Archive / December 2007
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Building rumours 21: end-of-year round-up
- WellUrban
- Here's an assortment of new building news to wrap up 2007, starting from the confirmed and moving towards the more speculative.The apartment building at 158 Cuba St, which one would expect to be approaching construction since the previous building was demolished a little while ago, now has a name and a shiny website: Cubana.
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Cuba Street, Te Aro, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, 6011, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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Bill Hammond - City Gallery
- The Wellingtonista
- Assuming you've made the right decision (and are having your hols in February), then we here at the Wellingtonista advise you to get yourself along to the City Gallery for the FREE Bill Hammond exhibition, Jingle Jangle Morning. And why? Because even when it's crappy out, Bill's painting is there for you.
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We wish you a Merry Christmas
- Wellington City Libraries
- Wishing you a merry Christmas and a happy and safe New Year's break, from all the staff at Wellington City Libraries. The library will be closed for Christmas Day, Boxing Day (open again after Christmas on Thursday the 27th), Sunday the 30th December (open Monday the 31st), and Tuesday the 1st and Wednesday the 2nd of January. You can find our holiday hours here on our website. Happy holidays!
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Team Wellington Horror
- Zephyr Rovers FC
- Zephyr Rovers Manager Steve Hall today took advantage of the lack of any decent televised football and took himself to watch Team Wellington play Waitakere at Newtown Park. "I had to get out in the sun but I saw Rikki Herbert there so we were both obviously thinking the same thing" said Hall "that it was a good chance to grab a beer and peruse the skills of some of the best outdoor players in New Zealand. Hall said the only problem was Wellington returned to their previous form and got hammered by 5 - 1.
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No Records, But Heaps of Fun!
- Orienteering Hutt Valley
- Participation in 2007 didn't zoom up like the previous years, but after an extraordinary 2006 it was very similar to 2005. (In 2006 we ran the NZ Rogaine Champs and the NI Sec Sch Champs, whew!) There were 1925 starts, and if you count rogainers in 3hr units we get 2105. At least 75 volunteers made all this happen, thank you!
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The last ten metres
- The Lazy Fern Track Blog
- In late December 2005 strange thrashing and grunting noises were heard from the bush above South Kaori Stream. Wild pigs? Blind mountain bikers? Exploring botanists? Nope, it was the first of many exploration trips to find a suitable route for the proposed easy downhill track. Two years later, and the last ten metres of the track has just been built!
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Proposed IRC Measurement Day
- Royal Port Nicholson Yacht Club (Inc)
- The club proposes to do an IRC Measurement on the 12th 13th January 2008. This is so that IRC certificates will be available for LINE7 Race Week 2008.
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Royal Port Nicholson Yacht Club, 103, Oriental Parade, Oriental Bay, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, 6011, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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Twilight Series 3, Race Day 1
- Royal Port Nicholson Yacht Club (Inc)
- The first race in the New Year is the Twilight Series 3, Race Day 1 scheduled to be sailed on Wednesday 16th January at 1815 hours at Point Jerningham startline.
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Royal Port Nicholson Yacht Club, 103, Oriental Parade, Oriental Bay, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, 6011, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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Coaches wanted for 2008
- Brooklyn Northern United AFC
- Brooklyn Northern United (AFC) is looking for First (Capital 1) and Second (Capital 2) Team Coaches for the 2008 season. Reporting to the Committee, the Coaches will work together to consolidate the teams and make them contenders in their divisions. This is a part-time position with remuneration depending on the qualifications of the person and the hours worked.
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The fun police
- WellUrban
- "Graffiti Alley" between the Left Bank and Ghuznee St may have just been edged out in the Wellingtonista Best Public Art awards, but it's still the most dynamic and democratic site of all. There were some particularly interesting goings-on a couple of weekends ago, and when I walked past early one the evening the masked artists were hard at work; later that evening they were still there, but being sternly spoken to by the boys in blue.
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Cuba Street, Te Aro, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, 6011, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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Slow Start Costs
- Zephyr Rovers FC
- Zephyr Rovers were down 3 - 0 today in the blink of an eye before rallying to reach 3 - 2 down at half time. "We had the worst start in memory and were pretty inept in the first few minutes" said Hall "I put it down to the team not having my 'guidance' from the keepers position and Rob Purcell (pictured) was a bit crook".
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NZCT Year 9 Boys Final
- Cricket Wellington
- NZCT Year 9 Boys Final St Pats Silverstream and Scots College played against each on Wednesday 12 December to determine which college received the Brett Windley Cup. This is awarded to the college that wins the NZCT Year 9 Boys Wellington competition.
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Runs Galore In McLean Park Draw
- Cricket Wellington
- Last week’s fourth round State Championship match between The State Wellington Firebirds and the State Central Stags at Napier’s McLean Park ended in a draw amid a plethora of runs, headlined by a career best 265 to Firebirds opener Matthew Bell.
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First Wicket Partnerships
- Cricket Wellington
- Last week’s 253-run first wicket partnership between State Wellington Firebirds openers Matthew Bell and Luke Woodcock against the State Central Stags in Napier became the sixth highest first class first wicket stand by a Wellington opening pair and the second highest against Central Districts
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Bell's Rich Vein of Form Continues
- Cricket Wellington
- Congratulations to State Wellington Firebirds opener Matthew Bell for his outstanding 265 against the State Central Stags in Napier last week. For the second successive match Bell has rewritten the record books, following his unbeaten 188 against Canterbury in round three.
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Struggling
- Zephyr Rovers FC
- With Player Manager Steve Hall sidelined, and several other players in doubt, the selection issues for the match tomorrow has become finding a team.
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Eastern Suburbs in front at Christmas Break
- Cricket Wellington
- Eastern Suburbs In Front At Christmas Break Six-time defending champions Eastern Suburbs have hit the lead in the Dominion Post Premier competition at the Christmas break.
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NZCT Year 9 Boys Final 2007
- Cricket Wellington
- NZCT Year 9 Boys – Final St Pats Silverstream and Scots College played against each on Wednesday 12 December to determine which college received the Brett Windley Cup. This is awarded to the college that wins the NZCT Year 9 Boys Wellington competition.
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Win an MP3 player...
- Wellington City Libraries
- Wellington City Libraries has recently introduced a Downloadable Audiobooks collection available to all members via our website.Library members can browse hundreds of titles and download them as audio files to MP3 players to read on the go. Many customers have their own players but some are available to borrow on a short term basis.We are offering you the chance to have you very own MP3 player.
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Special award to zl2aoh for processing 34,000 qsls!
- ZL6QH Quartz Hill User Group
- In November 2007 The Quartz Hill Management Committee awarded a certificate to the ZL6QH QSL Manager, Ralph Sutton ZL2AOH, for his outstanding achievement in processing 34,000 QSL requests.
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Radio EXPO 2008
- Wellington VHF Group
- The Combined Amateur Radio Clubs of Wellington invite you to attend the annual Wellington Radio EXPO '08 to be held on Saturday 15 March 2008. A sale of Amateur Radio and electronic items open to members of the public. Entrance fee (buyers) is a $4.00 door charge. Vendors entry is covered by their table space purchase. Date: Saturday, 15 March 2008 Time: Doors open for vendors at 7.00 am. Doors open for the public at 10.00 am. Venue: Knox Church, 574 High Street, Lower Hutt Talk in: Climie 730 - call ZL4FUN for driving instructions, or any other information. read more
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Bell strikes personal best
- Cricket Wellington
- State Wellington Firebirds Matthew Bell’s highest-ever first-class score of 265 was the highlight of the final day of the State Championship match with Central Stags at Napier.
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Embracing your inner show-mom
- The Wellingtonista
- Late notice but tonight at the Film Archive, cnr of Taranaki and Ghuznee Streets, at 6:30pm the Friends of the Film Archive present a special insight into baby contests, beauty competitions and screen tests from yesteryear. It’s free. It’s hilarious.
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Cinephilia: Opening This Week
- The Wellingtonista
- Just the one new film opening this week:
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Wellington Anniversary Regatta 2008
- Royal Port Nicholson Yacht Club (Inc)
- Heretaunga Sailing Club has announced the Wellington Anniversary Regatta 2008.
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Royal Port Nicholson Yacht Club, 103, Oriental Parade, Oriental Bay, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, 6011, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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Woodcock on the double
- Cricket Wellington
- State Wellington Firebirds' Luke Woodcock impressed with bat and ball at Napier. Woodcock was the leading Firebirds wicket-taker with four for 84, but could not stop State Central Stags earning first-innings points at Napier.
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Get your shopping on
- The Wellingtonista
- Sunday, this sunday from 11am till 2pm Craft2.0 is on at TheNewDowse. It's a free event and promises to be the biggest fair yet, with over 70 different crafty types selling amazing stuff.
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Lower Hutt, Wellington, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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Wellington U17 Boys Team 2007/08 Announced
- Cricket Wellington
- The Wellington U17 Cricket team has been named.
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Wellingtonian of the Year, 2006, how's he doing now?
- The Wellingtonista
- Time to take a quick look at how last year's Wellingtonista Wellingtonian of the Year is getting on in the wake of a full year of promotional engagements & speaking gigs.
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Bowen Integrated Ruckus
- WellUrban
- There's been a lot of publicity, most of it negative, about the planned "Bowen Integrated Campus". There hasn't been much to go on, apart from this one rendering, but even so it seems hard to reconcile some of the statements about it with the plans.
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Stags in pursuit
- Cricket Wellington
- Tim Weston and Greg Hay’s unbeaten century stand hastened State Central Stags’ pursuit of State Wellington Firebirds’ first innings total at Napier’s McLean Park.
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Junior Premier Club Cricket
- Cricket Wellington
- The 2007 Wellington Junior Premier Club Cricket Competition is nearing it’s end with only one more round left on Saturday Dec 15. The competition has been held in two halves with the first half played from Jan – Mar and second half from Oct – Dec.
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Wellington vs. Auckland
- The Wellingtonista
- A long weekend away provides the perfect oppotunity to reexamine the age-old battle. In our first chapter, our agent goes to Auckland. In our next chapter, an enemy agent will come here...
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Holiday hours
- Wellington City Libraries
- Wondering when you can visit a library over the holiday season? Our libraries are open to a different timetable between 24 December 2007 and 3 January, check out the full details here.
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Club Cricket Roundup 8 December
- Cricket Wellington
- Pepper, Napier and Shreck Standouts in Club Cricket. Taita opening bowler Matt Pepper, Upper Valley all-rounder Graeme Napier and Hutt Districts opening bowler Charlie Shreck provided the standout performances at the start of the ninth round of the Dominion Post Premier and Senior competitions.
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Hinds sweep Blaze
- Cricket Wellington
- Aimee Mason and Zara McWilliams scored half-centuries as State Central Hinds recorded a rain-affected victory over State Wellington Blaze at New Plymouth. Mason made 78 from just 56 deliveries and McWIlliams contributed 51 to a 112-run stand which lifted the Hinds to 291 for seven.
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Tunnel vision
- WellUrban
- The long-delayed Ngauranga to Airport Transport Study has finally come back with some options for public consultation. It'll take a while for me to crunch through the many megabytes of reports, brochures and forms, but for the meantime I'll just point you to the Dominion Post's barely restrained glee at the prospect of more roads and tunnels, and frogblog's reasonably measured response.
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Hope Gibbons 4up TTT this Saturday at Kahutara
- capitalcycling Yahoo group
- Dont forget the Hope Gibbons 4 person team time trial this Saturday. Round up some mates (or enemies) and enter a team of at least 3 riders.
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College Cricket Volunteer of the Month Award
- Cricket Wellington
- College Cricket Volunteer of the Month Award (Oct-Nov) During the month of November nomination forms were sent to colleges for the College Cricket Volunteer of the Month Award for the months of October and November. Four nominations were received.
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Ground Changes - 8 December
- Cricket Wellington
- Ground Changes - 8 December We have been advised that Elsdon park is not available on Saturday so the following Junior transfers will take place: Wellington Junior Under 12: Tawa Girls v Easts Red Roosters now at Ben Burn Under 10: Colls Lions v Tawa Red now at Grenada J2  
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Tawa, Wellington, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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See The Darjeeling Limited for FREE
- The Wellingtonista
- MySpace Black Curtain is holding a special screening of The Darjeeling Limited in Wellington at the Paramount Theatre on Tuesday 18th December at 8pm.
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FW: Petition to allow cyclists access to the current
- capitalcycling Yahoo group
- There is an e-petition current to allow cyclists to access the bus only lanes in cintral city wellington. If you are in agreement, please sign and forward this link to your cycling buddies...
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Awards results...
- The Wellingtonista
- Hearty congratulations to all our winners.
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Four plinths - opening comments
- Wellington Sculpture Trust
- Comments by Neil Plimmer, Chairman of the Wellington Sculpture Trust, at the opening of Green Islands
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December Swill Poster
- Six O'clock Swill
- Foward this to your Mum!
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The December Swill...
- Six O'clock Swill
- December brings a sneak peak at On the Conditions and Possibilities of Helen Clark Taking Me as Her Young Lover* adapted from the book by Richard Meros.An original theatrical monologue exploring obsession, politics and the hopes and dreams of a passionate but confused generation.
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Smoggie wins NWC Service Award
- St Mary's Old Girls Netball Club (SMOG)
- Long-time Smoggie Marie Bradshaw received a Service Award at Monday’s Netball Wellington Centre AGM. This award recognises Marie’s many years of service to netball in the region.
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Canterbury vs Wellington: A Rich History of First Class Cricket
- Cricket Wellington
- Wellington v Canterbury: a rich history of first class cricket.
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NHL Mens Coach
- Wellington Hockey Association
- Wellington Hockey is seeking nominations for the Mens NHL Coach 2008.
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Premier One Boys Cricket - Final
- Cricket Wellington
- Premier One Cricket – Final In what was expected to be a hard fought Premier One title game on Saturday, it turned out to be a one-sided affair. Hutt International Boys School (HIBS) have left there two best performances to the last two games of the season.
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Outright Win to Firebirds With Two Balls to Spare
- Cricket Wellington
- There were joyful scenes at the Allied Nationwide Finance Basin Reserve late on Saturday when the State Wellington Firebirds won their third round State Championship match against the State Canterbury Wizards with just eight balls of the match to spare.
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Record Breaking Century for Bell
- Cricket Wellington
- Record Breaking Century For Bell Opener Matt Bell became the highest first class century maker for the State Wellington Firebirds last week against Canterbury when he moved past 100 for the 16th time while playing for Wellington.
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NZCT Year 9 Boys - Final
- Cricket Wellington
- NZCT Year 9 Boys – Final The final of the NZCT Year 9 Boys Final will be played on Wednesday 12 December; 10:30am start at St Pats Silverstream between Scots College and St Pats Silverstream.
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Who's going to drive you home tonight?
- The Wellingtonista
- How about you try out a Green Cab? Their all-Prius fleet and commitment to planting trees to offset their carbon, along with their "'ethics first business second" mantra sits happily with the dirty lefty hippies of the Wellingtonista.
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Rovers Ready For Bellies
- Zephyr Rovers FC
- Jimmy Five Bellies will be the toughest opposition yet this season as Zephyr Rovers aim to improve on their current third place in Monday's fixture. "I'm expecting this to be a tough one and we'll have to be on peak form" said Rovers Manager Steve Hall.
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2008 Wellington Centre 2 Day Tour
- capitalcycling Yahoo group
- The 2008 edition of the Wellington Centre 2 Day Tour will be on 26 & 27 January and will be based at the Martinborough School Hall in Martinborough, Wairarapa.
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Firebirds overcome Wizards
- Cricket Wellington
- State Wellington Firebirds beat State Canterbury Wizards by 90 runs in a cliff-hanger finish to win their third round State Championship match at the Basin Reserve in Wellington today.
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Pics from November Swill
- Six O'clock Swill
- Photos from the November SwillThe Intervention - by Jeff WhittyOffice Palms - by Paul RothwellMagnum: The Lost Episodes
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