Archive / December 2005
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Toxic Algae Now In Wainuiomata River
- Hutt City Council
- Toxic algae infestation has now spread to the Wainuiomata River. The algae has been widespread in the Hutt River system over the past few weeks and is blamed for the deaths of at least four dogs. The Wainuiomata and Hutt Rivers have separate catchments.
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- wainuiomata
Wainuiomata, Lower Hutt, Lower Hutt City, Wellington, New Zealand/Aotearoa (OpenStreetMap)
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Pavement Signs To Advertise Hutt CBD Liquor Ban
- Hutt City Council
- Hutt City Council is using novel pavement signs to advertise the public liquor ban in its Central Business District.
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Time Runs Out On Eastbourne Rights Inc Proposal For Korohiwa Bay
- Hutt City Council
- Hutt City Council last night (13 Dec eds) decided to reject a proposal to develop Korohiwa Bay at Eastbourne and instead reinstated its policy of selling its landholding there for housing.
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TradeStart's Trade Information Centre Opens Tomorrow
- Hutt City Council
- A Hutt City Council programme to help people, especially school leavers, into skilled jobs opens its door for business tomorrow.
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King Kong Premiere Red Carpet Screening looms
- The Wellingtonista
- Well, the weather forecast doesn?t look too flash - "Often cloudy, odd shower. Humid with light winds" - but we suspect that won?t stop thousands of people heading down to Courtenay Place tomorrow afternoon (Wed 14 Dec) for the official NZ premiere red carpet screening of King Kong.
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Prime Minister visits the Sanctuary
- Karori Sanctuary Trust
- We were honoured to have Prime Minister Helen Clark unveil our 10th anniversary sculpture to commemorate the ending of our 10 year anniversary celebrations on Wednesday 7 December.
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Yet Another Record!!
- Wellington Orienteering Association
- Wow, OHV continues to generate more participation. With the final planned event the O-Max event at Stratton Street, a quick trawl through the results on the web shows 2286 participations for 2005. That's 27% up on 2004, which was up by a quarter over 2003 (which was up by an eighth over 2002:-))
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More CafeNET in Porirua
- CafeNET
- Smartlinx3 now have CafeNET hotspots operating at Whitireia Polytechnic.
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Porirua, Wellington Region, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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Toxic Algal Bloom Continues to Threaten
- Hutt City Council
- All time record low flows in the Hutt River for this time of the year mean the toxic algae threat in Hutt Valley waterways continues. The Hutt River at Taita Gorge has not even maintained a flow level of five cubic metres for most of the past week and the river level is falling. This time last year, the flow was more like 20 cumecs.
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Tuatara have arrived!
- Karori Sanctuary Trust
- The ancient and rare tuatara returned to its natural environment on mainland New Zealand for the first time in over 200 years, when 70 tuatara were welcomed to Wellington?s Karori Wildlife Sanctuary on Friday 2 December.
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