I’ve been going to the Wellington Film Festival for every one of its 42 years, even before it was rebranded as the NZ International Film Festival. So I’m claiming the right to offer my own personal festival awards.
Saturday is the day when the government’s Transport Agency will tell Wellington how it intends to change the cityscape at the southern end of Kent and Cambridge Terraces.
The news has been a long time in coming, but as long ago as 2008 then-mayor Kerry Prendergast said, with approval, that a flyover near the Basin Reserve would be part of the plan.
Her successor doesn’t support a flyover. Indeed, the concept has few supporters except for the planners and engineers at the Transport Agency. And though there have been several good alternative proposals, the Agency doesn’t seem willing to consider them.
This year’s AGM features a keynote from Michael Upchurch, Publisher at Te Papa Press, the award winning publishing arm of the Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa.
Tiana Jaber and the Wellington Phoenix have mutually agreed to terminate the remainder of her contract with the club. The Lebanese international defender featured 39 times for the Phoenix over the past two and a half seasons, having arrived in... The post Jaber farewells the Nix appeared first on Wellington Phoenix.
The Wellington Phoenix are thrilled to have brought Paul Gothard back to the club. Gothard, commonly known throughout football as ‘Goffy’, has been appointed the Phoenix’s head of goalkeeping on a two-year contract. As part of the club-wide role he... The post Nix bring back renowned goalkeeper coach appeared first on Wellington Phoenix.
