Archive / May 2007
June 2007 | April 2007-
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Manhattan roundup
- WellUrban
- My month of Manhattans didn't unearth quite as many highs and lows as my Martini explorations, partly because life's too short to try bad cocktails from every crummy bar in Courtenay Place, and partly because it's harder to get wrong.
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Jubilee Cup Dream Still Alive For Wainuiomata
- Wellington Club Weekly
- Wainuiomata's hopes of playing themselves into the Jubilee Cup in just their first season back in Premier grade coul...
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Wainuiomata, Lower Hutt, Lower Hutt City, Wellington, New Zealand/Aotearoa (OpenStreetMap)
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No Change In The Boardroom
- Zephyr Rovers FC
- Zephyr Rovers Chairman George Nash said there would be no changes in the boardroom after Rovers crashed out of the Division 3 semi-final.
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Normal service has resumed
- Brooklyn Northern United AFC
- Recent Public Service (PS) results had failed to impress. A one all draw with league strugglers the Uni Bombers the week before had left some smouldering embers of discontent. Within 10 minutes of kick off, those embers were alight.
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Competitive memorial
- WellUrban
- The Ministry for Culture and Heritage has done the right thing and called for a competition to design the Buckle St New Zealand Memorial Park that I mentioned last month. It's not a completely public competition like the original Waitangi Park design process, so don't rush out and send in an entry unless you've got a good architectural CV to your name.
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People having fun on T3
- T3 Track Blog
- Between all the hard work, Jeff and Hugh had the chance to ride some of the good work they had done. Harvey Blakely and a few mates came through T3 around lunchtime and after some encouragement he gave “old skinky” a crack, good on ya Harvey!
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Working Men
- T3 Track Blog
- While all the noise of the kango was going there was some good old benching and gravelling going on in between so that we can ride to each obstacle, makes sense really. Rob and Will showing how it's done.
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"Crash Test Dummy"
- T3 Track Blog
- We decided to give people a choice at the first rock out-crop of going high or low, as the high line has quite a drop and takes full commitment to clean. As Hugh demonstrates in these photos, a tumble from the low line is not life threatening but still a good challenge.
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Ratchet Canyon
- T3 Track Blog
- This tricky little number required the most amount of Kango time, as you can see from the before shots.
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Winning Waitangi
- WellUrban
- Waitangi Park has won a Supreme Award from the New Zealand Institute of Architects.
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Records fall at PSC Top 10 Update Meet
- Swimming Wellington
- Wellington swimmers claimed local and national records at the {Porirua} Swimming Club’s Top 10 Update meet.
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Porirua, Wellington Region, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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Financial disaster ahead for Wellington's ratepayers- Bryan Pepperell speaks out
- Bryan Pepperell - Back To The Future
- Mayor Prendergast has recently stated .."The City has $5.8 billion worth of assets. Our debt is just 4 % of our total assets. Council has agreed to borrow up to $20 million a year to pay for new assets." This statement from Mayor Prendergast about the value of the city's assets in relationship to debt shows just why we are heading for a meltdown.
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Ukes at lunch
- The Wellingtonista
- Like the Wellingtonista, the library too is celebrating NZ Music month - they're hosting a quiz that always ends with the chance to win a well known brand of MP3 player. Nice. But even better, there's a performance by local Super Group The Wellington International Ukelele Orchestra this Thursday 12:30pm at the library.
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Shoot Out At Shed 6
- Zephyr Rovers FC
- Zephyr Rovers were controversially eliminated from the Division 3 play-offs after a penalty shoot out with Rothenbury Rangers. "We finished 5 - 5 in all sorts of confusion after the referee disallowed two perfectly good goals to Rovers" said Zephyr Manager Steve Hall "several of the Rothenbury players actually were surprised to find out they hadn't lost".
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Notice of Special General Meeting 23 June 2007
- St Mary's Old Girls Netball Club (SMOG)
- Please be aware that the first part of our mid-season function on Saturday 23 June 2007 will be a Special General Meeting to amend the clubâs constitution. This wonât take long, then we can enjoy the festivities!
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The Twister
- T3 Track Blog
- We finished the boardwalk part of the twister a couple of weeks ago on a beautiful autumn afternoon, which turned into evening by the time we were done. We knew this corner was going to be tight, but after 1 hour of kango action and a couple of test rides we came to the conclusion that this corner is very very tight, so after another hour on the kango we were just able to sneak around.
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Clever Courses on Mt Vic
- Wellington Orienteering Association
- John Randal and Lara Shepherd made the most of cleverly set courses and fine weather to win the open classes on Mt Vic today. Matt Farrar rode nearly 20min faster than any other vet man, Dave King being the best of the rest. Tom Bradshaw had some junior competition for a change. And Peter Snell put in a surprise appearance.
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Mt. Victoria, Wellington, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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Vosseler Shield, Hilly Cross Country Races, Mt Victoria
- Wellington Scottish Athletics Club
- Best conditions in many a year saw Scottish take first in the men's team event, the junior men's, senior women, masters women's. Scottish was second in the masters men and in the men 16 and under. Melissa Moon and Rees Buck won the seniors races, and Terefe Ejigu the M19 race.
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Mt. Victoria, Wellington, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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Deadlock In Kilbirnie As Wainui Push For Jubilee Cup Spot
- Wellington Club Weekly
- A thrilling draw between Old Boys-University and Poneke and a Piri Weepu inspired Wainuiomata win over Avalon were the t...
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FemCat Friday - Gypsy
- CataBlog
- Gypsy really is a special needs girl, who's going to require a very special sort of person to adopt her.
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ZL6QH in 2007 CQWPX CW DX contest
- ZL6QH Quartz Hill User Group
- Zl6QH will be active as a multi-operator entry in the 2007 CQWPX CW DX Contest on 26/27 May. The station will be active on all bands. The operator line up is W2ID, ZL2BSJ, ZL1AZE, HA6LN, ZL1CT/GM3WOJ, ZL1TM and ZL2AGY.
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Sculpture Trust AGM
- Wellington Sculpture Trust
- The Sculpture Trust's Annual General Meeting will be held on Wednesday 27th June, at 5.30pm at the City Gallery. Art historian Hamish Keith will be speaking on the evening. We look forward to seeing you there.
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Wellington Maori Team Announced
- Wellington Rugby Football Union
- The Wellington Maori team to play Horowhenua Kapiti on Monday 4 June at Otaki is as follows.
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Bargains at the Central Library!
- Wellington City Libraries
- The booksale is in its final days - everything left is half price. The sale ends Thursday 24 May 2007.
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Cameron masters New Zealand Masters champs
- Swimming Wellington
- Wellington swimmer Kirsten Cameron stamped her mark on the New Zealand Masters Long Course Championships held in Christchurch earlier this month. Kirsten set new NZ Masters records in all of her races at the meet (the 100m, 200m, 400m, 800m and 1500m Freestyle - 30-34 years division).
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Pirates of the Western suburbs
- Swimming Wellington
- The Karori club have been a strong performer in recent times, impressively finishing as the region’s top club at the Junior Nationals meet in February. Not content to rest on their laurels, Karori has now relaunched itself with a new name and a new logo.
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Karori, Wellington, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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Westenra, Cross Regain Rogaine
- Wellington Orienteering Association
- Jill Westenra and Al Cross won back the 6hr City Safari urban rogaine title today, ahead of Bill Edwards and Tim Wilson. Amazingly John Robertson and 12-year-old Tim beat 90 other teams in the 3hr category. 370 participants enjoyed winds up to 100kph which prevented the ferry from putting in at Seatoun.
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Taxing times
- WellUrban
- I'm not entirely convinced that a regional petrol tax is the way to go: I think a targeted congestion charge for the CBD and major arterials might be a better way of fighting congestion while funding public transport.
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Kiss In Shed 6
- Zephyr Rovers FC
- Zephyr Rovers Supporters Club President Liz Pollock said the fans would be out in force as Rovers faced two tough matches this week starting with Liverpool Kiss tomorrow in Shed 6.
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Welcome to all the new cats that came in last week
- CataBlog
- Hi all. I'd like to introduce you to the heap of new cats who came into our Kingston shelter last week.
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Wellington Music Month 6: a shameful secret.
- The Wellingtonista
- So alone among the Wellingtonista, I have a terrible secret: apart from an early album from the Black Seeds, I have no current Wellington Music in my collection. None. Not even Fat Freddy's Drop.
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FemCat Friday - Bella and Milly
- Bella and her mate Milly came to us when their person decided that she was travelling too much to properly give them the love and care they need. They're both accustomed to living outside, but I suspect would be only...
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Wellington RC successfully stage jumpouts
- Wellington Racing Club
- The Wellington Racing Club has successfully staged jumpouts at the Trentham Racecourse today, with six heats being held over a variety of distances.
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Wellington has 5.8 Billon of Performing Assets -Yeah Right!
- Bryan Pepperell - Back To The Future
- Prendergast has recently stated .."The City has $5.8 billion worth of assets. Our debt is just 4 % of our total assets. Council has agreed to borrow up to $20 million a year to pay for new assets. " The statement from Mayor Prendergast about the value of the city's assets in relationship to debt shows just why we are heading for a meltdown.
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Rub-a-dub-dub
- Wellington City Libraries
- Come and join us at Wadestown Library on Friday 25th May at 10.30am for a special bathtime-themed preschool storytime!
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Wadestown, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, 6140, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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The Candy Man Can
- Zephyr Rovers FC
- Zephyr Rovers today took on Solnet at the Shed of Dreams under the guidance of acting Manager George Nash, and on the playing side showing off the Brazilian skills of Craig Candy (pictured) on debut.
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Vic Books sale
- The Wellingtonista
- On a stunning day like today, what could be a better way to use your lunch hour than taking the cable car up the hill to Victoria University and checking out the sale at Vic Books? With books starting at 50 cents, this is how I keep my bookshelves overloaded.
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WBL: Results Round Four
- The Wellingtonista
- So tonight I messed up with giving people their lane assignments, which probably means that it's possible that ClickSuite might have thought that they'd won their round, and Clemenger might have thought that they'd lost theirs (oh who are we kidding, Clemenger would never think that, and that's why we love them), but as it turns out, it was Bowltron who were the winners on the night.
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Back on track: catching up
- WellUrban
- It's been a while since I've had the occasion to write a "back on track" post, but there's been a recent spate of good news for public transport users. Most of it has been signalled for a long time, and it's generally just catching up with maintenance that's been deferred for decades, but it's worth celebrating nonetheless.
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Cyclists upset at poor facilities on new Wairarapa trains
- Cycle Aware Wellington (CAW)
- Regional cycling group Cycle Aware Wellington is unhappy that new rolling stock for the Wairarapa service stock unveiled yesterday does not provide proper facilities for carrying bicycles, despite earlier representations to Greater Wellington Regional Council.
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Incredible progress has been made since our ...
- The Lazy Fern Track Blog
- Incredible progress has been made since our last entry on this blog. That's partly because the last entry was four months ago (shame), but mostly because a huge number of people have been digging away - an indication of how popular this track will be.
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Wellington XV Squad v Wairarapa Bush
- Wellington Rugby Football Union
- The Wellington XV to play Wairarapa Bush for the Jimmy Cotter Memorial Trophy at Memorial Park Masterton on Tuesday 22nd May at 3pm is as follows.
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The Film Archives Cafe
- CafeNET
- Check out our latest CafeNET location at 84 Taranaki Street.
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WRFU Colts Trialists 2007
- Wellington Rugby Football Union
- The following players have been selected to attend the WRFU Colts Trials to be played at {Porirua} Park on Monday 4th June (Queen's Birthday).
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Promenade
- WellUrban
- The promenade between the Chaffers Dock complex and Chaffers Marina is finally open, after being closed for construction for a very long time. It's still not possible to walk from the eastern end directly to the Overseas Passenger Terminal, as they're still asphalting that part, but you can now at least walk along the waterfront edge of the buildings then along the eastern side to Waitangi Park.
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Wellington swimmers ‘do it for Hugh’
- Swimming Wellington
- Hundreds of Wellington swimmers (and many from outside the region) showed up last night to show support (and to raise much needed funds) for injured Raumati swimmer, Hugh Campbell.
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Record Safari Entry
- City Safari
- As of yesterday entries had reached 110 teams totalling 285 people - surpassing last year's figure already! Heaps of families, and at the top, orienteer Bill Edwards who regularly wins 3hr afterwork rogaines which he does for training could challenge last year's winners Andy Foster and Greg Thurlow, and Crazyman top team Al Cross and Jill Westenra.
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Roberts Recalled
- Zephyr Rovers FC
- Former Solnet player Pete Roberts has been recalled to the Rovers squad for Wednesdays match against Solnet. "Pete always likes a chance to play against his old club so I brought him into the squad for this match" said Zephyr Rovers Manager Steve Hall "we can only hope he lasts longer than the one minute he survived in the first match against Solnet".
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Distant hills
- WellUrban
- Some ambiguity and a touch of hyperbole in my post about targeted infill led some commenters to think that I was suggesting all of Karori and Churton Park were "distant hills" with "two buses a day if you're lucky". That's not quite what I meant to say, but I stand by my assertion that the outskirts of these suburbs (and many others) have poor public transport service, and thus poor public transport use, meaning that infill in those places would just result in more people driving to work.
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Launch Of Wellington Urban Forest
- Wellington Sculpture Trust
- Wellington Urban Forest by Leon ven den Eijkel and Allan Brown was unveilied on May 10th, 5.30pm on Cobham Drive. This is the fourth Meridian Energy Wind Sculpture along Cobham Drive, located between Zephyrometer and Tower of Light.
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Kilbirnie, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, New Zealand/Aotearoa (OpenStreetMap)
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Galaxy Stakes and Trentham Gold Cup
- Wellington Racing Club
- On Saturday 26 May the Wellington Racing Club hosts a new Premier Licence at Trentham which replaces the first day of the July Winter Meeting.
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FemCat Friday - Strawberry
- CataBlog
- Today we've got a lovely 10 yr old pedigree British Blue girl called Strawberry.
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WBL: Results round three
- The Wellingtonista
- Oooh! Things are really getting exciting now. Former league champions Xero took on Clemenger last night and didn't come out victorious.
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Coaches still required!
- St Mary's Old Girls Netball Club (SMOG)
- We are still urgently seeking a coach for JPSMOG 5. Please consider coaching or co-coaching this very talented team.
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Chews three
- WellUrban
- Retail space has been tight in Wellington for quite some time, especially along the Golden Mile. That's led to some retailers worrying about being "forced out of the CBD" by high rents, and while some are certainly having to move away from Lambton Quay and Willis St, that's not entirely a bad thing.
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Te Rae Kai Hau Point - Keep It Natural!
- Bryan Pepperell - Back To The Future
- This is my seventh year in the battle to Save Te Rae Kai Hau Point. As seven is a special number I see this as a positive year to do things. It has been seven years where many people have played a part in opposing the shameful proposed Marine Education Centre ( Fish Zoo and Cafe) on this wonderful piece of natural heritage.
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Booksale on now!
- Wellington City Libraries
- The sale at Central Library includes books, CDs, cassettes, magazines and journals on every topic imaginable. Stock is replenished at regular intervals during the sale ensuring there are always fresh bargains to be found - prices start from 50 cents for magazines, with most other items between $1 and $6.If you love a bargain and love music or literature, you won't want to miss it.
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Sundays big dig
- Makara Peak Mountain Bike Park
- This is one of the last workpartys before the rally on Lazy Fern, the track is looking awesome but still needs some finishing touches . We are aiming this Sunday to work on some of those switch backs and get the top section of the track to 1 meter wide, a true beginner standard width.
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Makara Peak Summit Viewing Deck, Ridgeline, Karori West, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, 6012, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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Infill-tration
- WellUrban
- There seems to be a lot of misinformed commentary going on about the changes to infill rules, and some commentators and developers give the impression that the intention is to reduce the amount of infill overall. But the council's news was clear...
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2007 Achievers' Squad named
- Swimming Wellington
- SW's 2007 Achievers' Squad has been named following a successful National Age Group Championships in Hamilton in March.
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ManCat Monday - Ringo
- CataBlog
- Ringo has belonged to an elderly person his whole life, and by all accounts was the apple of her eye. Sadly for both of them, she's had to go into care and was unable to take her beloved Ringo with...
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Waiting to dock
- WellUrban
- The glacial progress on the Chaffers Dock complex looks like it's finally getting somewhere, with the first signs of retail outlets preparing to open.
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Manufacturing Consent in The Capital / Media Collusion in Wellington?
- Bryan Pepperell - Back To The Future
- This week in the Capital's politics the temperature rose steeply over the District Plan and infill housing. That was driven by the City's news maker the Dompost with a series of reports designed to give a favourable impression of a Council that has been papering over the cracks of a permissive District Plan.
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Just like a Star Trek convention...
- The Wellingtonista
- ...except with better-looking chicks and binge drinking. Here's a challenge for you. In an unidentified pub, somewhere in town tonight, the local heats for the New Zealand Rock Paper Scissors (RPS) championship will take place.
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FemCat Friday - Jade
- CataBlog
- Ok, we have lots of "normal" cats in the shelter, but right now I'm going to focus on the ones that either have special needs or have been with us for far too long. So, Jade. Well, she's got 3...
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Rogaine Runs from Lambton Quay
- Wellington Orienteering Association
- A really bizarre feeling starting last night's rogaine in downtown Wellington beside the pubbers, and battling the traffic lights on the outward legs. But of course Tinakori Hill and Ngaio Gorge are only minutes away. The event run out of the Norsewear shop on Lambton Quay by adventure racing "Team Norsewear" was won by Bill Edwards in spite of a fading headlamp.
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Creative Forest grows on Cobham Drive...
- Wellington Sculpture Trust
- The fourth major wind sculpture in a series that will define the southern gateway route into the city is being installed on Cobham Drive. The three nine-meter high stacks of bright spinning cubes named Wellington Urban Forest are the creation of a two-year collaboration between former Wellington sculptor Leon van den Eijkel and Hutt Valley engineer Allan Brown of Metallion Ltd.
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The Boardwalk to Nowhere
- T3 Track Blog
- This is the next piece to the T3 puzzle.
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David dickens - the new council reporter
- Bryan Pepperell - Back To The Future
- The new Dominion Post council reporter David Dickens is the former head of New Zealand's only defence think tank - the Centre for Strategic Studies.
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Ten of the best
- WellUrban
- As a follow-up to their ten worst buildings article, today the Dominion Post finally got around to publishing the Architectural Centre's list of the ten best buildings in Wellington, or at least those built in the last 60 years (the time that the centre has been active).
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