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    Good news from the squid inspection

    • 11 Mar 2009
    • Te Papa's blog
    • On Tuesday we started remedial work on the colossal squid and her tank. Things are going very well and to schedule. Yesterday we put up the barriers around the tank and lifted up the huge lid, using a forklift. We then drained most of the liquid out of the tank. That’s not as simple a task [...]
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    Club rugby pre-season matches continues this weekend

    • 13 Mar 2025
    • Wellington Club Weekly
    • The Wainuiomata and Paremata-Plimmerton Premier squads are both lacing up again tomorrow, Wainuiomata back at Mary Crowther Park and Paremata-Plimmerton sailing Cook Strait in Blenheim. Updated: There are several pre-season club rugby matches this weekend, as the days countdown to the start of club rugby competition seasons in Wellington and neighbouring unions on Saturday 5...
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    Wainuiomata, Lower Hutt, Lower Hutt City, Wellington, New Zealand/Aotearoa (OpenStreetMap)
  
  

• • News for Sunday 22 February 2009

    • 22 Feb 2009
    • Karori Anglican Churches
    • Ash Wednesday Services10.00 am and 7.00 pm at St Mary’sEmergency Appeals for Gaza and FijiThe Anglican Missions Board has launched emergency appeals in support of the Al Ahli Anglican Hospital in Gaza and Fiji’s flood-stricken Anglicans.    Regular updates for both appeals are posted on their website under Newsroom: www.angmissions.org.nz  Donations can be placed in envelopes clearly marked either
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    Big weekend of club rugby despite stars missing

    • 2 Jul 2009
    • Wellington Club Weekly
    • Wellington club rugby will be without many of its stars over the next fortnight of Jubilee and Hardham Cup play, with the selection of the competition's frontline players to the Vodafone Wellington Lions team for the opening two Ranfurly Shield defences of the year against Wairarapa-Bush and Wanganui tipped to test the depth and combinations of several teams.
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    AGM 2024: Results

    • 11 Apr 2024
    • Wellington Tramping and Mountainneering Club
    • The Annual General Meeting for the 2023/24 year took place on 10 April. The meeting was well attended in person and a few Members also attended online. The agenda and papers for the meeting are available here. Key decisions made in the meeting: Minutes of the 2023 AGM: Approved without amendments Annual Report and Financial ... Read more
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• • Montana winners

    • 15 Dec 2009
    • The Wellingtonista
    •  So recently we asked you where you would drink Montana's new-label Sav Blanc, and you told us. The randomizer.org threw the numbers 2 and 8 at us, so congratulations to Cat and Marshall. If you could please send an email to johubris at gmail with your address, I'll get your wine out to you. Cheers!
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• • Dunne: Auckland supercity makes it inevitable for Wellington – 25 June 2009

    • 25 Jun 2009
    • Peter Dunn - MP for Ohariu
    • UnitedFuture leader and Ohariu MP, Peter Dunne, says the establishment of an Auckland supercity makes it inevitable and necessary that Wellington would go down a similar path. Addressing the Wellington Federation of Progressive Associations annual meeting this evening, Mr Dunne said years of regional infighting and a lack of cohesion meant Auckland had consistently failed to pull its weight.
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• • Changing of the Guard; Futuna welcomes new Patron

    • 15 Aug 2025
    • Friends of Futuna Charitable Trust
    • Futuna Chapel Trust has bid farewell to long-serving Patron Chris Cochran (FNZIA MNZM) who stepped down from his role earlier this month after eight years of steadfast support and visionary guidance. With an award-winning background in heritage conservation and architecture, Chris’s tenure as Patron has been pivotal in supporting the Chapel Trustees and to shaping […]
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    Futuna Chapel, Futuna Close, Karori, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, 6012, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
  
  

• • Wellingtonians turn out to oppose LGWM

    • 24 Jun 2023
    • Better Wellington
    • Around 150 concerned Wellington business owners and residents turned out to Prefab Hall in Jessie Street, Te Aro, tonight to voice their concerns and anger at the continued lunacy of Let’s Get Wellington Moving, the extreme costs to ratepayers, and the hidden agenda behind the anti-car ideology that appears to have gripped the city council’s over-paid bureaucrats.
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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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    Some light reading in our Enews for July

    • 15 Jul 2025
    • Age Concern Wellington
    • It seems hard to believe, but half the year has gone already! July also marks the beginning of a number of changes in government and/or local body charges such as bus fares and GP fees (more details below). There are also increases in some government payments and benefits. We hope you’ll enjoy this newsletter. It’s ... Read more
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• • Tell us your Local Hot Spots

    • 15 May 2025
    • Ngaio Progressive Association
    • This year we have some exciting programmes under way (more to come), and one of them is working with Wellington City Council to encourage less use of cars around Ngaio and Crofton Downs, and getting into public transport or active … Continue reading → The post Tell us your Local Hot Spots appeared first on Ngaio Crofton Downs Residents Association.
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    Ngaio, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
  
  
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    Build Update: Let the earthworks begin!

    • 14 Apr 2024
    • Paekakariki Surf Lifeguards
    • 13 April 2024 Today we had a working bee on site to clear vegetation and prepare the grounds for Mills Albert to arrive and begin site scraping. Thanks team! 15 April 2024 Today, Mills Albert arrive on site to start silt fencing, building temporary pathways and other site preparations. Next week, Homestead Construction will fence... Read More
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    Paekakariki Surf Lifeguards, Beach access, Paekakariki, Kapiti Coast District, Wellington, 5034, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
  
  
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    Cascade Hut via Hinemaiaia Track – Kaimanawa Forest Park

    • 15 Jul 2024
    • Wellington Tramping and Mountainneering Club
    • Snow on Ruapehu!Our journey began with a scenic drive on Desert Road – with a radiant full moon and snow was glittering on the peaks of Mount Ngauruhoe and Mount Ruapehu. Being the shortest day of the year (June 21), not many people were out tramping. After a skilled late-night drive through winding roads and ... Read more
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• • Summer Soaring Series 2016 (8/11/2016)

    • 9 Nov 2016
    • Wellington Model Aeroplane Club
    • This was my first attendance at a Summer Soaring Series for Spring/Summer 2016. The evening was lovely and fine with a dying Southerly. I arrived around 5pm and being a southerly, I parked down the north end of the park. Found myself amongst mothers with young children practicing softball and not another flier in sight… […]
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• • Lunchtime Seminar: J.C. Beaglehole Room, Thursday 28 June, 12 to 1pm

    • 25 Jun 2012
    • Victoria University Library
    • This Thursday 28 June the Library's J.C. Beaglehole Room presents a special event: Four Archivists, One Collection. Come along at 12 pm and be introduced to some unique and fascinating resources, both published and archival, uncovered during preparation for the 50th Anniversary of Samoan Independence. The J.C Beaglehole room is on level 4 of the Kelburn campus Library.
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    Kelburn, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, New Zealand/Aotearoa (OpenStreetMap)
  
  

• • Farewell to Community Constable Dean Adams

    • 18 Sep 2012
    • Newtown Residents' Association
    • We are  losing our community Constable Dean Adams.  After 2 and a half years in Newtown he is heading to the bright lights of Carterton!   There is an informal farewell at the Newtown Community Centre between 12.30 and 1.30 on 19 September.  Our thanks to Dean for his service and we wish him all the best for the future.
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    Newtown, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
  
  

• • Library Catalogue outage - 5pm, Monday 8 October, 2012

    • 8 Oct 2012
    • Victoria University Library
    • The Library Catalogue's 'My Account' and 'Renew Online' services are unavailable from 5pm today, Monday 8 October. We estimate the outage should not last for more than an hour. Borrow Direct, Request and Renew Services are affected. There is still access to Te Waharoa, Journal finder and all of the Libraries electronic resources. We apologise for any inconvenience.
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• • Halloween Critical Mass!

    • 24 Oct 2012
    • Cycling in Wellington
    • This Friday is the last one in October, and the closest to one of my favourite holidays, Halloween!     Put on your most awesome bicycle costume, get on your bike and head over to Civic Square (behind the Wellington City Library) at 5:30 pm this Friday to join us for a friendly and fun ride around the CBD.
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    Civic Square, Te Aro, Wellington, Wellington Region, 6011, New Zealand
  
  

• • 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)
  
  

• • Ham Classes Scheduled To start- Book your place now!

    • 3 Jul 2011
    • We are running "get you licence" ham classes starting on 10th August at 7:00 pm, for six weeks. These are based at the Hutt Valley Branch clubrooms off Birch Street in Lower Hutt. Cost is $95, and includes NZART membership, VHF Group and Branch 18 membership for a year, class materials, examination, licence and your callsign.
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    Lower Hutt, Wellington, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
  
  

• • Our Brand New Name!

    • 28 Jul 2011
    • Downstage Theatre
    • No - we haven't changed the name of the theatre! Our first floor bar has had a makeover thanks to Massey University design student Brit O’Hara and mentor Debra DeLorenzo, with help of generous donations from our supporters, and funds raised from last year's Flourish scarf auction. After much thought, discussion and suggestions it has been officially christened: The ½.
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    Downstage Theatre, Cambridge Terrace, Mt. Victoria, Wellington, Wellington Region, 6011, New Zealand
  
  

• • Weekly Report for Sunday November 6

    • 2 Nov 2011
    • Wellington Runners & Walkers (WRW)
    • Hi Everyone Skyline 'bus' run/walk: Last Sunday I wasn't there but according to Vice President Jillian it was a memorable event We had a good bus load for this, and a good number meeting us at Marsden Village.  Everyone seemed to enjoy it, and Monteiths looked after us again with a yummy menu, coffees, juices and beers afterwards.
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• • Carrara Park Jazz Picnic this Saturday afternoon, noon till 7pm

    • 9 Mar 2012
    • Newtown Festival
    • Great Newtown Garage Sales in the morning then bring a picnic to Carrara Park and relax for the afternoon. Celebrate the Newtown Festival with a free jazz concert following the Tongan dance group at midday and Push Play games for the kids. See the event listing for details of the great bands and when they’re playing during the afternoon.
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    Newtown, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
  
  

• • BUSK: Basketball Jones

    • 17 Feb 2012
    • Newtown Festival
    • Basketball Jones (aka Sean Kaata Dwen) started dribbling at a very early age.  Then one day he was given a basketball. He played basketball at junior school, high school, university and circus school.  His unique and understated presentation of world-class basketball juggling has earned him invitations to perform all across the globe at festivals, events and on television.
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    Wellingtonians – Tell your council to Save Te Papa – here’s why!

    • 16 Apr 2012
    • Te Papa's blog
    • Firstly, a huge huge HUGE thanks to our visitors who filled out forms and stuck post-its to the SOS – Save Our Services board over the Easter Holiday and Week One of the School Holidays. We are going to take your comments, share them with the community and also take them directly to Wellington City Council.
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    Te Papa, 55, Cable Street, Te Aro, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, 6011, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
  
  

• • Social Barfly

    • 21 Sep 2010
    • The Wellingtonista
    • The Masked Barfly has been busy in the last little while soaking up the scene and hanging around the hors d'oeuvres in our buzzy little town.  As could be expected the Masked Barfly favours fecund environs where one can imbibe a good compost of booze, blood and guts, gossip and culture.    Some bullets of buzz: read more
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• • Annual Christmas Tree Fundraiser

    • 1 Oct 2010
    • Aro Valley Community Centre
    • Come to Aro Valley and buy an ecologically sound, good ole' kiwi, locally farmed, pinus radiata Christmas Tree, and feel the nostalgia as you soak up that piney smell!Our annual Christmas Tree fundraiser is about to begin, with all profits going to the Aro Valley Pre-school, Te Aro School, and the Aro Valley Community Centre .
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    Aro Valley, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
  
  
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    Wellington Lions v Northland Taniwha Facts & Figures

    • 16 Sep 2025
    • Wellington Club Weekly
    • Each week throughout the NPC, Hurricanes and Wellington statistician Peter Marriott provides the numbers and statistics, records and happenings that you need to know about the game that has just played. Next up is the Wellington v Northland seventh round match from Okara Park this past Thursday. Round 7 v Northland: Lost 26-43 This was the...
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• • Service Interruption Glossary

    • 30 Nov 2012
    • Tranz Metro
    • Trains can run late for a number of reasons which are not always apparent to the passengers onboard a train. Some of the more common reasons for delays are signals and points failures, mechanical faults and emergency incidents. The following information outlines what can cause a delay and how it can affect the running of a service.
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