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    Aisle be Back: Hurricanes v Waratahs

    • 2 May 2024
    • Wellington Club Weekly
    • Billy Proctor captains the Hurricanes from centre tonight and TJ Perenara starts on the bench, as the Hurricanes hope to fend off the Waratahs challenge. By Kevin McCarthy We’re heading to tunnel vision time – when fans get fixated on the final run-in for their teams, understandably. I’m as tempted as anyone to look at...
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    Club Rugby A-Z 2025

    • 3 Apr 2025
    • Wellington Club Weekly
    • By Scott MacLean Our A-Z preview of the season turns 10 this time around. We look ahead at the upcoming campaign, which gets underway this Saturday with first rounds in all six competition grades as well as the “friendly fire” of the Presidents grade. A – Anticipation: Just what will the season ahead bring? Champions...
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    Community Rugby in Wellington to come alive in round five

    • 3 May 2024
    • Wellington Club Weekly
    • Poneke’s Caleb Robson is caught in a sea of Tawa players in their match last week. The fine weather is set to continue tomorrow, as Poneke travel to Fraser Park to play Avalon and Tawa host Old Boys University. More details of these and the other five Premier matches below. By Scott MacLean & Steven...
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    Tawa, Wellington, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
  
  
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    Tawa and Nigel Hunt calling on experience in upcoming Jubilee Cup round

    • 3 Jul 2025
    • Wellington Club Weekly
    • Nigel Hunt in headgear celebrates Tawa’s 26-23 win over Paremata-Plimmerton on Saturday. Other evergreen Tawa players in shot include Tito Ioane, Hemi Fermanis and Randall Bishop. Photo: Stewart Baird. By Steven White Experience counts for a lot at this time of the club rugby season. The Jubilee Cup – and in particular knockout rugby –...
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    Tawa, Wellington, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
  
  
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    Solomona and Meroiti win College Sport Wellington rugby awards

    • 3 Nov 2025
    • Wellington Club Weekly
    • Elijah Solomona playing for the St Pat’s Silverstream 7s team on Saturday. Photo by Club Rugby. St Pat’s Silverstream captain and openside flanker Elijah Solomona and Tawa College and Northern United utility back Baylee Meroiti are the 2025 College Sport Wellington boys and girls Rugby Players of the Year. The pair won these awards at...
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    Silverstream, Upper Hutt, Upper Hutt City, Wellington, 5019, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
  
  
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    Thriller at Porirua Park as representative season gets underway and college semi-finals confirmed

    • 3 Aug 2024
    • Wellington Club Weekly
    • Wellington Māori tighthead prop Geordie Bean scores the second of his two tries today at Porirua Park, as part of their high scoring narrow win over the Horowhenua-Kapiti Heartland Championship squad. By Steven White & Scott MacLean The atmosphere at Porirua Park today was several notches more subdued than a week prior on club rugby...
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    Porirua, Wellington Region, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
  
  

• • Pasifika Stage

    • 4 Mar 2023
    • Newtown Festival
    • We are welcoming a brand new stage featuring our talented Pasifika community. Catch dance, music, even opera ! Located in the lovely grassy area of Mercy Park, accessible via Emmett St (or even Green St, Minerva St or Daniell St). Brought to you by the 2023 Census, Statistics New Zealand, and thanks to St Annes […]
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    Local schools to the fore at Condor 7s

    • 3 Dec 2023
    • Wellington Club Weekly
    • Scots College and St Pat’s Silverstream at the recent Wellington Condor 7s tournament. Both teams have been competing at this weekend’s National Condors at Mt Maunganui, with Scots finishing 5th and Silverstream 14th. By Scott MacLean A solid showing from the four Wellington schools at this years Condor 7s, which took place at its new...
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    Silverstream, Upper Hutt, Upper Hutt City, Wellington, 5019, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
  
  
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    Review: Femme Natale – The Queen Years

    • 2 Jun 2024
    • The Wellingtonista
    • Reviewed by Talia Carlisle The talented team behind Femme Natale have worked their butts off to bring a magnificent sketch showcase of parents’ inner adult desires to BATS Theatre. After returning from Edinburgh Fringe with a new lease on parenthood, their new iteration of Femme Natale is refreshingly hilarious and important to share in a […]
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    Roman Tutauha proud centurion on the Meads Cup march

    • 4 Oct 2023
    • Wellington Club Weekly
    • By Adam Julian – this story was written for NZRU channels this week and has been republished here with permission. It took some persuasion for Roman Tutauha (Ngāti Ruanui) to speak publicly about his 100th match for Whanganui. This coming Saturday the stoic, sturdy, and softly-spoken hooker will become the 15th Whanganui player to crack...
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    Silverware Saturday for U19s, U18s competition starts up and U85kg quarter-final tomorrow

    • 5 Sep 2025
    • Wellington Club Weekly
    • Connor Tuifao and Wellington centurions teammates surge forward in their big win against Manawatu Development last Saturday. They are likely to find stiffer competition against their Tasman counterparts tomorrow at Evans Bay Park. By Scott MacLean The third and final round of the Hurricanes region U19s competition is being played tomorrow, with Wellington set to...
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    Ranfurly Shield broken, give it to the Heartland

    • 5 Oct 2023
    • Wellington Club Weekly
    • By Adam Julian It’s only recently the Ranfurly Shield has been publicly labelled a taonga. Taonga is a Māori word to describe treasured items or possessions that hold cultural, spiritual, historical or personal significance. These can include physical objects such as artwork, carvings, jewellery or heirlooms, as well as intangible concepts like songs, dances, stories...
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    Club Rugby Awards of the Year 2025

    • 5 Nov 2025
    • Wellington Club Weekly
    • By Scott MacLean, Steven White & Adam Julian The final piece of our club season coverage for this year is our Annual Awards. A mix of the serious and silly, here’s ours for 2025. Team of the Year: The Upper Hutt Rams Colts. Melding any age-group team together is a skillful operation, dealing with players...
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    Upper Hutt, Upper Hutt City, Wellington, 5218, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
  
  
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    The curse of the Top Qualifier

    • 5 Aug 2025
    • Wellington Club Weekly
    • Above: Last year’s Premiership First XV champions St Pat’s Silverstream, with St Pat’s Town (2015) and Wellington College (2013) inset. Photos: Andy McArthur/Mike Lewis. By Steven White & Adam Julian Forget the favourites tag – the second-placed or lower qualifier in the Wellington First XV Premiership has won the final eight times since 2010. Already...
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    Silverstream, Upper Hutt, Upper Hutt City, Wellington, 5019, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
  
  
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    NPC Round 1 Wellington v Canterbury – numbers and stats

    • 5 Aug 2025
    • Wellington Club Weekly
    • The Wellington Lions taking a water break in their season opener against Canterbury. Photo: Stewart Baird. By Peter Marriott Each week throughout the NPC, Hurricanes and Wellington statistician Peter Marriott will provide the numbers and statistics, records and happenings that you need to know about the game that has just played. First up is the...
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    Aisle be Back: All Blacks v Uruguay (the wash-up)

    • 5 Oct 2023
    • Wellington Club Weekly
    • By Kevin McCarthy My family used to live in the Falkland Islands, and politics being politics, if they needed better medical care, they’d take the slow boat to neighbouring Uruguay, rather than Argentina. The said ship, the Montevideo, was legendary for making people violently sick in the wild South Atlantic seas. I felt the same...
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    Review: Dirty Work

    • 5 Aug 2023
    • The Wellingtonista
    • By Talia Carlisle An ode to joy! For the first time recently I joined a choir, and as we joined together as strangers to sing, holding our music and raising our voices in harmony, I could feel such joy and togetherness lifting everyone up, and connecting us together while also creating a melodic story told […]
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    Aisle be Back: All Blacks v Scotland

    • 6 Nov 2025
    • Wellington Club Weekly
    • Above: When the All Blacks played Scotland in 1964. This was a 0-0 draw – the closest Scotland has ever come to beating the All Blacks. By Kevin McCarthy It seems staggering that Scotland is still winless against the All Blacks. Like the Irish before them, they’ve gone perilously close to the Holy Grail a...
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    Aisle be Back: Hurricanes v Moana Pasifika

    • 6 Mar 2025
    • Wellington Club Weekly
    • Petone’s Harry Godfrey flies through to score his try last week against the Blues. By Kevin McCarthy Into round 4 and don’t think we’ve had a banana peel result yet. That is when everyone thinks a team could not possibly lose to some underdog – and then it does. This year’s Super Rugby Pacific is...
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    Petone, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
  
  
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    Wellington Presence Strong on Historic U85kgs tour

    • 7 May 2025
    • Wellington Club Weekly
    • Pasia Asiata makes a break for the New Zealand U85kg side against Sri Lanka on Sunday. Photo credit: Sri Lanka Rugby Facebook By Adam Julian In 2001, Matthew Treeby visited Sri Lanka with his family to help build facilities for struggling children. More than two decades later the Tawa hooker is helping Sri Lanka strengthen...
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    Tawa, Wellington, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
  
  

• • The Wrap Up (Week 6, Term 2 2024)

    • 7 Jun 2024
    • Wellington High School
    • Sharpen your debating skills at Parliament and prepare to be enthralled by our Year 12's crime and murder inspired productions. Discover your inner artist for Blank Canvas and rock to the impressive musical energy as our students showcase their talents across festivals and competitions. This and much more in this week's Wrap Up.
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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 Rugby World Cup begins

    • 7 Sep 2023
    • Wellington Club Weekly
    • By Kevin McCarthy You can’t go anywhere right now without someone talking about who’s going to win the World Cup. Ask the question and get five or more different answers. Important question of course, but not one to focus on. After all, there are 24 teams. So, what is that – four per cent of...
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    OBU on top in Swindale Shield, Petone and HOBM keep pace as Axemen break 43-match losing run

    • 8 Jun 2024
    • Wellington Club Weekly
    • Old Boys University centre Fuka Paongo on his way to scoring one second half try and helping set up another in his team’s big win over Paremata-Plimmerton in perfect conditions this afternoon. By Steven White, Scott MacLean & Adam Julian The Swindale Shield is Old Boys University’s to lose of the final three weeks. They...
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    Plimmerton, Porirua, Porirua City, Wellington, 5026, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
  
  
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    Aisle be Back: Hurricanes v Blues

    • 3 Apr 2025
    • Wellington Club Weekly
    • The Hurricanes forwards get stuck in during their win over the Waratahs last weekend. By Kevin McCarthy Super Rugby Pacific keeps getting betterer – although some worried franchises are praying it would actually translate into backsides on seats. One number-cruncher has done some very interesting research showing it is not in our imagination. The matches...
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    Aisle be Back: All Blacks v France in Dunedin

    • 4 Jul 2025
    • Wellington Club Weekly
    • By Kevin McCarthy The French are coming – but they’re sending the Marie-Louises. The young, callow conscripts that Napoleon had to call up in 1813 and 1814 to defend France – because, basically, he’d killed, maimed or frozen to death most of his old timers. The European monarchies found this terribly disrespectful, but decided to...
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    Aisle be Back: The last Test before the RWC and the NPC starting

    • 3 Aug 2023
    • Wellington Club Weekly
    • By Kevin McCarthy Everyone needs a Canada. Even Canada. I’m referencing the Maple Leaf because I always reckon they were the prefect pre World Cup opposition, in 1995 when the All Blacks were off to South Africa. Laurie Mains’ side were not exactly setting the world on fire – 1994 record, six tests, three losses,...
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    Shirley Barton Trophy and Ballantyne Cup results 2023

    • 3 Sep 2023
    • Wellington Scottish Athletics Club
    • Handicapper’s report It was a great day yesterday for the race for the club’s most prestigious trophy, the Ballantyne Cup, held alongside the Shirley Barton trophy. A 6km, not very flat course in Miramar in fairly nice spring conditions, although the Southerly had picked up a bit by the time we raced, which made the […]
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    Miramar, Wellington, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
  
  

• • Invite to Public Webinars on Climate Change Consultation from He Pou a Rangi – Climate Change Commission

    • 14 Apr 2024
    • Guardians of the Bays
    • He Pou a Rangi, the Climate Change Commission, are consulting from 8 April to 31 May 2024 on the discussion document into whether emissions from international shipping and aviation should be included in the emissions reduction target. The results of the consultation will inform the Commission’s upcoming advice to the Government – due by the […]
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    Natural experiments, and traffic

    • 3 May 2024
    • Talk Wellington
    • You’d think that restricting road space for general traffic will automatically makes streets more congested. But does it? Natural experiments are worth a look… Next time you’re in a place where there’s lots of coming and going by people, and you see some road works with temporary traffic managment (TTM), don’t just see the ugly...
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    Much to play for in opening weekend of second round matches in Premier and Premier 2 grades

    • 4 Jul 2025
    • Wellington Club Weekly
    • By Scott MacLean & Steven White It’s the opening weekend of the second round of the Wellington club rugby Premier and Premier 2 competitions, and there is much on the line for many teams. The winners of the respective Jubilee Cup (Premier) and Ed Chaney Cup (Premier 2) ‘top 4’ matches earn next weekend off...
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