought of the songs. He replied that they were “Quite great”. Dreamworks did not sign Edmund Cake to the label in the end, but they did sign a little-known artist named Nelly Furtado. In the meantime, Tim Finn had become a supporter of Ed’s music and lent him some recording equipment for a studio Ed had assembled in a building in Gore Street in Auckland. Neil Finn had also become a fan and gave Ed time to complete Downtown Puff in his own studio. Edmund Cake is an unusually talented songwriter. He has a gift for composing melodies and chord changes which are both surprising and breathtakingly beautiful. He’s also able to write lyrics which can be funny and strangely affecting at the same time. And he doesn’t sound like anyone else. On Downtown Puff Ed played most of the instruments, and he engineered and produced the songs himself. It’s an album that constantly treads the line between the sublime and the ridiculous, and sometimes does both at the same time. "You’re Watching Me” and “Beautiful Sleep” are ballads as melodic and effortless as any I can think of. The song "Gunga" sounds like Captain Beefheart jamming with Devo on the set of Sesame Street. “My Son the Harpist” tells the story, over an Omnichord drum beat, of a young harp player who meets a tragic end. Ed was improvising the lyrics the first time he ever recorded the vocal on that song and he never changed them. As a result, there are some spontaneous words in that song that you won’t find in any dictionary. The song “Oh Baby Bear” is the catchiest song you’ll ever hear about the Auckland Public Transport system. Ed sings “She’s got a cuppa tea and sandwich, she’s feeling fine / She just crossed the Pukapuka line,” all delivered in a fair dinkum Kiwi accent. Perhaps Downtown Puff’ s master stroke is the track “Golden Man”, which sounds a bit like a 1970s psychedelic folk band singing a gospel song. The poetic lyrics, swooping melodies and Ed’s trademark falsetto vocals all contribute to the song’s eerie beauty. “He commands the cats to claw / He commands the boats to shore / He commands the gulls to fly / He commands the crops to die”. Sometimes Edmund’s music can evoke the genius of Brian Wilson in the way he can take really unusual chord changes and make them seem completely natural in a pop song. But this music doesn’t sound like Brian Wilson. Ed often adopts different character voices for the songs. One moment he’s singing in a sweet falsetto, and in the next he’s growling like Tom Waits. Each song has a distinct vocal identity, almost reminiscent of the way Prince used completely different voices for some of his songs. But this music sounds nothing like Prince. Sometimes I wonder why the Downtown Puff album isn’t better known than it is. It certainly has some devoted fans, but I can’t help thinking more people would like it if they knew about it. For me it’s the work of a visionary musical artist, and it's a collection of songs that contains just the right balance of beauty, mystery, playfulness and outrageously good tunes. It’s also worth mentioning that Edmund Cake released another album under the name Pie Warmer a few years later called The Fearsome Feeling (2009 Lil’Chief Records), which is every bit as great as Downtown Puff. Alan Gregg last year released a superb album under the name Polite Company, entitled "Please Go Wild" - first single "Circulation" is here, we have copies on LP and CD, and his website is here
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    Slow Boat Records, Cuba Street, Te Aro, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, 6040, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
  
  
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    Memorial Garden ready to bloom

    • 3 May 2025
    • Cats Protection Wellington
    • The Memorial Garden behind the CPW has historically housed the ashes of cats who passed away at the shelter or in foster care, and includes a collection of stone plaques and statues.
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    Wasabi: Big recovery for a small cat

    • 3 May 2025
    • Cats Protection Wellington
    • In December 2024, tabby girl Wasabi was surrendered to CPW by her family as they’d been unable to find a pet-friendly rental.
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    Turning wool into gold for kitties

    • 3 May 2025
    • Cats Protection Wellington
    • Gail is one of the unsung, invisible heroes who has been knitting items for the good of the CPW cats for years.
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    Microchip leads Ninja back home

    • 30 Apr 2025
    • Cats Protection Wellington
    • Late in January, the CPW shelter team took a call from an 82-year-old lady, who had a cat making himself at home at her place.
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    Rosie Posy’s new lease of life

    • 20 Apr 2025
    • Cats Protection Wellington
    • Rosie Posy came to us in a bit of sorry state after the death of her elderly owner.
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    Te Herenga Waka community supports tuatara research at Zealandia

    • 7 Apr 2025
    • Victoria University of Wellington
    • More than 700 people from the Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington alumni community attended a friends and family event on Saturday 22 March.
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    Zealandia, Lake Road, Highbury, Wellington, Wellington Region, 6011, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
  
  
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    Mid-Waiohine Hut and Pizza – Tararua Forest Park

    • 23 Mar 2025
    • Wellington Tramping and Mountainneering Club
    • Date: 28 Feb – 2 Mar 2025Trip type: MediumLocation: Tararua Forest ParkAuthor: Georgia Trampers: Sara (leader), Georgia, Tawera, Brianna, Chrys, Callum (and Sophie) Friday – 28 Feb Five of us and Sara’s lovely dog (Sophie) met at the Wellington Station and drove up to the Wairarapa with the EM group. We met up with Brianna ... Read more
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• • High levels of toxic algae at Silverstream Bridge – dogs and people should avoid contact with water

    • 18 Mar 2025
    • Greater Wellington Regional Council
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    Silverstream, Upper Hutt, Upper Hutt City, Wellington, 5019, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
  
  

• • Toxic algae in Lake Wairarapa Moana – dogs and people should avoid contact with water

    • 13 Mar 2025
    • Greater Wellington Regional Council
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    New training programme helps protect world's smallest penguin

    • 25 Feb 2025
    • Wellington City Council
    • Wellington’s coastline is home to many kororā (little penguins) who often choose to nest on the beaches. Sadly, off-leash dogs that roam the area are one of the biggest threats to these mānu, with 11 kororā lost to dog attacks in the past year.
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• • Toxic algae blooms in Wairarapa catchments/rivers – dogs and people should avoid contact with water

    • 15 Jan 2025
    • Greater Wellington Regional Council
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    Sniffing out seabirds on Mana Island

    • 13 Dec 2024
    • Te Papa's blog
    • Te Papa vertebrates curator Colin Miskelly recently spent 3 days on Mana Island following a conservation dog searching for well-concealed petrels in the lush vegetation. He kindly agreed to share a ‘blog with a dog’ with us. Miro is a 4-year-old German short-haired pointer cross. He is one of the
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    Mana Island, Porirua, Porirua City, Wellington, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
  
  
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    Kainga No More

    • 30 Sep 2024
    • Eye of the Fish
    • The Luxon-lead government continues its attack on anything that the Labour Party ever managed to do, with the release today of news about the Kainga...
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• • Open Whanganui

    • 13 Sep 2024
    • Architectural Centre Inc
    • In (unofficial) conjunction with Here’s Open Home Whanganui event – September 28 – the Center will be opening a few more doors for Centre members. The Here programme will visit the Dog Box (2013 – Ben Mitchell-Anyon, Sally Ogle, Caro Robertson and Tim Gittos)… … and the Payne House (1960s, Michael Payne). The Here event […]
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    How we’re protecting one of Wellington's smallest residents

    • 5 Sep 2024
    • Wellington City Council
    • We’re backing the kororā for Bird of the Year 2024 – here’s what Council and our partners are doing to protect our penguins and restore their habitats year-round.
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    Don’t flipper coin, vote kororā for Bird of the Year

    • 28 Aug 2024
    • Wellington City Council
    • As Bird of the Year gets ready to take flight, Wellington City Council is proud to be supporting the kororā little penguin in 2024.
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    Salient Backs Kororā for Bird of the Year: A Campaign to Support Wellington’s Little Blue Penguins

    • 28 Aug 2024
    • Salient
    • Wellington, 2 September 2024 — Salient , Victoria University of Wellington’s student magazine, is rallying behind the kororā, or Little...
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