Sport / September 2013
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Wins for Wellington Development, Pride and U20 teams
- Wellington Club Weekly
- Above: Wellington Pride fullback Katarina Simpkins scoring early in the second half as part of her side's 49-3 win over Taranaki today at the Petone Recreation Ground.
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Generation Zero Unveils Its “Fast Forward” Transport Plan For Wellington
- Save the Basin Reserve!
- If you haven’t voted in the local body election yet, don’t forget to check out our survey of candidates’ views …Continue reading »
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Wellington teams playing Taranaki, Canterbury opposition tomorrow
- Wellington Club Weekly
- Above: Wellington U18 captain and No.
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Two College Sevens tournaments this Saturday
- Wellington Club Weekly
- Above: Members of the Aotea College (winners) and Mana College Sevens squads that met in the final of the inaugural Derek Wootton Memorial Trust Sevens tournament last year.
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Wellington U16 teams in Ruatoria next week
- Wellington Club Weekly
- Above: Wellington U16 hooker and Player of the Tournament Leni Apisai with ball in hand in the 29-0 final over Hawke's Bay.
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Newtown Stadium Senior Open Days!
- Table Tennis Wellington
- Mid-week club Open Days at the Newtown Stadium: Monday September 30 & Wednesday October 2 Please come and support this new initiative if you can, and let your senior friends in Wellington city know this is on! Congratulations to Diana Winn for getting these sessions up and running. This will be a great opportunity to […]
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Wellington U18s and U20s open competitions with wins
- Wellington Club Weekly
- Above: Members of the Wellington Development and Wellington Maori teams after this afternoon’s clash at Ngatitoa Domain, won by the Development team 71-15.
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The Failure of Australasian Conservative Governments on Transport
- Wellington Region Cycleways
- Excuse me this post. I am an Australian living in New Zealand (yes the opposite of the normal story. I’m part of the backwash.) But it’s worth keeping an eye on what is happening west of the Tasman as what is happening in New Zealand is happening in Australia too. In what sounds awfully familiar, […]
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Results – Monday 16th September 2013
- Waikanae Golf Club
- 9 Hole Men & Women Waikanae 9 Hole Women hosted a round robin with some of our 9 Hole Men joining us along with members from Kapiti, Otaki and Pauatahanui. The competition was stableford and we had some very close competition. … Continue reading →
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Photos
- Worser Bay Boating Club
- Heleen Visser has provided some photos of the Changing Room Grand Opening on Saturday 7 Septemebr 2013.
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Hurricanes region age grade competitions kicking off on Saturday
- Wellington Club Weekly
- Above: The Wellington U18s in action against Manawatu in Palmerston North last year.
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Nice frequent transport map of Wellington
- Wellington Region Cycleways
- I came across this handsome map by Brett Palmer entitled Wellington City Frequent Transport. Comparing it to the proposed bus network coming soon it looks that the only change needed on this map is a new line to Brooklyn and Kingston.
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Nice frequent transport map of Wellington
- Wellington Region Cycleways
- I came across this handsome map by Brett Palmer entitled Wellington City Frequent Transport. Comparing it to the proposed bus network coming soon it looks that the only change needed on this map is a new line to Brooklyn and Kingston.
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Secondary schools tournaments to kick off Sevens season
- Wellington Club Weekly
- The Sevens rugby season kicks off over the next two weekends with three secondary school Sevens tournaments being played.
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Local body election candidates state their positions on the proposed flyover
- Save the Basin Reserve!
- Save the Basin sent the following question to all candidates standing for positions on Wellington City Council, Makara-Ohariu Community Board, …Continue reading »
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Tow broken down 15' boat to Titahi Bay Ramp
- Coastguard Mana
- Operation Details Date/Time: Wed, 18/09/2013 - 19:00 - 21:30 Operation Type: CG Operation (good samaritan) People Assisted: 2 Total Volunteer Hours: 15 Vessel broken down in Tirau Bay at anchor. 2 POB, required tow to Titahi Bay boat ramp. Two coastguard members on shore to assist in recovering vessel at boat ramp Vessel Details Length: 5.00m Resources Attendees: AlanFisher Ben Ryan nixon Neil Cornwell Peter Tse Trevor Burgess CRV's Used: CRV Pelorus
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Representative Rugby continues this Saturday
- Wellington Club Weekly
- Above: Jackson Garden-Bachop (with ball) and Andrew Wells (on his left shoulder) both made their Wellington Lions ITM Cup debuts last night against BoP and both return to the Wellington U20s squad tomorrow for their match against the Manawatu Maori.
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Weerasundara and Johnson to attend NZ Under 19 Training Camp
- Cricket Wellington
- Rakitha Weerasundara ( Johnsonville) and Brett Johnson (Hutt Districts) have both been picked to attend the final training camp for the New Zealand Under 19 side at NZC's High Performance Centre in Canterbury.
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Wellington Maori Cricket Team Nominations are now open!
- Cricket Wellington
- Cricket Wellington is calling for nominations from clubs and schools for the Wellington Maori Cricket Team. This team will play a series of matches against Northern Districts Maori. It is also hoped that a National Maori Tournament will be able to be played this season.
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Quickhit Tournament to be played in Wellington
- Cricket Wellington
- Quikhit, a modified version of cricket developed by New Zealand Cricket, provides young girls with the opportunity to play cricket this summer. Two zoned tournaments are being held at Ngati Toa Domain on the 6th of November and Petone Rec Ground on the 12th of November.
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Results – Sunday 8th September 2013
- Waikanae Golf Club
- Weekend Men & Women Congratulations to defending Champions Philip Carthew & Robyn Donaghy who won the Reta Steel Memorial Trophy for the second year in a row, with 40 points. Second place went to John Murphy & Heather Peters and … Continue reading →
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Women's Central League Play-Off
- Stop Out Sports Club
- Our Women's team take on Wanganui Athletic over two legs for the right to a place in the 2014 Central League Sunday, March 15th the team is at Wembley Park (Wanganui) for a 1:00pm kick off.
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Women's Central League Play-Off
- Stop Out Sports Club
- Our Women's team take on Wanganui Athletic over two legs for the right to a place in the 2014 Central League Sunday, March 15th the team is at Wembley Park (Wanganui) for a 1:00pm kick off.
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Result: Philp Shield
- Olympic Harriers
- The Philp Shield is our second-last club race of the year - a team event where e...
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Four region All Stars team named
- Swimming Wellington
- On behalf of Swimming Wairarapa, Wanganui, Wellington and Manawatu, I would like to congratulate the following swimmers on their selection to the inaugural Zonal Competition Team.
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International Take a Sickie and Ride Your Bike Day
- Wellington Region Cycleways
- Historically many cities have Ride a Bike to Work Days. Wellington has had them before (and is having another one in February I think). Washington DC too. They are generally good fun, and you might get a good breakfast, meetup with a few thousand other cyclists and still get to work on time. For the […]
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What Riddiford Street could look like
- Wellington Region Cycleways
- This is definitely worth drawing attention to. As I said on my post about the Island Bay cycle routes I am of the opinion that there should be separated cycleways up Adelaide Road and up Riddiford Street (amongst many others). At the Sexify Blog they’re much of the same opinion, at least about Riddiford Street. […]
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Wins for Wellington Development and Wellington U20s; close losses for Pride and Wellington College
- Wellington Club Weekly
- Above: Tauasosi Tuimavave on the burst for the Wellington U20s today.
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International Take a Sickie and Ride Your Bike Day
- Wellington Region Cycleways
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What Riddiford Street could look like
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Men's Playoff Travel Details
- Stop Out Sports Club
- Grab your seat! Travel with the team to Palmerston North for the Capital Premier playoff 1st leg. Bus leaves from the clubrooms at 10am on Saturday 14th September. Return by 7.30pm. Just $10. Call Brent for details: 027 500 5857
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Wellington College and Wellington Pride headline this weekend’s rugby
- Wellington Club Weekly
- The start of the Women’s NPC for the Wellington Pride and a national First XV semi-final for Wellington College are two features of representative matches involving Wellington teams on Saturday.
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Men's Playoff Travel Details
- Stop Out Sports Club
- Grab your seat! Travel with the team to Palmerston North for the Capital Premier playoff 1st leg. Bus leaves from the clubrooms at 10am on Saturday 14th September. Return by 7.30pm. Just $10. Call Brent for details: 027 500 5857
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Divers stranded in broken down vessel
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- Operation Details Date/Time: Tue, 03/09/2013 - 17:55 - 20:30 Operation Type: SAROP Cat 1 People Assisted: 3 Total Volunteer Hours: 12 A small vessel broke down near Mana Island with 3 people on board.The men had been diving about 1km off Mana Island, north of Porirua, and had been due back at 6pm. At 5pm they realised they had a fuel problem and were unable to start the motor so called emergency services who called out Coastguard Mana. They were able to alert rescuers to their location by text message and flashed a torch to Trust Porirua Rescue when near to show their location. The vessel and it's occupants were safely towed back to land by Coastguard Mana at 8:15pm. Vessel Details Length: 5.00m Resources Attendees: Ben Ryan Chris Darch Lorna_Rolston Steve_Rolston Trevor Farmer CRV's Used: CRV Trust Porirua Rescue
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Casey Glover English Channel Swim
- Swimming Wellington
- Casey Glover completed his swim of the English Channel earlier today in 9hr 14 minutes. To follow Casey go to his facebook page Casey Glover Open Water Swimmer. Congratulations Casey on a huge achievement.
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Poneke hosting first multicultural rugby festival on Sunday
- Wellington Club Weekly
- The Pōneke Football Club’s vision to grow the first All Black and Black Fern from migrant communities who is not from the South Pacific, Europe or South Africa has drawn incredible support from the multicultural communities of the Greater Wellington region.
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Last Day To Submit On Proposed Basin Flyover
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- This is it, folks: submissions on the proposed Basin Reserve flyover (“Basin Bridge”) close today at 5pm. Don’t leave it …Continue reading »
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Wellington Pride starting Women’s NPC this weekend
- Wellington Club Weekly
- This weekend the Wellington Pride join seven other provinces from around the country at the starting gates for an expanded Women’s NPC competition.
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Records tumble at SW short course champs
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- 20 Wellington records and 2 New Zealand records were broken over the past 2 weekends of Wellington Champs. Ben Walsh, Porirua City Aquatics broke 9 Age Group records and 1 Open Wellington record along with 2 New Zealand records. Jack Plummer, Tawa Swim Club, broke 8 Wellington records, with Josie Kozyniak, Capital breaking 1 record and 9 [...]
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News: Information and registration for children's athletics
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The Capital choking on traffic congestion due to the RoNSzi scheme
- Wellington Region Cycleways
- Today there was a bit of a hoo haa in the local press about the Arup and Opus report that the Greater Wellington Council commissioned on the effects of the RoNS on the Wellington region, but then embarrassingly the GWRC has been trying to ignore ever since. It seems that the Airport to Levin corridor […]
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Hayley Robinson and Sridhar Ekambaram in Conversation: Cycling
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- Onslow-Western Ward candidates Hayley Robinson and Sridhar Ekambaram released a joint video last week discussing cycling around the city. You can watch it below. One thing with Hayley is she’s […]
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The Capital choking on traffic congestion due to the RoNSzi scheme
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Cycling in Tunnels safely
- Wellington Region Cycleways
- What do the Kelburn, Northland and Seatoun tunnels have in common? They were all featured in a post I did 4 years ago, called Cycling in Wellington’s Tunnels, They were all built originally for trams, And they’d all benefit from two signs at each of their entrances.
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IOT qualifications
- Swimming Wellington
- Congratulations to the following SW officials who achieved national and regional IOT qualifications over the course of the SW Short Course champs: National IOTs Marco Cecioni (RAU) Dempsey Woodley (RAU) Stewart Neal (RAU) Regional IOTs Michelle Rush (KRI) John Hancock (KRI) Andrew Wills (PCA) Carl Fisk (PCA) Rebecca Ferguson (PCA) Tanya Wilson (SZR) Linda More (SZR) Nadine Yorker (RAU)
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Great time had by all on community bike ride
- Sarah Free
- We were lucky to have a nice day for the Eastern Suburbs Community Bike Ride, and we had a good cross-section of the community there, with some family groups, and a mix of experienced and less experienced cyclists. It wasn’t too challenging getting through Kilbirnie and onto the cycle way at Cobham Drive, mainly because […]
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Cycling in Tunnels safely
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- What do the Kelburn, Northland and Seatoun tunnels have in common? They were all featured in a post I did 4 years ago, called Cycling in Wellington’s Tunnels, They were all built originally for trams, And they’d all benefit from two signs at the each of their entrances.
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