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    2017 Concert Series

    • 19 Nov 2016
    • Chamber Music Hutt Valley
    • We are pleased to announce the Chamber Music Hutt Valley 2017 concert series.     Amici Ensemble Tuesday 14th March – 7:30pm Little Theatre, Lower Hutt Amici Ensemble  was formed by Donald Armstrong, the Associate Concertmaster of the NZ Symphony Orchestra, in 1988 to perform works for many differing combinations of instruments.  He draws together musicians, […]
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    Lower Hutt, Lower Hutt City, Wellington, 5010, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
  
  
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    Quick Submission Guide on the Civil Aviation Bill 2021

    • 29 Nov 2021
    • Guardians of the Bays
    • This guide is prepared by Guardians of the Bays. We’re a community group set up to oppose Wellington Airport’s expansion plans. But all over the country, communities are facing more noise and more disruption from airports’ aggressive expansion plans – which are also making the climate emergency worse. The Government’s new Civil Aviation Bill could do […]
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    The anti-intensification media blitz

    • 5 Dec 2021
    • Talk Wellington
    • Do you want to see more people in good homes, but are starting to have real doubts about the merits of the Medium Density housing bill? You may be experiencing the blitz effect The vigilant folks at Mediawatch made an interesting observation this week: the mainstream media’s coverage of housing intensification being blitzed by opponents...
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    Reading, Research and Rugby: Clive Akers for Steinlager Salver?

    • 21 Dec 2021
    • Wellington Club Weekly
    • By Adam Julian  There’s a chance that when avid readers of rugby open their Christmas presents (another book), the author could be Clive Akers. Editor of the Rugby Almanack since 1994, Clive is the author of seven major rugby history books, notably including Monro: The Life and Times of the Man who gave Rugby to...
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    Quick Submission Guide on the Civil Aviation Bill 2021

    • 29 Nov 2021
    • Guardians of the Bays
    • This guide is prepared by Guardians of the Bays. We’re a community group set up to oppose Wellington Airport’s expansion plans. But all over the country, communities are facing more noise and more disruption from airports’ aggressive expansion plans – which are also making the climate emergency worse. The Government’s new Civil Aviation Bill could do […]
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    Remains of the day

    • 3 Jan 2022
    • Wellington Club Weekly
    • Above: “Barney” Ronaldson seated on the ground at bottom right in the Greytown team photo of 1884. By Touchline An unplanned walk among the derelict tombstones of the “public” section of Wellington’s Karori Cemetery on New Year’s Day caused Touchline to muse that the pride of society in its history can perhaps be seen in...
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    Karori, Wellington, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
  
  
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    All you need is Ruben

    • 31 Jan 2022
    • Wellington Club Weekly
    • Ruben Love playing for the Hurricanes last year against the Rebels. PHOTO: Mike Lewis. By Steven White Ruben Love is the first player since Jeff Wilson to represent New Zealand secondary schools’ teams at both rugby and cricket and the first player to be born this century to play for the Hurricanes. It’s been a...
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    100th cap for Ben Bam May in Hurricanes opener

    • 17 Feb 2022
    • Wellington Club Weekly
    • Captain Hurricane supports the team last year. By Peter Marriott and Steven White Blenheim born Ben Bam May will play his 100th match for the Hurricanes in their 2022 season opener against the Crusaders on Saturday night in Dunedin. It will actually be May’s 99th Super Rugby match as he played against the British &...
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    Pioneers of Wellington Rugby 002: Captain James Isherwood

    • 24 Feb 2022
    • Wellington Club Weekly
    • The Wellington Football Club 1875. James Isherwood fourth from left – a strapping gentleman who means business. By Dribbling Rushes Recognised as the founder of rugby in Wellington. Having played in early organised matches in Wellington for Wellington selections against the crew of the HMS Rosario in 1868 (under non-rugby rules) and against Nelson in...
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    Aisle be Back: Hurricanes v Blues and 50th cap for James Blackwell

    • 24 Feb 2022
    • Wellington Club Weekly
    • James Blackwell (Petone) will play his 50th match for the Hurricanes when they take on the Blues in round two of the Super Rugby Pacific competition this Saturday in Dunedin.  By Kevin McCarthy  Round one down and in a season like no other, it still feels like a season like every other. In short, a...
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    Pioneers of Wellington Rugby: 003 George Campbell

    • 2 Mar 2022
    • Wellington Club Weekly
    • The Athletic Football Club in 1882, with the Union Challenge Cup. George Campbell in the centre holding the ball. By Dribbling Rushes Profiling the people that built and helped shape the game in Wellington, from its inception in 1870 through to the WRFU’s 50th Jubilee year in 1929. Seven years after the first rugby match...
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    COVID Measures/Lent 1 – Weekly News for Friday 4 March 2022

    • 3 Mar 2022
    • St Andrews on the Terrace Presbyterian Church
    • COVID measures At Parish Council last evening we acknowledged that New Zealand has entered a new and different phase of the pandemic where case numbers are very high and climbing, and are probably underreported by quite a long way given that Rapid Antigen Test kits are now being widely used, hospital admissions are increasing and […]
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    St Andrew's on the Terrace, 30, The Terrace, Paekākā, Wellington Central, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, 6011, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
  
  

• • Dr Junior Ulu: what is Care in the Community?

    • 4 Mar 2022
    • Capital & Coast District Health Board
    • The COVID-19 Care in the Community Framework was set up by the Ministry of Heath, which ensures that people with COVID-19 receive the support they need. It’s a regionally coordinated, locally-led approach to managing COVID-19 patients and their whānau, understanding that local health and welfare providers know their communities best.
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    Aisle be Back: Hurricanes v Highlanders

    • 4 Mar 2022
    • Wellington Club Weekly
    • By Kevin McCarthy  Typically, as I’m watching the closing stages of a Hurricanes match, I am thinking about what I can write about in the following week’s column. Last weekend, at the 70th minute mark, I was thinking, oh no, I’ve to write THAT column. The one where the Hurricanes lose, and you try to...
    • Accepted from Club Weekly 2020 45 months ago by feedreader
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    Aisle be Back: The return of the Hurricanes

    • 24 Mar 2022
    • Wellington Club Weekly
    • By Kevin McCarthy Why the gloom and despair out there folks. There seems to be at times a professional industry around talking down rugby and its future in this country. We’re told the All Blacks are sliding down the world rankings. That the northern hemisphere and South Africa are the new powerhouses. That Super Rugby...
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    Weekly News for Friday 1st April 2022

    • 1 Apr 2022
    • St Andrews on the Terrace Presbyterian Church
    • Going live! This week we will be live streaming the service, led by Rev Ross Scott, from St Andrew’s on The Terrace. You can choose to join us at church, or you can watch from home. Don’t forget it is daylight saving and we change back to winter time. See John’s notice below. You will […]
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    St Andrew's on the Terrace, 30, The Terrace, Paekākā, Wellington Central, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, 6011, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
  
  
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    Defending champions toppled in season opener as Swindale Shield gets underway

    • 2 Apr 2022
    • Wellington Club Weekly
    • Draws & Results HERE By Steven White and Martyn Bridge Saturday evening edition: Defending first round champions Old Boys University and last year’s second round Jubilee Cup winners Tawa were both beaten in the opening round of Wellington club rugby Swindale Shield matches played in balmy conditions around the region this afternoon. Old Boys University...
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    Tawa, Wellington, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
  
  
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    Pioneers of rugby in Wellington: 008 William ‘Offside’ McKenzie

    • 13 Apr 2022
    • Wellington Club Weekly
    • Above: The New Zealand team that played New South Wales in 1894. William ‘Offside McKenzie’ is second from right at top.  Profiling many of the people that built and helped shape the game in Wellington, from its inception in 1870 through to the WRFU’s 50th Jubilee year in 1929.  William McKenzie was better known by...
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    Boilovers and thrillers – Swindale Shield comes alive in third round

    • 16 Apr 2022
    • Wellington Club Weekly
    • Lester Maulolo scores Petone’s winning try on fulltime against Oriental-Rongotai. Petone won 37-35. PHOTO: Andy McArthur. By Steven White & Martyn Bridge Results & Standings HERE  The 2022 Swindale Shield has ignited. The third round of matches played in fine, windy conditions today resulted in five of the six matches going down to the wire,...
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    Aisle be Back: Hurricanes v Waratahs

    • 12 May 2022
    • Wellington Club Weekly
    • By Kevin McCarthy Coming into the last leg, and it’s always a case of whose got fuel in the tank. On that score at least, the Hurricanes are handily placed to move up the ladder. Last weekend’s demolition of the Fijian Drua – who flattered to underwhelm and then underwhelmed a bit more as well...
    • Accepted from Club Weekly 2020 43 months ago by feedreader
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    Competition contenders set to shine in round nine

    • 27 May 2022
    • Wellington Club Weekly
    • By Scott MacLean and Steven White Draws & Teamlists HERE Midday edition: It’s all systems go tomorrow in the last weekend of May with the start of the college rugby competitions and the start of the second round Division 1 Women’s competition after a misfire last weekend, and all other club rugby competitions in full...
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• • The Emission Reduction Plan – what it means for transport in Kāpiti

    • 29 May 2022
    • Low Carbon Kapiti
    • By Paul Callister Driving less. That was a key message of the Emission Reduction Plan. On Monday 16th of May 2022, Aotearoa New Zealand’s first Emission Reduction Plan was released. Four days later the budget announced more climate change related spending. So how does the proposed plan and budget spending affect Kāpiti? There were many […]
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    Galu Taufale driving Poneke towards the top

    • 1 Jun 2022
    • Wellington Club Weekly
    • By Adam Julian Much of this conversation with Galu Taufale was made in last week’s episode of the Huddy Hui, link to it in full below. This time last year Poneke was struggling, consigned to the Hardham Cup. What a difference a year makes. Having won that Premier 2 final in 2021, Poneke are now...
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• • Feeling and responding to the climate and ecological crises

    • 17 Jun 2022
    • Low Carbon Kapiti
    • By Rick Williment, registered psychotherapist, climate activist The disciplines of psychology and psychotherapy have a contribution to make to humanity’s greatest collective struggle: the urgent, dire need to find meaningful responses to the rapidly escalating climate and ecological crises.  These crises that imperil so much that we love; so much that we belong to; so […]
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    Seven principles for better cities

    • 21 Jun 2022
    • Talk Wellington
    • As we approach big decisions about urban character and housing, and how to move in the city and things to get to, here are some guiding stars This TED talk with Peter Calthorpe is a great watch. It talks about how the best cities to live in foster community through their design – by creating spaces...
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    Inaugural National U85kg college rugby festival

    • 21 Jun 2022
    • Wellington Club Weekly
    • By College Sport Wellington Media Release With the support of New Zealand Rugby (NZR), Wellington Rugby will host the inaugural Under 85kg College Rugby Festival as part of School Sport NZ’s popular Secondary School Winter Tournament Week. The inaugural tournament will be held at the Petone Recreation Ground August 30 – September 1. NZR’s General...
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    Petone, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
  
  
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    MSP and Norths to meet in Division 1 Women’s final on Friday

    • 22 Jun 2022
    • Wellington Club Weekly
    • By Ian Knightly If you like your rugby with a sizeable side of intrigue, then tomorrow’s Women’s Tia Paasi Memorial Division 1 championship final at Rugby League Park should provide it. There will be a different name engraved on it this year as Oriental Rongotai’s reign of dominance is over, for this season at least....
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    Final round showdown for Swindale Shield

    • 24 Jun 2022
    • Wellington Club Weekly
    • After meeting last week, Paremata-Plimmerton are back home tomorrow in a local derby encounter against Northern United, whilst the Rams are in town to meet the Wellington Axemen.  By Scott MacLean and Steven White Draws & teamlists (as received) HERE  Petone or Hutt Old Boys Marist? One of those teams will be lifting the coveted...
    • Accepted from Club Weekly 2020 42 months ago by feedreader
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    Plimmerton, Porirua, Porirua City, Wellington, 5026, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
  
  
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    Guardians reach settlement with Wellington Airport

    • 23 Jun 2022
    • Guardians of the Bays
    • Guardians of the Bays is pleased to report that it has achieved a settlement of its appeal against Wellington International Airport Ltd. The appeal was about the Airport’s designations for airport activities on the current site and over the current section of the golf course owned by WIAL. The settlement includes improvements to the designation […]
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• • The continuing campaign for a safe crossing of Poplar Avenue

    • 26 Jun 2022
    • Low Carbon Kapiti
    • By Sahra Kress It is no secret that nearly everyone who lives in Raumati South has come to see this missing crossing for a main cycle path as a scandal over many years. Poplar Avenue funnels traffic off a motorway, past a school, and around a blind corner with an adjoining main road, and walkers […]
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    Poplar Avenue, Raumati South, Paraparaumu, Kapiti Coast District, Wellington, 5032, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)