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    Petone’s Stanley Solomon and Justine McGregor win Best and Fairest club rugby competitions

    • 10 Oct 2023
    • Wellington Club Weekly
    • By Steven White Petone backs Stanley Solomon and Justine McGregor have won this year’s respective Men’s and Women’s Wellington club rugby Best and Fairest competitions. Solomon won the Men’s Billy Wallace Trophy and McGregor the Women’s Erin Rush Cup, at the combined Wellington Lions/WRFU Community Awards held in the Norwood Room at the Basin Reserve...
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    Petone, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
  
  

• • Bishop Viard College Band

    • 13 Feb 2024
    • Newtown Festival
    • Led by their Music School Teacher, Mr Sammy Seau, The Bishop Viard College Band and music programme has grown from strength to strength. They have performed not only at school but a number of events in the Wellington area and are excited to join us at Newtown Festival. The future of Pasifika music is in good […]
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    Newtown, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
  
  

• • Tautua Dance Academy

    • 13 Feb 2024
    • Newtown Festival
    • A programme set up to address the gap provided by a lack of Pacific Performing Arts programmes for our children aged 5 through to early college years, was the brainchild of Jayden Luapo and partner Sophia Uele, former graduates of Whitireia NZ Performing Arts school. Tautua Dance Academy has been teaching Pasifika Performing Arts for over […]
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    Hurricanes v Blues Stat Attack

    • 12 Mar 2024
    • Wellington Club Weekly
    • 4,000 points. With this try to Riley Higgins, the Hurricanes surpassed that marker of points in Super Rugby. The total now stands at 4,003. points. By Peter Marriott Some key facts and figures from the third round Super Rugby match at Wellington Stadium between the Hurricanes and the Blues. Week 3 v Blues: Won 29-21...
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    Aisle be Back: All Blacks v France

    • 14 Nov 2024
    • Wellington Club Weekly
    • By Kevin McCarthy The mental state of the nation regarding the All Blacks often resembles the patient who can’t quite nail their medication dose. Too little, and the world’s a terrible place, too much, and the world’s your oyster. Right now we’re probably in that latter phase. Which is odd after a tightly-fought victory over...
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    Representative fixtures and college finals continue this weekend

    • 15 Aug 2025
    • Wellington Club Weekly
    • Fritz Rayasi, Kapu Broughton-Winterburn and the Wellington Centurions are in New Plymouth this Saturday to play the Taranaki B team. Photo: Tane Nathan. By Scott MacLean A buffet of rugby this weekend, with representative fixtures on both days, school finals and more this weekend. Preview and teamlists (as received/seen) below. Club Only two club fixtures...
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    Paotonu and Johnsonville Hawks seeking consistency

    • 15 May 2025
    • Wellington Club Weekly
    • Johnsonville second-five Olly Paotonu in typical attacking form, against the Upper Hutt Rams last year. Photo: Andy McArthur. By Steven White When fit and firing, second-five Olly Paotonu is a key cog in Johnsonville’s ongoing success since their revival from competition back-marker to contender that started three seasons ago. Paotonu says that with more consistency...
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    Upper Hutt, Upper Hutt City, Wellington, 5218, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
  
  
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    All Blacks v France first and second tests stat attacks

    • 15 Jul 2025
    • Wellington Club Weekly
    • The All Blacks opened their international season with twin wins over France in Dunedin and Wellington in the first two weekends of July. Some facts and figures from both games follow below by statistician Peter Marriott (second test first): New Zealand v France in Wellington: Won 43-17 This was the All Blacks 50th victory in...
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    Hurricanes v Crusaders Stat Attack

    • 15 Apr 2025
    • Wellington Club Weekly
    • The Hurricanes encountered the Crusaders in their fixture at Wellington Stadium on Friday night. Some facts and figures from the game by Peter Marriott below. Round 9 v Crusaders: Lost 24-31 The Hurricanes and the Crusaders have now met on 47 occasions. The Hurricanes have won 15 matches and the Crusaders 30. There have been...
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    Key Gray-Ericka Rere Legacy Project & the Whenua they played on

    • 15 May 2024
    • Wellington Club Weekly
    • Ken Gray with the ‘Springboks head’, in the Main Stand at Athletic Park after famously captaining Wellington to their 23-6 win over South Africa on 3 July 1965. Photo credit unknown/supplied. By Adam Julian Background In 2019, while removing items from the walls of the Paremata-Plimmerton Rugby Clubrooms, in preparation for a significant refurbishment, former...
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    Plimmerton, Porirua, Porirua City, Wellington, 5026, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
  
  
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    Isuzu UTE A-League Round 21 Match Preview

    • 15 Mar 2024
    • Wellington Phoenix
    • The Wellington Phoenix will be cheered on by their biggest crowd of the season on Saturday evening when they play their final ‘home’ game at their Auckland fortress. Between 15-20 thousand fans are expected to be in attendance at Eden... The post Isuzu UTE A-League Round 21 Match Preview appeared first on Wellington Phoenix.
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    Sideline Conversions 15 April (some rugby news and information to start the week)

    • 14 Apr 2024
    • Wellington Club Weekly
    • An early contender for dog supporter of the season. Photo by Hugh Pretorius. The atmosphere at most venues in Wellington at about 3.30pm on Saturday had the look and feel of old-school grizzly July Jubilee Cup rugby. Except it was barely mid-April and the second Saturday of the season. Let’s hope we don’t get another...
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    Paremata-Plimmerton win inaugural Feilding Blitz 7s

    • 15 Nov 2025
    • Wellington Club Weekly
    • Wellington club Paremata-Plimmerton won the inaugural Rosebowl Blitz 7s tournament on Saturday. Paremata-Plimmerton beat Whanganui’s FullSend in the final in the tournament that was played in blustery but fine conditions at Johnston Park on Saturday. The tournament was well run by the Feilding Yellows club and the competition was well-contested with the rugby trumping the...
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    Plimmerton, Porirua, Porirua City, Wellington, 5026, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
  
  

• • Junior Developing Tournament 2012 (Sunday September 9)

    • 24 Aug 2012
    • Table Tennis Wellington
    • Table Tennis Wellington is pleased to announce the next Junior Developing Tournament on Sunday September the 9th. Here are the details and the form: TTW Development Tournament Sept 12 When: September 9, 2012 Where: Empire Table Tennis Club Stadium Enter by mail: Table Tennis Wellington, PO Box 12-038, Wellington or phone: Tournament Manager Kevin Haines [...]
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    2012 Winter Interclub Round 2 Results (May 22/23)

    • 25 May 2012
    • Table Tennis Wellington
    • The spreadsheet is a WIP but here are the sheets for the play-by-play: Premier 1: TTW 2012 Winter Week 2 Premier 1 Premier 2: TTW 2012 Winter Week 2 Premier 2 Premier 3: TTW 2012 Winter Week 2 Premier 3 Premier 4: TTW 2012 Winter Week 2 Premier 4 NB: The draws are here. Thanks [...]
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    Hauiti-Parapara to play 100th match on Tawa’s Old Timers’ Day

    • 15 May 2024
    • Wellington Club Weekly
    • Kemara Hauiti-Parapara gets a pass away for Tawa in their Jubilee Cup playoff match against Petone last July. On Saturday he plays his 100th match for Tawa. By Steven White On Saturday, Wellington Lions halfback and two-time Jubilee Cup winner Kemara Hauiti-Parapara will run out to play his 100th Premier cub match for Tawa on...
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    Tawa, Wellington, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
  
  

• • Do I cry or do I smile?

    • 29 Oct 2010
    • Thorndon Residents Assocation
    • As a citizen, rate payer and long time resident of Thorndon I would like to seek clarification from the Thorndon Residents Association (TRA) on the progress made by the Wellington City Council to resolve the issue of the historic precinct and the matters relating to its proposed requirements to ‘police’ renovation and building within the area.
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    Thorndon, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
  
  

• • The great flyover teardown…

    • 21 Jun 2011
    • Architectural Centre Inc
    • Those good folk over at the Congress for the New Urbanism run an initiative called “Highways to Boulevards,” seeking to reclaim urban environments and revitalise cities by campaigning for highway teardowns. They pay particular attention to elevated highways, yep, the good old flyover. But not only do the CNU provide a set of model precedents for [...]
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    Basin Reserve, Dufferin Street, Mount Victoria, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, 6021, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
  
  
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    The Public needs a real choice: Option X

    • 16 Jul 2011
    • Architectural Centre Inc
    • The NZTA have proposed options for redeveloping the roading of the Basin Reserve.  But these are not really options. They are two schemes for flyovers which have very little difference.  We believe that the scheme/s proposed by NZTA exclude the public from making a real choice. Currently the Basin is a mess.  From a multi-modal perspective (pedestrian, [...]
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    Basin Reserve, Dufferin Street, Mount Victoria, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, 6021, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
  
  
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    Matchday scoring highlights: Paremata-Plimmerton (15) v Petone (14)

    • 14 Jul 2025
    • Wellington Club Weekly
    • Paremata-Plimmerton made it third time lucky, by beating Petone on the buzzer in this fixture at home at a very muddy Ngati Toa Domain. After missing out to Tawa at the end two weeks in a row, Paremata-Plimmerton scored an 86th minute try to topple Petone and send themselves to the Jubilee Cup semi-finals, where...
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    Tawa, Wellington, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
  
  

• • Ben Hana, aka Tarzan, aka “Blanket Man” dies

    • 15 Jan 2012
    • The Wellingtonista
    • As reported in the NZ Herald and Stuff. I remember seeing him asleep on the corner of Courtenay Place and Tory Street, bathed in sunshine, loin-cloth akimbo, home-made aluminium-can dope-pipe resting peacefully by his slumbering body, only a couple of weeks back. It seems weird that we won’t see him there again. R.I.P.
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    Aisle be Back: All Blacks v Argentina 1, the NPC and R360

    • 14 Aug 2025
    • Wellington Club Weekly
    • Du Plessis Kirifi lines up at openside flanker for the All Blacks on Sunday morning, whilst Brad Shields, Jackson Garden-Bachop and Julian Savea are all in the Lions team to play Otago on Sunday afternoon. By Kevin McCarthy Hot off the press! The All Black team to face Los Pumas in their opening match of...
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• • STAGE: Newtown Community

    • 27 Feb 2012
    • Newtown Festival
    • Proudly Sponsored by Newtown New World 10:00 am – Wellington Medieval Guild 10:25 am – Zumba Fit 10:35 am – WomanSong Choire 10:50 am – Kaleidescope 11:10 am – NZ Freestyle Martial Arts Club 11:30 am – The Breakfast Pastries 11:45 am – Belly Cats Belly Dance Group 12:05 pm – NCC Tai Chi Group 12:30 pm – A.
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    Newtown, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
  
  

• • Get rid of your old computer crap

    • 4 Nov 2010
    • The Wellingtonista
    • Photo by Flickr user StormPetrel1 You know all that stuff under your bed, in your wardrobe or in your bottom drawer? Yeah, that old laptop you were going to sell on Trade Me when you upgraded five years ago, and your crappy old cellphone you could never go back to since you bought your spiffy new smartphone.
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• • Losing our heritage: a 104-year-old building, abandoned and dilapidated

    • 30 Oct 2010
    • Wellington Scoop
    • It had the financial support of Prime Minister Sir Joseph Ward and in its glory days its history included being used as a church hall and a music studio. The scruffy, dilapidated building at 30 Arthur Street used to be the Boys’ Institute – built in 1906 by the same architect who designed the Wellington and Christchurch railway stations.
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    Five Nix named to PFA team of the season

    • 16 May 2024
    • Wellington Phoenix
    • The Wellington Phoenix have a strong presence in the Professional Footballers Australia (PFA) team of the season. Goalkeeper Alex Paulsen, defenders Scott Wootton and Tim Payne and midfielder Alex Rufer have been voted by their peers into the first XI,... The post Five Nix named to PFA team of the season appeared first on Wellington Phoenix.
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    Norm Hewitt – A Charitable Rugby Titan

    • 16 Jul 2024
    • Wellington Club Weekly
    • Norm Hewitt and Richard Cockerill face off in 1997. Photo credit: Gladiator, the Norm Hewitt Story. Adam Julian Former All Black and Wellington Lions captain Norm Hewitt was a dynamic and often inspirational hooker whose off-field fame was later hugely magnified by his charity work and a much-publicised Dancing With the Stars competition win. Hewitt...
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    Celia Wade-Brown: a different, collaborative leadership style

    • 5 Mar 2013
    • Wellington Scoop
    • Who would want to be mayor of Wellington? Clearly, not many people. At the moment no one else has put their hand up to stand against incumbent mayor Celia Wade-Brown, despite the efforts of a group of Wellingtonians – apparently spearheaded by Rex Nichols and Chris Parkin – to find a high profile candidate to contest the mayoralty.
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• • Bucharest flyover impacts on town

    • 25 Feb 2014
    • Architectural Centre Inc
    • *Guest Post by Bill Toomath, one of our well-respected architect members of the Architectural Centre To gain a virtually realistic experience of what it would feel like to be alongside and under the proposed NZTA flyover at the Basin Reserve one can easily beam down on Google to a similar project at Bucharest in Romania. [...]
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    Basin Reserve, Dufferin Street, Mount Victoria, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, 6021, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
  
  

• • 19 Feb 2014: New Four plinths installation

    • 19 Feb 2014
    • Wellington Sculpture Trust
    • Installation commenced on Monday 17 February 2014 of a dramatic new public art work on Wellington’s Waterfront. Named Rita Angus used to grow her own vegetables, the work comprises four large-scale replicas of shards of pottery found by the artist, the eminent New Zealand sculptor Glen Hayward, while on a residency in the Rita Angus cottage in Thorndon.
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