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Ngaio Community Picnic
- Ngaio Progressive Association
- Come down and join us at our open streets Community Picnic! This year, it’s about getting around in our community – finding the secret gems only known to those who walk, run or bike around our beautiful places. Choose your … Continue reading →
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The Tale of Rejected Tetrapaks
- Ngaio Progressive Association
- Before the March recycling day, I sent out messages saying that at the Ngaio Recycling Days, we are moving to only accepting tetrapaks which have been cut, opened flat and washed clean. Thank you to everyone who received the message … Continue reading →
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Notice from Kiwirail
- Ngaio Progressive Association
- This advice is from Kiwirail – we thought our members would be interested to know what is happening with the railway lines. You and your community may have noticed a recent increase in the noise made by trains on the … Continue reading →
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Ngaio Climate Crew
- Ngaio Progressive Association
- We have a huge dream to become the first carbon-neutral suburb in NZ, and we are wanting residents of Ngaio and Crofton Downs to come on board. By working together our actions, no matter how small, will make a difference. … Continue reading →
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Recycling Tetrapaks
- Ngaio Progressive Association
- We are moving towards only accepting tetrapaks which have been opened flat and rinsed. This is due to the state of some cartons that we have been receiving, opening them up makes rinsing so much easier, and this is what … Continue reading →
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Ngaio Community Picnic – 23 March 2025
- Ngaio Progressive Association
- The Ngaio Community Picnic is going to be held on 23 March 2025, from 12 until 3pm, at Huntleigh Park. This is an event that is co-organised with Ngaio Crofton Downs Residents Association, and Ngaio Playcenter. This year we will … Continue reading →
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Ngaio Recycling
- Ngaio Progressive Association
- This month we avoided sending to landfill: – 29kg of tetrapaks – 32kg of plastic lids – 21kg of metal lid – 12.5kg of batteries – 1.8kg Colgate packaging – 1.9kg of medecine blister packs – 3.7 kg of Nespresso … Continue reading →
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Ngaio recycling – blister packs
- Ngaio Progressive Association
- From this month (Saturday 1 February), we are going to run a trial to see what demand there is for recycling the blister packs used for packaging tablets. If you have blister packs at home waiting for a solution – … Continue reading →
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2nd Guided bike ride to Ngaio
- Ngaio Progressive Association
- The second guided bike ride is now open for bookings. Wellington City Council, Ngaio Going Carbon Neutral and Pedal Ready are teaming up to run social bike tours of the recent street changes in Ngaio and the surrounding area. Build … Continue reading →
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Recycling – Restarting on 1 February
- Ngaio Progressive Association
- Saturday 1 February will be our first recycling day of the year – 10am to noon at Ngaio Union Church, Crofton Road. Below is a refresher on the items that we collect, and a couple of requests to make the … Continue reading →
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Recycling Schedule for 2025
- Ngaio Progressive Association
- Each month this year at our recycling collections, we will also have a collection of other items that we will collect. We don’t collect these items each month to make management of the programme more simple, and make our drop … Continue reading →
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Ngaio guided bike rides
- Ngaio Progressive Association
- Wellington City Council, Ngaio Going Carbon Neutral and Pedal Ready are teaming up to run social bike tours of the recent street changes in Ngaio and the surrounding area. Build confidence and skills to travel safely and efficiently by paihikara … Continue reading →
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Recycling – resumes February.
- Ngaio Progressive Association
- A quick reminder to everyone who has the monthly recycling ingrained as a habit – that we miss out the first Saturday of January. Our next recycling day is Saturday 1 February 2025. Look out for a post soon, that … Continue reading →
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Chartwell Reserve Bioblitz
- Ngaio Progressive Association
- Entry is free, but you must register so the organisers know the numbers coming. Links to free tickets for the two events are below:
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Changes to Recycling
- Ngaio Progressive Association
- Kia ora to the fantastic recycling community of Ngaio and Crofton Downs, Thank you all so much for your mahi in recycling so much material over the last few years. We have been keeping a record of what has been … Continue reading →
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Assessing Aotearoa’s war on Nature
- Ngaio Progressive Association
- Assessing Aotearoa’s war on Nature, a talk by Professor Jonathan Boston Jonathan Boston is Prof Emeritus at the VUW school of governance. He was seconded to the Climate Commission for a time recently, and has researched managed retreat. He will … Continue reading →
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NCDRA Annual Photo Competition
- Ngaio Progressive Association
- It is time again for our annual photo competition. The categories for 2024 are: gardens, insects, and could do better – a very wide interpretation of each category will be accepted, and we will put them into one of the … Continue reading →
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Kiwirail Update
- Ngaio Progressive Association
- Kiwirail has advised of upcoming rail works in the Wadestown area, near the end of Leslie St and Hanover St, which might impact people who live nearby. The piling work we are doing involves drilling rock, so it will at … Continue reading →
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New Trails in Ngaio
- Ngaio Progressive Association
- Trails Wellington and Korimako Track Builders are proposing new mountain biking and walking trails above the Silverstream property development in the suburb of Crofton Downs. These are on the eastern side of the Te Wharangi Ridge, the Skyline Walkway. See … Continue reading →
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Wellington Airport flight path consultation
- Ngaio Progressive Association
- Wellington Airport is publicly consulting on potential flight path options for northerly jet departures from Wellington. The options are: This follows changes made to flight paths for jet aircraft departing Wellington to the north in December 2022. In general, these … Continue reading →
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The Great Ngaio Crofton Downs Residents Association, Pride in our Streets Cleanup
- Ngaio Progressive Association
- NCDRA is proud to be organizing the 2024 Pride in our Streets Clean Up, to be held in October, with support from Wellington City Council. Follow this link to adopt a street for cleaning – StreetCleanup By 20 October 2024, … Continue reading →
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Wasted with Kate – 3 September
- Ngaio Progressive Association
- We are holding a waste workshop by Wasted with Kate in conjunction with the Council’s Waste Minimisation team. Kate is a fantastic presenter and has run several of these in the past for the Council. Ngaio has been asked to … Continue reading →
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Thorndon Quay Works
- Ngaio Progressive Association
- This update about the construction in Thorndon Quay has come from Wellington City Council (abridged). The Thorndon Quay upgrade stretches from the Bunny St intersection to 87 Hutt Road (near Gun City). We’re working in sections so it will be … Continue reading →
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July Recycling at Ngaio Union Church
- Ngaio Progressive Association
- This Saturday is first of the month – so its recycling time again, from 10am to 12 noon at Ngaio Union Church. Good news – we can recycle shaving products again – all brands of disposable shavers, including blades and … Continue reading →
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