Newtown / March 2015
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Awesome season for junior interclub teams
- Wellington Tennis Club
- Congrats to all our junior interclub teams — every one of which featured towards the top of its division in the post-Christmas interclub competition.
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Thump Sports tennis tournament — juniors and adults
- Wellington Tennis Club
- With interclub just about over and you at the peak of your tennis powers, there is a great tournament during the school holidays at Mitchell Park in Lower Hutt — 9-12 April.
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March Meeting
- Newtown Residents' Association
- The next Residents’ Association Meeting is this Monday, 16th March, 7.
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Novice juniors showing good promise in interclub
- Wellington Tennis Club
- Well done to our boys’ Ace Kickers team (Novice 10u) and our girls’ Hot Shot Aces team (D1) who both lead their grades comfortably with a couple of weeks left in their season. Go Wellington! Girls D1 — Hot Shot Aces Boy’s Novice 10U — Ace Kickers
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Strong finish to end of premier 1 season
- Wellington Tennis Club
- Our top men’s and women’s teams both posted strong wins to end their season last weekend. Top effort! Men’s premier 1 beat Lower Hutt 5-1. Women’s premier 1 beat Tawa-Lyndhurst 6-0. Irrelevant fact of the week: Three of the four Tawa premier 1 players are named Olivia!
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Tawa, Wellington, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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Winter mid-week competition
- Wellington Tennis Club
- Wanting to get a team together for the winter mid-week tennis competition? Here’s all the info you’ll need: Info sheet Entry form Balls — special offer
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Celebrate Newtown
- Newtown Festival
- The Newtown Festival Fair Day has come and gone, but we continue to Celebrate Newtown – there are some great events ahead! See the sidebar, and click on the links.
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Newtown, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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Played your club champs matches yet?
- Wellington Tennis Club
- We’ve updated the club champs draws with the latest results (mainly Men Open Singles, Men’s Doubles and Mixed Doubles) so have a look and see who you are playing next. If you need your opponent’s contact details, Ben Leggett can help. Contact Ben at wtcclubchamps@nzgiftstation.co.nz
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And now, a list of all the stalls organised by site number.
- Newtown Festival
- Plan your visit to the fair tomorrow or look back at the stalls you liked.
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When the media advocate racism to hide the real culprits behind bad driving
- Jack Yan
- This op–ed in the Fairfax Press smacks of typical yellow peril journalism that has come to typify what passes for some media coverage of late.
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Titahi Bay, Porirua, Porirua City, Wellington, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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Who are the single season points and try scoring record holders?
- Wellington Club Weekly
- Above: Brandyn Laursen (left) and Mike Clamp (right) who we think hold the respective Wellington club rugby single season points and try scoring records.
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Worser Bay, Marine Parade, Seatoun, Wellington, 6022, New Zealand/Aotearoa (OpenStreetMap)
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Grab some gravel
- Greater Wellington Regional Council
- Take some hard fill for your home and garden projects this weekend - and help protect your community from flooding.
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- hutt-valley
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- newlands
- mount-victoria
- kelburn
- seatoun
- paraparaumu
- johnsonville
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- wairarapa
- lyall-bay
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Eastbourne, Lower Hutt, Lower Hutt City, Wellington, New Zealand/Aotearoa (OpenStreetMap)
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Found a Facebook bot? Facebook wants you to leave it as reporting option vanishes
- Jack Yan
- Facebook appears to be giving up on the bot fight.
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- tawa
- roseneath
- lyall-bay
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- cuba-street
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Eastbourne, Lower Hutt, Lower Hutt City, Wellington, New Zealand/Aotearoa (OpenStreetMap)
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Have a look at the map of the whole Fair!
- Newtown Festival
- This map will be displayed billboard size at the fair, but you can download it here and browse it at your leisure. Its quite a big file but that’s so you can have agood look at all the site numbers. Plan what to look at on Sunday, or review where you went after its all over!
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Farewell our two top players this weekend
- Wellington Tennis Club
- Come and watch our two top men’s players — Kiranpal Pannu and Dom Miller — play their last matches for the club before they head to university in the USA later in the year.
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Summer Interclub Round 2 Results
- Table Tennis Wellington
- Week 2 results are below: 2015-Summer-Interclub-4-March-results Premier 2015-Summer-Interclub-4-March-results Divisions FYI the draw schedules are here.
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Khandallah, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, 6035, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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Commuting by bicycle in Wellington
- Cycling in Wellington
- In the past few years the number of people I see on bikes riding from Newtown to town in the morning has literally quadrupled. Unfortunately, many of the people I see stopped at the lights are on seriously terrible bikes. I’m see rusty, too-big or too-small mountain bikes with brakes that barely work and people look unconfident and uncomfortable on their bikes. Riding the wrong bike can actually make cycling seriously not fun. Recently several of my colleagues have gotten bicycles with the intention of cycling to work. I have noticed that they too seem to have missed some items that to me are essential for bike commuting. Namely:
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Newtown, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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Watch out for Newtown Festival this Sunday
- Wellington Tennis Club
- If you’re heading to club day this Sunday through Newtown, watch out for Newtown Festival’s street fair, as heaps of streets in Newtown will be closed to traffic. Newtown Festival street fair
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Newtown, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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Report on the NRA Meeting 16th February 2015
- Newtown Residents' Association
- Notes … The Newtown Residents’ Association Subscription The NRA rules are that this is to be reviewed in February of each year, with the decision to take effect from July, when our financial year starts.
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Men’s Premier 1 scores big win
- Wellington Tennis Club
- Our top men’s team scored a big win on the weekend beating Maungaraki 6-0 in Premier 1.
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Online bookings at club computer all go again
- Wellington Tennis Club
- The online booking system on the club computer is back up and running again. If anyone is having issues with the booking system on their home computer, please read this.
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