Archive / August 2006
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Hutt City residents benefit from Rates Rebate Scheme
- Hutt City Council
- Hutt City Council has accepted over 1,000 applications for rates relief as part of the Government’s Rates Rebates Scheme, Hutt City Mayor David Ogden announced today. The Scheme provides a subsidy of up to $500 to low income home owners and ratepayers on the cost of their rates. Residents have been eligible to apply for a discount on their rates since the Council sent out its first rates notice in early August.
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Catis Patchis is getting a home!
- CataBlog
- Fantastic news! The woman who came in a few weeks ago and really liked Patch has put a hold on him! She's housesitting for another couple of weeks, so will pick him up on the 16th. And the couple that...
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The Adventures of Rhiannon the Brave - and not very good news at all about our Gizmo
- CataBlog
- Well, got the dreaded phone call from T on monday night. C had gone out in the morning leaving Rhiannon on the bed, and when he got home, couldn't find her anywhere. By the time they rang me at about...
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60 Animals in 60 Seconds
- Wellington Zoo
- Wellington Zoo on Youtube.com.
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Wellington Zoological Gardens, Melrose Crescent, Melrose, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, 6023, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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Celluloid architecture
- WellUrban
- These days it seem like there's a specialist film festival for every taste and interest: human rights, vegetables, silent films and even Phoenix dactylifera. There's even one for architecture buffs, and the Wellington season starts at the Penthouse this Friday.
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Epilepsy Awareness Week
- Wellington City Libraries
- Our Health page is featuring books, websites and journal articles on epilepsy for Epilepsy Awareness Week 5th -12th September. WCL members can use the Gale Health & Wellness database and EBSCO article database for health information anytime, anywhere with an internet connection.
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CafeNET System Upgraded
- CafeNET
- We have made an upgrade to our systems which means things should run faster, logins are quicker, its easier to see you status when you login and no one should be getting stuck on the front page anymore.
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Our Big Backyard, Conservation Week
- Pataka
- Conservation week, which was opened by the Hon Chris Carter, was a fantastic success with over 1200 school children visiting Pataka during the week. Pataka also played host to 22 adult public programmes and staged conservation exhibits throughout the spine. The library was also home to various exhibitions as well as hosting various children and adult conservation programmes.
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Pātaka Art + Museum, Parumoana Street, Porirua City Centre, Porirua, Porirua City, Wellington, 5022, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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Improvements all round
- CataBlog
- Hi all. Starting with the home front, Little Madam has been a lot better the last 4 days. Back to purring and face rubs when I give her a cuddle instead of lying in her basket with her face in...
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Bar wars
- WellUrban
- The Capital Times has begun its 2006 Best of Wellington survey (not online), inviting readers to vote for their favourite things under dozens of categories. However, one category is glaringly absent: best bar. They have best barman, barmaid, music venue and nightclub, but no bar (or best Martini, for that matter).
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End of Season Prizegiving
- Brooklyn Northern United AFC
- Saturday 9th September 7pm at the Mornington Golf Club. We'll the curtains are now slowly closing on the footy season - but of course that can't happen until we have a bloody great bash! Last years was fantastic and this...
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Building rumours 1: 96-102 Vivian St
- WellUrban
- The other weekend (Saturday August the 12th, to be precise), the bulldozers moved into another Te Aro site: 96-102 Vivian St, next to the Salvation Army. This photo was taken about mid-morning, with demolition well underway: by afternoon, the whole site was razed.
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Snakes! On a plane! In Wellington!
- The Wellingtonista
- In tribute to this movie that opens on Thursday, the Wellingtonista is proud to present this very special activity guide to recreating snakes on a plane in Wellington:
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Little Madam not the best
- CataBlog
- Well, got the wee one to the vet last night. No sign of bowel or bladder overload, but she's really just not herself. She's back on more meds to stimulate the bladder (along with the ongoing cisapride to keep her...
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Boris the pin cushion and Cheeky the "I have my nose slightly out of joint"
- CataBlog
- Sorry for the delay. Been a helluva busy week this week. My little girl stopped eating last weekend, so in to the vet for a check on Saturday, then back in for the day on monday when still no food...
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Bringing it back
- WellUrban
- As Kegan pointed out, there's a story on the front page of today's Dominion Post about the council reconsidering the placement of the indoor stadium: they're now thinking of putting it on the edge of Harbour Quays rather than way out at Kilbirnie. So it's almost come full circle, as the site is adjacent to the location originally proposed!
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Kilbirnie, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, New Zealand/Aotearoa (OpenStreetMap)
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Innovative exhibition furniture design wins national competition.
- Hutt City Council
- New Zealand�s new premier decorative arts and design gallery, the Blumhardt Galley, will be designed by Wellington�s Kebbell Daish with industrial designers Robbie Greig and Bernd Benninghoff, the winners of a national competition to design the interior.
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Harbour saga
- WellUrban
- The saga of Harbour Quays continues, and takes on new twists as it goes. While the Civic Trust's seminar has unfortunately had to be delayed until next April, the debate has been kept in the public eye by the release of the Kemp Report (866kB PDF) into the potential economic and urban impacts of the development.
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Save Te Raekaihau Point
- Bryan Pepperell - Back To The Future
- Come and help the Save the Point Group raise funds for their legal battle against the destruction of an iconic headland on our South Coast by joining them for a glass of wine and the chance to view the movie from the Wellington Film Festival everyone is talking about, AN INCONVENIENT TRUTH.
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Rhiannon the Brave and Boris the Unwell :o(
- CataBlog
- Good news and horrible news on the homed CPL cats front today. Starting with the bad news, poor little Boris is very unwell. Here's a series of updates from his people: "Little Boris stopped eating on Wednesday night and seems...
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Days of our Pies
- The Wellingtonista
- Alan a while back suggested a quest to find the best bacon sandwich in Wellington (at least I think it was Alan). This, of course, would be to match Tom's gallant mission to visit every Wellington bar in a year.
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Karked it
- WellUrban
- Krazy Lounge has Konked out. There's a sign on the door saying "Sorry, Krazy Lounge is closed forever. R.I.P.", and the inside is currently being used as a temporary sale shop for the appropriately-named fashion label Insidious Fix.
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Cuba Street, Te Aro, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, 6011, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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Congrats to Smoggies in Wellington teams
- St Mary's Old Girls Netball Club (SMOG)
- The Wellington teams for the Scottwood Trust National Netball Championships to be played in Auckland in late September have been announced, we would like to congratulate the following Smoggies who have made the teams.
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Hutt city lifeguards take out competition
- Hutt City Council
- ts official - Hutt City Council’s swimming pool lifeguards are the best in the region. Two teams from Hutt City Council’s Leisure Active Business Unit proved they’ve got the goods when they took out both first and second places at the Wellington Region Pool Lifeguard Competition recently.
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Pool lifeguards help save life
- Hutt City Council
- The quick actions of pool lifeguards and the use of a newly installed heart starting device have been credited with saving the life of a man during a social water polo game at Huia Pool recently.
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Rogainers Undeterred by Storm
- Wellington Orienteering Association
- With a southerly storm battering the region and houses collapsing in Lower Hutt, it was amazing that anyone turned out to the rogaine tonight! But 40 took on the steep bush tracks surrounding Wainuiomata and lived to tell the tale...
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Wainuiomata, Lower Hutt, Lower Hutt City, Wellington, New Zealand/Aotearoa (OpenStreetMap)
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Conserve
- WellUrban
- You may not have noticed, but this week is Conservation Week. There's a bunch of events on in Wellington, including "weed swaps" at Te Papa and Lower Hutt, where you can bring along a weed from your garden and swap it for a native plant. There's no word of an Aro Valley weed swap, which might be a bit more interesting ...
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Have you seen Zena our Worried Princess?
- CataBlog
- Poor little Zena is still missing and there's been no sign of her at all. So please, if you live around Brooklyn, keep an eye out for a very timid grey and white girl.
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Sassy, Rhiannon and Mischief all off to their new homes!
- CataBlog
- Its been a pretty good week at the Brooklyn shelter. Got a call from the woman who went off on Sunday tossing up between Sassy and Patch. Apparently shed not been able to stop thinking about Sassy all week, so...
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Carnival consent
- WellUrban
- The Cuba Street Carnival has just been granted an open-ended consent to operate as an annual event. It may remain as a biennial event, though, since the organisers prefer to avoid competing with the Arts Festival.
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Cuba Street, Te Aro, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, 6011, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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Treated effluent discharge into Harbour while Pencarrow Pipeline under repair
- Hutt City Council
- Hutt City Council this afternoon (31 July) began an emergency repair of a leak in the Pencarrow effluent pipeline. To effect these repairs, disinfected and fully treated effluent has been discharged into the Waiwhetu Stream through the overflow outlet near the Hutt River mouth. There have been short term discharges at various scour points along the Eastbourne coastline between Seaview and Pencarrow.
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