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      <title>Temperance (and hotels) in Newtown</title>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 21 Oct 2025 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <georss:featurename>Newtown, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, New Zealand</georss:featurename>
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      <title>Death and politics in a Newtown street</title>
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      <pubDate>Sat, 03 Sep 2022 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <dc:date>2022-09-03T00:00:00Z</dc:date>
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      <georss:featurename>Newtown, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, New Zealand</georss:featurename>
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      <title>Protecting Newtown’s diversity</title>
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      <description>were sold in 1889 in the Wellesley block.&#xD;
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It is a diverse historic eclectic place, still retaining a bit of grunge and resembling the Cuba district – a creative, interesting, slightly edgy place to be. People love it and are never bored in Newtown, home of the Newtown Festival, the largest free festival in New Zealand.</description>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 22 Jun 2022 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <dc:date>2022-06-22T00:00:00Z</dc:date>
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      <title>A nimby in Newtown</title>
      <link>http://wellington.scoop.co.nz/?p=133654</link>
      <description>The Draft Spatial Plan is designed to blame the home-owning people of Wellington. It has its own spin aimed at Newtown’s heritage areas – older housing is up for grabs.</description>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 06 Jan 2021 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <dc:date>2021-01-06T00:00:00Z</dc:date>
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      <georss:featurename>Newtown, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, New Zealand</georss:featurename>
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      <title>Saving (or demolishing) a 19th century landmark</title>
      <link>http://wellington.scoop.co.nz/?p=132654</link>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 20 Nov 2020 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <dc:creator>Wellington Scoop</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2020-11-20T00:00:00Z</dc:date>
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      <title>A tightrope act in Newtown</title>
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      <description>On Wednesday last week, a responsible Covid-19 community meeting in Newtown heard constructive suggestions for the increasingly polarizing WCC Draft Spatial Plan. A hundred or so people attended spaciously, while 50 others obliged and walked home to join the other 400 on the live Facebook stream.</description>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 25 Sep 2020 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <dc:date>2020-09-25T00:00:00Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Defending the streets of Newtown</title>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 24 Sep 2020 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <dc:creator>Wellington Scoop</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2020-09-24T00:00:00Z</dc:date>
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