Places / February 2008
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Fire burns scrub near pylon
- Stokes Valley Volunteer Fire Brigade
- Upper Hutt Leader - 27th February 2008. A Whiteman's Valley six-year-old was among those who raised the alarm over a fire in scrub beside a power pylon near the entrance to Stokes Valley.
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Stokes Valley, Lower Hutt, Wellington, New Zealand/Aotearoa
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ZL6QH Quartz Hill is off air
- ZL6QH Quartz Hill User Group
- The Quartz Hill station is now closed for major amateur radio activity while Meridian Energy Ltd is building a wind farm for electricity generation. Our antenna farm has been dismantled to make way for the civil works. Consequently the provision to make station bookings has also been suspended.
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Makara, Wellington
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Drinking in the streets
- The Wellingtonista
- The Masked Barfly has joined the problem drinkers in Cuba Mall. No, I haven't started quaffing meths or wrestling diners for their steaks (it's all a filthy lie): Good Luck have gone overground and now have an outdoor drinking area in the middle of the mall.
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Cuba Street, Te Aro, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, 6011, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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Wadestown Library to close for upgrading
- Wellington City Libraries
- Wadestown library will be closed from Wednesday 27 February to Saturday 1 March so new mobile shelving can be installed. The shelves will allow more space for library and community events.While the library is closed, users can return books through the after-hours slot.
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Wadestown, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, 6140, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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SH2 Roadworks - important information for cycling groups
- capitalcycling Yahoo group
- Hello to all, The Dowse to Petone Upgrade team are aware that there are roadworks happening this weekend that will have a direct impact on cyclists.
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Petone, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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Sanctuary showdown: intruder apprehended
- Karori Sanctuary Trust
- Members of the public helped conservation staff in a dramatic showdown this afternoon at Wellington’s groundbreaking Karori Sanctuary, when the unidentified mustelid that has had Sanctuary staff on the run since last week was captured.
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Follow Up: Athfield at Kumutomo
- Eye of the Fish
- Having finally made my way down to the Waterfront Information Center, I was able to take more of a broad look at the Athfield Kumutomo wins. The pictures and write-up shown in the Dom really don’t give a full idea of the scheme, so here is something of a brief second look at the project. Apologies for the poor picture quality, need to start getting us those press releases.
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Sanctuary on red alert following bio-security breach
- Karori Sanctuary Trust
- The hunt is on for an unidentified intruder at Wellington’s groundbreaking Karori Sanctuary after evidence of either a stoat or weasel was found at the conservation safe haven.
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Keepers wanted
- Brooklyn Northern United AFC
- BNU’s First Team urgently needs a goal keeper for the 2008 season which starts with the Hilton-Petone tournament on 20 February.
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They’re big, they’re scary, and they’re coming to a sanctuary near YOU!
- Karori Sanctuary Trust
- On Sunday 17 February, up to 100 Cook Strait giant weta (Deinacrida rugosa) from Matiu/Somes Island are being released into the wild at Karori Sanctuary. This is the second in a series of four planned releases at the world-first wildlife sanctuary, which hopes to establish mainland New Zealand’s first viable population of the species since they became extinct here over a century ago.
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Oriental Rooflines
- Eye of the Fish
- Architecture + (plus what, one may ask, to complete the equation), have been one of the busiest architects in the city of late, barring Athfields and Archaus of course. They have recently unveiled the Republic 2 apartments, close on the tail of the Republic (1), which itself followed quickly behind the Monument, which followed the Piermont, and that followed the Portal. Someone’s been spending long hours at work!
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Oriental Bay, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, 6011, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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February Main Meeting - Thursday 28 February 2008 - Fox Hunt!
- Wellington VHF Group
- You are invited to the Wellington VHF Group Fox Hunt 2008. As we have for the last few years, the February meeting is a "Fox Hunt", to celebrate and take advantage of Summer and Daylight Saving. (Fox Hunting, also known as hidden transmitter hunting, allows Amateurs to practise ARDF (Amateur Radio Direction Finding) techniques to attempt to locate hidden transmitters.)
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Tawa, Wellington, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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Petone Fair today!
- The Wellingtonista
- Be there to score some great food and rides and crowds and good times and bargains at a truly cool, old skool fair. Jackson St, Petone. Today. Um, that is all.
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Petone, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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Flight of the Conchords live at Arovideo - Wednesday 13th February
- The Wellingtonista
- This just in from those fine folk at Arovideo: It is our pleasure (and absolute thrill) to announce that Arovideo will be playing host to the hottest act in New Zealand (and possibly the world) right now, "Flight of the Conchords". In support of the local release of their widely-acclaimed HBO TV show on DVD, Bret and Jemaine will be performing a short set live in store from 10am, Wednesday the 13th of February, at 97 Aro Street in Wellington.
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Aro Valley, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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Two Steps Forward; One Back?
- Eye of the Fish
- Just a few days after a clean sweep at Kumotomo, the Athfield-designed proposal for the Overseas Terminal has suffered a setback when an officer’s report recommended that the project be declined.
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New Solace
- Eye of the Fish
- For those interested: a sneak peak of the new sculpture that will soon be installed at the Chaffers Marina end of the Te Papa promenade.
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- waterfront
- te-papa
Te Papa, 55, Cable Street, Te Aro, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, 6011, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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Defaults and Ground Transfers 10 February 2008
- Cricket Wellington
- We have the following defaults and ground transfers for Sunday 10 February Dominion/Post Premier: Karori v Upper Valley now at Karori 2 Super 8s Section One: Collegians default to Stokes Valley Hutt Valley 1A: Petone-Riverside B v Wainui Stormers now at Richard Prous
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Stokes Valley, Lower Hutt, Lower Hutt City, Wellington, 5019, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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Light Rail Redux
- Eye of the Fish
- In my last post, I expressed concerns with the light-rail proposal as detailed in the Ngauranga-to-Airport (N2A) strategic study. Implicit in my statement at the end of the post that “I have a hard time getting behind this light rail proposal at this point in time” is the fact that a different time or a different proposal could indeed change my mind.
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The Swill in Feb!
- Six O'clock Swill
- February sees the Swill join in the Fringe 08 action and we take two of Neil LaBute's plays from his Autobahn collection for a spin.
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Wow Indeed
- Eye of the Fish
- Athfield Architects have scooped the waterfront prize-pool, with a clean sweep win of all the sites covered in the Kumutoto North competition. Well done indeed to Ath and his merry band of cliffside dwellers. Wellington Waterfront also deservers kudos for having running a competition in the first place, and for sneaking out the press release a mere 5 months after the competition was held.
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New Director of Football Announced
- Stop Out Sports Club
- Simon Harrold joins as our Director of Football, he will coach the Stop Out Free Heat 2008 Central League team, and importantly drive the activity of our Seaview Recycling Stop Out Football College.Simon played youth football for Blackpool Football Club, at the age of 19 moved to Semi-Pro Football. He played semi-pro for 8 years, firstly for Hednesford Town in what was then known as the Vauxhall L
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