Archive / September 2007
October 2007 | August 2007-
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Update on save the point / the true cost to the ratepayers
- Bryan Pepperell - Back To The Future
- I'm picking this has cost the ratepayers over 1.5 million dollars so far. This does not include the $7 million non-recourse loan towards building MEC. Opponents have had to meet legal and experts' costs of over $200,000 plus time of the core of volunteers and expert witnesses who gave their time, etc gratis.
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Intense, man!
- The Wellingtonista
- I've been blathering about it all over the place, but the Wellingtonista has thus far remained staunchly unblathered about IntensCITY week, which started yesterday. Downtown Wellington is full of exhibitions, posters, shipping containers, lunchtime talks and video installations, all celebrating and/or critiquing our urban spaces. The official site is on the WCC website, and brochures are available in cafes, libraries and council places, or as a big juicy PDF.
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Hussey Dropped
- Zephyr Rovers FC
- Zephyr Rovers Acting Manager George Nash sensationally dropped Eddie Hussey (pictured) as finals penalty taker today and installed himself in the event that the final was tied. "I thought Eddie's penalty in the knock out rounds last season was a shocker" said Nash "and I think a calm, cool and collected player like myself should be easily able to toe poke one in from hat range".
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The Hollow Men at BATS
- The Wellingtonista
- Just a quick note to recommend Dean Parker’s theatrical adaptation of The Hollow Men, which is on now at BATS. My position in the theatre industry prevents me from doing a proper review which means I can't tell you how funny and pointed it is, nor how expertly directed it is (by Jonathan Hendry) or how good many of the performances are (particularly Stephen Papps as Brash).
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ZM2E LF tests at Quartz Hill
- ZL6QH Quartz Hill User Group
- Thanks to all who tried to receive ZM2E. It seems that VK6 is our furthest reception report so far.
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Successful Spring Meet for SW team
- Swimming Wellington
- The SW team enjoyed a successful SNZ Spring Meet which concluded at their home pool in Kilbirnie tonight. Among the highlights were:
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Wharf Plaza
- WellUrban
- The public spaces at Kumutoto are gradually being reopened after their revamp. This week the area between the Steamship Wharf and Meridian Energy buildings, which according to Wellington Waterfront Ltd is to be called "Wharf Plaza", is having the last finishing touches applied. While the "spring" weather may not exactly be conducive to lingering outside, the green lights under the new benches look especially good at dusk.
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Cinephilia: Opening This Week
- The Wellingtonista
- Fully 60% of all the opening films this week are at the Paramount: first up indie thriller Unknown has a great ensemble cast including James Caviezel, Greg Kinnear and Barry Pepper.
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All at sea
- WellUrban
- I'm disappointed by the outcome of the Environment Court decision that rejected the Marine Education Centre at Te Raekaihau Point. I've never been a hard-core supporter of the project, but I was convinced that for the particular vision the proponents had in mind, there was no better site.
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Zealandia, Lake Road, Highbury, Wellington, Wellington Region, 6011, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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Rovers in Final
- Zephyr Rovers FC
- Zephyr Rovers today progressed to the final of the bottom half of Division 1 after Whites defaulted the semi final fixture at the Shed of Dreams. "We got a game against the Usual Suspects - the team that plays down there about twenty times a day" said Zephyr Rovers Manager "and we finally registered a win against them by 10 - 8".
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Rock the vote Wellington
- Bryan Pepperell - Back To The Future
- While 90 percent of eligible Wellington City voters have enrolled to vote and will be receiving their voting papers, approximately 16,000 eligible voters are not enrolled. Of these people, about 8000 are aged 18-24, accounting for the largest portion of unregistered voters."Although electoral rolls have now closed, people can still enrol to vote. However, they will need to request special voting papers and should contact me if they want to cast a special vote," Mr Bly says.
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Time to veg out
- The Wellingtonista
- October 1 is World Vegetarian Day, so we'd like you to comment and tell us about your favourite vege-friendly places to eat in Wellington. We'd also like to encourage you to check out the Wellington Vegetarian Food & Lifestyle Festival on Saturday Saturday September 29 at St Johns in the City, Cnr Willis and Dixon Streets.
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REVIEW: Achilles Botes
- Wellington Live Music
- It's only the second time I've seen Achilles Botes perform live, but his songs seem familiar already. He's definitely one of the more interesting solo acts, with his loop and various other pedals, slide and layered rhythms.
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Swill Merchandise...
- Six O'clock Swill
- ...is now available! After massive demand for Swill stuff (well, one person!), we have opened a shop. Check out The Swill Store - the buttons are my favourites!
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Save the point has won in the environment court
- Bryan Pepperell - Back To The Future
- In 2000 I began one of my longest political battles . Yesterday it finished in the Environment Court with a ruling that the South Coast is not an appropriate place for an Aquarium. In that time I was supported only by Cr David Zwartz. In 2004 I was joined by Cr Jack Ruben in my opposition. This proposal divided the community. While the political battle was raging and we were overwhelmed by a developer friendly Council, Save Te Rae Kai Hau Point was formed. It was this group that in the end won the day.
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Carfree transports - simply no better protection (for the environment)
- The Wellingtonista
- What are you doing tomorrow? I hope it involves walking, or taking the bus, or staying at home in bed all day. Why? Because it's World Car Free Day.
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September Update
- Capital & Coast District Health Board
- It’s almost that time again when you get to choose who you want representing your community on the District Health Board. DHB and local body election voting papers will soon be appearing in your letter boxes, with voting opening on Friday, 21 September 2007.
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Prizegiving - a great success!
- St Mary's Old Girls Netball Club (SMOG)
- Thanks to everyone who made Saturday’s prizegiving a great success, hope you all had a fabulous time.
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Say it ain't so - the Chocolate Fish to close
- The Wellingtonista
- Using the wonders of modern technology and the interweb we here at Wellingonsita Towers have discovered that The Chocolate Fish over at Scorching Bay is set to close. Noooooooooooooooooooooo!
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The Wellington District Contest
- Wellington Brass Band Inc.
- The band met at the bandrooms at nine am, and from there we car pooled out to Southwards. The band then performed a Hymn and Test piece in the morning session. The hymn "Dear Lord and Father" went pretty well with no major worries. Without leaving the stage the band then played their test piece entitled "The Force of Destiny" by well known classical composer Verdi, this piece is technically very demanding, and whilst the band played well, a few sections of the band would've perhaps liked one or two more rehearsals to work on some of the harder tutti passages.
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Wellington trio’s contribution acknowledged by SNZ
- Swimming Wellington
- The enormous contribution of three Swimming Wellington members was acknowledged at Swimming New Zealand’s AGM held in Wellington today. Eileen Adams, Barbara Neish and Pam Edwards each received Honours awards.
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Retain heritage, resolve traffic, involve locals and think creatively about urban development
- Mt Cook mobilised
- These are some of the main themes expressed at a meeting of residents and friends of Mt Cook, held on the 21st of August at the YMCA stadium in Tasman Street.
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Retain heritage, resolve traffic, involve locals and think creatively about urban development
- Mt Cook mobilised
- These are some of the main themes expressed at a meeting of residents and friends of Mt Cook, held on the 21st of August at the YMCA stadium in Tasman Street. The Meeting was warmed up by speakers who talked about a range of topics including: the proposal to develop a supermarket on the Tasman/Rugby Street site where the Boys and Girls Institute is located; the history of Mt Cook; the proposal for a Memorial Park and moving Buckle Street; the response of Mt Cook School to the plan to move Buckle Street – Sate Highway 1; the WCC’s plans for the area surrounding Adelaide Rd, and; the uncertain future of TSW Swim School currently using the BGI pool.
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Junior Club Registration Day
- Cricket Wellington
- Get down and register at your local cricket club this season and receive a free incrediball. Registrations are taking place on the 15th September, so get down and enjoy what should be an Action Packed Summer of Cricket.
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JPSMOG cleans up at NWC prizegiving!
- St Mary's Old Girls Netball Club (SMOG)
- JPSMOG took home a huge number of awards at tonight’s Netball Wellington Centre prizegiving. We won the Marjorie Jendon trophy for club achievement, being described as “consistently improving and excelling” and the Paul Cameron trophy for best club uniform.
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Coaches required
- Swimming Wellington
- Upper Hutt Swimming Club are seeking a Swim Coach with experience in coaching competitive swimmers up to National Age Group level. See the attachment for details.
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How is the air up there?
- WellUrban
- Urban turbines seem to be catching on. This vertical-axis turbine has recently popped up atop the "i-Centre" at 50 Manners St, there's a smaller one on top of the already environmentally-advanced Conservation House down the road, and the Vector Energy trial turbine that I wrote about in June will be installed on The Terrace.
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Rovers Left Footed
- Zephyr Rovers FC
- Zephyr Rovers today lost again by a single goal at the Shed of Dreams as Ten Left Feet took out the Division 1 fixture 6 - 5. "It was a close game all the way but we never took the lead so we were always chasing it" said Rovers Player Chairman George Nash (pictured).
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Onslow College Students Help Wellington Children’s Hospital
- Wellington Health Foundation
- Year 12 Students of Onslow College, Rebecca Hart and Colin Jackson, recently raised funds and toys for Wellington Childrens Hospital. Kate Marchant, Childrens Hospital Play Therapist said the donation was a big boost for the Hospital. Rebecca and Colin asked their fellow students to donate their old toys and also raised funds. The Foundation and Children’s Hospital thank Rebecca and Colin and all Onslow students for their thoughtfulness and support of Wellington Childrens Hospital Teacher Sharon McIntosh, Colin Jackson, Kate Marchant & Rebecca Hart make their presentation to Wellington Childrens Hospital
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1 Ranfurly Terrace – support its heritage listing
- Mt Cook mobilised
- Annette Baier reminds us that submissions to the W.
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Pint Sized Theatre!
- Six O'clock Swill
- The Swill has arrived!! Here is the cool new poster for the Six O'clock Swill designed by Mat Hunkin (www.mathunkin.co.nz). Save this e-flyer and forward it to all your mates! The Six O'clock Swill is on at Mighty Mighty - 104 Cuba Street, Wellington. See you at the Swill!!
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1 Ranfurly Terrace - support its heritage listing
- Mt Cook mobilised
- Annette Baier reminds us that submissions to the W.C.C. in support of making Miss Rene Emenys house at 1 Ranfurly Terrace a heritage building close by 17 SEPTEMBER 2007- see District Plan Change 58: Public Notice and Proposed District Plan Change 58.
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Ahoy me hearties!
- The Wellingtonista
- So it's one week until that most beloved of all days - International Talk Like a Pirate Day. I bet you're wondering how you can celebrate it instead of going to the Driving Government Performance - the development goals at work conference. Luckily, the Museum of Wellington City and Sea has the perfect solution: The Great Pirate Corporate Challenge! The challenge takes place between 12.30-2pm on the day, and will see teams of five compete in a treasure hunt on Somes/Maitu Island, a peg-leg race and a tug'o war.
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Lebensraum
- WellUrban
- I've had a go at the Q on Taranaki proposals several times before, and while the version currently being submitted for resource consent has been cut back from the original design (I won't call it architecture), it's still a dreadful piece of crap.
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REVIEW: Cornerstone Roots
- Wellington Live Music
- tThe vibe was right and the crowd were perfectly warmed up by The Midnights’ reggae fusion - enjoying the tight ska and jazzy shake up. Clearly another great night was in store for the San Francisco Bathhouse. Cornerstone Roots took to the stage with great presence, ready to educate the crowd with the delights from their new album Free Yourself.
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Hospital volunteer service wins civic award
- Wellington Health Foundation
- On Thursday 6 Septemer at a Civic function hosted by the Mayor of Wellington, Kerry Prendergast, the Wellington Hospital and Health Foundation accepted on behalf of all hospital volunteers a Winners certificate for the Wellington Airport Regional Community Awards 2007.
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Urban September
- WellUrban
- It's a big month for those interested in the urban environment.
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Bumper year for records in store
- Swimming Wellington
- If the recent SW Short Course champs is anything to go by, 2007/08 looks set to be a bumper year for local and national records set by Wellington swimmers. 28 local and 4 national records were broken at the meet, beating the 27 local and one national record set in 2005/06. Wellington swimmers are well on track to surpass the 59 SW and 8 SNZ records broken in 05/06 and we still have 7 months to go!
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RWC: Where to watch the 'breakfast games'?
- The Wellingtonista
- This is a cry for help! Can someone out there leave ideas, suggestions and even actual locations for those people, of a rugby following tendency, that wish to watch the Monday morning pool games. Within the Wellington CBD we mean. The games tend to start around 6am and the Wellingtonista has discovered that most 'rugby-type' venues aren't opening until their normal time of 7am due to licensing restrictions.
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The Drop for NYE
- (that title's terribly street of me isn't it) Here it straight from the horses mouth via an email in my Inbox: THE DROP PRESENTS FAT FREDDY'S DROP, SHAPESHIFTER, LADI6 & PARKS LIVE @ SHED 6, WELLI, NEW YEAR’S EVE 2007/08 People around the world are you looking for a heavyweight musical tip for NYE? Freddy says set your sights on Shed 6 in Wellington.
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Cinephilia: Opening This Week
- The Wellingtonista
- Our annual opportunity to worship at the feet of Pixar arrives this week in the shape of Ratatouille (I'm a fan, can you tell?).
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Here comes summer
- Swimming Wellington
- Raumati’s ‘Here comes summer’ meet flyer - now on site. Check it out here.
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Pass mark for the park
- WellUrban
- Among the various items on the agenda of the recent Waterfront Development Subcommittee meeting was a review of Waitangi Park. There are five separate PDFs to download there, including a survey of park users and an interesting quantitative study of which sections of the park were being used and when, but the guts of the report is a large tabular Design Quality Audit.
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Bus woes
- The Wellingtonista
- I've avoided it as long as I can but I'm going to have to start laying into the Wellington buses. This will serve two purposes -- to gather a weight of evidence with which to construct a platform from which I can launch a series of more formal remonstrances; and possibly more importantly, to make me feel better. I have begun a journal of woe -- chronicling my problems and frustrations -- and you can join in too, if you want.
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Final Week of Play
- St Mary's Old Girls Netball Club (SMOG)
- Last Saturday was the last day of play for the 2007 season. Hopefully you’ve all had an enjoyable playing season. Teams didn’t fare so well in this last game but at least we all played! Check the Results and Draw page for full details.
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Gatfield national record highlight of final session
- Swimming Wellington
- The final session of the SW Short Course Championships delivered plenty, with tight racing plus national and Wellington records continuing to fall – most notably John Gatfield (17, Swim City Aquatics) setting a new national age group record in the 100m Breaststroke with a time of 54.65secs.
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The hunt for a missing masterpiece
- Wellington City Libraries
- To whet your interest - in this month's non-fiction recent picks you'll find: the incredible story of the theft of a great painting and the brilliant detective who gets it back; the tale of Samuel Plimsoll MP, "The Sailor's Friend", who worked with his wife Eliza to defend sailors against nefarious and unsafe practices at sea in nineteenth century Britain; a history of spies and subversion in New Zealand; a shocking look at the debt industry and how today's credit merchants are trying to get everyone into the credit game; the Middle East and US foreign policy; a manga version of the Bible - and much more.
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Following on from public meeting on 21 August
- Mt Cook mobilised
- Greetings My apologies for the delay in describing the public meeting held on 21 August – other commitment and computer problems have got in the way. A summary of the meeting and its outcomes will be posted by Wednesday 12 September. In the meantime here are two charts that indicate which themes the meeting participants [...]
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Following on from public meeting on 21 August
- Mt Cook mobilised
- Greetings My apologies for the delay in describing the public meeting held on 21 August – other commitment and computer problems have got in the way.
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NZ and SW records tumble during Session 7
- Swimming Wellington
- National and SW records continued to fall during session 7 of the SW Short Course Championships at Kilbirnie this morning.
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REVIEW/INTERVIEW: Good Laika
- Wellington Live Music
- On Thursday night, I was fortunate enough to attend the over-crowded, and inspiring show for Good Laika's debut album release (Heads I Win, Tails You Lose) at the Mighty Mighty.
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No Mercy For Mercer
- Zephyr Rovers FC
- Zephyr Rovers Manager Steve Hall said he is set to unleash Chopper McIntosh in the match tomorrow at the Shed of Dreams. "I think we can't afford to show Mercy to Mercer in this one as we need the points" said Hall "so I'll not only be expecting Chopper to get on the score sheet but also to get in a bit of enforcement action as well".
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Woodrow claims open 1500m Freestyle record
- Swimming Wellington
- Matt Woodrow (19, Swim City Aquatics) emphatically erased the SW open record with a commanding swim in the Mens 1500m during Session 6 of the SW Short Course Championships at the Wellington Regional Aquatic Centre tonight.
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More Mongrel
- Zephyr Rovers FC
- Zephyr Rovers Manager Steve Hall said he noted the defensive frailties of the Phoenix team whilst working our a tactical plan to beat Mercer on Monday. "They really showed me the importance of organisation and that the lack of it could lead to soft goals" said Hall "but I also liked the way Cleberson went over the top of his man at one point and I want to see a bit of this mongrel from George".
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