Obituaries and Community Groups
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Remembering Hugo Rusbridge
- Cats Protection Wellington
- Hugo will be best-remembered by long-standing volunteers from recent years, as he would come in every week to spend hours combing and grooming the cats.
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William & Dorothy Rex
- Friends of Karori Cemetery
- William Rex – “another link in the chain of early colonists has been severed by the death of Mr William Rex” William’s obituary described him as being of a roving […]
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Karori Cemetery, Northland, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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June 2022 newsletter: AGM at new venue; Farewell to a founder
- Friends of Maara Roa
- Friends of Maara Roa (FMR): 22 years bringing biodiversity back to the Cannons Creek catchment Working bees are every fine Saturday; meet at 9.30 am in the carpark at the back of Porirua College. The nursery group meets every Thursday from 10 am to noon, in the grounds of Aotea College in Okowai Road. Website: ... Read more
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Maara Roa (Cannons Creek lakes towards Duck Creek pathway), Cannons Creek, Porirua, Porirua City, Wellington, 5025, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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Remembering Sylvia Jenkin
- Friends of Maara Roa
- Memorial service for Sylvia Jenkin on Saturday 4 June Many of you will already know the sad news that Sylvia Jenkin, a driving force behind the establishment and achievements of the Friends of Maara Roa, passed away on 18 May, at the age of 91. This is to remind all those with connections to and ... Read more
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Maara Roa (Cannons Creek lakes towards Duck Creek pathway), Cannons Creek, Porirua, Porirua City, Wellington, 5025, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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John ZL2TAU Silent Key
- Wellington VHF Group
- John ZL2TAU Silent Key ZL2WAL Mon, 11/29/2021 - 12:29 Sadly we hear that John ZL2TAU (Salvin John) passed away over the weekend.
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June Penhey passes away
- Pukerua Bay Residents Association
- Kua hinga te tōtara i Te Waonui-a-Tāne. The tōtara tree has fallen in Tāne’s great forest. With sorrow and with heartfelt gratitude, we mourn the passing of our beloved June. June was acknowledged for her service to our community last year, when she was granted the Freedom of Pukerua Bay and the previous year, with … June Penhey passes away Read More »
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Pukerua Bay, Porirua, Porirua City, Wellington, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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Memorial Minute for Rev Maurice Anderson Brown
- St John's in the City
- Maurice Brown was the tenth Minister of St.
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St John's, Willis Street, Te Aro, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, 6011, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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Dick Greenbank, ZL2TGQ. 1943-08-21 to 2015-01-08
- Wellington VHF Group
- Dick was educated at Stratford Technical High School, Taranaki, then joined the Royal New Zealand Air Force at Blenheim as a Boy Entrant.
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Bill Toomath
- Architectural Centre Inc
- Bill Toomath passed away today. He will be hugely, sadly missed.
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Henry Russell Walden (1934-2013)
- Architectural Centre Inc
- Russell died last week. His funeral is tomorrow (Tues 30th, 3pm Old St Pauls). He was born in Timaru, studied architecture at the University of Auckland, and was awarded the first MArch in New Zealand in 1964 with his thesis: “New Zealand Anglican church architecture, 1814-1963″ – all nine volumes of it. Another first he achieved was gaining a New Zealand Post-Graduate Scholarship in Architecture. The next year he headed to Birmingham to PhD study and private practice, returning in 1978 as a Reader in Architectural History at VUW, having completed his PhD (1975) and edited the MIT Press publication: The Open Hand: Essays on Le Corbusier (1977), an early collection of essays on Le Corbusier in English. http://www.futunatrust.org.nz/wp-content/header-images/windows.jpg Russell is renowned for his passionate relationship to Futuna Chapel – the subject of his Voices of Silence (1987) – as bicultural architecture.
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Futuna Chapel, Futuna Close, Karori, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, 6012, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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Silent Key: Jamie Pye ZL2NN
- Wellington VHF Group
- Today I was made aware that Jamie Pye ZL2NN, a friend and acquaintance through Amateur Radio and someone who I of recent years had a wee bit to do with in respects to his role as the Webmaster for NZART, has become a silent key.
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Roger Hay
- Architectural Centre Inc
- Roger Hay, Architect, long time Arch Centre member, recent Fellow of the NZIA, tireless battler for the rights of the disabled and a scourge of incompetent officialdom everywhere, has died aged 76. Roger will be missed by many for his tireless championing of the rights of the disabled and for his work on revising the [...]
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