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• • Pūaha—Student Portal: The new student administration space on our website

    • 6 May 2022
    • Victoria University of Wellington
    • In 2020, we asked students what would improve their learning experience at Te Herenga Waka. Students told us they wanted a simple self-service experience and access to more tools and resources in a single place.
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• • Surprising variety of life headlines new report on Porirua Harbour health

    • 31 May 2022
    • Greater Wellington Regional Council
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• • Greater Wellington supports government action on public transport industry and decarbonisation

    • 16 May 2022
    • Greater Wellington Regional Council
    • Greater Wellington has thrown its support behind a range of Government announcements today to make public transport more attractive and help reach decarbonisation goals. In a pre-budget announcement today, the Government pledged $350 million to fund Transport Choices which commits to making public transport more accessible and easier to use, as well as $61 million to support a sustainable, skilled workforce of bus drivers, and a further $40 million over four years to accelerate the decarbonisation of the public transport bus fleets ahead of the Government’s decarbonisation target by 2035.
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    Crustacean celebrities of Aotearoa New Zealand on display at Te Papa

    • 18 May 2023
    • Te Papa
    • Crabs, shrimps, lobsters, barnacles, slaters and other crustaceans are the stars of a new mini exhibition presented by NIWA and Te Papa. Opening 22 May, Mawhiti Tino Rawe | Clever Crustaceans is a playful exploration of the bizarre and diverse world of five marine crustaceans. They can change their shape, circle the globe, and maybe even cure cancer – crustaceans are the unsung heroes of the sea. NIWA scientists Rachael Peart and Kareen Schnabel worked with Te Papa experts to deliver this mini exhibition that showcases the importance and special capabilities of the ‘insects of the sea’.
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    How to bet on rugby in New Zealand: Your ultimate guide

    • 24 Aug 2023
    • Wellington Club Weekly
    • Few sports captivate a nation in the same way New Zealanders love their rugby. For those who might not be privy as to why, the small island nation is one of the global titans of the sport, regularly holding their own against countries with much bigger populations such as the United Kingdom, South Africa and...
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    Kāinga Ora invites public feedback on the Porirua Northern Growth Area proposed key features

    • 2 Sep 2023
    • Pukerua Bay Residents Association
    • Kāinga Ora – Homes and Communities is inviting the public to provide feedback on proposed key features of a potential Specified Development Project (SDP) for the Porirua Northern Growth Area … Kāinga Ora invites public feedback on the Porirua Northern Growth Area proposed key features Read More »
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• • Wellington Police urge motorists to take it easy on the roads this coming Queen...

    • 26 May 2010
    • Wellington District Police
    • Wellington Police are urging motorists to take it easy on the roads this coming Queen's Birthday...
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• • News: Article in the Kapi Mana this week on Michelle and Ellen Van Looy

    • 4 Sep 2014
    • Olympic Harriers
    • Check out the Kapi Mana this week. Tawa runners Michelle and Ellen Van Looy on p...
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• • GO Wellington welcomes SuperGold

    • 26 Sep 2008
    • Go Wellington
    • Friday, 26 September From 1 October, SuperGold card holders can take to the streets of Wellington and travel off-peak on the bus for free. 
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    Wellington beat world club champions, lose to Australian national squad on day two

    • 25 Oct 2015
    • Wellington Club Weekly
    • The Wellington Sevens team bowed out at the semi-final stage of the Central Coast 7s tournament on finals day today, after causing one of the shocks of the day by beating powerful Fijian side, tournament defending champions and World Club Sevens champions Daveta in their quarterfinal match-up.
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    Ories hold on for top spot while Rimutaka earn promotion in the Hardham Cup

    • 23 Jul 2011
    • Wellington Club Weekly
    • Oriental-Rongotai held on to earn top spot for next week's 2011 Jubilee Cup semi-finals with ten...
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    Women’s winners found, as Paremata-Plimmerton have one hand on the Swindale Shield

    • 17 Jun 2023
    • Wellington Club Weekly
    • The Marist St Pat’s Women’s team – Division 1 Championship Tia Paasi Cup winners today. PHOTO: Andy McArthur. By Steven White, Scott MacLean and Adam Julian Results & Scoring (as received) HERE Two club rugby titles were decided today in Wellington club rugby, while a third is on ice until next week – but for...
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    Plimmerton, Porirua, Porirua City, Wellington, 5026, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
  
  

• • Collections on the move: Central Library levels 7 and 0, 20 June – 5 July

    • 17 Jun 2011
    • Victoria University Library
    • During the week beginning 20 June 2011, we will be moving Library material on levels 7 and 0 of the Central Library to make room for Campus Hub development. As a result there will be some additional noise on these floors, and access to items being moved may be restricted.
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    NZ’s sacred summits. Please don’t stand on my head – a guide for climbers

    • 11 Jul 2025
    • Wellington Tramping and Mountainneering Club
    • NZ’s sacred summits. Please don’t stand on my head – a guide for climbers. The summits of many NZ mountains are sacred to Māori. The Māori proverb, ‘If I should bow my head let it be to a high mountain’, sums this up. This story outlines why climbers should stop short of a summit = ... Read more
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    Petone held to draw but still lead Swindale on day of close results

    • 4 Jun 2022
    • Wellington Club Weekly
    • Tawa’s second team with the Harper Lock Shield, which they won with a round to spare last Saturday but were presented with it today on the terraces at Nairnville Park following their 22-22 draw with Old Boys University. By Steven White & Scott MacLean Results and scoring (as received) HERE Petone remain the competition leaders...
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    Lions to open 2024 NPC against Auckland for Fred Lucas Cup on Friday

    • 7 Aug 2024
    • Wellington Club Weekly
    • The Wellington Lions open their 2024 National Provincial Championship season with an away fixture against Auckland at Eden Park on Friday night. The Lions won their fifth NPC Division 1/Premiership title in 2022 but missed out by a solitary point in their semi-final to Hawke’s Bay in last year’s semi-final meeting. Wellington and Auckland have...
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    Petone on top of Jubilee Cup while late try for Poneke sinks HOBM

    • 5 Jul 2009
    • Wellington Club Weekly
    • Petone have hit the lead in the Jubilee Cup after a 12-try rout over Tawa at the Village, while a late try to captain and No. 8 Misipalauni Moananu snatched a stunning victory for Poneke over Hutt Old Boys Marist in a heart stopper at the Hutt Recreation Ground in round four matches on Saturday.
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    Pre-season continues in Wellington on Saturday as Manawatu club season opens up

    • 18 Mar 2021
    • Wellington Club Weekly
    • The Ories and Avalon Premier squads are both in action in pre-season rugby on Saturday, with Ories playing Tawa and Avalon playing Hawke’s Bay’s Clive. More details below. The long languid summer weekends are ending, replaced by a buffet of rugby every Saturday starting tomorrow. A look at what’s coming up this weekend below -NOTE...
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    Skiing and Hiking at Mt Ruapehu | Staying on the Mountain at the WTMC Lodge

    • 23 Oct 2025
    • Wellington Tramping and Mountainneering Club
    • Skiing and Hiking at Mt Ruapehu | Staying on the Mountain at the WTMC Lodge Skiing, hiking and family day walks at Mt Ruapehu — including the Tongariro National Park and particularly the Whakapapa area, including route guides and photos — with practical information on staying at the WTMC Lodge in Iwikau Village. WTMC Mt Ruapehu Lodge ... Read more
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• • Te Kaupapa Here Whakaitinga Rēti mō ngā Whenua MāoriRates Remissions on Māori Land Policy

    • 21 Mar 2022
    • Greater Wellington Regional Council Have Your Say
    • E tūtohi ana a Te Pane Matua Taiao ki te panoni i te Kaupapa Here Whakaitinga Rēti me Whakatārewa hoki mō ngā Whenua Māori Herekore. Greater Wellington Regional Council (Greater Wellington) proposes to make changes to the Rates Remissions and Postponements on Māori Freehold Land Policy. This will become known as the Rates Remissions on Māori Land Policy.
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• • Submit on the Wellington City Council Community Draft Annual Plan now. Don’t dither!

    • 2 Apr 2011
    • Bryan Pepperell - Back To The Future
    • Submit on the Wellington City Council Community Draft Annual Plan now. Don’t dither! Democracy only works when we all participate. With low turnouts at election time and poor participation rates in the Council Community Annual and Long Term Council Community Plans, outcomes can get distorted. If you don’t vote and participate in the process then you shouldn’t complain about the outcome.
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• • The Appeal goes on - you can TEXT 2014 to 2446 to donate $3

    • 23 Aug 2014
    • Samaritans
    • Thank you to everyone who gave so generously on 22 and 23 August! We met and spoke to many people, some of whom also thanked us for being there when they needed someone to listen. Hearing those snippets makes it so worthwhile. If you missed us, it is not too late! You can still TEXT 2014 to 2446 to donate $3 to the Samaritans!
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• • The Appeal goes on - you can TEXT 2014 to 2446 to donate $3

    • 23 Aug 2014
    • Samaritans
    • Thank you to everyone who gave so generously on 22 and 23 August! We met and spoke to many people, some of whom also thanked us for being there when they needed someone to listen. Hearing those snippets makes it so worthwhile. If you missed us, it is not too late! You can still TEXT 2014 to 2446 to donate $3 to the Samaritans!
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    America's Cup Champions are coming for the 2021 Boat Shed Chat on 25 November

    • 30 Sep 2021
    • Worser Bay Boating Club
    • We are in for a treat! We've got two America's Cup champions coming to Worser Bay Boating Club for the 2021 Boat Shed Chat on Thursday...
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    Worser Bay Yacht Club, Marine Parade, Seatoun, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
  
  
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    How Did I Get Hear? #5 - Fraser Lewry on Butthole Surfers' "Locust Abortion Technician"

    • 26 Jul 2024
    • Slow Boat Records
    • Fraser Lewry on Butthole Surfers’ “Locust Abortion Technician” My first love was rock music with a capital R: AC/DC, Black Sabbath, Deep Purple, Led Zeppelin.
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    How Did I Get Hear? #17 - Alan Gregg on Ed Cake's "Downtown Puff"

    • 6 May 2025
    • Slow Boat Records
    • Behold the Golden Man! Some time in the mid-1990s I was sitting on a sofa in Auckland watching a Saturday morning kids’ TV show called What Now? A band came on and played a song which featured the lyric “If I go to hospital / Will you administer my pill?” I had no idea who they were, but the song was brilliant, and one of the band members appeared to have springs attached to the soles of his shoes. A few weeks later I met two members of that band, Edmund McWilliams and Geoff Maddock, at a Supergroove show at Auckland University. We talked about our shared enthusiasm for the music of Jonathan Richman, and they gave me a cassette(!) of some songs they were working on. When I got home and played the cassette it was a revelation. It contained intensely melodic songs with absurd lyrics and unusual arrangements. I felt like I’d stumbled upon some kind of secret treasure. They were pop songs, but not like anything I’d heard before. The songs on that cassette later turned into the eponymous Bressa Creeting Cake album (Flying Nun Records 1997), which is still spoken of in reverential tones in certain circles. The three piece Bressa Creeting Cake band, with Joel Wilton on drums, came on tour around New Zealand with The Mutton Birds (who I played bass with), and it felt like a privilege to watch them play these amazing songs to baffled audiences each night. By that time Edmund McWilliams was becoming better known under the moniker Edmund Cake. In 1999 Edmund and I played together in Bic Runga’s band, when she supported Paul Kelly on a tour of Australia. On that trip I saw first hand how Ed’s approach was not like other musicians I knew. At one show Bic’s band was invited to join Paul Kelly and his band onstage for their encore, and during the song Ed played Paul Kelly’s acoustic guitar with such intensity that his hand bled all over the body of the guitar. At soundcheck the next day Paul Kelly’s unimpressed guitar technician greeted Ed with the guitar and a cleaning cloth. Ed set to work making it spotless, and we weren’t invited onstage for the encore again. Bressa Creeting Cake split up around that time, and Geoff Maddock formed the band Goldenhorse, which went on to become hugely popular in New Zealand. All of this is a very longwinded way of getting to the point that after the demise of Bressa Creeting Cake, Edmund Cake made a solo album called Downtown Puff (Lil’ Chief Records 2004), which I consider to be a masterpiece. Around the time Bressa Creeting Cake ended, an A&R man from the Dreamworks record label in LA came to visit Ed in New Zealand and gave him an advance to make some demos. Ed recorded three songs and sent them to the label. After not hearing from the A&R guy for a while, Ed called him in LA to ask what he thought of the songs. He replied that they were “Quite great”. Dreamworks did not sign Edmund Cake to the label in the end, but they did sign a little-known artist named Nelly Furtado. In the meantime, Tim Finn had become a supporter of Ed’s music and lent him some recording equipment for a studio Ed had assembled in a building in Gore Street in Auckland. Neil Finn had also become a fan and gave Ed time to complete Downtown Puff in his own studio. Edmund Cake is an unusually talented songwriter. He has a gift for composing melodies and chord changes which are both surprising and breathtakingly beautiful. He’s also able to write lyrics which can be funny and strangely affecting at the same time. And he doesn’t sound like anyone else. On Downtown Puff Ed played most of the instruments, and he engineered and produced the songs himself. It’s an album that constantly treads the line between the sublime and the ridiculous, and sometimes does both at the same time. "You’re Watching Me” and “Beautiful Sleep” are ballads as melodic and effortless as any I can think of. The song "Gunga" sounds like Captain Beefheart jamming with Devo on the set of Sesame Street. “My Son the Harpist” tells the story, over an Omnichord drum beat, of a young harp player who meets a tragic end. Ed was improvising the lyrics the first time he ever recorded the vocal on that song and he never changed them. As a result, there are some spontaneous words in that song that you won’t find in any dictionary. The song “Oh Baby Bear” is the catchiest song you’ll ever hear about the Auckland Public Transport system. Ed sings “She’s got a cuppa tea and sandwich, she’s feeling fine / She just crossed the Pukapuka line,” all delivered in a fair dinkum Kiwi accent. Perhaps Downtown Puff’ s master stroke is the track “Golden Man”, which sounds a bit like a 1970s psychedelic folk band singing a gospel song. The poetic lyrics, swooping melodies and Ed’s trademark falsetto vocals all contribute to the song’s eerie beauty. “He commands the cats to claw / He commands the boats to shore / He commands the gulls to fly / He commands the crops to die”. Sometimes Edmund’s music can evoke the genius of Brian Wilson in the way he can take really unusual chord changes and make them seem completely natural in a pop song. But this music doesn’t sound like Brian Wilson. Ed often adopts different character voices for the songs. One moment he’s singing in a sweet falsetto, and in the next he’s growling like Tom Waits. Each song has a distinct vocal identity, almost reminiscent of the way Prince used completely different voices for some of his songs. But this music sounds nothing like Prince. Sometimes I wonder why the Downtown Puff album isn’t better known than it is. It certainly has some devoted fans, but I can’t help thinking more people would like it if they knew about it. For me it’s the work of a visionary musical artist, and it's a collection of songs that contains just the right balance of beauty, mystery, playfulness and outrageously good tunes. It’s also worth mentioning that Edmund Cake released another album under the name Pie Warmer a few years later called The Fearsome Feeling (2009 Lil’Chief Records), which is every bit as great as Downtown Puff. Alan Gregg last year released a superb album under the name Polite Company, entitled "Please Go Wild" - first single "Circulation" is here, we have copies on LP and CD, and his website is here
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    GOTB has been invited to comment on Wellington International Airport Southern Seawall Renewal Project

    • 24 Feb 2026
    • Guardians of the Bays
    • The Fast Track team has informed Guardians of the Bays (GOTB) we can comment on the Fast Track application of the Wellington International Airport Southern Seawall Renewal Project .
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• • Presentation to Wellington City Council on Let's Get Wellington Moving's Golden Mile Traffic Resolutions

    • 23 Jun 2023
    • Wellington Employers' Chamber of Commerce
    • n presentation to Wellington City Council (WCC) on 15th June, Corporate Affairs & Policy Manager, Ed Gibbs set out the Chamber’s position regarding Let's Get Wellington Moving's (LGWM) Golden Mile Traffic Resolutions. The Chamber supports fellow trade associations Property Council New Zealand (Wellington Branch), Retail NZ, and Hospitality NZ, echoing their practical concerns regarding the impact of the changes on businesses directly affected, particularly during the construction phase. The project risks substantial financial out lay in return for limited productivity gains.
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    DOMINION POST: Wellington Airport runway extension plan staying on hold for six more months

    • 13 Jan 2019
    • Guardians of the Bays
    • By Tom Hunt and Thomas Manch, January 8, 2019 Sea​ Rotmann has six more months of uncertainty after a decision allowing Wellington Airport long-lingering runway extension application to remain on hold until May.
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    DOMINION POST: Wellington Airport runway extension plan staying on hold for six more months

    • 13 Jan 2019
    • Guardians of the Bays
    • By Tom Hunt and Thomas Manch, January 8, 2019 Sea​ Rotmann has six more months of uncertainty after a decision allowing Wellington Airport long-lingering runway extension application to remain on hold until May.
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