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• • Pukerua Beach Road –Ocean Parade

    • 13 Feb 2022
    • Pukerua Bay Residents Association
    • Latest reports from PCC re the Pukerua Beach Road situation. Council has a geologist on site at the moment and PCC will give updates. Its all just precautionary at this point. Its been challenging weather across the whole city this weekend. There have just been reports of some cracks on Pukerua Beach Rd so they … Pukerua Beach Road –Ocean Parade Read More »
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• • Samaritans of Wellington Appeal 2012

    • 6 Aug 2012
    • Samaritans
    • It's August again, and once more the Wellington Samaritans Annual Appeal hits the streets of The Coolest Little Capital, this time on Friday August 24 and Saturday August 25. The appeal is a vital part of keeping the service 24/7, 365 days a year, supporting our volunteers so they can keep listening, caring and just being there. read more
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• • And so it begins. Property Manager Regulation is on its way!

    • 30 Mar 2022
    • Renters United
    • We’ve had another big month here at Renters United! We’ve started work on our next campaign for Property Manager Regulation and we published our open letter to Trade Me. Read on to see how it went, and how you can get involved! The post And so it begins. Property Manager Regulation is on its way! appeared first on Renters United!.
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    Haunui Rd slip disrupts water supply

    • 4 Jun 2022
    • Pukerua Bay Residents Association
    • A slip at the end of Haunui Road has cut off water to the end houses and damaged a power pole at the end of the street. Wellington Water has cut off the water to houses from the corner with Haunui Way – around number 27 Haunui Rd – to the end of the road … Haunui Rd slip disrupts water supply Read More »
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    Haunui Road, Pukerua Bay, Porirua City, Wellington, 5026, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
  
  

• • And so it begins. Property Manager Regulation is on its way!

    • 30 Mar 2022
    • Renters United
    • We’ve had another big month here at Renters United! We’ve started work on our next campaign for Property Manager Regulation and we published our open letter to Trade Me. Read on to see how it went, and how you can get involved! The post And so it begins. Property Manager Regulation is on its way! appeared first on Renters United.
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• • Visit Central Park’s night time lights!

    • 23 Jun 2023
    • Upstream: Friends of Central Park
    • Upstream – Friends of Central Park are offering free night-time guided walks to see the glow-worms lighting up the banks upstream. Find out more about these fascinating creatures; what makes them glow and why? Come along on Friday 21st or Sunday 23rd July. There will be two walks per night, starting at 6.30 and 6.45 with a maximum of 12… Read more
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    Central Park, Aro Valley, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
  
  
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    ACC’s new strength and balance app

    • 23 Jul 2023
    • Age Concern Wellington
    • ACC has launched a free, balance exercise app, Nymbl. https://youtu.be/71g4-U8zZ5Y Being in control of your health and wellbeing is so important for living a fulfilling life. Nymbl enables you to regularly do balance exercises, wherever you are, whenever you want, improving your balance, and enabling you to keep doing the things you love. Whether you ... Read more
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    From the President – June 2024

    • 27 Jun 2024
    • Wellington Tramping and Mountainneering Club
    • Kia ora, This article provides general club updates including: Ngā mihi Anne president@wtmc.org.nz The Easy/Medium trip to Cascade Hut over the weekend of 21-23 June was the club’s first to that Hut via the Hinemaiaia track. Overall, the group found it a very pleasing and scenic track with stunningly clear streams and rivers. The “cascades” near ... Read more
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• • Thank you for joining us | APM 2024

    • 29 Sep 2024
    • Wellington Community Fund
    • On Wednesday 25 September 2024, WCF staff and board delivered our Annual Public Meeting via Zoom. We were pleased to be joined by a number of community groups. For those who couldn’t make it we’ve uploaded the recording here – use the password H!z$F$m2 to view. The information presented can also be found in our annual review and... Read more »
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    Sarah goes Tararua hut bagging – to Dorset, Tarn and Arete Forks Huts

    • 17 Sep 2023
    • Wellington Tramping and Mountainneering Club
    • Tararua hut bagging. Dorset Ridge Hut, Tarn Ridge Hut, and Arete Forks Hut. In mid to late summer the Tararuas are at their vibrant best. Flowers brighten the higher-level slopes—there are meadows of edelweiss particularly about Brockett and Table Ridge—and there are many more juicy snowberries to be picked than anyone could possibly eat. Butterflies ... Read more
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    Tauanui Hut and Te Maunga summit – Aorangi Forest Park

    • 2 Oct 2025
    • Wellington Tramping and Mountainneering Club
    • We set off bright and early from Wellington on Saturday morning in the club van, after some convenient door-to-door pickups by our glorious leader Bryan. We then enjoyed a windy, motion sickness-inducing drive over the Remutaka Hill to Featherston, where we enjoyed a wee pastry and a coffee at the Baker before setting off. Once ... Read more
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    Winchcombe Biv – Tararua Forest Park

    • 27 Jul 2023
    • Wellington Tramping and Mountainneering Club
    • Fri – Waiohine Gorge car park to Cone HutWithin minutes of starting our journey to Cone Hut, in an attempt to avoid getting wet feet, I had somehow managed to fall (timber-like) sideways into the creek. I hit my knee, there was blood and a bruise-in-the-making, and I needed a minute to recover. Not a ... Read more
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    Seaward Kaikoura Range

    • 23 Feb 2023
    • Wellington Tramping and Mountainneering Club
    • Thursday We piled onto the Thursday afternoon ferry, and the group started to get to know each other. We had a good mix of new and more experienced group members, including Harry and Paul, who had both attempted Snowflake via this route before – notably before the 2016 Kaikoura earthquake https://wtmc.org.nz/trip-report/slippery-snowflake/. We had a good ... Read more
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    Thunderstorms and dehy meals: Travers-Sabine Easter adventures

    • 16 May 2023
    • Wellington Tramping and Mountainneering Club
    • We started our long weekend adventure on Thursday afternoon, catching the Interislander to Picton. Thankfully, the recent technical issues plaguing both the Interislander and Bluebridge ferries (and recent cyclones!) were not an issue, and it was a perfectly smooth sailing. We drove to St Arnaud and pitched our tents at the DOC campground at Kerr Bay ($20). Great ... Read more
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    South Saddle via Goat Stream – Remutaka Forest Park

    • 8 May 2023
    • Wellington Tramping and Mountainneering Club
    • Six of us left the Catchpool carpark just after 9 am in slightly cool conditions. We were soon in the Orongorongo Valley and headed upstream to Goat Stream. At Goat Stream Hut we had morning tea. We didn’t see the person staying at Goat Stream Hut, but the door was unlocked and there were signs of habitation in ... Read more
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    Hiking the Oxford Forest to Mt Oxford summit, Wharfedale Hut and Lower Salmon Biv

    • 10 Sep 2025
    • Wellington Tramping and Mountainneering Club
    • Hiking in the Oxford Forest visiting Mt Oxford summit, Wharfedale Hut and Lower Salmon Biv The story of a three-day winter hike in the Oxford Forest with visits to the summit of Mt Oxford, Wharfedale Hut and Lower Salmon Biv, including a route map. There was a good weather window and I jumped at the opportunity to do a spontaneous ... Read more
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    Reserve your copy of Harry Potter

    • 19 Feb 2007
    • Wellington City Libraries
    • 'Harry Potter and the deathly hallows' is due for release on July 21st. You can place a reserve here. We're buying heaps of copies and there'll be a quick turnover. Of course, if you don't want a 10-year-old who read the entire thing on the first day to tell you who dies, then you may have to buy a copy.
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• • Notice of Annual General Meeting (AGM): 9 April 2025

    • 11 Mar 2025
    • Wellington Tramping and Mountainneering Club
    • Wednesday 9 April 2025, 7-8pm Find the event on the website or on Facebook. This notice provides an Agenda for the AGM, supporting documents, nominations received for the Committee,and information on how to join the AGM remotely through “Google Meet.” This page will be updated when new nominations or motions are received. Agenda for the AGM Chair: Andrew ... Read more
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    Sunrise Hut – Ruahine Forest Park

    • 12 Oct 2024
    • Wellington Tramping and Mountainneering Club
    • We met at Wellington Train Station at 5pm and piled into the van for the trip north, stopping in Levin for dinner on the way. We’d neglected to heed the notice on the DOC website that Fletchers Crossing Bridge was closed, so we unexpectedly came across a very-much-not-there bridge and had to backtrack to the ... Read more
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    Arcus Dam – a pleasant day walk to the lake almost in Tararua Forest Park

    • 13 Sep 2025
    • Wellington Tramping and Mountainneering Club
    • Arcus Dam – a pleasant day walk to the lake that’s almost in Tararua Forest Park An easy hike to a lake created by the Arcus Dam followed by some more difficult off-track walking connecting to tracks at Otaki Forks, including a route map. There are many tarns on the ridge tops of the Tararua Forest Park—some ... Read more
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• • Casey Glover smashes Cook Strait crossing record

    • 14 Apr 2008
    • Swimming Wellington
    • April 13, 2008. In his first attempt, Casey Glover (21, SZR) crossed north to south in a time of just 4 hours 37 minutes and 56 seconds. He took more than 27 minutes off the previous quickest time and was a staggering 2 hours 11 minutes faster than the previous best north-south swim. Read more on the Stuff website.
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• • Dateline: Saturday 02 May 2009

    • 3 May 2009
    • Wellington VHF Group
    • Today I attended the 50th Wanganui “Junk Sale” held at Wanganui Intermediate School. The day started for me with the arrival of Ted ZL2TED and Don ZL2DON at my QTH, and we set off from Newlands at around 06:45. We made good time travelling north, with a breakfast stop at Bulls, arriving at the venue at about 09:30. read more
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    Newlands, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, New Zealand/Aotearoa (OpenStreetMap)
  
  

• • Amateur Radio Promotion Pamphlet

    • 25 Jan 2009
    • Wellington VHF Group
    • As referenced in the latest Q-Bit, Wellington VHF Group now have a pamphlet available to help in the promotion of Amateur Radio. You can add the appropriate contact details and print as many copies as you wish. It prints OK in black and white. The text has been developed with input and advice from commercial marketing experts. read more
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• • Bike the Trail 2010 - Sunday 28 Feb - VOLUNTEERS NEEDED.

    • 18 Feb 2010
    • Wellington VHF Group
    • Folks, Bike the Trail 2010 is coming! Once again Wellington VHF Group have been approached to provide marshalls for the course route, with the Amateur VHF repeater at Belmont (710) being ideally suited to providing comms across the Hutt Valley. This is an event we successfully helped with in 2009 and things went so well, they want us back! read more
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    Lower Hutt, Wellington, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
  
  

• • You're fly-erred

    • 2 Nov 2009
    • The Wellingtonista
    • Plenty of Wellingtonians would have spat out their flat whites on Saturday morning when the Dom Post cover revealed that our old friend Terry Serepisos is going to host New Zealand's version of The Apprentice. As I'm sure you're all aware, the American version Donald Trump is famous for putting his name on all sorts of ridiculous things: read more
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• • Show and Tell at the May Meeting

    • 27 May 2010
    • Wellington VHF Group
    • The May meeting followed up the formal business with a Show and Tell. We had six speakers and two new guests introduced themselves- they have migrated to Wellington with their SAR search dogs, cats and radio gear from Finland. Previously they had worked for a small Finnish company called Nokia! (My apologies on not having the names or calls yet) read more
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• • Smell the 'glove

    • 5 Jul 2010
    • The Wellingtonista
    • It may not be what we were expecting from a "West Hollywood lounge experience", but all that money certainly has ensured that Foxglove is a vastly more impressive visual experience than the ol' Loaded Hog. But a bar is not just about the pretty, so how does it stack up? See what the 'fly thinks after the jump. read more
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    Book review on Human Transit

    • 22 Jan 2012
    • Wellington Region Cycleways
    • I’ve written a guest post on the Auckland Transport Blog. It’s a book review of Jarrett Walker’s Human Transit: How Clearer Thinking about Public Transit Can Enrich Our Communities and Our Lives. To read the review you’re going to have to click here. I’ve written 2 other book reviews on Wellington Regional Cycleways before: Pedaling Revolutions, and Build Your Own Electric Bicycle
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• • Quiet summer for Coastguard Mana

    • 3 Feb 2013
    • Coastguard Mana
    • Kapiti Island from Pukerua Bay, Wellington on Christmas Day Summer usually brings a steady increase in the Search and Rescue workload of Coastguard units around the country. However, Coastguard Mana has experienced an anomoly in the number of rescues and water-related incidents this year - even though we've had one of the warmest, driest and calmest summers in years. read more
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• • Luke Watts to attend World University Rowing Championships

    • 16 Apr 2012
    • Victoria University Rowing Club
    • A huge congratulations to VURC’s Luke Watts who has been named in the 10-strong team for the World University Championships. These will be held in Kazan, Russia in September. Luke’s local newspaper, the Wanganui Chronicle has written about his achievement. You can read the article here. Luke Watts is set to compete at the World University Rowing Championships in Kazan, Russia.
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