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• • 11.Constable St Stage

    • 4 Feb 2026
    • Newtown Festival
    • The Constable Street Stage is one of the more eclectic stages at Newtown Festival. Run by Scott Oaks and Eddy Kerr-Hislop their aim is to introduce you to many genres and different sounds. Crossing sonic boundaries we aim to showcase our carefully picked virtuosi artists from Newtown and beyond. From pop to metal, there will be […]
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    Newtown, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
  
  
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    Humphries returning home to head the academy

    • 4 Dec 2024
    • Wellington Phoenix
    • The Wellington Phoenix have lured one of New Zealand’s leading coaches back home to lead the country’s largest private-run academy. Emma Humphries has left her position as the U-17 women’s national team head coach and national development centre director for... The post Humphries returning home to head the academy appeared first on Wellington Phoenix.
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    From the President – February 2026

    • 4 Feb 2026
    • Wellington Tramping and Mountainneering Club
    • Kia ora, it’s hard to believe it is already February. For your Committee this means we’re now preparing for the AGM (to be held on 15 April), and as part of this preparation we’ll be having a one-day offsite later this month. We’ll send out more information about the AGM and the Committee roles and ... Read more
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    Nix sign rising star to long-term deal

    • 5 Aug 2025
    • Wellington Phoenix
    • The Wellington Phoenix have secured one of New Zealand’s top young players from the country’s leading amateur women’s football club. The Phoenix have signed Auckland United forward Pia Vlok on a three-year contract, the first two of which are on... The post Nix sign rising star to long-term deal appeared first on Wellington Phoenix.
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    Hurricanes v Moana Pasifika and Fijian Drua matches Stat Attack

    • 5 Mar 2026
    • Wellington Club Weekly
    • In association with Hurricanes statistics compiler Peter Marriott, the Stat Attack returns in 2026. Facts and figures from both opening matches (starting with the most recent one) below. Round 3 v Fijian Drua: Lost 20-25 The Fijian Drua made their Super Rugby debut in 2022. They have now played the Hurricanes five times for two...
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    Championship club rugby starts this Saturday

    • 5 Jul 2024
    • Wellington Club Weekly
    • Action from William Jones Park last Saturday, that saw Paremata-Plimmerton beat the home team in a close one. Wainuiomata are back home tomorrow to face Avalon, while Paremata-Plimmerton traverse Wellington to play Ories at the Polo Ground. PHOTO: T-Paul Gale. By Scott MacLean Midday edition – updates to come later this afternoon: This weekend...
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    Wainuiomata, Lower Hutt, Lower Hutt City, Wellington, New Zealand/Aotearoa (OpenStreetMap)
  
  

• • Rich D Rich

    • 5 Feb 2025
    • Newtown Festival
    • Hailing from the land of endless dance floors and non-stop parties, Rich D Rich is never far from the action—more often than not, he’s the one holding it up. With a mischievous grin and a knack for keeping you on your toes, he thrives on the unexpected, always leading the crowd somewhere they never saw […]
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    ‘Take Action for Nature’ – Conservation Week 2023

    • 26 Aug 2023
    • Wellington Tramping and Mountainneering Club
    • You’ve planted a ‘Penguin Forest.’ This was a comment from one of my work colleagues after she heard about the volunteer work I had done over the weekend in the Catlins. Every year DoC, in partnership with Forest & Bird, organise a tree planting weekend in the Catlins and I saw this advertised on the ... Read more
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    Hurricanes v Blues Stat Attack

    • 5 Mar 2025
    • Wellington Club Weekly
    • Kini Naholo tries to punch through for a try against the Blues. He missed this one but he did score his 15th try and his fourth for the Hurricanes against the Blues in this match. In association with Hurricanes statistics compiler Peter Marriott, the Stat Attack returns in 2025. Facts and figures from the third round...
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    Club policies updated

    • 5 Mar 2026
    • Wellington Tramping and Mountainneering Club
    • The Committee consulted Members on a set of new policies in December 2025. Thank you to the Members who took the time to provide feedback, it was greatly appreciated and has improved the draft policies. The Committee has considered the feedback, discussed amendments and approved the new policies at our one-day offsite on 22 February. ... Read more
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• • New Building Update October

    • 19 Oct 2024
    • Paekakariki Surf Lifeguards
    • We’ve had a lot of milestones in the build project since the last club newsletter. The building is taking shape and Homestead are on track to complete stage one of the build early in the new year. At the club open day we will be giving people the chance to take a tour around the... Read More
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    Paekakariki Surf Lifeguards, Beach access, Paekakariki, Kapiti Coast District, Wellington, 5034, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
  
  
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    New kick-off time for men’s upcoming match

    • 6 Mar 2024
    • Wellington Phoenix
    • The Wellington Phoenix’s round 20 Isuzu UTE A-League match against Melbourne City this Saturday has been pushed back one and a half hours due to extreme heat forecast for Melbourne. The temperature is expected to be 35 degrees at 5:30pm... The post New kick-off time for men’s upcoming match appeared first on Wellington Phoenix.
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    Pioneers of Rugby in Wellington 107: John Sage

    • 8 Jul 2025
    • Wellington Club Weekly
    • For over a decade, throughout the 1950s and into the 1960s, the name J.K. Sage was one of the most ‘mentioned in despatches’ in the Rugby Weekly publication. There are numerous entries scattered throughout about Sage and almost all of them positive and complimentary. It seems that Sage sometimes single-handedly carried his club team’s fortunes on...
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    Wellington U19s retain title, OBU Scallywags miss out in semi, Samoans beat Centurions in U18s derby game

    • 9 Sep 2023
    • Wellington Club Weekly
    • Rongotai College and Wellington Samoa U18s halfback Sila Fa’avae gets his pass away amongst a sea of Wellington Centurions U18s defenders in today’s U18s competition match at Lyndhurst Park. Fa’avae scored one of five tries as his side won 31-24. Photo: Andy McArthur The Wellington U19s completed an unbeaten season and retained the Central Region...
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    Tapuae-o-uenuku

    • 23 Nov 2022
    • Wellington Tramping and Mountainneering Club
    • Looking across the Cook Strait my eyes habitually fixate on one striking feature – the centerpiece and highest peak of the Kaikoura Ranges, Tapuae-o-uenuku, also affectionately known as ‘Tappy’. A couple years ago I started consolidating the skills and experience to attempt Tappy and enjoy its panoramic and lofty summit at 2885m.  Miraculously the stars ... Read more
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• • Hemi Hemingway

    • 17 Dec 2022
    • Newtown Festival
    • In 2020, after tip-toeing around the idea of a solo project like this one for a while, an experiment with a four-track recorder led Shaun Blackwell (Te Āti Awa, Ngāti Toa, Ngāti Kahungunu ki Heretaunga) to strike the match that would ignite Hemi Hemingway and result in ‘The Lonely Hunter’ EP. A glittering ode to […]
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    New Zealand’s Aging Population

    • 11 Jan 2023
    • Age Concern Wellington
    • The issue of New Zealand’s Aging Population There are currently over 12,000 seniors living alone in Wellington. With the 2023 Census right around the corner, Age Concern Wellington Region CEO Stephen Opie is expecting this number to jump. Wellington is a popular region for seniors to live in. Kapiti Coast, for example, has one of ... Read more
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    New Zealand’s Ageing Population

    • 11 Jan 2023
    • Age Concern Wellington
    • The issue of New Zealand’s Ageing Population There are currently over 12,000 seniors living alone in Wellington. With the 2023 Census right around the corner, Age Concern Wellington Region CEO Stephen Opie is expecting this number to jump. Wellington is a popular region for seniors to live in. Kapiti Coast, for example, has one of ... Read more
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• • Julia Deans

    • 4 Feb 2023
    • Newtown Festival
    • Having first carved a path in local and international musical landscapes as the front woman for early 2000s band Fur Patrol, Julia Deans has since secured her reputation as one of Aotearoa New Zealand’s most celebrated musicians.   Following the early success of 00’s Fur Patrol and their critically acclaimed album PET, Deans’s solo albums Modern […]
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    15-minute cities (the latest conspiracy?)

    • 17 Mar 2023
    • Talk Wellington
    • If we didn’t know it already, humans are able to be afraid of the strangest things. The 15-minute neighbourhood is the latest and out of a morbid curiosity, we wondered how people are able to be scared of “have good life without needing car”… This is one of the typical videos we’ve found. A journalist...
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    President’s Column – March 2023

    • 29 Mar 2023
    • Wellington Tramping and Mountainneering Club
    • The Club continues to be very active with a wide range of activities taking place.  One weekend during March, for example, we had five trips taking place (two tramps based from the Lodge on Mt Ruapehu, a navigational exercise, a day trip and a tramp to Mitre Flats).  During March we also had a tramp ... Read more
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    Tongariro Northern Circuit – Tongariro National Park

    • 6 Apr 2023
    • Wellington Tramping and Mountainneering Club
    • Not a great walk, but an epic one! You know you are up for an incredible weekend when you have a smooth drive out from Wellington, enjoy a primo kebab a la Bulls (OMG those chips and Iskenders), and instantly connect with a bunch of awesome people from the get-go! This weekend was no exception. ... Read more
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    Pioneers of Rugby in Wellington: Jack Lamason

    • 25 Apr 2023
    • Wellington Club Weekly
    • One of Wellington’s finest all-round sportsman. John Ryder ‘Jack’ Lamason was a year-round captain of club and Wellington provincial teams for several years during the peak of his career in the 1930s. Lamason was both Wellington’s rugby and cricket captain, and he represented New Zealand in the latter sport. He was also a Wellington club...
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    Pioneers of Rugby in Wellington 040: Hercules ‘Bumper’ and Alan Wright

    • 3 May 2023
    • Wellington Club Weekly
    • A father-son duo who both featured in Wellington club rugby and played for Wellington and New Zealand, one in rugby league and the other for the All Blacks. Hercules, or ‘Bumper’ Wright as he was known around the traps was a Wellington representative out of Petone between 1903-07, playing 27 games for his province including...
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    St Mary’s College – a decade of consistent rugby

    • 22 May 2023
    • Wellington Club Weekly
    • The following story was recently published on College Sport Wellington and is being posted here on Club Rugby with permission. One of the year-in year-out certainties in Wellington secondary school rugby is that St Mary’s College will be very tough to beat. The school has owned the sport from when it first started taking rugby...
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    Around the Mountain Circuit – Egmont National Park

    • 10 May 2023
    • Wellington Tramping and Mountainneering Club
    • Timings Dawson falls to Waiaua Gorge Hut: 3 hours 50 minutes Waiaua Gorge Hut to Kahui Hut: 3 hours 15 minutes Kahui Hut to Holly Hut: 3 hours 40 minutes Holly Hut to Dawson Falls: 5 hours Day one We spent Friday night at Konini Lodge, by Dawson Falls. MetService had been warning of “severe ... Read more
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    Hurricane Higgins looking forward to new season

    • 14 Feb 2023
    • Wellington Club Weekly
    • Riley Higgins running away to score one of his two tries against Auckland in last seasons’s NPC semi-final win. PHOTO: Mike Lewis Pictures. By Steven White Riley Higgins had a season to remember in 2022, and he is just getting started. The former St Pat’s Silverstream and current Petone midfielder joins the Hurricanes this year...
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    Silverstream, Upper Hutt, Upper Hutt City, Wellington, 5019, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
  
  
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    Volunteering – how it benefits older people and how it can be encouraged

    • 1 Mar 2023
    • Age Concern Wellington
    • One of the “tasks” of later life, as defined by psychologists, is “generativity” – the “giving back” by older people to society and specifically to oncoming generations. While not mentioning the concept of generativity specifically, numerous policy statements and “strategies” emphasise that the contribution and participation of older people is an important part of positive ... Read more
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    Aborted Southern Crossing; Alpha Hut via Marchant Ridge. Return to Kaitoke via Omega Track and Tutuwai Hut

    • 4 Mar 2023
    • Wellington Tramping and Mountainneering Club
    • I have been keen to complete the Southern Crossing after visiting Kime Hut in the snow last year. We had two groups completing the Southern Crossing; one from Otaki Forks to Kaitoke starting Friday afternoon, the other from Kaitoke to Otaki Forks starting first thing Saturday morning. I liked the concept of an early start ... Read more
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    Sideline Conversions 6 March (some rugby news and information to start the week)

    • 5 Mar 2023
    • Wellington Club Weekly
    • Hurricanes Hunters fullback Chicago Doyle makes a break against the Crusaders Knights on Friday.  Monday morning edition: A quad-tacular of Hurricanes matches this coming weekend in Wellington, and week two of pre-season fixtures in club rugby. As well as inter-club pre-season rugby, all four Hurricanes teams will be in action on Saturday, one after another....
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