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    Pioneers of Rugby in Wellington 079: Dick Burke

    • 17 Jul 2024
    • Wellington Club Weekly
    • Richard ‘Dick’ Burke is one of several prominent players whose careers were curtailed by World War II, but whose playing days finished with a flourish before moving on to a meritorious coaching career. One of the leading players in a middling University team in Wellington club rugby throughout the latter half of the 1930s, Burke...
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    Aisle be Back: All Blacks v France #3

    • 17 Jul 2025
    • Wellington Club Weekly
    • By Kevin McCarthy If you ever watched Sesame Street Classic, you’d know the puzzle song of One of these Things is Not Like The Other. Or in the French rugby case – three of these things. And now in the All Blacks, two of these things. Which leaves me struggling to weigh up how this...
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    Aisle be Back: Hurricanes v Force

    • 18 Apr 2025
    • Wellington Club Weekly
    • The Hurricanes and Crusaders in action last week in Wellington. This weekend the Hurricanes play the Western Force in Perth on Saturday night at 9.35pm – a club rugby friendly time with some clubrooms likely to be packed to the gunnels watching on their big screens. By Kevin McCarthy Nothing is more certain in life...
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    Weekly News 17 June 2024

    • 17 Jun 2024
    • Wellington Scottish Athletics Club
    • This week If you want your event added to this list, contact us by Sunday evening. Results Three Peaks – Event One A great Scottish showing at the first Three Peaks event, taking on Te Rauparaha Pouwhenua (Tawatawa), Te Raekaihau lookout (Houghton Bay) and Matairangi (Mt Victoria). Results Trail de Montgailhard, Foix France Heather and […]
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    Tawa, Wellington, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
  
  
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    Round-up of midweek school rugby on Wednesday

    • 18 Jun 2025
    • Wellington Club Weekly
    • Rongotai College supporters celebrate their team’s opening try today. Photo: Andy McArthur. By Steven White, Adam Julian and Scott MacLean Wednesday 4.20pm updates – this article will be updated this evening, but first is the account of the St Pat’s Silverstream v Rongotai College game There were three First XV matches played today amongst Wellington...
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    Silverstream, Upper Hutt, Upper Hutt City, Wellington, 5019, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
  
  
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    Meet Pepper Racoon – what a ratbag!

    • 17 Jul 2024
    • The Wellingtonista
    • 1. Hello, who are you and what do you do? I’m Pepper Raccoon and I’m an artist and merch designer inspired by nature, magic, and internet culture. I design my own affordable art products, and produce a lot of them in my home studio as well, and have been in business for 8 years selling […]
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    So you want to win a medal…

    • 18 May 2025
    • Wellington Scottish Athletics Club
    • Simon Keller If you arrive on time for the club’s annual prizegiving, you will see two glistening tables. One will be laid out with medals, carefully arranged. The other will be crowded with trophies: some new, some old; some tiny, some comically large. One by one, the medals and trophies are awarded across the evening. […]
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    “an ill wind blows nobody any good”

    • 18 Feb 2024
    • Wellington Club Weekly
    • By Rolling Maul Wellington’s summer breeze is typically more abrasive than caressing, with the atmospheric disturbance swirling around rugby union early in 2024 creating discomfort for many loyal supporters of the game. News that the Wellington Rugby Football Union Inc. is considering selling its 50% share in Hurricanes GP Limited “after mounting losses”, reminds Rolling...
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• • FOMI work trip report 24-27 March 2023

    • 18 Mar 2024
    • Friends of Mana Island
    • Adrian Jull, Mike Jacobson, Deb Anthony and Dale Shirtliff travelled to Mana Island shortly after midday Friday 24 March. Almost calm conditions. We were met by Jane Haxton , stand-in for Pat Elliot. Our aim for the weekend was to carry out maintenance on the fluttering shearwater and WFSP burrow sites. This had been an […]
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    Mana Island, Moki Street, Titahi Bay, Porirua, Porirua City, Wellington, 5022, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
  
  
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    OBU captain Calvert looking forward to big early season clash this Saturday with Petone

    • 18 Apr 2024
    • Wellington Club Weekly
    • Hooker Louie Calvert carries the attack to Johnsonville in the opening round. He returns to the Goats for his second season and is captain this year. The Goats are hosting Petone this Saturday on their Old Timers’ Day. PHOTO: Andy McArthur. By Steven White It’s been a mostly even start to this year’s Swindale Shield...
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    Petone, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
  
  

• • We need to heed the warnings that Harry Leslie Smith gives

    • 26 Feb 2018
    • Jack Yan
    • Not that Asian countries get this right all the time, but generally, when a 95-year-old speaks, we (as in many of us with Asian heritage, and by ‘Asian’ I mean a lot of cultures that make up the 3,700 million people on the continent) tend to listen and we revere their experience.
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• • My favourite modernist building … Wanganui War Memorial Hall

    • 2 Apr 2017
    • Architectural Centre Inc
    • It seems very restrictive to be limited to one favourite modernist building, but if forced to choose I nominate the Wanganui War Memorial Hall, designed by Gordon Smith in the firm of Newman, Smith & Greenough, and completed in 1960. This is a sophisticated and polished public building, designed and built at a time when […]
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• • Rubber Ducky 6

    • 7 Nov 2013
    • Mana Kayak Racing Club
    • The doubles put everyone to the sword this week with 3 of the top 5 places going to the twosomes lead by Mark Hearfield and Dave Della Barrca crossing the line first. Splitting them were Glen Muirhead and James Flannery before another two doubles. Not far behind Kris Jarvis powered home and clearly brought back […]
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    Following on from public meeting on 21 August

    • 2 Sep 2007
    • Mt Cook mobilised
    • Greetings My apologies for the delay in describing the public meeting held on 21 August – other commitment and computer problems have got in the way. A summary of the meeting and its outcomes will be posted by Wednesday 12 September. In the meantime here are two charts that indicate which themes the meeting participants [...]
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    Aisle be Back: Hurricanes v Fijian Drua tonight

    • 18 Apr 2024
    • Wellington Club Weekly
    • Josh Moorby starts at fulback and TJ Perenara at halfback in tonight’s match in Fiji. By Kevin McCarthy These are difficult times to be a Hurricanes supporter. I don’t mean that in the obvious sense because as we all know the team couldn’t be doing better with an unbeaten record and topping the table at...
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    Aisle be Back: Flushing the Dunny

    • 19 Sep 2025
    • Wellington Club Weekly
    • South African fans celebrate the second test in Wellington last weekend. By Kevin McCarthy You may or may not work somewhere that people gather to do the daily newspaper quiz. Here’s a Rugby Championship 2025 version. Which team blew a lead at halftime and lost at home in a historic result. Which team in losing,...
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    U18s final round tomorrow, Lions at home, Pōneke U85kgs away and Heartland Championship to heat up

    • 19 Sep 2025
    • Wellington Club Weekly
    • By Scott MacLean The silverware will be decided in the two divisions of the Hurricanes Youth Council’s U18 competition tomorrow in their third and final round of this competition. The two matches likely to decide the winners are in Napier between the Hawke’s Bay U18s and the Wellington Centurions U18s (Division A) in a virtual...
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• • Star time!

    • 18 Dec 2024
    • Newtown Festival
    • Star Time ensemble is an epic live Afrobeat explosion for the soul. Bring your friends and shake your booty with charismatic frontman Francois Judah alongside legendary percussionist Modi Shemi, punctuated by a blistering horn section. Star Time blends acts from many diverse talents from Pōneke’s live scene to sweep you off your feet! With a […]
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• • Kingston High All Stars

    • 18 Dec 2024
    • Newtown Festival
    • KHAS is 6 piece band based in Wellington which steadily beats to a fusion of blues and rock music inspired by the nomadic landscape of a dry, arid Sahara desert. If you like Ali Farka Toure, Tinariwen, Mdou Moctar and Bombino, you’re in for a treat with the Kingston High All Stars. Get ready to […]
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    The Grid – New Digital Art Space

    • 18 Jul 2024
    • The Wellingtonista
    • Written by Nadia Freeman Wellington’s newest and potentially first digital art space opened this month, and I am deeply appreciative of the entrepreneurial spirit of Shannon Brosnahan Inglis and Delainy Jamahl. In an era when investment in the arts is dwindling, launching a venture of this scale and quality is inspiring. Initiatives like this infuse […]
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    The small engine menace and what we can do about it

    • 11 Oct 2013
    • Wellington Region Cycleways
    • This is a cross post with my other blog – Clean Air New Zealand. The ideas in this post have been kicking around in my brain for a while, but the thing that is spurring me into action is this post at Crikey’s Urbanist Blog by Alan Davies “Can scooters make our cities work better?” […]
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    Hurricanes region U16s and U18s matches in Wellington, U85kg representative team on the road

    • 20 Sep 2024
    • Wellington Club Weekly
    • By Steven White & Scott MacLean Up until yesterday all roads led to Maidstone Park. But that has changed owing to the poor condition of both fields at the Upper Hutt venue. A change in both venues and kick off times for the four matches in Wellington on Saturday see games split between Evans Bay...
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    Upper Hutt, Upper Hutt City, Wellington, 5218, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
  
  
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    Plenty to play for in 12th round Premier and Premier 2 matches as Women’s champions decided

    • 20 Jun 2025
    • Wellington Club Weekly
    • Above: Keanu Kotuhi gets his pass away for Wainuiomata against Avalon last Saturday. Both sides have plenty to play for this weekend. By Scott MacLean Its the winter solstice tomorrow this weekend and then it’s all downhill to summertime and paddling pools, but for a number of teams it is a case of sink or...
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    Wainuiomata, Lower Hutt, Lower Hutt City, Wellington, New Zealand/Aotearoa (OpenStreetMap)
  
  
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    The RLTP’s Top 30 transport projects – more detail than you may need

    • 19 Jun 2024
    • Talk Wellington
    • This is the companion post to the main RLTP submission guide post. Here you can swim around in the detail – without going way deep – because we’ve packaged up several documents’ and tables’ material for your convenience. You can also view all of the 30 proposed projects on an interactive map handily prepared by the...
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    Review: Goody Goody Glam Pop

    • 19 Feb 2024
    • The Wellingtonista
    • Reviewed by Talia Carlisle Get ready to shake it, to the fabulous rhymes and sick beat of Goody Goody Glam Pop at Circus Bar for one more night! Bethany Miller’s transformation into pop superstar Brooklyn Brooklyn of Brooklyn is Disney magic to behold as she shares her most pop-ular songs – Back to Back, Breathless, […]
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    Brooklyn, Wellington, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
  
  
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    Marisa to miss 24-25 season

    • 20 Aug 2024
    • Wellington Phoenix
    • Marisa van der Meer’s contract with the Wellington Phoenix has been terminated by mutual consent after the defender suffered another serious knee injury, but she’s set to return to the club in 2025. Van der Meer, 22, has re-ruptured the... The post Marisa to miss 24-25 season appeared first on Wellington Phoenix.
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    Today speaks for tomorrow – Teru Time Reaches 200 games for Wainuiomata

    • 20 Jun 2024
    • Wellington Club Weekly
    • Teru Time playing in Wainuiomata’s recent win over Oriental-Rongotai – one of his favourite matches in green and black. Photo: Dave Brownlie By Adam Julian Teru Time will play his 200th match for Wainuiomata against Johnsonville at Helston Park on Saturday. Reflecting upon his milestone with the Wainuiomata squad on Tuesday night, Time said to...
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    Wainuiomata, Lower Hutt, Lower Hutt City, Wellington, New Zealand/Aotearoa (OpenStreetMap)
  
  
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    Best & Fairest Teams of the Season 2025

    • 20 Oct 2025
    • Wellington Club Weekly
    • By Scott MacLean A regular of our end of season coverage is to name teams based on the Men’s Billy Wallace and Women’s Erin Rush Best & Fairest standings, which represent the outstanding and consistent performers across the club season. Last week the WRFU announced the two winners – Men’s winner Esi Komaisavai from Paremata-Plimmerton...
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    Plimmerton, Porirua, Porirua City, Wellington, 5026, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
  
  
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    Chebel returns home to Canada

    • 20 Nov 2024
    • Wellington Phoenix
    • Imane Chebel’s contract with the Wellington Phoenix has been terminated by mutual consent. The Algeria international joined the Phoenix a fortnight ago on a contract for the 2024-25 Ninja A-League season. Due to unforeseen circumstances the club and Chebel have... The post Chebel returns home to Canada appeared first on Wellington Phoenix.
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    Adapted reuse scheme for Gordon Wilson Memorial Apartments

    • 17 Apr 2024
    • Architectural Centre Inc
    • Refer below to open letter authored by The Architectural Centre addressed to Minister for Housing. We provide a robust, contemporary rationale for the retention and refurbishment of 320 The Terrace, also known as the Gordon Wilson Memorial Apartments (GWMA): Tēnā koe Hon. Chris Bishop, An open letter – 320 The Terrace (Gordon Wilson Memorial Apartments) […]
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    Gordon Wilson Flats, Maurice Terrace, Aro Valley, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, 6040, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)