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    Ranfurly Shield Match Savers: Wellington v Wairarapa 1905

    • 5 Jul 2023
    • Wellington Club Weekly
    • Above: The Wellington team in 1904 – the inaugural Ranfurly Shield winners. The nucleus of this team – minus Billy Wallace, Duncan McGregor and Fred Roberts who were away with the ‘Originals’ All Blacks – played in Ranfurly Shield defences in 1905 including this one against Wairarapa. The Match: Wellington v Wairarapa, 16 August 1905,...
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    Aisle be Back: Hurricanes v Rebels (quarter-final)

    • 6 Jun 2024
    • Wellington Club Weekly
    • By Kevin McCarthy The playoffs are here and inevitably people are intoning the mantra that defences win championships. Not surprisingly, as the definition of winning mathematically is that a team needs to score one more point than the opposition to win – discounting any weird tiebreakers . Any greater margin is mere showiness. Yet the...
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    All set for opening round of club rugby tomorrow

    • 30 Mar 2023
    • Wellington Club Weekly
    • By Scott Maclean & Steven White Week One Swindale Shield teamlists and draw HERE And so it begins once again, with Saturday seeing the 145th year of rugby competition organised by the Wellington Rugby Football Union since its formation in 1879. Fourteen clubs will seek to claim the Swindale Shield – in play since it’s...
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    WREMO supports the Nelson/Tasman flood response

    • 5 Sep 2022
    • Wremo
    • In August 2022, more than 200 homes were evacuated in the Nelson-Tasman area due to severe flooding from heavy rain. Four of WREMOs Emergency Managers were deployed to the South Island in late August for one week to help support Nelson-Tasman Emergency Management Group with their efforts to support their communities.
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    More big matches as Swindale Shield passes halfway mark

    • 13 May 2022
    • Wellington Club Weekly
    • By Scott MacLean & Steven White Draws & Teamlists as received HERE  It’s the halfway point of the Swindale Shield and the annual McBain Shield match tomorrow between Petone and Hutt Old Boys Marist is also a top of the table clash. The ‘McBain’ is only one of seven massive fixtures coming up tomorrow: two...
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    Petone, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
  
  

• • TONIGHT – Meet the Candidates

    • 24 Aug 2022
    • Island Bay Residents' Association
    • Doors open 6.30pm, meeting starts 7pm, Wellington South Baptist Church We have 20 candidates attending tonight! The only one who cannot make it has recorded a video to convey his message. This is a fab opportunity to hear from all of those putting their hands up to represent our ward and city. Agenda:
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    Pioneers of Rugby in Wellington 046: Frank Kilby and Lance Johnson

    • 13 Jun 2023
    • Wellington Club Weekly
    • Frank Kilby (left) and Lance Johnson – Southlanders turned Wellingtonians and All Blacks. Two Southlanders – turned Wellingtonians who each shone brightly at halfback and first five – often together – from club rugby to first-class level and on to the All Blacks. Halfback Frank Kilby was one of Wellington Rugby’s favourite players in the...
    • Accepted from Club Weekly 2020 36 months ago by feedreader
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• • 2022 Masters Squad Programme Booklet & EOI Form

    • 8 Mar 2022
    • Squash Wellington
    • Here is all the relevant information for the 2022 Masters Squad and Rep. Teams. Key dates: 9:00am 28th March 2022 – Applications Close 31st March 2022 – Notification of applicants 23rd April 2022 – Camp One CLICK HERE for the 2022 Masters Squad Programme Booklet – Read this first! CLICK HERE for the 2022 Masters […]
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    CSW Junior Badminton Championships

    • 10 Aug 2022
    • Newlands College
    • On Wednesday 3rd August the Junior Badminton Championships took place and we took 11 players. Most players won their first game but were unfortunately knocked out in Round 2. Notable performances were: Aryan Archarya – Lost in the Quarter Finals to one of the Top 4 seeds. Varun Goel – Lost in the Final of […]
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    Newlands College, 68, Bracken Road, Newlands, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, 6037, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
  
  
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    Fraser Ross THUNDERHEAD Album Release

    • 9 May 2024
    • Vogelmorn Community Group
    • OGELMORN UPSTAIRS ‘New Zealand’s best kept musical secret’ — Capital Times ‘His music, which has traditional folk roots, has a wonderful way of breaking free from genre’ — The Wireless ‘Like a Kiwi Billy Connolly’ — The View, Scotland Celebrating the release of his new record THUNDERHEAD, Fraser Ross is performing 'one show for each island.
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    Vogelmorn Bowling Club, Mornington Road, Brooklyn, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, 6021, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
  
  
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    Cao Down In Bar

    • 2 Jul 2007
    • Zephyr Rovers FC
    • John Cao (pictured) today confirmed rumours that he had proposed to his partner Iona on Saturday. "I was going to go full out for the romantic angle in a hot air balloon in the Wairapapa" said Cao "but the weather was crap so I got down on one knee in a local bar".
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• • New Clinical Director for Medicine brings wealth of experience, expertise

    • 18 Jan 2008
    • Capital & Coast District Health Board
    • The CEO of Capital & Coast DHB, Dr Derek Milne, has today welcomed the appointment of a new Clinical Director for one of the DHB's largest areas - Medical Services. The Clinical Director's role will be filled by Dr Andrew Brant, an internal and respiratory medicine specialist with experience at Wellington Hospital and overseas.
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• • Wellington Provinical A Team 2007/08

    • 5 Jan 2008
    • Cricket Wellington
    • Provincial A Team 2007/08 Named The Provincial A Team for 2007/08 has been named.  The team is as follows: J Dean L Chrisp A Newdick S Murdoch BJ Crook (C) S Allen R Karaitiana K Lennon L Edwards J Sewell N Strom M Cornish One player is to be added.
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    National League roundup 11-13 October

    • 13 Oct 2024
    • Wellington Phoenix
    • A tough round of fixtures for the Wellington Phoenix in the National League, with just one point taken from their two matches. The Phoenix women’s reserves again opened the weekend with a Friday night match, this time away to Wellington... The post National League roundup 11-13 October appeared first on Wellington Phoenix.
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    Aisle be Back: All Blacks v England

    • 13 Nov 2025
    • Wellington Club Weekly
    • By Kevin McCarthy Seasons shouldn’t be assessed on one match in theory – but throw that out this weekend. England, Twickenham, and a Grand Slam in prospect (yes I know, don’t forget Wales). It’s not a world cup knockout, but it isn’t far short of it. It seems a constant but England – despite protestations...
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• • First Reserve

    • 14 Jan 2026
    • Newtown Festival
    • First Reserve is inevitable. Before adopting the moniker in 2023, Ryan Connaghan had been prolifically writing music that communicated their experiences in life, love, and loneliness. These themes are all approached on songs like “Last One” and “Me & My Friends” – the first offerings from First Reserve’s debut EP “There’s A God” set for […]
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• • Wellington weeps

    • 8 Sep 2009
    • The Wellingtonista
    • What was that sound of crying and wailing all over Wellington yesterday? Why were single ladies pulling their hair and sobbing onto one another's shoulders? Did it have anything to do with a certain DPF changing his facebook status from "Single" to "In a relationship"?
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    How we keep improving

    • 14 Apr 2025
    • Predator Free Wellington
    • We’re experts in urban rat removal but when we first started, no one had successfully removed rats from an entire suburb or city. We learnt lots from island eradications but also knew that engaging the community was essential. As our project has developed we have kept trying new things to make our work…
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    7 bicycles per person per year

    • 26 Oct 2011
    • Wellington Region Cycleways
    • How would you and every New Zealander like to be given 7 bicycles in the coming year? What would you do with 7 bicycles? Have one for every day of the week? It would be a bit of an extravagance and wouldn’t it be a complete waste of money? Well yes, of course.
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• • Cupcake countdown

    • 29 Jul 2010
    • Wellington SPCA
    • There’s only one month to go until we all go cupcake crazy!! This is your chance to show your support for Wellington SPCA  - and it’s so easy to get involved! You can register online to become a Cupcake Day cook or just get baking and donate the proceeds from your sales to us.
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• • More food reviews that you can stomach

    • 14 Aug 2010
    • The Wellingtonista
    • So y'all asked for more food reviews with pics, so today I am going to do short reviews of the following places: The Ambeli The Grill at the Duxton Lagerfield as a function venue St John's Restaurant I hope you don't mind that I've put them all in one post. read more
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• • Smells like year-old fish and rotten eggs. But awesome!

    • 30 Mar 2011
    • The Wellingtonista
    • Has it really been a year since Fishhead magazine launched? Apparently so! Consequently, they’d like to party with you! There’s be cocktail specials, free entry and Wellington supergroup The Eggs playing. Fishhead birthday afterparty Thursday March 31, 9pm-midnight CQ Bar in the Quality Hotel, 223 Cuba Street. Last one in’s a rotten…
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    Cuba Street, Te Aro, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, 6011, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
  
  
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    Shaw Baton Pics from previous years….

    • 20 Apr 2015
    • Hutt Valley Harriers
    • Matthew on the first fence, followed by Bailey-Rose. one of the fences Lucy flying around the course The water jump at Shaw Baton Cassandra contemplating the water crossing at Shaw Baton 2011 Phoebe jumps the fence Nicholas charges through Jorja in the water Jack gets really wet Ben on his way out  
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    $90million, but only if …..

    • 29 May 2015
    • Wellington Scoop
    • When city councillors this week reconfirmed their decision that the city should pay $90million towards the unknown cost of extending the airport runway into Cook Strait, some pre-conditions had been added. The key one: that an international airline should have committed to using the runway, before the council hands over the money.
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• • About Labour, I was nearly on the money in May

    • 20 Sep 2014
    • Jack Yan
    • In May, I wrote (in the wake of the Oravida scandal): The problem with all of this is: where’s Labour, in the midst of the greatest gift an opposition has been given for years?    One friend of a friend noted that maybe Labour shouldn’t be attacking, because we Kiwis don’t like whingers.
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    A sea of red has kicked in through the streets of Wellington...

    • 6 Apr 2015
    • Orchestra Wellington
    • A sea of red has kicked in through the streets of Wellington thanks to Phantom Billstickers for SIX BY ONE 2015! We’re extremely excited about Subs 1, KAMARINSKAYA next Saturday 18th & Sunday 19th so make sure you secure your tickets for the Wellington and Masterton concerts from Ticketek New Zealand & Eventfinda NZ HERE
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    Alongside David Fane presenting our PITA & THE WOLF family...

    • 15 May 2014
    • Orchestra Wellington
    • Alongside David Fane presenting our PITA & THE WOLF family concert in July we also have a very special guest narrator for one of our favourites GERALD MCBOING-BOING.  We can’t reveal too much about him yet, aside from it should be a refreshing change as he’s normally used to working with total MUPPETS!
    • Accepted from Orchestra Wellington posts 142 months ago
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    World Homeless Day

    • 9 Oct 2014
    • The Wellingtonista
    • Today is ‪‎World Homeless Day‬, when we often find ourselves asking, what can I do to help those in my own city who are experiencing homelessness? One practical way you can help is by giving or encouraging people to give to DCM Wellington - Each year DCM works with over 800 people in Wellington.
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    More Dunajtschik

    • 22 Oct 2012
    • Eye of the Fish
    • Regarding the old Temperance and General Building on Lambton Quay – known to next to no-one as the Harcourts building. Submissions on it’s proposed demolition are due in a week – by the end of the month. It is a crunch point for Wellingtonians – should a building owner be allowed to demolish their building [...]
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    Grey Street, Wellington Central, Wellington, Wellington Region, 6012, New Zealand
  
  
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    $300 million airport extension and Light Rail for free with every second Mt Vic tunnel built…

    • 15 Jun 2013
    • Eye of the Fish
    • OK – Hear me out here people. There’s been a lot of kerfuffle over a couple of things this week – one is the proposed $43m strengthening of the old Town Hall, and the other is the proposed $300m extension of the airport. First things first : where have those figures come from? Put them [...]
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    Basin Reserve, Dufferin Street, Mount Victoria, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, 6021, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)