Karori related newsitems

• • Newsletter – Week Ending 30 November

    • 27 Nov 2025
    • Karori Anglican Churches
    • Contemplative Prayer Service Contemplative prayer – A ‘Listening to God Service’ that is open to all. This is an opportunity to pause in the middle of our busy lives, take […]
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• • Newsletter – Week Ending 23 november

    • 20 Nov 2025
    • Karori Anglican Churches
    • Karori Kaitiaki Working Bee 2-4pm, Sunday 23 November 2025 – End of Landsdowne Terrace Time for another working bee! This time we’ll be at Landsdowne Track on Wrights Hill. This […]
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• • George Rignold Fossette

    • 18 Nov 2025
    • Friends of Karori Cemetery
    • Kaitoke Drowning Tragedy George, aged 23 years of age and a carpenter, was on a camping party of twelve friends at Kaitoke over Christmas 1905. They had pitched their tents...
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    2025 Swimming Wellington Long Course Championships

    • 16 Nov 2025
    • Pirates Swim Team
    • 2025 Swimming Wellington Long Course Championships When: Friday 5 December – Sunday 7 December 2025 Where: Wellington Regional Aquatic Centre, 63 Kilbirnie Crescent Entries Open: Sunday 2 November 2025 Entries Close: Monday 1 December 2025 This meet is for swimmers aged 12 and over.
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• • Newsletter – Week Ending 16 november

    • 13 Nov 2025
    • Karori Anglican Churches
    • Feed my Lambs – Rongopai House This Christmas we will be once again supporting our friends in Kaitaia as they work with families in need in their local community. You […]
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• • Newsletter – Week Ending 9 november

    • 6 Nov 2025
    • Karori Anglican Churches
    • New Wine – Can you join us? Please let the office know when you register with New Wine so we can include you in the catering plans – There will […]
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    Weekly news: 3 November 2025

    • 3 Nov 2025
    • Wellington Scottish Athletics Club
    • This week Results J-Team wraps up the season at Karori Park The J-Team had their final pack run of the season at Karori Park, and what a way to finish! We had a great turnout (though we missed Abby, Lily, and Finn), and the afternoon was packed with fun: running games, Vortex throws, and a […] The post Weekly news: 3 November 2025 appeared first on Wellington Scottish Athletics Club.
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• • Newsletter – Week Ending 2 November

    • 30 Oct 2025
    • Karori Anglican Churches
    • Karori Food Bank The Karori foodbank are in need of the following items: Soap Toothpaste Dishwashing liquid Washing liquid If you want to contribute please either put your donated items […]
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• • Newsletter – Week Ending 26 October

    • 23 Oct 2025
    • Karori Anglican Churches
    • Trail Mixers – Saturday 25th – Invite your friends! We’ll be meeting at the Karori Park Pavillion at 8.45am for a 9am departure. Please be aware you will need to […]
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    First club night Wednesday 22nd October

    • 19 Oct 2025
    • Karori Amateur Athletics Club
    • Our first club night is Wednesday 22nd - 6pm at Ben Burn Park Everyone is welcome - returning members and those who...
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• • Newsletter – Week Ending 19 October

    • 15 Oct 2025
    • Karori Anglican Churches
    • Fish and Chips Night Fish and Chips night is back! Lock in Friday the 14th of November for a night of great conversations, an easy meal and fun for the […]
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• • Newsletter – Week Ending 12 October

    • 9 Oct 2025
    • Karori Anglican Churches
    • Dedication 12th October This Sunday at our 10:30 service there will be a dedication for Yadavan and Shalomi’s baby girl, Yashana. Please join us to celebrate this newest addition to […]
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• • Henry Beedle

    • 3 Oct 2025
    • Friends of Karori Cemetery
    • This plaque was uncovered by our Pōneke High Schools working bee group in July. Henry was born in Eltringham, Northamptonshire, England in 1879. He married Mary Bennett in 1904 and...
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• • George McNamara

    • 3 Oct 2025
    • Friends of Karori Cemetery
    • As part of our gardening trial project, we stashed a few daffodil bulbs at the foot of the McNamara plot. You could easily miss the diminutive headstone on this plot,...
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• • Thomas George Poutawera / Tamati Hore Poutawera

    • 3 Oct 2025
    • Friends of Karori Cemetery
    • Tamati, known as Thomas, was born in the Bay of Islands in 1861. He was a chief of Ngāpuhi and a cousin of Hone Heke (M.H.R). Thomas attended Te Aute...
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• • Archibald Fea

    • 3 Oct 2025
    • Friends of Karori Cemetery
    • Archibald Fea was born in Yorkshire, England on 15 June 1880. He was born to James Cape Fea and Jane Elizabeth Carter. James Fea at the time of Archibald’s birth...
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• • Ford plot

    • 3 Oct 2025
    • Friends of Karori Cemetery
    • Mr & Mrs Ford William Florington Ford was born in 1823 in Durham, England. He was a schoolmaster. He taught initially in Salford and then later in Manchester. He married...
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• • Young plot

    • 3 Oct 2025
    • Friends of Karori Cemetery
    • As part of our gardening project, we weeded and mulched around the roses in this plot. They are a lovely fluttery, open, pink flower. None of us can recall a...
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• • John McMenamen

    • 3 Oct 2025
    • Friends of Karori Cemetery
    • The night of Friday 12th February 1909 bore witness to New Zealand’s worst 19th century maritime disaster. The inter-island ferry SS Penguin struck, what was surmised to have been, Thom’s...
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• • Ellison Plot

    • 3 Oct 2025
    • Friends of Karori Cemetery
    • Thomas and Ethel Ellison were married at St Peter’s church in Wellington in 1899. Thomas, also known as Tom or Tamati Erihana (Ngāi Tahu and Te Āti Awa) was the...
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• • Ethel May Daldorf

    • 3 Oct 2025
    • Friends of Karori Cemetery
    • Ethel was born in 1886 in Auckland. Her parents were John and Elizabeth Graydon (born Jones). Ethel was the couple’s eldest daughter, and 1 of 11 siblings. John supported the...
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• • Mary Bell

    • 2 Oct 2025
    • Friends of Karori Cemetery
    • Mary Rowlands (Bell)By Glenn Rowlands, great, great grandson Mary is Buried in plot *Ch Eng/x/137 and was buried on the 27th April 1906. Mary Bell was born on the 17th...
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• • Green Plot

    • 2 Oct 2025
    • Friends of Karori Cemetery
    • Thomas Green We first pick up Thomas Green’s story in 1877, when he was working as a draper’s assistant at Messrs Sutter and Co. in Timaru. He then worked for...
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• • Herman Rudolph Louis Hirter

    • 2 Oct 2025
    • Friends of Karori Cemetery
    • Herman was born in 1872 in Ross, Westland. His father Rudolph Hirter who was born in Berne, Switzerland in 1827 and married Bertha Gutheil in Ross in 1866. She was...
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• • Herbert Lyne

    • 2 Oct 2025
    • Friends of Karori Cemetery
    • ‘On 24th May 1903, at the Wellington Hospital, Herbert Lune, aged 50. Regretted by all who knew him.’ Herbert was born in Newport, Wales in 1853. He married Mary Jane...
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• • Ernest Theodore Greville

    • 2 Oct 2025
    • Friends of Karori Cemetery
    • Ernest was born In Hokitika in 1869. 1892, Ernest was promoted from clerk to Government Audit Inspector. This role required him to travel around the country and meet many people....
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• • Charles Adolphus Deacon

    • 2 Oct 2025
    • Friends of Karori Cemetery
    • Both of Charles’ parents (Edgar and Sophia) were teachers in Kingston, Jamaica and were married there in 1840. His father shortly afterwards became a clergyman. The Rev Deacon was promoted...
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• • Dimond Plot

    • 2 Oct 2025
    • Friends of Karori Cemetery
    • While gardening in this plot in July, we found one of its missing railing posts and what appears to be the gate post to the plot. Unless there are better...
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• • Sarah Sophia Joshua

    • 2 Oct 2025
    • Friends of Karori Cemetery
    • Sarah Poor, known as Sophie, was born in 1852 in Portsea, Hampshire, England. Her parents were Samuel Henry and Sophia Poor (born Hibberd). The family lived with Samuel’s mother, Sarah...
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• • Southee Plot

    • 2 Oct 2025
    • Friends of Karori Cemetery
    • William Odden Southee was born in Kent in 1857. Two of his two siblings died young and when he was 8 years old, he became an orphan. William and his...
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