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    Newsletter August 2021

    • 20 Aug 2021
    • Friends of Maara Roa
    • Friends of Maara Roa (FMR): 21 years bringing biodiversity back to the Cannons Creek catchment www.maararoa.org.nz Inquiries E: info@maararoa.org.nz August 2021 newsletter: Planting progress paused Planting progress paused AGM report: inspiring presentation Look at our new website Annual subscriptions now due Planting progress paused News of the Level 4 lockdown has put a pause on ... Read more
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    Maara Roa (Cannons Creek lakes towards Duck Creek pathway), Cannons Creek, Porirua, Porirua City, Wellington, 5025, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
  
  
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    November 2021 Newsletter

    • 14 Nov 2021
    • Friends of Maara Roa
    • Friends of Maara Roa (FMR): 21 years bringing biodiversity back to the Cannons Creek catchment Working bees are every fine Saturday; meet at 9.30 am in the carpark by the Porirua College gymnasium.  The nursery group meets every Thursday from 10 am to noon, in the grounds of Aotea College in Okowai Road. Website: www.maararoa.org.nz ... Read more
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    Maara Roa (Cannons Creek lakes towards Duck Creek pathway), Cannons Creek, Porirua, Porirua City, Wellington, 5025, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
  
  
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    Beyond Christmas - The Great Big Wellington Waterfront Clean-up 2022 - coming in January!

    • 10 Dec 2021
    • Inner-City Wellington
    • From the website On January 28th 2021, we’re running our annual beach clean-up of Wellington Waterfront in collaboration with the amazing Wellington Museum! Join us with your whānau before school starts up or walk down on your lunch break – all welcome to stay for as little or as long as you would like! Find out more here
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    From the President …in September 2021 …

    • 23 Sep 2021
    • Wellington Tramping and Mountainneering Club
    • Tēnā koutou Although Covid-19 continues to present challenges for us all, there’s still lots happening and to get involved in. Wellington is fortunate to be back to covid-19 alert level 2 so we’re able to run most club trips again with a few extra considerations. The new trip schedule is on the website here. A ... Read more
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    Let’s Get Wellington Moving replaces leaf rating visuals with written descriptions

    • 12 Nov 2021
    • Let's Get Wellington Moving
    • Let’s Get Wellington Moving has removed the ‘climate friendly’ leaf rating visual icons on its engagement website hello. lgwm. nz and replaced these with written descriptions to summarise more fully the projected impacts on carbon emissions of its four transformational options. “Determining potential carbon emissions for the programme options is a complex process incorporating many variables.
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    Hauhungatahi: Off the beaten track

    • 27 Oct 2022
    • Wellington Tramping and Mountainneering Club
    • The idea for this trip came up as I was looking for off the beaten track options to put on the trip schedule. I remembered seeing this video of Sarah adventuring through the Hauhungatahi Wilderness Area, and found this old trip report on the website. Good enough to hatch a plan.  While I was confident ... Read more
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    June 2022 newsletter:  AGM at new venue; Farewell to a founder

    • 24 Jun 2022
    • Friends of Maara Roa
    • Friends of Maara Roa (FMR): 22 years bringing biodiversity back to the Cannons Creek catchment Working bees are every fine Saturday; meet at 9.30 am in the carpark at the back of Porirua College.  The nursery group meets every Thursday from 10 am to noon, in the grounds of Aotea College in Okowai Road. Website: ... Read more
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    Maara Roa (Cannons Creek lakes towards Duck Creek pathway), Cannons Creek, Porirua, Porirua City, Wellington, 5025, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
  
  

• • Road works in Island Bay

    • 3 Sep 2022
    • Island Bay Residents' Association
    • Please find attached the September 2022 Council maintenance and minor works programme. The recent wet weather is affecting timing of works as crews work to clear slips and repair roads. For the latest information please check out the weekly roadworks report on the WCC website.  Roads – Road works and road closures – Wellington CityContinue reading "Road works in Island Bay"
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    Island Bay, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, New Zealand/Aotearoa (OpenStreetMap)
  
  
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    Pioneers of Rugby in Wellington 055: Eric Tindill

    • 15 Aug 2023
    • Wellington Club Weekly
    • Eric Tindill is one of Wellington’s most celebrated all-round sportsmen. His sports journey has been well-canvassed, and every Wellingtonian knows his story. But here it is below to document for our website. Tindill is the only man to have ever represented New Zealand in both Test rugby and Test cricket. He also refereed both cricket...
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    March /April 2022 newsletter:  Welcome news

    • 31 Mar 2022
    • Friends of Maara Roa
    • Friends of Maara Roa (FMR): 21+ years bringing biodiversity back to the Cannons Creek catchment Working bees are every fine Saturday; meet at 9.30 am in the carpark at the back of Porirua College.  The nursery group meets every Thursday from 10 am to noon, in the grounds of Aotea College in Okowai Road. Website: ... Read more
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    Maara Roa (Cannons Creek lakes towards Duck Creek pathway), Cannons Creek, Porirua, Porirua City, Wellington, 5025, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
  
  
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    July/August 2022 newsletter

    • 30 Jul 2022
    • Friends of Maara Roa
    • Friends of Maara Roa (FMR): 22 years bringing biodiversity back to the Cannons Creek catchment Working bees are every fine Saturday; meet at 9.30 am in the carpark at the back of Porirua College.  The nursery group meets every Thursday from 10 am to noon, in the grounds of Aotea College in Okowai Road. Website: ... Read more
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    Maara Roa (Cannons Creek lakes towards Duck Creek pathway), Cannons Creek, Porirua, Porirua City, Wellington, 5025, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
  
  
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    Wellington v Taranaki 1953: the high point of a golden year

    • 25 Aug 2022
    • Wellington Club Weekly
    • Above: Athletic Park’s Western Bank filling up fast 10 minutes after gates have opened at noon for a 3.00 pm kick-off between Wellington and Taranaki. Photo: EP 29/8/1953 The following story was previously published on this website in 2014 – so re-posting below for those that may have missed it then, ahead of Sunday’s NPC...
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    The day Wellington teams re-took the Ranfurly Shield off Southland and beat the All Blacks

    • 1 Sep 2022
    • Wellington Club Weekly
    • This is a previous article on this website from 2016. Re-publishing it here ahead of the Wellington Lions versus Southland match and the second All Blacks versus Argentina fixture this coming weekend. World War One disrupted a great era for Wellington rugby teams. Wellington had captured the Ranfurly Shield in 1914 off Taranaki and was...
    • Accepted from Club Weekly 2020 43 months ago by feedreader
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    July 2023 newsletter: AGM votes for change

    • 3 Aug 2023
    • Friends of Maara Roa
    • Friends of Maara Roa (FMR): 23 years bringing biodiversity back to the Cannons Creek catchment Working bees every fine Saturday; meet at 9.30 am in the carpark at the back of Porirua College. The nursery group meets every Thursday from 10 am to noon, in the grounds of Aotea College in Okowai Road. Website: www.maararoa.org.nz ... Read more
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    Maara Roa (Cannons Creek lakes towards Duck Creek pathway), Cannons Creek, Porirua, Porirua City, Wellington, 5025, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
  
  
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    Great regular reads: urban development, housing, landuse

    • 6 Sep 2024
    • Talk Wellington
    • What’s neat to read? A few go-to sources for great thinking about what’s physically between (and under) the streets and roads, and getting a steer for how to act on that In no particular order… Obviously, start with the landing page of this very website and scroll to the categories. Click and you’ll get a...
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    December 2022 Newsletter

    • 12 Dec 2022
    • Friends of Maara Roa
    • Friends of Maara Roa (FMR): 22 years bringing biodiversity back to the Cannons Creek catchment Working bees are every fine Saturday; meet at 9.30 am in the carpark at the back of Porirua College.  The nursery group meets every Thursday from 10 am to noon, in the grounds of Aotea College in Okowai Road. Website: ... Read more
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    Maara Roa (Cannons Creek lakes towards Duck Creek pathway), Cannons Creek, Porirua, Porirua City, Wellington, 5025, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
  
  

• • Neues Bauen

    • 18 Feb 2007
    • WellUrban
    • Starting this Wednesday, the School of Architecture will be hosting a travelling exhibition of seminal modern architecture. Neues Bauen International 1927|2002 highlights some of the most influential works by architects such as Le Corbusier, Mies van der Rohe and Frank Lloyd Wright. There's more information and images available on the website of the Institute for Cultural Relations.
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    Midweek Work Parties

    • 4 Oct 2007
    • The Lazy Fern Track Blog
    • What more could you want from an after work track building session, good company, good progress, good pizza and good beer. If this sounds like your kind of thing then keep a look out on the Website for more info. We will be trying to do one of these midweek work parties every week from now until December.
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• • 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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    More rare maidenhair spleenwort.

    • 15 Mar 2009
    • Te Papa's blog
    • The rare, tetraploid maidenhair spleenwort  (Asplenium trichomanes subsp. quadrivalens) has only recently been rediscovered in New Zealand.  Several people have contacted me with possible additional sightings. As described by the Scoop website, Jack Ritchie had a maidenhair spleenwort self-sow on a rock used to construct a water feature in his nursery, Tree Guys, in Otane. Jack [...]
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• • Weekly Report 18th October

    • 14 Oct 2009
    • Wellington Runners & Walkers (WRW)
    • Well, with some of the weather we've been having, there’s not much to do, so why don’t you check out the photo gallery on the website – Stan has some great photos posted, with a recent ‘old’ one of Mike Candy – taken so long ago he doesn’t look old enough to have been taken away from his mother…
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• • First candidates meeting tonight!

    • 8 Sep 2010
    • WCC Watch
    • The good people at the Ngaio Progressive Association are hosting the very first meet the candidates evening for the 2010 elections. Tonight they are hosting both the Mayoral and Onslow-Western candidates. Date & Time: Thursday 9 September 2010, 7.45pm  Location: Ngaio School Hall, 45 Abbott Street, Ngaio  For a full list of meetings, please see the council website.
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    Ngaio, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
  
  

• • 2012 Old Boys' Cup

    • 20 Feb 2012
    • St Patricks College, Silverstream
    • Tuesday 21 February 2012: Stream's annual athletic battle with its brother school, St Patrick's College Town, takes place today at Newtown Park, Wellington. On Monday, Streamers performed the haka to spur on their athletes in Tuesday's competition. During the competition, results and photos will be updated on the website. All parents are welcome to come and support.
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    St Patricks College Silverstream, Fergusson Drive, Trentham, Upper Hutt, Wellington Region, New Zealand
  
  

• • 2012 NZ Junior Open Summary

    • 10 Jul 2012
    • Table Tennis Wellington
    • The results are in from the TTNZ NZ Junior Open (Canterbury) so I am pasting some here (full results will be available on the TTNZ website). Full team results are here. Great news! Thom Nguyen won the under 18 Boy’s singles (3-0 vs. Kevin Wu). Thom Nguyen is also named the Table Tennis New Zealand [...]
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• • Weekly Report for Sunday Oct. 16

    • 12 Oct 2011
    • Wellington Runners & Walkers (WRW)
    • Hi Everyone Past President Gordie has run his 50th Marathon and is in his 50th year. Go read the article Dave Green has posted on the website. Well done Gordie. And here is a classical comment I can't resist making. 50th Marathon? 50 years old? Sounds as if Gordie is having an 'L' of a time.*
    • Accepted from WMC news 174 months ago
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    Season’s greetings to community rugby supporters

    • 17 Dec 2023
    • Wellington Club Weekly
    • Club Rugby wishes you and your family and friends (and your opposition) the very best wishes this holiday season. May you eat plenty, drink festively and most importantly rest up and re-charge ahead of another big year of community rugby in 2024. As well as covering some sevens rugby here on our website and on...
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• • Success at Regional Athletics

    • 12 Apr 2021
    • Newlands College
    • At the College Sport Regional Athletic Championships at Newtown Park there were a couple of standout performances from our students: Simon Donovan 3rd in AWD Boys 200M 1st in AWD Boys 100M Tiffany Natta 1st in AWD Girls Shot Put 1st in AWD 100M Top efforts against all comers
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    Newlands College, 68, Bracken Road, Newlands, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, 6037, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
  
  

• • Applications Invited For 2023 Randell Cottage Writers Residency

    • 8 Sep 2022
    • Randell Cottage Writers Trust
    • Applications are now open for one of New Zealand’s top writing residencies: the 2023 Creative New Zealand Randell Cottage Writers Fellowship. The fellowship comprises a generous stipend, funded by CNZ and currently set at $28,500, and six months’ rent-free accommodation in one of Wellington’s oldest heritage homes.
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    Randell Cottage, 14, St Mary Street, Wellington Central, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, 6140, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
  
  

• • Elliott unbeaten in Firebirds win

    • 5 Jan 2008
    • Cricket Wellington
    • Grant Elliott’s unbeaten 91 helped secure a six-wicket win for State Wellington Firebirds over State Otago Volts at Alexandra’s Molyneux Park. Volts’ Greg Todd top-scored in the match with 95 to guide the hosts to 226 for eight, enjoying a stand of 80 with Neil Broom (42).
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• • Blackwash in OK Dinghy Pre-worlds at Warnemunde

    • 9 Jul 2008
    • Royal Port Nicholson Yacht Club (Inc)
    • The Kiwi Hamburg-Sud team at the 71st Warnemunde Woche, the pre event for the 2008 OK Dinghy World Championship, dominated the event, winning 6 of the 7 races and finishing with 5 boats in the top 6; the prize-ceremony was saw 3 black shirts on the podium.
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    Royal Port Nicholson Yacht Club, 103, Oriental Parade, Oriental Bay, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, 6011, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)