Places / December 2015
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Drones on the escarpment
- Nga Uruora - Kapiti Project
- Recently we had an experimental drone flyover of part of the escarpment.
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Open Nationals underway in Christchurch
- Tawa Bowling Club
- The annual Bowls NZ Open Nationals gets underway today with 288 men competing in singles qualifying.
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The Dan Bolton Quartet at Kapiti Playhouse
- Kapiti Playhouse Inc
- Dan Bolton is a New York-based Australian jazz pianist who is touring Australia and New Zealand in early 2016 and wants to include Kapiti, where he lived for a time, in his itinerary.
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Karori score crucial win over Hutt and make Pearce Cup move
- Cricket Wellington
- Karori took a step closer to qualifying for the Pearce Cup in week 10 as they scored what could prove to be a valuable victory over Hutt District.
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Strathmore Park Crash like an explosion
- Peninsula News
- An eighteen year-old Lower Hutt male is dead after driving into a tree on Monorgan Road late Sunday. A witness to a crash that killed a Lower Hutt teenager has described the impact as like an “explosion”. An 18-year-old boy... Read More ›
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Strathmore Park, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, 6242, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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Festive terror from Miramar
- Wellington Scoop
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Man dies after diving in Lyall Bay
- Peninsula News
- A diver has been prounounced dead after being found off the south coast of Wellington. Police recieved a call about a missing diver around Lyall Bay at about 4.45pm on Sunday. At 5.23pm the diver was found, unresponsive, in the... Read More ›
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Man dies after crashing car in Strathmore
- Peninsula News
- A man has died after crashing his car into a tree in Monorgan Road last night. The Dominion Post reports: A man has died after the car he was driving hit a tree. On Sunday about 11pm, emergency services were... Read More ›
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Strathmore Park, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, 6242, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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Victoria’s new degree to fill gap across multiple industries
- Victoria University of Wellington
- The first group of students from Victoria University of Wellington has successfully completed the country’s only university course in actuarial science.
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Rhodes scholars are leaders for the world’s future
- Victoria University of Wellington
- Victoria University of Wellington Chemistry student Kimberley Savill has been awarded a Rhodes scholarship to carry out post graduate study at the prestigious University of Oxford in the United Kingdom.
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Collection of poetic biographies wins the Biggs Family Prize
- Victoria University of Wellington
- A collection of five poetic biographies of famous and lesser-known historical New Zealand women has been awarded the 2015 Biggs Family Prize for Poetry.
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First Ruapehu Writers Festival on sale
- Victoria University of Wellington
- Tickets are available for the first Ruapehu Writers Festival, to be held at Ōhakune from 17-20 March 2016.
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Victoria University's Confucius Institute recognised as one of the best in the world
- Victoria University of Wellington
- Chinese Vice Premier Madame Liu Yandong has awarded the Confucius Institute at Victoria University of Wellington (CI VUW) the accolade of 'Outstanding Confucius Institute' of 2015.
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Australian government grant to study the impact of digital technology
- Victoria University of Wellington
- A Victoria University of Wellington researcher has won a prestigious grant from the Australian government to study the impact of digital technology on relationships between organisations and their customers.
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Graduation address by Peter Biggs
- Victoria University of Wellington
- This following is the graduation address given by Peter Biggs given to Victoria graduands, friends and family at Civic Square in December 2015.
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Singing and student wellbeing researched
- Victoria University of Wellington
- A research project by Victoria University of Wellington’s Te Kōkī New Zealand School of Music (NZSM) has been selected by the government’s Teaching and Learning Research Initiative as one of six projects to fund in its 2015 round.
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Save The Basin’s Meeting With The Ngauranga to Airport Governance Group
- Save the Basin Reserve!
- Last week, the Ngauranga to Airport Governance Group met with a number of the groups who had been closely involved in the Basin Reserve flyover hearings – including Save the Basin.
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Tawa College successfully defends NZCT title
- Cricket Wellington
- In a great week for Wellington school cricket, Tawa College retained the title of NZCT Secondary School Girls Champions with an impressive unbeaten run of five from five, while Amelia Kerr (Tawa College) was named Player of the Tournament for the second year in a row.
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Wellington Under 17 team is named to attend the 2015/2016 National Tournament
- Cricket Wellington
- The Wellington Under 17 team to attend the National Under 17 Tournament to be held in Lincoln from January 13th to the 21st is as follows: Rachin Ravindra (HIBS) (Captain) Zac Aldridge (St Pats Town) Niko Brooky (Wellington College) Jakob Bhula (Wellington College) Tim Campbell (Wellington College) Luke Georgeson (St Pats Town) Nick Greenwood (Wellington College) Hamish Johns (St Pats Town) Chris Leitch (Onslow) Callum McLauchlin (St Pats Silverstream) Nick Pile (Onslow College) Gareth Severin (Wellington College) Hayden Smith (Newlands College) Five players return from last year’s team while Captain Rachin Ravindra will be attending his third Under 17 tournament. Ravindra was last week named player of the tournament during HIBS outstanding win at the National Secondary School 1xt XI finals. Nick Pile is another returning player who has been in outstanding form this season. Both Nick and Rachin will also be representing Wellington at the Under 19 Nationals this week.
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Year 8 Zone Tournament A Success
- Cricket Wellington
- Once again the Year 8 Zone tournament was played at Fraser Park and Kilbirnie Park on Sundays from the 8th of November to the 13th of December.
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Pak n’Save Kilbirnie Alcohol License under pressure
- Peninsula News
- At a hearing yesterday the liquor license for Pak n’Save Kilbirnie came under some pressure with opponents suggesting that the supermarket take some responsibility for alcohol related harm in the area and that no alcohol be sold after 10pm. Do... Read More ›
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2016 Production Schedule Announced
- Kapiti Playhouse Inc
- It’s the end of another year and we’ve brought you three great shows that we hope you thoroughly enjoyed! We are now looking forward to 2016 and are very pleased to be able to announce the 2016 Production Schedule.
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Nonu wins supreme accolade; Stokes Valley pair volunteer award
- Wellington Club Weekly
- Ma’a Nonu (Oriental-Rongotai) has won the Kelvin R Tremain Player of the Year award at tonight’s 2015 New Zealand Rugby Awards.
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Sisters are doing it for themselves
- Victoria University of Wellington
- What started as a blog to share ideas with fellow young academics turned into much more for three of Victoria University of Wellington’s latest graduates.
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New grocery store in Lyall Bay
- Peninsula News
- Two Wellington men with a flair for food have opened a gourmet grocery store on Wellington’s south coast. Pete van Schaardenburg and Roger Archibald opened the doors to World Market on Wednesday at Wellington International Airport’s shopping centre in Lyall Bay.... Read More ›
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Award winning Victoria designed app
- Victoria University of Wellington
- A Māori language learning app, released by Victoria University of Wellington’s Te Kura Māori, based in the Faculty of Education, has won the tertiary sector award at Ngā Tohu Reo Māori 2015 (Māori Language Awards).
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Global and local writing showcased in Turbine
- Victoria University of Wellington
- New work from emerging and established writers, including the latest graduates of Victoria University of Wellington’s International Institute of Modern Letters (IIML), features in online literary magazine Turbine.
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Regional council decides on Hutt CBD flood protection scheme
- Greater Wellington Regional Council
- Greater Wellington Regional Council has decided that Option A is the preferred approach to providing flood protection in the stretch of the Hutt River between Ewen Bridge and Kennedy-Good Bridge, accepting the Hutt Valley Flood Management Sub-committee’s recommendation on the options.
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Memoir of music’s outlaw heroes wins Adam Prize
- Victoria University of Wellington
- A coming of age music memoir about the 1970s and the outlaw heroes of the Wellington and New Zealand rock scene has been awarded the 2015 Adam Foundation Prize in Creative Writing at Victoria University of Wellington.
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REBLOG Croaking Cassandra: Further thoughts on the airport Part 1
- Guardians of the Bays
- Shortly after the release of the cost-benefit analysis of the proposed Wellington airport runway extension, prepared by Sapere for Wellington International Airport Limited (WIAL) I wrote a post in which I posed the question “If they build it, what if no one comes?” Since that post, I’ve been to one of the open day/public consultation meetings, have read and thought about the documents more thoroughly, and have read various pieces written by others, including the new one by Ian Harrison that I linked to yesterday. I have also had some engagement with Sapere and WIAL, which has helped to sharpen my sense of what the issues really are. The cost-benefit analysis is not a business case document. It has been prepared in support of a resource consent application. What I hadn’t known when I wrote earlier (and was advised of by Sapere) is that under the RMA the applicants will need to be able to demonstrate national benefits to get permission to fill in some more of Lyall Bay, to extend the runway. I’m sure that the cost-benefit analysis is not serving as a business case for Infratil, the major shareholder in WIAL. But since this project is generally accepted to be viable only if there is significant public funding, and any such funding can only be defended if there would be material net public benefits , the Sapere cost-benefit analysis is by default serving as something of a business case at present. If the numbers don’t stack up, neither the Wellington region councils nor central government should be putting any money into the project (beyond WIAL’s resources, and of course Wellington City Council is a 34 per cent shareholder in WIAL). In this post, I will offer a few thoughts on the plausibility of the assumed increase in international passenger traffic to/from New Zealand as a result of the extension. Extending the runway at Wellington airport could materially reduce the cost of some forms of international travel in and out of Wellington. If long-haul flights were offered, lower costs could result by reducing the time taken (eg. by eliminating the one hour flight to Auckland and the stopover time in Auckland, it might reduce the total time for a trip to Singapore (and onward points) by perhaps 2.5 hours). For those travelling anyway, those gains could be material – time has an opportunity cost. In addition, by allowing long-haul aircraft to fly into Wellington, the direct cost of international airfares in and out of Wellington could also be expected to fall – quite materially, if the numbers Sapere quotes are correct. Those gains apply not just to long haul routes themselves – a Wellington-Singapore direct fare should be materially cheaper than the current options via Auckland, Christchurch or Sydney – but also to trans-Tasman flights, as the longer runway would also facilitate used of wide-bodied aircraft on trans-Tasman routes (as for examples, the Emirates flights between Christchurch and Australia). Of course, simply building the runway extension does not bring about any of these savings. They depend on airlines finding it profitable to run additional services. And although international air travel has increased enormously to and from New Zealand in recent decades, provincial New Zealand is littered with the dreams of local authorities (airport owners) with aspirations to have an international airport. New Zealand has plenty of attractive places, but one main international airport. Wellington, of course, has a significant business market, and business travel is typically much more profitable for airlines than leisure travel. And unlike the predominantly leisure travel into Christchurch, the Wellington business travel probably isn’t very seasonal. So the idea the long haul flights into Wellington could be viable isn’t self-evidently absurd. But, on the other hand, the economic cost of making such flights technically feasible – lengthening the runway – is far higher than in many other places. At $1m a metre, it is considerably more costly than putting some asphalt on some more grassy fields in Christchurch. Wellington isn’t a natural place for a long-haul international airport. The WIAL proposal uses modelling by international consultants to estimate likely growth in traffic and passenger numbers with and without the extension. There are some questions about the baseline forecast, including for example around the potential future impact of climate change mitigation policies. But my main interest is the difference between these two – the increase in traffic that would result from the runway extension itself. It is hard to pick one’s way through all the numbers, but the bottom line appears to be that the cost-benefit analysis is done on the basis that by 2060 there will be an additional 400000 foreign international passengers per annum arriving in Wellington, and an additional 200000 New Zealand international departures per annum through Wellington[1]. Many of these are people who would otherwise have travelled via Auckland or Christchurch, so that the net gain in international travel numbers to New Zealand is around 200000, with an additional 100000 or so New Zealanders travelling abroad. Many of the gains are forecast to occur early in the period. Thus, by 2035, the analysis assumes an annual net gain to New Zealand of around 125000 international visitors (relative to the no-extension baseline). How plausible is this? The various reports highlight the phenomenon of “market stimulation” – putting on new air services tends to stimulate total passenger numbers. That shouldn’t be surprising. Not only do point-to-point services lower the cost of visiting a particular place, but marketing expenditure raises awareness of the destinations concerned. On the other hand, one can’t just take for granted that such market stimulation will render long haul flights into and out of Wellington viable. After all, there are plenty of cities around the world with few or no long haul flights. Closer to home, Rotorua is an attractive tourist destination and can’t sustain direct flights even to Sydney. What of Wellington? The modelling exercise involves lowering the cost of foreigners visiting Wellington – to some extent artificially, because the costs of providing the longer runway are not passed back in additional charges to those using long haul flights – but not the cost of them visiting New Zealand (since Auckland and Christchurch fares would stay largely unchanged). Any long-haul flights into Wellington will almost certainly be from cities that already have flights to Auckland (and possibly to Christchurch). Is it really plausible that an additional 200000 people per annum (or even 125000 by 2035) will visit New Zealand simply because they can fly direct to Wellington, or (in respect of trans-Tasman traffic) fly into Wellington more cheaply than previously? Perhaps I’m excessively negative on Wellington. I reckon it is a nice place for a weekend, but not a destination that many long haul leisure travellers would choose. What is there to do after the first two days? And there is little or nothing else in the rest of the bottom of the North Island. So it is plausible that lower fares resulting from additional competition would attract more weekend visitors from Australia. But no one is going to come for a weekend in Wellington all the way from China or Los Angeles. And since the principal attractions of New Zealand are either in the upper North Island or the South Island, how many more people are likely to come to New Zealand just because they can choose Wellington as the gateway for their New Zealand holiday? And what of New Zealanders travelling abroad? Since the costs of Wellingtonians (and others in the nearby areas) getting to desirable destinations abroad would be cheaper if there were direct flights from Wellington, it is credible that the total number of New Zealand overseas travellers would increase. In fact, whereas the modelling suggests twice as many new foreign visitors as new New Zealand international travellers (and in total there are twice as many international visitors to New Zealand as travelling New Zealanders), in this case I wonder if the putative new routes would not be more attractive to New Zealanders than to foreigners? One can illustrate the point with a deliberately absurd example: put on long haul international flights to Palmerston North, and they would be quite attractive to people in Manawatu (much easier/cheaper to get to desirable places like New York or London) but not very attractive at all to foreigners (for whom Manawatu has few attractions). But even if wide-bodied aircraft flights from Wellington did make overseas travel more attractive to New Zealanders, is the effect really large enough to be equivalent to one more trip every year for every 10 people in Wellington and its hinterland? And would the effect still be remotely that large if passengers (users) had to cover the cost of providing the longer runway (which should really be the default option)? Reasonable people can differ on these issues. In my discussions, a lot seems to turn on just how attractive people think Wellington is. I’m pretty sceptical that long haul tourists will ever come to New Zealand to see cities. Perhaps if one is thinking of visiting New Zealand cities, Wellington is more attractive than our other cities, but even if so Wellington still has the feel of being a logical gateway to nowhere much. It isn’t an obvious starting point for a “whole of New Zealand” trip, or a North Island one (given that most of the attractions are further north), or a South Island one. So I’m left (a) sceptical that the net addition to visitor numbers to New Zealand will be as large as the analysis assumes even if the users don’t bear the costs, and (b) suspecting that the boost to the demand for New Zealanders to travel abroad might be greater than the boost to the demand for foreigners to visit New Zealand. On that latter point, the experts point out that they assume that the new long haul services will be provided by foreign airlines, and that the evidence of recent new air services to New Zealand provided by foreign airlines is that they disproportionately boost the number of foreigners travelling. I have no reason to doubt the numbers, but I still wonder if the same result would apply to routes into Wellington. New flights into Auckland are often the first direct flights offered into New Zealand (as a whole) from that city or country. My impression is that “New Zealand” is the destination marketed to long haul passengers. But direct flights to/from Wellington do more to open up the world (more cheaply) to Wellingtonians than they do to open New Zealand to foreigners. And if so, would the foreign airlines be keen to offer the Wellington services at all? This post has been about the sort of increased passenger numbers that might be expected if the runway was extended. In some sense, that should be largely an issue for WIAL. If they can extend their capacity and attract sufficient users at a price that covers the cost of capital of WIAL and its shareholders, the rest of us might not care much (I’m not much bothered about environmental issues, although my family enjoys the waves at Lyall Bay beach). But the cost-benefit analysis being used to lure ratepayers and taxpayers into funding much of the proposed expansion suggests that there are very large economic benefits to New Zealand which cannot be captured directly by airlines or airports. I think they are wrong, and my next post will explain why. [1] From tables 5.11 and 5.12 in the InterVISTAS report.
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Overturned racing dinghy, Onepoto
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- Operation Details Date/Time: Sun, 06/12/2015 - 13:00 - 14:55 Operation Type: SAROP Cat 1 People Assisted: 2 Total Volunteer Hours: 5 A 4 metre racing dinghy with 4 POB overturned in the Onepoto arm of Porirua harbour, 2 of the crew made it to shore whilst 2 stayed on board. Police responded Westpac helicopter, Wellington Free Ambulance and Coastguard Mana to assist. Coastguard shore crew of 2 were liaising wih police on scene and 1 radiocoms person in our base at the mana cruising club Vessel Details Length: 4.00m Resources Attendees: Ben Ryan Weedoogie Steve_Rolston read more
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From frying pans to finishing exams
- Victoria University of Wellington
- Victoria University of Wellington graduand Stella Robertson-Hale had more to juggle than most students over the last few weeks of study for her Bachelor of Commerce degree—the 21-year-old was filming for the television cooking competition My Kitchen Rules New Zealand while also preparing for her final exams.
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Timely story of war wins David Carson-Parker Embassy Prize
- Victoria University of Wellington
- A gripping story of the effects of modern day warfare on both civilians and combatants has been awarded the 2015 David Carson-Parker Embassy Prize in Scriptwriting.
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Significant endowment for Victoria research institute
- Victoria University of Wellington
- Victoria University’s Institute for Governance and Policy Studies (IGPS) has received a generous $7 million endowment from the Gama Foundation to support its ongoing work leading thinking and debate around issues at the heart of the democratic process.
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Inspiring overseas visit
- Victoria University of Wellington
- Dr Carwyn Jones has returned to Victoria University of Wellington’s Faculty of Law inspired by the time he’s spent overseas learning about indigenous legal education.
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Victoria students end the year on a high note
- Victoria University of Wellington
- Nearly 1200 students will this week mark the end of 2015, and years of hard study, by graduating from Victoria University of Wellington.
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Craig and Murray Smith Rose Bowl Races 19 Sept 2015
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- Craig and Murray Smith Rose Bowl Races Saturday 19 September 2015 Under 14’s 2km race Nathaniel Graham 9:02 Alexander Prichard 9:04 Joshua Allan 9:30 Henry Mellor 10:00 Oscar Strickland 10:29 Jonathan Roberts 10:31 Rylee watt 10:55 Ashton Tietjens 11:14 Una Strickland 11:22 Gemma Gordon 11:28 Emalise Alding 11:40 David Gordon 12:52 Lily Trompetter 12:56 Katherine Jameson 13:34 Tyler Rollo 13:59 Craig Rose Bowl (Mens Race) – 5km Murray Smith Rose Bowl (Womens Race) – 5km Mat Rogers 16:52 Tim Johnson 17:47 Grant Pritchard 18:21 Phoebe McKnight 19:08 Jayden McKnight 19:08 Jayme Maxwell 19:50 Matthew Roberts 20:00 Julie Johnson 20:28 Bill Trompetter 20:37 Neil Sargisson 20:49 Graeme Burr 20:57 Donald Coley 21:54 Stu Mckenzie 22:16 Paul Strickland 22:54 Mel McKnight 23:10 Keryn Morgan 23:48 Keith Holmes 23:57 Gary Maxwell 24:34 Martyn Cherry 25:08 Vanessa Trompetter 25:17 Alex Noonan 27:26 Albert Van Veen 27:49 Craig Rose Bowl Teams race Team A Tim Johnson 17:47 Matthew Roberts 20:00 Neil Sargisson 20:49 Stu McKenzie 22:16 Martyn Cherry 25:08 Total: 1:46:00 Team B Grant Pritchard 18:21 Bill Trompetter 20:37 Graeme Burr 20:57 Gary Maxwell 24:34 Keith Holmes 23:57 Total: 1:48:26 Team C Mat Rogers 16:52 Jayden McKnight 19:08 Donald Coley 21:54 Paul Strickland 22:54 Albert van Veen 27:49 Total: 1:48:37 Murray Smith Rose Bowl Teams race Team A Jayme Maxwell 19:50 Julie Johnson 20:28 Vanessa Trompetter 25:17 Total: 1:05:35 Team B Phoebe McKnight 19:08 Mel McKnight 23:10 Keryn Morgan 23:48 Total: 1:06:06 Alex Noonan 27:26
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Award music to Victoria’s ears
- Victoria University of Wellington
- An album recorded at Victoria University of Wellington by a pianist with an Honorary Doctorate from Victoria, won a major accolade at the recent Vodafone New Zealand Music Awards.
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Lecture highlights New Zealand’s changing political landscape
- Victoria University of Wellington
- Six leading experts will come together at Victoria University of Wellington to discuss the impact immigration and emigration are having on electoral politics.
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Wellington Road Champs – 22 August 2015
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- Wellington Road Champs – 22 August 2015 Wellington Road Race Results 2015 (final results updated 24 August) Wellington Road Race TEAM Results 2015 (final results updated 24 August – all teams except senior men)z Wellington Road Race Senior Men’s TEAM Results (final results) HVH Results below Girls Under 9 – 1km Katharine Jameson 4:29 Boys Under 9 – 1km Jonathan Green 3:51 (2nd) Harrison Kowalczyk 4:09 Ashton Tietjens 4:12 Hunter Hughes 4:17 David Gordon 4:25 Bailey Rollo 4:46 Girls Under 11 – 2km Rylee Watt 7:46 (3rd) Emalise Alding 8:45 Charlotte Ross 8:57 Amy Murray 9:09 Boys Under 11 – 2km Nathaniel Graham 7:14 (2nd) Alexander Prichard 7:21 (3rd) Joshua Allen 7:27 Nick Drayton 7:31 Nicholas Green 7:40 Reegan Kowalczyk 8:06 Oscar Strickland 8:32 Tyler Rollo 9:23 Girls Under 13 – 2km Gemma Gordon 8:56 Una Strickland 8:56 Abbie Kincaid 9:20 Lily Trompetter 9:44 Amelia Adams 10:00 Boys Under 13 – 2km Logan Stoupe 7:18 Girls Under 15 – 3km Phoebe McKnight 10:24 (1st) Jessica Kincaid 13:55 Boys Under 15 – 3km Jonathan Roberts 11:02 Women Under 18 – 5km Jayme Maxwell 19:43 Ruby Heath 22:37 Men Under 18 – 6km Joel Carman 19:54 (3rd) Peter Roberts 21:07 Gus Reece 21:30 Matthew Roberts 23:15 Lars van Beusekom 24:15 Senior Women/Masters Women 35+ – 10km Kristi Perkinson 48:12 Keryn Morgan 49:39 Liz Gibson 51:07 Chloe Thorne 58:57 Isobel Franklin 1:03:05 Masters Women 50+ – 5km Julia Baron 24:53 Vanessa Trompetter 25:11 Trish Coley 25:51 Senior Men – 10km Mathew Rogers 34:59 Grant Pritchard 38:42 Masters Men 40+ – 10km Stephen Cummings 39:23 Brendan Quirke 39:46 Myles Carson 42:20 Tony Plowman 42:58 Mark Growcott 48:10 Masters Men 50+ – 10km Bill Trompetter 42:37 Donald Coley 44:29 Glenn Perkinson 48:01 Paul Cavie 51:38 Masters Men 60+ – 10km Peter Sparks 45:25 John Wood 45:50 Albert van Veen 55:56
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Kilbirnie Sports Christmas Specials
- Cricket Wellington
- Puma Batting Forever Training Net is available in store and online! A fantastic training tool and the Ultimate Christmas gift for any keen cricketer! Click on the image below to check it out! 33 Rongotai Road, Kilbirnie Wellington 6022 PH: 04 3879745 Web: www.kilbirniesports.co.nz Facebook: www.facebook.com/kilbirniesports Instagram: www.instagram.com/kilbirniesports
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Victoria University Chancellor welcomes high-performing Council
- Victoria University of Wellington
- Victoria University of Wellington’s Chancellor, Sir Neville Jordan, says members of Victoria’s new 12-person Council form a “high-performing team for a high-performing university”.
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Grant Robertson: Time for a real say on Basin Reserve transport issues
- Save the Basin Reserve!
- The New Zealand Labour Party has just put out the following press release, setting out a community-driven proposed process for making decisions about the future of transport around the Basin Reserve precinct following the defeat of the Transport Agency’s flyover proposal.
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Self-controlled connectivity good for workplace?
- Victoria University of Wellington
- Research by a Victoria University graduand is already gaining attention from Google, Microsoft and Australian academics, ahead of her receiving her PhD degree at her upcoming graduation ceremony.
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Putting cybersecurity centre stage
- Victoria University of Wellington
- Victoria University of Wellington is kick-starting initiatives for championing cybersecurity in New Zealand with an industry briefing this week featuring a guest appearance from a world-renowned cyber-crime expert.
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Māori and Sāmoan language teaching resources aired
- Victoria University of Wellington
- Kohanga reo, Sāmoan kindergartens and schools around the country have access to a rich online audio teaching resource, thanks to restoration work by staff of the Victoria University of Wellington’s Language Learning Centre (LLC).
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Footage captures kiwi destroying robin nest
- Victoria University of Wellington
- A kiwi destroying a robin nest and causing the death of the chicks in it has been caught on camera by a Victoria University of Wellington researcher.
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Ferrier’s focus on the future
- Victoria University of Wellington
- Three different projects focused on solving a variety of problems, which are being led by scientists at Victoria University of Wellington’s Ferrier Research Institute, have been awarded a total of $3 million in Government funding to develop their commercial potential.
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Milestone for Victoria’s Pasifika students
- Victoria University of Wellington
- Four students from Victoria University of Wellington had the honour of being the amongst the first Pasifika students to graduate from the Victoria International Leadership Programme (VILP) at a special awards ceremony yesterday.
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Exploring the brain’s role in mystical experiences
- Victoria University of Wellington
- New research suggests that suppression of the brain’s inhibitory functions can result in openness to mystical experiences.
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Stephanie Johnson selected as 2016 Randell Cottage Writer in Residence
- Randell Cottage Writers Trust
- Auckland writer Stephanie Johnson is to be the 2016 Creative New Zealand Randell Cottage Writer in Residence.
- Accepted from Randell Cottage Writers Trust news
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Randell Cottage, 14, St Mary Street, Wellington Central, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, 6140, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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Plans to create rejuvenation and new life in Strathmore Park
- Peninsula News
- The Wellington City Council and Housing New Zealand are leading a project to inject some new life into Strathmore Park. The Wellington City Council, with Housing New Zealand and the New Zealand Police, is supporting a community-led rejuvenation of Strathmore... Read More ›
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Strathmore Park, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, 6242, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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Big names confirmed for Victoria’s first Pacific climate change conference
- Victoria University of Wellington
- Victoria’s first Pacific Climate Change Conference has attracted a top line-up of international speakers.
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News: Summer Run - Pants on fire
- Olympic Harriers
- Summer run/walk Onepoto Domain, Titahi Bay,andnbsp;1:45pm Happy to say I lied -...
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Titahi Bay, Porirua, Porirua City, Wellington, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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REBLOG Strathmore Park: Knowing better than the locals
- Guardians of the Bays
- by Lindsay Shelton The Wellington Airport campaign to promote a longer runway is similar to the Transport Agency’s campaign about building a flyover at the Basin Reserve.
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Strathmore Park, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, 6242, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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Exploring the changing world of literary translation
- Victoria University of Wellington
- Nearly three weeks ahead of graduation and Victoria University of Wellington’s Sally-Ann Spencer has already won an international prize and secured a publishing deal for her PhD research.
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