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    It’s our birthday – Kaibosh is 15!

    • 28 Sep 2023
    • Kaibosh Food Rescue
    • Kaibosh is 15 this October! Aotearoa’s first food rescue charity started back in 2008, in that time we’ve rescued and re-distributing over 10 million meals worth of good kai for the community. We’re planning a week of open days to mark our birthday between 14-20 October. Join us for a community party at one of […]
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    Wellington and Canterbury to resume long-standing rivalry on Sunday

    • 29 Aug 2024
    • Wellington Club Weekly
    • It is mild curiosity that Sunday’s fourth round NPC fixture between the Wellington Lions and the Canterbury Lambs is the fourth consecutive match between these sides played in Christchurch. One of those matches was the 2022 final but the other two were also round-robin games, so if the red and black men don’t want to...
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    Boon signs maiden pro contract with the Nix

    • 29 Aug 2024
    • Wellington Phoenix
    • Talented goalkeeper Dublin Boon has joined the Wellington Phoenix on a one-year scholarship deal. Boon, 19, grew up in Canterbury and played his junior football at Nomads United and Christchurch United before graduating to the Nomads first team. He spent... The post Boon signs maiden pro contract with the Nix appeared first on Wellington Phoenix.
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    Nix secure young Auckland winger on multi-year deal

    • 31 Oct 2024
    • Wellington Phoenix
    • The Wellington Phoenix have signed one of Auckland’s brightest footballing talents in the week of the inaugural New Zealand derby. Winger Nathan Walker has graduated into the professional ranks, putting pen to paper on a four year contract with the... The post Nix secure young Auckland winger on multi-year deal appeared first on Wellington Phoenix.
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    Ninja A-League Round 1 Match Preview 

    • 31 Oct 2024
    • Wellington Phoenix
    • Wellington Phoenix head coach Paul Temple is “raring to go” ahead of the opening game of the 2024-25 Ninja A-League. The Nix travel to Melbourne to face Western United in round one, and will be aiming to make their first... The post Ninja A-League Round 1 Match Preview appeared first on Wellington Phoenix.
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    Rojas released from the remainder of his contract

    • 31 Mar 2025
    • Wellington Phoenix
    • Marco Rojas and the Wellington Phoenix have agreed to cut short his second stint at the club, with the remaining three months of his one-year contract terminated by mutual consent. The skilful forward, who started his decorated professional career in... The post Rojas released from the remainder of his contract appeared first on Wellington Phoenix.
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    Sideline Conversions 30 October (some rugby news and information to start the week)

    • 29 Oct 2023
    • Wellington Club Weekly
    • A bittersweet day yesterday for rugby fans across New Zealand. On one hand, the All Blacks excelled on the world stage and came within a whisker of winning the Rugby World Cup; on the other there were several what ifs and maybes on fulltime after the 11-12 loss to the Springboks in drizzly Paris. For...
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    Easter Weekend Rugby preview

    • 28 Mar 2024
    • Wellington Club Weekly
    • A mostly light weekend of rugby this Easter Weekend for Wellington clubs as most hunker down and put the finishing touches on their preparations ahead of the start of all grades together next Saturday, 6 April. In fact, there is one solitary pre-season match scheduled in Wellington on Saturday, and that is between the Upper...
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    Some players to watch in club rugby 2024

    • 31 Mar 2024
    • Wellington Club Weekly
    • By Scott MacLean A regular part of our pre-season coverage has been our selection of players to watch. As usual, we’ve taken a look at the likely Premier squads and picked one player to keep an eye on across the season from each of them. This year’s group are mostly impressive youngsters with a couple...
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    Samoa looking to Shock World Like ‘Beegee’ Williams’ Pioneers

    • 30 Aug 2023
    • Wellington Club Weekly
    • The Rugby World Cup is only a fortnight away. Fiji beat England and Samoa took Ireland to the brink in recent warm-up matches. Adam Julian caught up with one of the five living All Blacks knighted to talk about his giant killing exploits of the past and the prospects for Samoa in 2023. When Western Samoa*...
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    Kepler Track – Fiordland National Park

    • 20 Oct 2023
    • Wellington Tramping and Mountainneering Club
    • An overly excited group of eight met at Wellington Airport at 8.15am on a Saturday morning for a flight to Queenstown. Dick and Beverly were already down south and would be meeting us at Queenstown airport. This is one thing I have come to enjoy about WTMC – I knew Noel and Jane, but the ... Read more
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    Manawatu Gorge Track

    • 21 Oct 2023
    • Wellington Tramping and Mountainneering Club
    • Ten of us left Wellington Train station at 9am on a Sunday morning for the approx 2 hour drive to the start of the track. We took 2 cars – one group started at the Ashhurst end and the other group at the Woodville end. The plan was to meet in the middle and have ... Read more
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    Daphne Hut – Ruahine Forest Park

    • 21 Oct 2023
    • Wellington Tramping and Mountainneering Club
    • Friday 8 September:The team met at Wellington train station and set off for Anzac Park (the one in Norsewood, not Palmerston North). Dinner was had enroute at the very originally named Indian Taj; a warning to future visitors, the staff implement the term “mild” in the most English sense. Tents were quickly pitched on arrival ... Read more
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    Te Matawai Hut – Tararua Forest Park

    • 29 Sep 2023
    • Wellington Tramping and Mountainneering Club
    • This was my first club trip in a couple of years. I loved some of the changes and enjoyed how some things stayed the same. One change was I had never been on a trip before where on Saturday morning we stopped for baked goods and coffee – the goat curry pie was a winner. ... Read more
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    Tawa, Wellington, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
  
  

• • Nlc

    • 30 Jan 2024
    • Newtown Festival
    • NLC is a reggae/soul 8 piece band, straight out of Whanganui. Focused mainly on original music. NLC has released 5 albums and 3 eps. NLC is an award winning band whom recently won the “Best roots reggae album” in the latest Waiata Maori Music Awards. Having just performed at “One Love” 2024, NLC is ready […]
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• • Elliot & Vincent

    • 30 Jan 2024
    • Newtown Festival
    • Elliot & Vincent are a two-piece drums and guitar band from Tamaki Makaurau, New Zealand. Elliot Finn (lead vocals, drums) and Vincent Cherry (guitar) were once casually asked by a friend if their non-existent “band” would play at a house party. They had no songs and only one week to write them. Equipped with Vincent’s […]
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    Vogelmorn Community Yard Sale

    • 30 Aug 2023
    • Vogelmorn Community Group
    • Join Us at the Vogelmorn Community Yard Sale! Date: Sunday, 24th September 2023 Time: 10:00 AM - 1:00 PM Location: Vogelmorn Community Green Discover hidden treasures and one-of-a-kind creations at the Vogelmorn Community Yard Sale! Gather with fellow bargain hunters, craft enthusiasts, and sellers for a day of shopping, mingling, and community fun.
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    Vogelmorn Bowling Club, Mornington Road, Brooklyn, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, 6021, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
  
  
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    Crusaders U20s account for Hurricanes U20s at Upper Hutt (plus full scoring highlights)

    • 1 Mar 2025
    • Wellington Club Weekly
    • Jacob Kennedy runs clear to score the first try of the day of the Hurricanes, with Oscar Ritchie (blue headgear) and Stanley Solomon in support in the foreground. By Steven White Photos by Andy McArthur The visiting Crusaders U20s beat the Hurricanes U20s 57-22 in their one-off U20s match at NZCIS at Upper Hutt on...
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    Upper Hutt, Upper Hutt City, Wellington, 5218, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
  
  
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    Review: The Importance of Being Earnest

    • 31 Oct 2023
    • The Wellingtonista
    • Circa Theatre’s The Importance of Being Earnest has marked itself down as a fantastic retelling of my favourite non-New Zealand play, and an excellent night out besides. Staged in a thrust stage in Circa One, Jonathan Price’s directorial hand is evident as a play that is often so caught in (delightful) internal conversations is broadened […]
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    Pioneers of Rugby in Wellington 106: Alby Makeham

    • 1 Jul 2025
    • Wellington Club Weekly
    • Alby Makeham was a halfback and one of the most well-known and respected figures in Wellington rugby throughout the 1950s decade. From winning the Jubilee Cup at the start of the decade, to helping orchestrate a famous Ranfurly Shield win for Wellington in the middle of it, to bringing his representative career curtain down a...
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    Stuff and The Post signs on as a media partner

    • 2 Apr 2025
    • Wellington Phoenix
    • The Wellington Phoenix have finalised a partnership with New Zealand’s leading media company. Stuff, which reaches around 3.4 million Kiwis every month*, has been confirmed as one of the club’s media partners. It formalises a long-standing partnership between the two... The post Stuff and The Post signs on as a media partner appeared first on Wellington Phoenix.
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    The 2024 Swindale Shield ‘By the Numbers’

    • 2 Jul 2024
    • Wellington Club Weekly
    • The curtain has closed on the first round Swindale Shield competition, with the top eight finishing sides now progressing to start the four-week second round Jubilee Cup and the bottom six teams lining up in week one of the Hardham Cup. Some numbers and statistics from the first round Swindale Shield Premier competition (unless stated)...
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    Great days in club rugby 007: Supernovas

    • 2 Apr 2024
    • Wellington Club Weekly
    • Teenager Buxton Popoalii scores one of his two tries for Northern United in the 2008 Jubilee Cup semi-final win over Petone. Since the first season that the Jubilee Cup was contested in 1929 there have been approximately 8,000 Senior A/Premier club rugby matches contested in Wellington. In this new series for 2024 as part of...
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    Petone, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
  
  
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    Ninja A-League Round 14 Match Review

    • 2 Feb 2025
    • Wellington Phoenix
    • The Wellington Phoenix have succumbed to their sixth one-goal defeat of the 2024-25 Ninja A-League. The Phoenix have been beaten 1-0 by Brisbane Roar in their round 14 match at Perry Park in Brisbane, despite having the better of much... The post Ninja A-League Round 14 Match Review appeared first on Wellington Phoenix.
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• • Kaibosh has a kitchen

    • 10 Jan 2024
    • Kaibosh Food Rescue
    • This project has been simmering over recent months. Inside our largest food rescue hub in Pito-one, we have created a new cooking zone! Kai cooked at Kaibosh will use ‘second-sort’ rescued produce which can’t be distributed to the community as is. It’s the boxes of slightly squishy tomatoes, damaged vegetables, or bruised fruit – often […]
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    Petone, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
  
  
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    Wellington club rugby Gains and Losses 2024

    • 2 Apr 2024
    • Wellington Club Weekly
    • The 2024 Wellington club rugby season gets underway this Saturday, with Round one Swindale Shield teams named here in the Draws & Results section (above) on Friday. As is the norm these days, there’s a good deal of movement between clubs while there is also those coming into the province or leaving in search of other opportunities....
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    St Bernard’s College beat Francis Douglas Memorial College in traditional

    • 3 Jul 2024
    • Wellington Club Weekly
    • St Bernard’s College’s First XV rolled to a 36-19 win over visiting Francis Douglas Memorial College on Wednesday afternoon. The traditional was played under sunny skies but in heavy conditions following recent rain on the Lower Hutt school’s number one field. St Bernard’s got off to a hot start and established a 10-0 lead, a...
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    Lower Hutt, Lower Hutt City, Wellington, 5010, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
  
  
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    Review: The Nutcracker

    • 3 Nov 2025
    • The Wellingtonista
    • The Nutcracker’s always been one of ‘the ballets’ I’ve heard about but never seen. Learning about it via reading the The Baby-Sitters Club books as a kid and growing up dancing myself, I’ve always wanted to get the chance to experience it, and finally, thanks to this year’s Royal New Zealand Ballet Kiwi twist on […]
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    Ozzies Track

    • 3 Feb 2026
    • Wellington Tramping and Mountainneering Club
    • Thinking of a loop daytrip in the Tararua Range that is a bit different? Well, why not try Ozzie’s Track? Ozzie’s Track is one of those mostly-forgotten routes in the Tararua Forest Park that doesn’t appear on today’s topomaps but lives on in trampers’ conversations—particularly those of the members of the Manawatu Tramping and Skiing ... Read more
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    Sideline Conversions 4 November (some news and information to start the week)

    • 3 Nov 2024
    • Wellington Club Weekly
    • A fast-paced and well-contested opening leg of the American Ambassador’s sevens on Saturday, with the second and final leg of the series set to be played this coming Saturday at Trentham Memorial Park. By the end of the day, the Upper Hutt Rams and one of the two Paremata-Plimmerton sides came away unbeaten and in...
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    Upper Hutt, Upper Hutt City, Wellington, 5218, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)