Places - April 2010

When is a shop not a shop?
- 28 Apr 2010
- The Wellingtonista
- Right now in Thorndon, Wellington's first Handmade Pop-Up Shop has arrived. It opened on the 13th of April and closes again on the 1st of May. Each day the shop features a different artist or crafter showcasing all their lovely creations.
- Tagged as:
- retail
- thorndon
- art

Board investigates innovative school designs
- 28 Apr 2010
- Amesbury Drive School Blog
- During March and April the Establishment Board invested time to visit schools in Auckland and Wellington to discuss what makes an excellent learning environment for teaching the new curriculum.
- Automatically tagged as:
- johnsonville

Information sought for Porirua Four Square robbery
- 27 Apr 2010
- Wellington District Police
- Porirua Police are investigating a robbery which occurred at the Elsdon Four Square Dairy, Awarua...
- Submitted by tonytw1
- Tagged as:
- porirua

VOTE VANISA, Volunteer of the Year 2010 – by 10 May
- 27 Apr 2010
- YWCA of Wellington & Hutt Valley
- Last weekend, Kilbirnie resident Vanisa Dhiru was voted in as the youngest president of the YWCA for the Wellington region.
- Submitted by tonytw1
- Tagged as:
- kilbirnie

Dale Lang selected for Trans-Tasman Test Series
- 27 Apr 2010
- Tawa Bowling Club
- Tawa bowler Dale Lang has been selected in the New Zealand team to play Australia in Bundaberg from May 11–14 2010. For full details see Bowls NZ. Dale is also nominated for the Commonwealth Games in Delhi from October 3–14. Well done Dale – the best of luck from all Tawa members. read more
- Submitted by tonytw1
- Automatically tagged as:
- bowling
- tawa

Marriage Enrichment Course
- 27 Apr 2010
- Johnsonville Salvation Army
- If you are thinking about attending the July course, don’t wait! Book now. Spaces are limited and are filling up fast!
- Submitted by tonytw1
- Automatically tagged as:
- religious-groups
- johnsonville

A Very Special Anzac Day Mass
- 26 Apr 2010
- St Patricks College, Silverstream
- Sunday 25 April 2010: It was a special Remembrance Mass this Anzac Day in honour of the forty-six Old Boys who gave their lives for the freedom of this country.
- Automatically tagged as:
- catholic
- secondary
- hutt-valley

Wellington is united: tunnels, not flyovers
- 25 Apr 2010
- Save the Basin Reserve!
- We were recently alerted to the following press release from the Wellington Chamber of Commerce by the hard-working Lindsay Shelton at wellington.
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- basin-reserve-flyover

Petone Chicago 0 v BNU Pilsner 0 - 25 April 2010
- 25 Apr 2010
- Brooklyn Northern United AFC
- Firing blanks Pilsner came away with a well-deserved point, despite firing blanks at the Chicago gangsters, in a tough Petone dust up.
- Automatically tagged as:
- brooklyn
- soccer

NEW NAME, CONSTITUTION AND PRESIDENT announced on YWCA Day
- 24 Apr 2010
- YWCA of Wellington & Hutt Valley
- On YWCA day, 24 April 2010, our membership voted at the Annual General Meeting to have: A legal name change: YWCA of Greater Wellington (remit 1, altered) A new constitution (remit 3, tabled at the AGM) A new President, Vanisa Dhiru For those that could not join us, view our 2009 YWCA Annual Report (pdf) tabled at the meeting held at Te Ranga Marae in Island Bay.
- Submitted by tonytw1
- Tagged as:
- island-bay

BNU 3rds v Island Bay Massey - 24 April 2010
- 24 Apr 2010
- Brooklyn Northern United AFC
- BNU 2-2 Island Bay (HT 1-2) BNU Bouncebackability Football ‘Management Consultant’ Iain Dowie hasn’t had the most successful of managerial careers having had a hand in the relegations of 4 clubs in the last 5 years; however he did manage to make up a great word whilst at Crystal Palace to describe the ability to bounce back.
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- island-bay

McBain Shield clash top billing in fourth round
- 22 Apr 2010
- Wellington Club Weekly
- One of the Hutt Valley's keenest sporting rivalries resumes this weekend when Petone and H...
- Tagged as:
- hutt-valley

Wellington Coast Expressway Progress
- 22 Apr 2010
- Auckland Trains
- The big expressway project around the coast of Wellington took another step today with the major local council “buying in.” Kapiti Coast District Council today adopted a set of objectives for membership of the Sandhills Expressway Alliance that is being established by NZTA.
- Submitted by tonytw1
- Tagged as:
- kapiti
- wellington-northern-corridor

North Wellington v BNU – 17th April 2010
- 22 Apr 2010
- Brooklyn Northern United AFC
- The North Wellington team we faced were surprisingly different from the team we got relegated with last season…so no Rusty, Spotty & Meatloaf...apparently they swapped with their Capital 6 team to give youth a chance further up the leagues – thankfully we don’t follow a similar ageist policy here at Brooklyn!
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- match-reports

Open Day 2010
- 22 Apr 2010
- St Patricks College, Silverstream
- Thursday 22 April 2010: Over 400 parents and boys attended this year's Open Day.
- Tagged as:
- hutt-valley
- secondary

BNU Masters 3 v Seatoun A - 10/3/2010 at Happy Valley 1
- 21 Apr 2010
- Brooklyn Northern United AFC
- BNU Masters 3 v Seatoun A, 10/3/10 at Happy Valley 1 3-3 (HT 2-2)The clanging sound this week was not from a penalty bouncing off the crossbar but the sound of iron gates closing in vain behind us as we got out of jail.
- Tagged as:
- seatoun
- brooklyn
- match-reports

Anzac Day April 25
- 21 Apr 2010
- Wellington Runners & Walkers (WRW)
- Hi Everyone ANZAC DAY and yes we are meeting as usual. Bill buxton has checked and the Kilbirnie Aquatic Centre will be open. The obvious destination for the packs will be the Ataturk Memorial, but it will be a case of checking out what other gatherings will be held there.
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- kilbirnie

BNU Masters 3 v Seatoun A - 10 April 2010 at Happy Valley 1
- 21 Apr 2010
- Brooklyn Northern United AFC
- BNU Masters 3 v Seatoun A, 10/3/10 at Happy Valley 1 3-3 (HT 2-2)The clanging sound this week was not from a penalty bouncing off the crossbar but the sound of iron gates closing in vain behind us as we got out of jail.
- Tagged as:
- seatoun

CVL study waste of money
- 21 Apr 2010
- Hutt Chick
- Why is the Mayor suggesting we waste $50,000 of ratepayers money on consultants to “investigate” the Cross Valley Link (CVL)? According to the Hutt News, Hutt City Mayor David Ogden wants the government to fund the CVL, and the city council has put aside $50,000 for consultants.
- Automatically tagged as:
- blogs
- election-candiates-2010
- hutt-valley

Red Shield Appeal
- 19 Apr 2010
- Johnsonville Salvation Army
- Red Shield Appeal will be running 3 - 8 May. If you are available to collect for an hour then please contact Christine in the office.
- Submitted by tonytw1
- Tagged as:
- appeals

25 April (This Sunday) - No 10:00am Service
- 19 Apr 2010
- Johnsonville Salvation Army
- No service at SAJ, but please march with us in the Johnsonville Anzac Parade and then join everybody at the service held outside the RSA. Meet 9:30am at Burgess Road.
- Submitted by tonytw1
- Automatically tagged as:
- religious-groups
- johnsonville

Council’s ’strategic priorities’ threaten to close suburban libraries in Wadestown, Brooklyn, Island Bay and Khandallah
- 18 Apr 2010
- Wellington Scoop
- in the Wellington City Council’s draft annual plan for 2010/11 there is a major threat to our current library system – with potential for Wadestown, Brooklyn, Island Bay and Khandallah to lose their libraries.
- Tagged as:
- wadestown
- khandallah
- island-bay
- brooklyn
- wellington-city-council
- consultation
- libraries

Kapiti Medals!!
- 17 Apr 2010
- Kapiti Cycling Club
- Kapiti dominated the Wellington centre road championships with all five club members that competed winning medals.
- Submitted by tonytw1
- Tagged as:
- cycling

Waterfront Plan: Wellington Just Does It
- 16 Apr 2010
- Auckland Trains
- While we talk about a tent on Queens Wharf while we still work out what to do long-term , Wellington just gets on with a long – term vision of its waterfront.
- Submitted by tonytw1
- Tagged as:
- waterfront

Runabout with a flat battery
- 16 Apr 2010
- Coastguard Mana
- Operation Details Date/Time: Sat, 17/04/2010 - 12:50 - 14:20 Operation Type: CG Operation (good samaritan) People Assisted: 3 Radio call CH 16 to CGM advising of battery failure.
- Automatically tagged as:
- boating
- emergency-services
- kapiti

Yacht aground with no propeller
- 16 Apr 2010
- Coastguard Mana
- Operation Details Date/Time: Sat, 17/04/2010 - 15:00 - 16:00 Operation Type: CG Operation (good samaritan) People Assisted: 4 Vessel had shaft problem, prop slipped off the spline.
- Automatically tagged as:
- boating
- emergency-services
- kapiti

RPNYC takes plans to Wellington City Council
- 15 Apr 2010
- Royal Port Nicholson Yacht Club (Inc)
- After nine months of planning and discussions Royal Port Nicholson Yacht Club took the first steps in the Clyde Quay Boat Harbour Restoration Project by making a deputation to the Strategy and Policy committee of the Wellington City Council this week.
- Submitted by tonytw1
- Tagged as:
- waterfront
- wellington-city-council

Sydney’s Oakhill College Visits
- 15 Apr 2010
- St Patricks College, Silverstream
- Thursday 15 April 2010: Stream hosted Sydney's Oakhill College today for games between the schools' First and Second XV Rugby teams.
- Automatically tagged as:
- catholic
- secondary
- hutt-valley

BNU Pilsner v Wainui Undertakers - 3rd April 2010
- 14 Apr 2010
- Brooklyn Northern United AFC
- Pilsner 1 - Wainui 4 Dead and buried by half time A tough introduction to Grade 6 for the boys from last year's BNU16 team - the ones who actually made it to the game that is.
- Tagged as:
- match-reports
- soccer

BNU 3rds v Upper Hutt City - 10 April 2010
- 14 Apr 2010
- Brooklyn Northern United AFC
- BNU 3rds 2 – Upper Hutt City 4 (HT 0-2) Heroes to Zero’s Buoyed by the great win last week, there was perhaps more than a touch of over confidence approaching the Upper Hutt game, who themselves were coming off a 5-0 defeat the previous week.
- Tagged as:
- soccer
- match-reports

BNU Pretenders v Wainuiomata - 11 April 2010
- 14 Apr 2010
- Brooklyn Northern United AFC
- BNU PRETENDERS 0 – WAINUIOMATA 5 (Sun 11 April) The joy of winning ‘slides’ away… URGH…! Not a lot more to say about this game – apparently we didn’t do toooooo much wrong (except let five goals in the back of the net I suppose!).
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- wainuiomata

BNU Pretenders v Wellington Utd - 4 April 2010
- 14 Apr 2010
- Brooklyn Northern United AFC
- WELLINGTON UTD 0 – BNU PRETENDERS 3 (Sun 4 April) Once, twice, three times a Jonesy… :-) The first game of the season opened up (as did the heavens) on the 4th April with a soggy away game just up the road against Wellington United.
- Automatically tagged as:
- brooklyn
- soccer

Saturday training with two vessels
- 13 Apr 2010
- Coastguard Mana
- Date: Sat, 10/04/2010 Both boats at sea during Plimmerton fishing competition. Close quarter work between both vessels, helm practice and high speed work. Also carried out radio checks around region. Turnout: 8 people
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- boating
- emergency-services
- kapiti

Tuesday night training
- 13 Apr 2010
- Coastguard Mana
- Date: Tue, 13/04/2010 Search patterns module delivered and practical close quarter work in heavy wind on pelorus with two crews Turnout: 12 people
- Automatically tagged as:
- boating
- emergency-services
- kapiti

Tuesday night training
- 13 Apr 2010
- Coastguard Mana
- Date: Tue, 30/03/2010 Delivered the man over board (MOB) theory module then ran a practical exercise pulling a diver out of the water. Ran exercise on both vessels. Turnout: 11 people
- Automatically tagged as:
- boating
- emergency-services
- kapiti

Tuesday night training
- 13 Apr 2010
- Coastguard Mana
- Date: Tue, 06/04/2010 Ran SAREX exercise with simulated missing person in the water of Mana Island. SAR team designed search pattern and ran exercise directing pelorus through search. Turnout: 11 people
- Automatically tagged as:
- boating
- emergency-services
- kapiti

Social 22nd May
- 13 Apr 2010
- Stop Out Sports Club
- You may know him as CON - the Masters RED old-timer. You may know him as PETE - the 3rd team Super coach. But many don't know he's "SLOWHAND" on the guitar! On Saturday 22nd May, Peter Maurer and his rock band THE FRANTIX are playing at the club.
- Automatically tagged as:
- hutt-valley
- soccer

AREC Activity
- 12 Apr 2010
- Wellington VHF Group
- A bit of recent AREC/SAR activity: 1921hrs 28/3/2010 Standby - possible Karori urban area search for missing elderly person.
- Tagged as:
- karori

Karori National One-Day champions
- 12 Apr 2010
- Cricket Wellington
- Karori beat Otago's University Grange by 6 wickets on Sunday to win the 2010 Southern Trust National Cricket Club Championship title
- Tagged as:
- karori
- cricket

Councilors fail in their effort to save money on the $400,000 waterfront toilets
- 12 Apr 2010
- Wellington Scoop
- City councilors have failed to persuade the council-owned Wellington Waterfront company to save money by reducing the cost of new public toilets. In November, the councilors instructed the company to explore how to reduce the estimated $400,000 cost of new public toilets on the waterfront at Kumutoto.
- Tagged as:
- waterfront
- wellington-city-council

Johnsonville death not believed to be suspicious
- 12 Apr 2010
- Wellington District Police
- Police investigating the death of an 82 year old woman in Johnsonville believe there are no...
- Submitted by tonytw1
- Tagged as:
- johnsonville

Seriously ugly?
- 12 Apr 2010
- Eye of the Fish
- The Maranui is being slowly rebuilt, but the Lyall Bay saga goes on.
- Submitted by tonytw1
- Tagged as:
- lyall-bay

Waikanae Women’s Open day April 8th 2010
- 10 Apr 2010
- Waikanae Golf Club
- Thirty-one pairs, 15 pairs from 10 clubs other than Waikanae – fine weather and the course was in perfect condition.
- Automatically tagged as:
- golf
- waikanae

BNU 3rds v Wellington United Arms – 3rd April 2010
- 8 Apr 2010
- Brooklyn Northern United AFC
- 5-0 (HT 2-0) Easter Rabbit Out of the Hat Trick The new season brings with it quite a few changes for the third team having lost some big players through retirement and injury, as such the team that took to the typically windy Happy Valley pitch had a new but strangely familiar line up.
- Automatically tagged as:
- brooklyn
- soccer

Does the city really need to spend $100m for a heavy metal band?
- 8 Apr 2010
- Wellington Scoop
- What do you do if you own a waterfront events centre which has been reviled as looking like a Soviet ablution block? What do you do when almost all the reviews criticise its acoustics and sightlines? The last thing you’d do would be to consider making it bigger. Yet this is exactly what the owners of the building are talking about – “expanding the capacity” as “a possibility.”
- Tagged as:
- waterfront

Nanatech
- 8 Apr 2010
- Hutt Chick
- In this high-tech world, there is a new trend emerging in Lower Hutt. People from all walks of life are rediscovering a simpler time and simple pleasures like freshly baked bread, homemade preserves and freshly grown vegetables. As well as saving money, they are reducing their impact on the planet too.
- Submitted by tonytw1
- Tagged as:
- hutt-valley

Karori dominate day 1 of Southern Trust National Cricket Club Championships
- 7 Apr 2010
- Cricket Wellington
- Karori find themselves on top of the table after day 1 and a comfortable win over Mainstream Freyberg from CD
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- karori

BNU Masters 3 v Western Suburbs - 4/3/10
- 7 Apr 2010
- Brooklyn Northern United AFC
- BNU Masters 3 v Western Suburbs - 4/3/105-2 (HT 4-2) The squad has come through the off-season almost intact.
- Tagged as:
- match-reports

Foolish hand outs to businesses should stop
- 6 Apr 2010
- Hutt Chick
- The Hutt City council has a culture of throwing money at businesses to encourage them to develop in Lower Hutt.
- Submitted by tonytw1
- Tagged as:
- government
- hutt-valley

Haka Competition Echoes Around Quad
- 5 Apr 2010
- St Patricks College, Silverstream
- Thursday 1 April 2010: Haka echoed around the Ranks Quad this morning as Houses competed in the end of term Haka Competition.
- Automatically tagged as:
- catholic
- secondary
- hutt-valley

Senior Draw, April 10 & 11
- 5 Apr 2010
- Stop Out Sports Club
- Saturday 10thChamps Premier League:Naenae vs Freeheat Stop Out - - - Naenae 1, 2:30pmCapital 2: Tawa B vs Stop Out at Kura, 2:30pmCapital 9: Wgtn Utd Salmon vs Stop Out at MacAlister #2, 12:30pmCapital 11: Stop Out vs Uni Rangers at Hutt Park #2, 2:30pmMasters 2: Waterside Turtles vs Reds at Karori #3, 2:30pmMasters 4: Seatoun B vs Blacks at Seatoun, 12:30pmMasters 5: McCreadie vs Petone at Hutt Park #3, 2:30pmSunday 11thDivision 1: Stop Out vs Brooklyn at Hutt Park #1, 1:00pmDivision 4: Tawa vs Stop Out at Onepoto #2, 1:00pm
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- brooklyn
- seatoun
- karori
- tawa

Bonus point wins for Norths and Tawa in opening round
- 4 Apr 2010
- Wellington Club Weekly
- Neighbouring clubs Northern United and Tawa emerged as the two bonus point winners from an exciting opening weekend of 2...
- Tagged as:
- tawa

Crime scene investigation: Miramar
- 3 Apr 2010
- Wellington Scoop
- Tagged as:
- miramar
- retail

Peter Dunne opens Discovery Centre
- 1 Apr 2010
- Peter Dunn - MP for Ohariu
- Submitted by tonytw1
- Tagged as:
- johnsonville

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