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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)
  
  
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    Leaning into the tricky stuff: architecture for youth civics and decolonisation

    • 19 Jun 2022
    • Talk Wellington
    • Young architects and urban designers can (A) slot into an established firm, enjoy a salary and consistent work, or (B) strike out on their own, using their trade to solve some of Aotearoa’s biggest challenges. The Studio Tēpu founders have taken the red pill… come hear them tonight! It’s ambitious for any design or infrastructure...
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    The Monday Wrap 20 June (some news and information to start the rugby week)

    • 19 Jun 2022
    • Wellington Club Weekly
    • Breakfast edition: Welcome to the darkest week of the year. It’s also a short week. Most importantly, it’s another busy several days coming up for rugby. It resumes on Wednesday with three scheduled boys First XV matches and a full round of schoolgirls fixtures. In boys rugby on Wednesday, Upper Hutt College and Aotea College...
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    Upper Hutt, Upper Hutt City, Wellington, 5218, 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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• • Metlink's new Airport Express ready to fly

    • 30 Jun 2022
    • Metlink
    • Metlink’s Airport Express will take flight for the first time tomorrow, restoring a much-needed bus service to the Wellington region. Ten new purpose-built, fully electric buses make up the Airport Express fleet, which will run between Wellington Railway Station and Wellington International Airport approximately every 10-20 minutes, seven days a week.
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    Wellington International Airport, Coutts Street, Rongotai, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, 6023, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
  
  

• • Orienteering Success

    • 4 Jul 2022
    • Newlands College
    • Our Orienteering team competed in 4 College Sport Wellington events over the season. Our students competed in their final event on Sunday 3rd July at Whitireia Park in Titahi Bay and the final results were collated. Congratulations to Lainey Thompson who will receive a medal for winning the Junior Girls Championship. A special mention to […]
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    Newlands College, 68, Bracken Road, Newlands, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, 6037, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
  
  
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    Pioneers of rugby in Wellington 018: The Spencer brothers

    • 5 Jul 2022
    • Wellington Club Weekly
    • 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. The Melrose Rugby Football was a Wellington club rugby powerhouse in the late 1800s and a regular Senior Championship contender over the course of the first three...
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    Results for Novice Cup, Galashiels Shield and Cole Land Cup

    • 11 Jul 2022
    • Wellington Scottish Athletics Club
    • Report from Handicapper James Turner: The weather was definitely less crap than we feared, although the gusty Nor-wester made things a bit grunty! Two people went under their handicaps — with Paul Cunningham winning the Novice Cup after taking nearly a minute off his forecast time. Emma Jackson was not too far back, 31 seconds […]
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    Feedback time again

    • 11 Jul 2022
    • Eye of the Fish
    • Slowly but surely, at a majestic but glacial pace, Let’s Get Wellington Moving are moving forwards. Well, moving, at least. Maybe it is forwards. Maybe it is sideways. But at least it is not backwards. They’ve released some proposals, and want your / our feedback. And that means it is time for a closer look.
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    Ioane in Harmony as Pride Prepare to takedown Canterbury

    • 14 Jul 2022
    • Wellington Club Weekly
    • By Adam Julian The Wellington Pride start their 2022 Farah Palmer Cup Women’s NPC season at Jerry Collins Stadium, Porirua on Saturday when they host Canterbury. Canterbury lost the Premiership final to Waikato last season, ending a four year reign with the title. With a dozen current or former Black Ferns in the squad, the...
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    Porirua, Wellington Region, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
  
  
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    It starts today ! - 100 shows, over 40 music groups, 19 Venues across the Cuba Street Precinct!

    • 21 Jul 2022
    • Inner-City Wellington
    • From Classical on Cuba website CLASSICAL MUSIC MEETS CONTEMPORARY CUBA STREET CULTURE 100 shows, over 40 music groups, 19 Venues across the Cuba Street Precinct!Experience classical music with a twist at Classical on Cuba, a vibrant new festival of classical music, reimagined in contemporary spaces infused with the spirit and colour of Cuba Street.
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    Cuba Street, Te Aro, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, 6011, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
  
  
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    Wellington Scottish clubhouse — call for submissions

    • 22 Jul 2022
    • Wellington Scottish Athletics Club
    • The Scottish management committee has appointed a working group to give advice on future options for use of the clubhouse. The members of the working group are Lucy Fauth, Andy Ford, and Simon Keller. Submit your feedback at the link below and go into a draw to win one of three $50 Shoe Clinic vouchers. […]
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    CSW Junior Netball Tournament

    • 11 Aug 2022
    • Newlands College
    • A great day out at the CSW Junior Netball tournament today for our Junior Girls! Gave their best efforts right until the final whistle. A massive thank you to Claudia Hatfield our awesome umpire for the day and Ms Leath, Ms Mills and Mrs Yeldon for all their awesome Coaching and support of our girls.
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    Newlands College, 68, Bracken Road, Newlands, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, 6037, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
  
  
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    Review: Skin Tight

    • 30 Aug 2022
    • The Wellingtonista
    • Skin Tight is my favourite ever play and I’ve been wanting to see it performed since I first read it. Circa Theatre did not disappoint with their iteration of this show; a gloriously evocative piece with incredible staging, performances and movement. The play is not just a love story to its characters – and the highs […]
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    Circa Theatre, Cable Street, Te Aro, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, 6011, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
  
  
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    Fixing Wellington’s Water Woes

    • 4 Sep 2022
    • Sarah Free
    • There is no doubt we have been through a difficult time with our water infrastructure. My view is that generally aging infrastructure combined with damage from the 2016 Kaikoura earthquake accelerated breakages, and repairing this is not helped by a diminished workforce at Wellington Water (they are currently down one third of their staff). In […]
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• • Kāpiti Coast Biodiversity

    • 5 Sep 2022
    • Low Carbon Kapiti
    • By Andy McKay, 5 September 2022 Team Leader, Environment & Ecological Services (Te Kaiārahi Rōpū Ratonga Taiao me te Hauropi), Kāpiti Coast District Council The Kāpiti Coast is blessed with some incredibly beautiful landscapes. From a biodiversity perspective, the jewel in the crown is Kāpiti Island, which provides a guiding light for those of us working […]
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    Buckets of money vs real world change: transport edition

    • 2 Oct 2022
    • Talk Wellington
    • Money and effort goes in, lots of good sounding words are crafted, then… some strange stuff happens on the ground. What’s going on? GreaterAuckland’s Heidi O’Callaghan takes a look into the machinery This month we’re hearing a lot from wannabe local leaders about “doing this or that with transport money”, including “we’ll pressure Waka Kotahi...
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    Review: HATCH

    • 3 Oct 2022
    • The Wellingtonista
    • Reviewed by Jules Daniel. Presented by TAHI: New Zealand Festival of Solo Performance, HATCH is an opportunity for five emerging student artists from Te Auaha, Toi Whakaari: NZ Drama School, and Te Herenga Waka – Victoria University of Wellington to showcase and develop their work further. The mahi of a program with a kaupapa to […]
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    Review: Title & Deed

    • 6 Oct 2022
    • The Wellingtonista
    • Reviewed by Lox Dixon. Presented as a part of TAHI Festival, 2022. I’m going to make an earnest effort to mention the writing as little as possible in this review because that’s not really the point and everyone probably knows by now that Will Eno is a phenomenal writer. That said, the beauty of this […]
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    Join us in Taupō for the NZ Cross Country Champs

    • 12 Mar 2022
    • Wellington Scottish Athletics Club
    • 30 July 2022 Spa Park, Taupō Please fill out this registration form to let us know if you would like to join us in Taupō for the NZ Cross Country Champs. The cross country championships bring together the best distance runners in NZ — but they are also a great opportunity for a club weekend […]
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    McVilly Shield results 2022

    • 26 Mar 2022
    • Wellington Scottish Athletics Club
    • 17 teams celebrated the 100th anniversary of the McVilly Shield. It was great to see lots of new people running with the club for the first time and a few returners like James Parsons and Sam McCutcheon after being away a few years. Many thanks to the officials Sharon Wray, Hayden Smith, Bob Stephens, Andy […]
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    Aisle be Back: Hurricanes v Crusaders

    • 7 Apr 2022
    • Wellington Club Weekly
    • By Kevin McCarthy Thank heavens we’ve got a soft game against the Crusaders to get back on track with this week. The head scratching continues for Hurricanes fans no doubt this week. No, it’s not dandruff. Last week produced quite a bit, with of course Jordie Barrett suddenly making the debut at 12 after which...
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• • My vehicle is ‘bigger than yours’: The David and Goliath struggle on our roads and footpaths

    • 24 Jul 2022
    • Low Carbon Kapiti
    • By Judith Galtry, 24 July 2022 “Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius — and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction.” —E.F. Schumacher I don’t drive very often. Yet I’m experiencing disturbing levels of road rage, both on and off […]
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    U16 North Island Netball Tournament – Cara McCully

    • 28 Jul 2022
    • Newlands College
    • Congratulations to Cara McCully one of our Newlands 1 Netball players who had a successful Netball Representative season. Cara was a member of the U16 Wellington Black Netball Team who were Runners up in the U16 North Island Netball Tournament that was played in the first week of the Term 2 holidays. Over the season […]
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    Newlands College, 68, Bracken Road, Newlands, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, 6037, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
  
  

• • Our ghost airport: An opportunity to build much needed houses

    • 19 Aug 2022
    • Low Carbon Kapiti
    • By Paul Callister, 19 August 2022 After years of Kāpiti ratepayers subsidising a just a few passengers per day to fly out of Kāpiti airport, its closure in its current form gets closer. So what are the alternatives? There are those still lobbying to keep the airport open. The key group is the Kāpiti Aeroclub. […]
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    Kapiti Coast Airport, Tainui Street, Raumati Beach, Paraparaumu, Kapiti Coast District, Wellington, 5252, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
  
  
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    Shirley Barton Trophy and Ballantyne Cup results 2022

    • 11 Sep 2022
    • Wellington Scottish Athletics Club
    • Race report from our club handicapper, James Turner: “Great turnout and excellent racing yesterday, especially from the women! Winner on handicap (it was to be fair, a bit of a soft handicap, but she won by so much it would have made no difference to the result) was Dani Stevens, well over 2 mins inside […]
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    Weekly E-News – 23 September 2022

    • 23 Sep 2022
    • St Andrews on the Terrace Presbyterian Church
    • The graduation in Auckland on Wednesday was double the volume of graduands given that last year’s graduations did not take place. It was a proud moment to see my nephew Ezra capped with his Bachelor of Computer Information Science. It’s funny last Friday I got all dressed up for a Pacific languages strategies ceremony at […]
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    St Andrew's on the Terrace, 30, The Terrace, Paekākā, Wellington Central, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, 6011, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
  
  

• • White Cav’s rum race story

    • 17 Oct 2022
    • Royal Port Nicholson Yacht Club (Inc)
    • I’ve been a member of RPNYC for over 10 years. I live out on wall at the entrance to Clyde Quay – keeping a close watch on comings and goings. I’m almost 45 years young. Doug Peterson designed me back in the 1970’s and I was crafted in the Salthouse Boatyard for Cavalier Yachts in [...]
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    Royal Port Nicholson Yacht Club, 103, Oriental Parade, Oriental Bay, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, 6011, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
  
  
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    Sideline Conversions 27 April (some rugby news and information to start the week)

    • 26 Apr 2026
    • Wellington Club Weekly
    • Scene at Kilbirnie Park on Saturday in a high scoring match between Tawa and Poneke. Photo: Kinetic Images. We are into the fifth week of the club rugby season and the Swindale Shield and other competitions are just starting to heat up. A look at Premier Swindale Shield fixtures this coming Saturday in Wellington (Premier...
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    Kilbirnie, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, New Zealand/Aotearoa (OpenStreetMap)
  
  
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    Pioneers of Rugby in Wellington: 010 Harry Roberts

    • 26 Apr 2022
    • Wellington Club Weekly
    • The 1884 New Zealand rugby team – Harry Roberts seated bottom right. Henry “Harry” Roberts  was predominantly a halfback, who could also play most positions in the backline. He scored New Zealand’s first try in international rugby and his son Teddy was an All Black. Small in stature, Harry Roberts was known as being a...
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