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• • Vera Ellen

    • 25 Jan 2024
    • Newtown Festival
    • Aotearoa Music Award winning and Taite Award nominated artist Vera Ellen was born and raised in Naenae in Te Whanganui-A-Tara/Wellington. Vera relocated to Los Angeles, where she started the band Girl Friday, whose music debuted on indie giant Sub Pop’s sub-label, Hardly Art. In early 2020, Vera moved back to Aotearoa during the pandemic, leading […]
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    Naenae, Lower Hutt, Lower Hutt City, Wellington, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
  
  

• • Sunday Sessions at TTE

    • 15 Aug 2020
    • Wellington Jazz Cooperative
    • Each week the session features compositions by a great jazz artist. The house band open with a couple of tunes and then musicians are invited up to join in.Featured composer: Jerome KernHouse Band: Alex Boulton (g), Seth Boy (b), Mark Lockett (d)Date and time: Sunday, 16 Aug 2020, 2-4pmVenue: The Third Eye, 30 Arthur Street, Te Aro
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    The Third Eye, Arthur Street, Mount Cook, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, 6011, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
  
  
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    Tavita-Metcalfe, Aumua-Peseta, Poloniati notable new names in Lions squad

    • 28 Aug 2020
    • Wellington Club Weekly
    • Above: The Wellington Lions after beating Northland last year. There are plenty of returning faces and some new names in this year’s squad, named on Friday. Northern United’s Josiah Tavita-Metcalfe, Tawa’s Ben Aumua-Peseta and OBU’s James Poloniati are notable newcomers in a 36-strong Wellington Lions squad named for the 2020 National Provincial Championship. Tavita-Metcalfe, who...
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• • Sunday Sessions at TTE

    • 29 Aug 2020
    • Wellington Jazz Cooperative
    • Each week the session features compositions by a great jazz artist. The house band open with a couple of tunes and then musicians are invited up to join in.Featured composer: Alice ColtraneHouse Band: Ayrton Foote (p), Patrick Bleakley (b), Mark Lockett (d)Date and time: Sunday, 30 Aug 2020, 2-4pmVenue: The Third Eye, 30 Arthur Street, Te Aro
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    The Third Eye, Arthur Street, Mount Cook, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, 6011, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
  
  
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    Give ‘Em The Axe

    • 29 Jun 2020
    • Wellington Club Weekly
    • The Wellington Football Club celebrates its 150th Anniversary in 2020 and a new book, “Give ‘Em The Axe’ has been published to mark the milestone. Written by club President and leading rugby commentator Keith Quinn, the nearly 200-page book is not your typical dry club history. Containing a photograph on almost every page the chapters...
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• • White-faced storm petrel translocation project 2019-2021

    • 12 Jul 2020
    • Friends of Mana Island
    • WFSP2020_Summary_ReportIn 2019 FOMI began translocating white-faced storm petrels / rōrō, takahikare-moana from Rekohu / Chathams to Mana Island over a three-year period. Fifty chicks in 2019, and 100 each in 2020 and 2021. This work is made possible through funding from our major sponsor OMV New Zealand Ltd.  Overall aim To establish a self-sustaining population […]
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    Mana Island, Moki Street, Titahi Bay, Porirua, Porirua City, Wellington, 5022, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
  
  

• • Barton Marine Winter Series: Race Day 5 was amazing

    • 3 Aug 2020
    • Evans Bay Yacht and Motorboat Club
    • The weather for race day 5 of the Barton Marine Winter Series for 2020 was absolutely amazing, apart from a slight lack of breeze later in the afternoon. The Race Management team did a fantastic job and managed to get a race away, even if it was shortened for most divisions.Check out all the gossip here.
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    Evans Bay Yacht And Motor Boat Club, 447, Evans Bay Parade, Hataitai, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, 6021, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
  
  
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    Short Passes (news in briefs) 3 August

    • 2 Aug 2020
    • Wellington Club Weekly
    • Upper Hutt Rams halfback Kaide McCashin scores in the corner in his side’s 15-10 Alby Makeham Shield win over Poneke. We are now into the second half of the 2020 Wellington club rugby season, and, whilst some contenders have dropped off the pace, all competitions are still wide open. Lots to play for this coming...
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    Lions – Mooloo opener in NPC this Saturday

    • 7 Sep 2020
    • Wellington Club Weekly
    • Above: It was all and fun and games when the Wellington Lions beat Waikato in their last meeting last October in Wellington. PHOTO Hugh Pretorius. The Wellington Lions open their 2020 National Provincial Championship season this Saturday afternoon against Waikato in Hamilton, kick-off 2.05pm. It’s been 20 years since the Lions last won the NPC’s...
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    Goochy raises a ton

    • 9 Sep 2020
    • Wellington Club Weekly
    • Jacob Gooch running strongly against the Wellington Axemen in a recent match. Last Saturday he played his 100th Premier match for Petone. This Saturday Petone meets Northern United at Porirua in a must-win match to advance to the Jubilee Cup semi-finals. By Adam Julian July 25, 2020, music is rumbling, the chat is short, shrieking,...
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    Porirua, Wellington Region, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
  
  
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    Wellington Lions v Waikato in facts and figures

    • 15 Sep 2020
    • Wellington Club Weekly
    • By Peter Marriott The Wellington Lions played Waikato in their opening 2020 National Provincial Championship fixture, losing 28-53. Some facts and figures related to that game below. Wellington lost its first match of the new season for the second year in a row. The last time this happened was back in 1998 and 1999 when...
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    Boo Boo Hut – the Toaroha and Diedrichs Range bear hunt

    • 25 Jun 2024
    • Wellington Tramping and Mountainneering Club
    • Boo Boo Hut the Toaroha and Diedrichs Range bear hunt A 9 day hiking loop trip through the spectacular mountain scenery in the Toaroha and Diedrichs Range area of the West Coast of South Island. #BearHunt Clue: A sleepover at the home of Yogi Bear’s friend. Back in April 2020 during lockdown, some naughty teddy ... Read more
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    St Mary’s and Manukura draw Hurricanes Girls decider

    • 24 Sep 2020
    • Wellington Club Weekly
    • By Adam Julian Insanity is a shared experience in 2020 and evidently that reality extended to the Hurricanes Secondary Schoolgirls Final at a windswept Hataitai Park this afternoon. St Mary’s and Manukura shared the Rex Kerr Cup 10-10 after an epic struggle and a 45-minute second half injury delay. The match started franticly, with Manukura...
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    Hataitai, Wellington, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
  
  
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    Short Passes 19 October

    • 18 Oct 2020
    • Wellington Club Weekly
    • Wellington club rugby players playing for other provinces line-up 2020 This team is ‘thin’ this year, so not posted as a standalone article as in past seasons! A few too many halfbacks and not enough outside backs in the squad, and some excess props (three others in the wider training group, Tolu Fahamokioa (Waikato/Tawa/Johnsonville), Tietie...
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    Tawa, Wellington, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
  
  
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    St Pat’s Silverstream and St Mary’s win Wellington Condor Sevens titles

    • 26 Oct 2020
    • Wellington Club Weekly
    • St Pat’s Silverstream (Open Boys) and St Mary’s College (Open Girls) are the 2020 Wellington Condor 7s champions. Silverstream won the the Christian Cullen Cup with a 17-14 win over St Pat’s Town in their final and St Mary’s College retained the Kat Simpkins Cup with a 22-12 win over first time finalists Sacred Heart...
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    Norths and Ories win Wellington club sevens crowns

    • 14 Nov 2020
    • Wellington Club Weekly
    • Northern United (Men’s) and Oriental-Rongotai (Women’s) are the 2020 Wellington club rugby sevens rugby champions. Both teams won their second consecutive tournaments this weekend at Maidstone Park to lift the trophies. Norths retained the American Ambassador’s Cup, while Ories won the Eleanor Roosevelt Cup. In repeats of last week’s opening leg finals, Norths beat Ories...
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    Bike tune up at A Very Aro Xmas

    • 19 Nov 2020
    • Cycle Aware Wellington (CAW)
    • Come along on 5 December 2020 a day of festivities in Aro Street Park where Cycle Wellington in conjunction with Mechanical Tempest will have a tune up stand and volunteers fixing up bikes! We’ll be set up from around 10AM until 1pm. Hope to see you there with your bike! More info about the event available here.
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    Otaki Forks temporary walking access

    • 22 Dec 2020
    • Wellington Tramping and Mountainneering Club
    • As of 21 December 2020 DOC has opened an Otaki Forks temporary walking access track. This is good news for trampers wanting to use the Field or Waitewaewae Tracks given the road is unlikely to be open for some time (12 months has been mentioned). So where does the track go? Park your car near ... Read more
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    Short Passes 23 November (rugby news and happenings)

    • 22 Nov 2020
    • Wellington Club Weekly
    • Salesi Rayasi continued his brilliant season for Auckland when he scored yet another try in the 23-18 win over Waikato in their Premiership semi-final on Saturday. He has now crossed the strip 14 times in 2020. The Auckland record is held by 1987 World Cup winning wing Terry Wright who scored 19 tries in 1984....
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• • Congratulations to Michalia Arathimos

    • 1 Feb 2021
    • Randell Cottage Writers Trust
    • Congratulations to Michalia Arathimos who is University of Waikato‘s 2021 Writer in Residence. Her publication history is diverse, ranging from books and novels to short stories, reviews, non-fiction and poetry. While she is in Hamilton she will work on her third novel Sojourn, which is set in the Waikato. During 2020 Michalia was the Writer […]
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    Randell Cottage, 14, St Mary Street, Wellington Central, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, 6140, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
  
  
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    School Leavers to Watch 2021

    • 6 Apr 2021
    • Wellington Club Weekly
    • Heated action from the 2020 Premiership First XV final at Porirua Park, that saw Scots College edge St Pat’s Silverstream 24-21. Many of the players that contested the final are joining the Wellington cub rugby ranks this year. A look at some of them below. After a couple of weak years previously, Wellington Secondary Schools...
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    Porirua, Wellington Region, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
  
  

• • Speargrass weevil survey gets underway, Feb 2021

    • 16 Apr 2021
    • Friends of Mana Island
    • Late in 2020 Colin Miskelly proposed a one-off survey of speargrass weevils on Mana Island for early 2021. The expectation was for similar surveys to be undertaken occasionally (e.g. at 3–5 year intervals) to assess whether speargrass weevils are being impacted by the Beauveria fungus that is being spread by the flax weevils. The background to […]
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    Mana Island, Moki Street, Titahi Bay, Porirua, Porirua City, Wellington, 5022, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
  
  
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    WBBC Grand Opening

    • 31 Jan 2020
    • Worser Bay Boating Club
    • After a mammoth effort over the last five years Worser Bay Boating Club held the Grand Opening of our new club rooms on 22 February 2020. A full day of celebrations culminated with the official opening at 5.00pm, with special guest Andy Foster, Mayor of Wellington. Check out the videos and photos from the day here.
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    Worser Bay Yacht Club, Marine Parade, Seatoun, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
  
  
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    Wellington goes Solo in 2022 All Black Sevens Squad

    • 13 Jan 2022
    • Wellington Club Weekly
    • Above: Roderick Solo on debut for Oriental-Rongotai in the 2020 Swindale Shield. Photo: Andy McArthur. Oriental-Rongotai’s Roderick Solo is a new face in the All Blacks Sevens squad for 2022. The fleet-footed former Scots College flyer is one of five new faces in this year’s national men’s sevens set-up. Solo joins Leroy Carter (Bay of...
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    Remembering Emily

    • 27 Apr 2022
    • Age Concern Wellington
    •   When the Companion Walking Service was set up in 2020, we needed a bank of volunteers ready for when the referrals started to come in. At that time, I belonged to an exercise group in Karori and over coffee told the group about my new job. One member of the group, Delyse, was particularly ... Read more
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    Greater Wellington Regions Plan Change

    • 21 Nov 2022
    • Guardians of the Bays
    • GOTB has made a limited submission in support of the Proposed Change 1 to the Regional Policy Statement which focuses on climate change, biodiversity, and freshwater. It lays the ground for achieving carbon net-zero by 2050. The main changes are to implement and support the National Policy Statement on Urban Development 2020 (NPS-UD) and to […]
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    Simon Gibson

    • 25 Sep 2022
    • Hutt Valley Fencing Club
    • Simon joined Hutt Valley Fencing Club in 2018 as a way to get fit and lose weight following a break from fencing of 25 years. During the break he was a corporate trainer at many Fortune 500 companies in Japan. In 2020 he restarted coaching, attending UFC8 in Melbourne, learning a great deal from Italian … Continue reading Simon Gibson →
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    Lower Hutt, Wellington, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
  
  

• • Revulva

    • 19 Dec 2023
    • Newtown Festival
    • Revulva is a femme-lead soul, funk, disco eight-piece hailing from Te Whanganui-a-Tara. Making a scene since 2020, Revulva have been turning heads at their theatrical and epic live shows performing at festivals such as 121 Festival, Tora Bombora, Nest Fest, Welcome To Nowhere, Twisted Frequency among many more. Revulva released their debut EP “Girl’s Gotta […]
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    Where are they now: The 2015 Old Boys University Jubilee Cup winning team

    • 3 Jun 2025
    • Wellington Club Weekly
    • As part of Old Boys University’s Old Timers’ Day this coming Saturday, the club is holding a 10-year reunion of the 2015 Jubilee Cup winning team. This was the first of five Wellington club rugby champion teams, the club also winning in 2017, 2018, 2020 and 2024. The club is celebrating the 2015 anniversary at...
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    The Unit on Scallywags Success and U85kg Camaraderie

    • 5 Jul 2023
    • Wellington Club Weekly
    • By Adam Julian Matt ‘The Unit’ Fowler won three Jubilee Cups with Old Boys University in 2017, 2018, and 2020. This year he’s a player/coach for the Old Boys University Scallywags who won the first-round Under 85kg JC Bowl. The Scallywags won all 11 matches and outscored opponents 626 to 52 achieving a maximum of...
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