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    Bounds Circuit – Leatham Conservation Area

    • 27 Apr 2021
    • Wellington Tramping and Mountainneering Club
    • Day 1 – Leatham Road end to Hidden Hut via Boulder Stream and Wye TrackStart 9.15am, Finish 5.45pmWe left our cars on the grassy patch next to the farmer’s gate, in case the ford (about 10-15 minutes further walk along the 4WD track) was too difficult to cross. We followed the 4WD track until it ... Read more
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    Stanley’s try a King Solomon

    • 16 Jun 2021
    • Wellington Club Weekly
    • By Adam Julian College rugby Draws & Results HERE There were three First XV matches in Wellington on Wednesday. Wellington College beat St Pat’s Silverstream 31-27, Porirua College defeated Aotea College 17-15 and Mana College defended the Beard Trophy against Tawa College, 57-5. Accounts of the first two matches follow below. A try that will...
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    Tawa, Wellington, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
  
  
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    Nelson College win Quad, Wellington College fourth

    • 8 Jul 2021
    • Wellington Club Weekly
    • Wellington College lost narrowly to hosts Christ’s College on day one. PHOTO: Wellington College Facebook By Adam Julian Nelson College are the 2021 Quadrangular Tournament champions, while multiple former champions Wellington College finished fourth. Nelson College beat hosts Christ’s College 27-25 in the final, while Wellington College missed out to Whanganui Collegiate 24-15 in the...
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    All Blacks v USA: Stat Attack

    • 28 Oct 2021
    • Wellington Club Weekly
    • By Peter Marriott The All Blacks met the USA in Washington this past weekend – some facts and figures from New Zealand v United States: Won 104-14 New Zealand and the United States first met at test level at California Field in Berkeley, California, on 15 November 1913.The home side was then known as All...
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    Club and college players to need vaccination certificate in 2022

    • 13 Dec 2021
    • Wellington Club Weekly
    • Papers please. Club and college rugby players will need a Covid vaccination certificate to play in competitions from next year. Under the Government and Sport New Zealand’s Covid-19 Protection Framework, gatherings in the Red traffic light setting which do not use Covid-19 Vaccination Certificates are limited to 25 people. In the Red setting, 15-a-side rugby...
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    Te Kahui Bishop proud to become Northern United’s latest centurion

    • 13 Jul 2022
    • Wellington Club Weekly
    • By Steven White. Photos by Chainsaw Photos. Soon after representing the Junior Black Sox at the U19 World Series in Canada in 2014, Te Kahui Bishop put a promising softball career on ice to pursue his other sporting love, rugby. Bishop went down to Northern United for off-season training in the summer of 2014/15 and...
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    Pioneers of rugby in Wellington 020: Nathanial ‘Ranji’ Arthur Wilson

    • 19 Jul 2022
    • Wellington Club Weekly
    • Nathanial ‘Ranji’ Arthur Wilson was a leading player and later captain of the Athletic club team that won a five-peat of Senior Championship titles between 1911-15 (one shared), played 75 times for Wellington between 1906-1920 and played 10 Tests for the All Blacks between 1908-1914. Of West Indian and English parentage, Wilson later served in...
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    Former Petone midfielder Nick Grigg relishing Hawke’s Bay opportunity

    • 2 Aug 2022
    • Wellington Club Weekly
    • A younger Nick Grigg diving over to score for Petone against Paremata-Plimmerton in 2015. Since then he has gone on to play several seasons in Scotland and made nine international appearances for that country.  By Steven White Nick Grigg played 85 Premier matches for Petone between 2011-15, during which time he was one of the...
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    Plimmerton, Porirua, Porirua City, Wellington, 5026, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
  
  
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    Sturdy and Surgical – Bradd Forster on the Tawa Reserves Rampant Run 

    • 11 Aug 2022
    • Wellington Club Weekly
    • By Adam Julian The Tawa Premier Reserves are unbeaten in their last 33 games. In that period they have outscored opponents 1305 to 497, that’s an average score of 40-15 in each game. Their worst result in the impressive streak was a 22-22 draw against Old Boys University, a result that actually secured the first...
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    Tawa, Wellington, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
  
  
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    Wellington Lions v Northland Stat Attack

    • 24 Aug 2022
    • Wellington Club Weekly
    • The Wellington Lions played their third round NPC match this past Saturday against Northland. Some facts and figures from the game by Peter Marriott below. Round 3 v Northland: Lost 6-15 Unusually, both sides failed to score points during the second half of the match. For Wellington it was the second match in succession they...
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    Petone v Upper Hutt Rams scoring highlights

    • 11 Apr 2022
    • Wellington Club Weekly
    • Petone hosted the Upper Hutt Rams at the Petone Rec in the second round of the 2022 Swindale Shield competition. Petone opened up a 29-8 lead by halftime and went on to win the contest 36-15. This match was also for the Ted Connolly Cup. Some scoring highlights from this fixture below:   Results and...
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    Upper Hutt, Upper Hutt City, Wellington, 5218, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
  
  
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    Peter Tearle Trophy Results 2022

    • 24 Apr 2022
    • Wellington Scottish Athletics Club
    • Start Order Start time Est time Line Place Clock time Actual Time H’cap Diff Nigel Roberts (S) 0.00 44.30 mins 1 39.03 39.03 – 5.27 Mary Ann Palmer (S) +5:00 39.30 mins 2 41.33 36.03 -3.27 Terri Grimmett (S) +8:30 36.00mins 3 43.52 35.52 -0.08 Arlene Wong Tong (S) +7:15 37.15 mins 4 43.58 36.43 […]
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    Hurricanes v Waratahs Stat Attack

    • 17 May 2022
    • Wellington Club Weekly
    • The Hurricanes earned a late 22-18 win over the Waratahs in their latest match in Sydney on Saturday night. Some facts and figures from the game below, by Peter Marriott. Round 13 v Waratahs: Won 22-18 This was the 25th meeting between the Hurricanes and the Waratahs. The Hurricanes have won 15 times to the...
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    This week in club rugby history: 30 May – 5 June

    • 30 May 2022
    • Wellington Club Weekly
    • The late Misiluni Moananu packs down against his former Poneke teammates with Vaea Fifita and the Wellington Axemen in their 22-15 win over Poneke this week in 2015, to give them a berth in the upcoming Jubilee Cup round. This week is traditionally one of the busiest weeks in rugby in the Wellington region. Up...
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    Silver Linings Du’Plessis Kirifi Leads Lions to NPC Semis

    • 13 Oct 2022
    • Wellington Club Weekly
    • Du’Plessis Kirifi leads the Lions charge against Taranaki earlier this season. PHOTO: Mike Lewis Pictures. By Adam Julian Seven weeks ago, Wellington Lions captain and openside flanker Du’Plessis Kirifi led his side to a horror 6-15 loss to the Northland Taniwha on his club home ground at Jerry Collins Stadium. The Taniwha kept the Lions...
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    Weekly News 19 June 2023

    • 19 Jun 2023
    • Wellington Scottish Athletics Club
    • This week Results Kladno hází a Kladenské Memoriály, Kladno James Preston was a close second in this 800m in the Czech Republic in 1:46.78. Video (800m starts at 32:18) Waitangi Parkrun Dougal Thorburn, 15:38, set the Waitangi Parkrun record with his inaugural Parkrun. Behind him, a large bunch of Scottish runners also took part, including Grant […]
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    Hurricanes v Reds Stat Attack

    • 27 May 2025
    • Wellington Club Weekly
    • The Hurricanes edged the Reds in their Super Rugby fixture at Brisbane on Saturday night. Facts and figures from the game by Hurricanes statistics managing director Peter Marriott. Round 15 v Reds: Won 31-27 The Hurricanes and the Reds have now played 27 matches together: the Hurricanes have won 21 and the Reds just six....
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• • Could a shorter working week help us to reduce flying?

    • 15 Sep 2022
    • Low Carbon Kapiti
    • Dr Kirsty Wild, The University of Auckland 15 September 2022 Amongst all the debate about what social changes might stick post Covid, perhaps the most promising development so far seems to be the re-evaluation of how (and indeed if) we want to work.  The campaign for a four-day working week has received a welcome boost.  […]
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    Champion Donor from Across the Seas

    • 24 Jul 2023
    • Age Concern Wellington
    • A wise 15-year-old once wrote in her diary… ‘no one has ever become poor by giving.’* After 30 plus years of child sponsorship, mainly in developing countries, my last sponsored child had turned 18. I decided to set my sights closer to home, and focus on the unseen, the unheralded, the ones whose photos were ... Read more
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    Scots, St Mary’s and Hutt Valley High School win Condor 7s titles

    • 23 Oct 2023
    • Wellington Club Weekly
    • The Hutt Valley High School and Wellington College teams at the conclusion of the U15 final. HVHS won the title 31-15. By Steven White Scots College (Open Boys), St Mary’s College (Open Girls and U15s Girls) and Hutt Valley High School are the 2023 Wellington region Condor 7s champions. Both Scots and St Mary’s retained...
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    Lower Hutt, Wellington, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
  
  
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    Isikeli Fukofuka Looking to Spoil Ponsonby Party

    • 28 Mar 2024
    • Wellington Club Weekly
    • By Adam Julian When it comes to club rugby in New Zealand, Ponsonby in Auckland is as big as it gets. Ponsonby have won 35 Gallaher Shields since 1924 (it was presented in 1922) and 15 championships before that: four in pre-ARFU days, six under the club format 1883-91, three in the District days 1891-1909,...
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    ‘Puggy-licious’ Waiopehu – Tararua Forest Park

    • 19 Sep 2023
    • Wellington Tramping and Mountainneering Club
    • We gathered at platform 9 on Saturday morning at 8 am and headed out to Poads Road end via a coffee stop at Paekākāriki. Our tramp began at 10 am and we spent the first 15 minutes or so trudging through very muddy paddocks to the start of the actual track. We took the most ... Read more
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    Ties to church and family key to Penieli Poasa’s success

    • 29 May 2024
    • Wellington Club Weekly
    • Ories captain Penieli Poasa and teammates with the Jubilee Cup last July. Photo: Stewart Baird. By Steven White Penieli Poasa is passionate about his rugby and his church. When Oriental-Rongotai won the Jubilee Cup last year, 39 players including 15 seniors and all four Ories Poasa brothers, were affiliated with the EFKS Ueligitone Christian Congregation...
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    Great Days in club rugby 009: Between the Posts

    • 1 May 2024
    • Wellington Club Weekly
    • James So’oialo slots his last-gasp dropped goal in Tawa’s 16-15 win over Old Boys University in 2017. Photo: Tawa TV. Since the first season that the Jubilee Cup was contested in 1929 there have been approximately 8,000 Senior A/Premier club rugby matches contested in Wellington. In this new series for 2024 as part of our...
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    Tawa, Wellington, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
  
  
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    Rapu the wonder dog smells a rat

    • 15 Jun 2024
    • Predator Free Wellington
    • This article was originally written by our Board Chairperson Tim Pankhurst and published by The Post on 15 June 2024. See original article here. Rapu smells a rat. His shoulders tense and his tail wags as he moves into hunting mode. He has tracked an intruder rat on the steep steps above the Scorch O Rama…
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    POLLS (new): Who do you think will win the Jubilee and Hardham Cups?

    • 3 Jul 2023
    • Wellington Club Weekly
    • The Wellington club rugby Jubilee and Hardham Cup teams have been confirmed for the remainder of the season. We are now into knockout rugby for the next three weeks. Starting this Saturday, the winners progress to the semi-finals on Saturday 15 July and the finals on Saturday 22 July and the defeated end their seasons...
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• • Matthias Goed

    • 20 Dec 2022
    • Newtown Festival
    • In this show Matthias brings his 15 years of traditional circus experience to the street! With a high energy, action packed show full of danger and crowd participation this show is guaranteed to entertain.Involving juggling, Cigarbox manipulation, comedic audience participation and of course an edge-of-your-seat spectacular Rola-Bola finale this show is not worth missing.
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• • Matthias Goed

    • 19 Dec 2022
    • Newtown Festival
    • In this show Matthias brings his 15 years of traditional circus experience to the street!  With a high energy, action packed show full of danger and crowd participation this show is guaranteed to entertain.  Involving juggling, comedic audience participation and of course an edge-of-your-seat spectacular Rola-Bola finale this show is not worth missing.
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    Save on Power Bills

    • 20 Apr 2023
    • Age Concern Wellington
    • As if increased grocery prices were not enough the daily fixed charge levied by power companies for consumers on a Low Fixed Charge plan is also going up in stages (of 15 cents per day) over the next few years. As from 1 April this year it is 45 cents per day. The charge is ... Read more
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    Hurricanes v Crusaders pre-season match scoring highlights

    • 17 Feb 2023
    • Wellington Club Weekly
    • The Hurricanes beat the Crusaders 31-26 in their Super Rugby pre-season fixture at the Levin Domain on Friday. The Hurricanes won with a withering second half comeback. The Crusaders got off to a hot start and capitalised on some early Hurricanes errors and raced to a 21-0 lead with barely 15 minutes on the clock....
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