PENGUINS GIVEN THE BIRDBack on March 1, 2010 I ran a story with the title ‘Te Kopahou (Red Rocks) Reserve - Experts take on Penguins’ about the battle that was then raging in the Environment Court here in Wellington about an application by the Wellington City Council to rezone for residential use some land at the entrance to the Nature Reserve.
Just to follow on a little from my previous story about the Te Kopahou (Red Rocks) Reserve and the alleged treasonous behaviour of the voting public in Southern Ward in wanting to preserve its integrity.
At the Strategy and Planning Committee meeting that I attended a couple of weeks back, senior Councillor Andy Foster (who is a sort of Pinocchio look-alike Muppet) laid it on heavily that the community owed the Council for the $750,000 that it had spent in purchasing the obsolescent Owhiro Bay Quarry for the Reserve.
The aristocratic Mitford sisters were writers and socialites, biographers and essayists. Jessica, who wrote Hons and Rebels and The American Way of Death, was a communist and human rights activist. […]
Five girls, have spent the past five years living together in a boarding school. As they approach their final weeks together, buried secrets begin to surface, testing their relationships and understanding of each other.
Part time spy/super model, Pogolo Vaunslaught is trying to hunt down the Lizardmen who secretly rule the world, mainly through the power of their hips. After 11 years, he finally has a lead but no idea what he's in for.
When new neighbours Hannah and Barnaby arrive for dinner, it’s up to the family to make a strong first impression, get Noble a date for the prom, and round everything out with good old fashioned American family values.
