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• • Swimming against the tide

    • 4 Dec 2025
    • Architectural Centre Inc
    • press release – December 4, 2025. Victoria University of Wellington is out of step with global practice in demolishing the Gordon Wilson Flats and McLean Flats on the Terrace The Architectural Centre notes with great sadness the planned demise of the Gordon Wilson Flats, one of Aotearoa New Zealand’s most important post-war buildings, along with […]
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    Gordon Wilson Flats, Maurice Terrace, Aro Valley, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, 6040, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
  
  
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    Nix land new visa forward 

    • 8 Aug 2024
    • Wellington Phoenix
    • The Wellington Phoenix have secured the services of a player with experience in one of the world’s top leagues. The Phoenix have signed English forward Olivia Fergusson for the 2024-25 Liberty A-League. Fergusson, 29, played for Bristol City and Yeovil... The post Nix land new visa forward appeared first on Wellington Phoenix.
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    Pioneers of Rugby in Wellington 069: Jim Sherratt

    • 8 May 2024
    • Wellington Club Weekly
    • Jim Sherratt was one of the most exciting players in Wellington rugby circles at the close of the 1930s when the second world war broke out. Sherratt was a tall, strapping, fast right wing, originally from Gisborne and out of the Whanganui Collegiate First XV in 1936 who had quickly risen through Wellington’s Fourth Grade...
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    Last club rugby final, U85kg matches, First XV semi-finals and week two of representative rugby tomorrow

    • 9 Aug 2024
    • Wellington Club Weekly
    • By Scott MacLean & Steven White Updated:A buffet of rugby on tomorrow. A preview and some teamlists as received below. Club The Reserve Grade Division 2 Final for the Alan Seerup Cup is tomorrow at Evans Bay Park at 2.30pm, between the MSP Internationals and the Wests Roosters Mixed Veges. This will be one not...
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• • King Home Boy

    • 9 Jan 2024
    • Newtown Festival
    • Whether if it’s his conscious rhymes or his style of beatboxing, King Home Boy is still wowing crowds. Recognised as one of the legends of New Zealand beatboxing, this former 6 times NZ champion is still making waves with his style of vocal kung fu. Whether it be on social media, live on stage or […]
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• • Review: Homemade Takeaways

    • 23 Nov 2022
    • The Wellingtonista
    • I don’t think anyone will disagree with me that it’s been one hell of a year, and Christmas is descending on us fast.  So it seemed completely appropriate to be watching a show about people who’ve had a hell of a year, too, drawn together at Christmas. Annie and Will have gravitated back to the […]
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• • Pop o.d.

    • 20 Dec 2022
    • Newtown Festival
    • POP O.D. was birthed in the filthy and overflowing gutters of the before times, an era when pestilence had to be manufactured in a stinking practice room. Some call it late 2019. They put out a cassette, imaginatively titled CASSETTE ONE. They have to take turns with the brain cell they share between them, so […]
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• • The Warratahs

    • 21 Dec 2022
    • Newtown Festival
    • The Warratahs are one of New Zealand’s best loved bands, regularly touring New Zealand and Australia, playing at theatres and festivals. They have released 7 charting studio albums, winning gold and platinum awards for the songs that have become part of this country’s musical culture. The Warratahs have 3 times been music video finalists at […]
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    Free spirited Tui a hit in India

    • 5 Jan 2023
    • Wellington Club Weekly
    • By Adam Julian Ruby Tui is easily the most popular rugby player in New Zealand at present. Her autobiography Straight Up is a best seller – placed on reserve 75 times at one Wellington library alone in November. The winger had Eden Park in rapture shortly after the Black Ferns 34-31 win over England in...
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    Hana Mason selected for Global Amateur Tour – Equestrian

    • 29 Jan 2023
    • Newlands College
    • Congratulations to Hana Mason who has has been selected to travel to Morocco in April this year for the Global Amateur Tour. Hana has been selected with a handful of other NZ equestrian riders and will complete some training and competition and will be supported by Lucy Olphert one of NZ’s show jumping riders. Congratulations […]
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    Newlands College, 68, Bracken Road, Newlands, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, 6037, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
  
  

• • impress

    • 4 Feb 2023
    • Newtown Festival
    • Apparently, the story goes: impress began to DJ upon realising that playing multiple songs at once was the final end point of listening to music. She has not stopped since, surprising absolutely no one who knows her. When asked why she chose this name, her best answer was “coz im press’n buttons :)” Impress’ dearest […]
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    Pioneers of Rugby in Wellington 034: U.P. Calcinai

    • 15 Mar 2023
    • Wellington Club Weekly
    • U.P. Calcinai was one of two brothers that were fixtures in Poneke teams for a decade and a half in the early years of last century and part of a family that was synonymous with Poneke throughout most of the 20th century as players and coaches. U.P was a bit of a late bloomer, first...
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    Some players to watch in the Swindale Shield 2023

    • 22 Mar 2023
    • Wellington Club Weekly
    • Northern United players celebrate winning the Jubilee Cup on fulltime last July. Photo: Stewart Baird. By Scott MacLean We’ve cast our eye over the likely Premier squads and taken our pick of one player from each to keep an eye on. Here’s Club Rugby’s list of Players to Watch in 2023, listed alphabetically by surname....
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    Young girls and femmes in the city: visible yet forgotten

    • 28 Mar 2023
    • Talk Wellington
    • Cities can easily forget about or fail to serve certain groups of people; one of those is young people. Young girls and femmes learn to navigate the city in a unique way. What can we do to create spaces that work for and keep this demographic safe? We often try to give some insight into...
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    Wellington club rugby gains and losses 2023

    • 28 Mar 2023
    • Wellington Club Weekly
    • The 2023 Wellington club rugby season kicks off this coming Saturday. Round one Swindale Shield teams will be named here in the Draws & Results section (above) on Friday by the noon hour. As usual there’s plenty of player movement between clubs and players coming into senior rugby from school. There’s also the usual smattering of...
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    Upsets and thrillers mark opening day in Wellington club rugby

    • 1 Apr 2023
    • Wellington Club Weekly
    • Petone made a fast start to the Swindale Shield with a big win over Northern United. PHOTO: Andy McArthur.  By Scott Maclean & Steven White Week One results (individual scorers to be added once known) HERE The long-awaited 2023 Wellington Club Rugby season kicked off this afternoon in blustery and sometimes showery conditions, and defending...
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    Changing Street Parking: strategy vs world

    • 3 Apr 2023
    • Talk Wellington
    • In city transport, if you sort out parking, everything becomes possible. And if you fail to sort out parking, everything will be way harder. Auckland’s followed Wellington in making a good parking strategy, so let’s hear how that went! Hosted by MR Cagney’s parking guru Scott Ebbett, it’s a great listen starring one of the...
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    Easter comes early for Swindale Shield with games tonight

    • 6 Apr 2023
    • Wellington Club Weekly
    • For three of the four teams in action tonight, their Easter eggs will taste a lot sweeter later in the weekend if they can register their first wins of the Swindale Shield competition. There are two matches being played tonight, and both promise to be epic encounters, involving one team that won on opening day...
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    High scoring matches highlight Swindale Shield third round

    • 15 Apr 2023
    • Wellington Club Weekly
    • Johnsonville celebrate one of their tries in their 42-7 win over Hutt Old Boys Marist this afternoon at Helston Park. PHOTO: Natural Light Photography. By Steven White & Scott MacLean Results and scoring (individual scorers added when received) HERE  The third round of the Swindale Shield played in sunny, windy conditions around the Wellington region...
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    Sideline Conversions 24 April (some rugby news and information to start the week)

    • 23 Apr 2023
    • Wellington Club Weekly
    • With their team gelling on the field, supporters have enjoyed consecutive Saturday afternoons out in the Ngati Toa Domain sunshine. Photo: Stewart Baird. Anzac Day tomorrow – lest we forget. There is one match tomorrow, at Evans Bay Park, where the MSP Colts and the St Pat’s Town First XV will play for the Xavier...
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    Aisle be Back: Hurricanes v Brumbies tonight

    • 27 Apr 2023
    • Wellington Club Weekly
    • By Kevin McCarthy  There’s a sense for the Hurricanes that their season starts tonight. The meaningful season that is. I’ve struggled this year to get a gauge on how they’re really tracking – and their soft early draw has not helped. Sitting atop the table a couple of weeks ago, I hope no-one took that...
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    Pioneers of rugby in Wellington 041: Leo Heazlewood

    • 10 May 2023
    • Wellington Club Weekly
    • One of the battlers of club and representative rugby in the 1920 and 1930s. Leo ‘Toucher’ Heazlewood’s job as a railway worker took him to four provinces throughout his career, but it was his three years at Wellington that were his most fruitful and influential on the club and representative teams he played for. Heazlewood...
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• • Principal’s Message – Mid-Term 2, 2023

    • 1 Jun 2023
    • Wellington High School
    • I spent time over the last week at a Principal’s conference in New Plymouth. One of the keynote speakers, Yong Zhao, Distinguished Professor of Education at the University of Kansas, talked to us about what he saw as the future of education in the age of ‘smart machines’.  Yong talked about his humble beginnings, honestly […]
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    Wellington High School, Taranaki Street, Mount Cook, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, 6011, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
  
  
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    Aisle be Back: The start of the rugby season

    • 24 Feb 2023
    • Wellington Club Weekly
    • By Kevin McCarthy It’s the rugby season. As always, arriving a couple of weeks, or months too early. I mean, I plan on sitting at the Basin on day four of the cricket. But by that time, round one of Super Rugby will be done and dusted. Traditionally this is when the fan lays out...
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    PIONEERS OF RUGBY IN WELLINGTON 032: Peter Webb

    • 1 Mar 2023
    • Wellington Club Weekly
    • Peter Purves Webb was one of a group of the earliest players of the game in Wellington and was a founding member of the Wellington Football Club, under the leadership of James Isherwood . Webb was involved as an early player, administrator and referee of the game, and played for New Zealand on their maiden...
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• • 2023 – Intro to Refereeing

    • 2 Mar 2023
    • Onslow Junior Soccer Club
    • Calling all new Referees All teams in grade U9 and up will need at least one referee to officiate your games. This is a great way to contribute as a volunteer to your team. Jamie Cross, Referees Manager for the… » read more The post 2023 – Intro to Refereeing appeared first on Onslow Junior Football Club.
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    Aisle be Back: Hurricanes v Rebels

    • 2 Mar 2023
    • Wellington Club Weekly
    • By Kevin McCarthy. We couldn’t lose to the Rebels tonight, could we? Yes, we could.  But surely it hasn’t been keeping any Hurricanes fans sleepless this week, sweating like the players were in last weekend’s thumping of the Reds. If you can’t win the title in rounds one and two, you surely can as I...
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    Players who have switched positions in club rugby

    • 30 May 2023
    • Wellington Club Weekly
    • Teru Time (left) and Cole Stewart – two current long-serving players who have forged out club careers in both the backs and forwards.  From decreasing pace and increasing size to greater experience, to the needs of the team – club rugby’s teamsheets are historically filled with players who started life out in one position and...
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    The Leaving Party

    • 4 Jun 2023
    • Lōemis
    • Katherine Mansfield, one of New Zealand’s greatest writers, left New Zealand for good in 1908. Before doing so, she threw a leaving party and invited all her friends. The party had many of her favourite ingredients: live music, good company, food offerings, tea, exquisite gin, parlour games, and elements of the occult and divination.
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    Katherine Mansfield House and Garden, 25, Tinakori Road, Wadestown, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, 6011, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
  
  

• • Powerex Hilton Petone Tournament Updates 11/2

    • 11 Feb 2022
    • Petone FC
    • Hi All, Given the heavy rain forecast we have restricted use of the grass pitches at Memorial Park (one game per pitch). We’ve managed to acquire some other turf time at Fraser Park and Maidstone Park so there are four ground changes in the draw (attached) and as below. The kick off times are the […]
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