Wellington City Council
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Wellington is a vibrant city with a thriving cultural life, talented people, and cutting-edge businesses. Known as the arts and events capital of New Zealand, the city has an abundance of recreation and leisure opportunities. It is also a compact city with a dramatic landscape and sound infrastructure.
WELLINGTON — Winter is just weeks away, and this can mean dark and dangerous roads for the city’s cyclists.
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WELLINGTON — Eastern suburb residents are invited to meet Mayor Kerry Prendergast and local ward councillors at a Saturday morning ward clinic this Saturday, 24 May.
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WELLINGTON — Wellingtonians should take heed of the horrific images from China and Myanmar in the past week – and remember that similar horrors could happen here – in an instant.
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WELLINGTON — Wellingtonians have until next Monday to comment on the proposals included in Wellington City Council’s Draft Annual Plan.
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WELLINGTON — Wellington City Council parks staff have over a decade of experience getting native plants to grow on Wellington hillsides, streamsides and coastal areas, and will share what they have learnt at this year’s Berhampore Nursery open day on Saturday 17 May.
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WELLINGTON — Wellington City Council’s Strategy and Policy Committee yesterday agreed to forward the draft Ngauranga to the Airport Corridor Plan to the Regional Land Transport Committee for its consideration and further public consultation.
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WELLINGTON CITY — For one day only, Wellington city residents and ratepayers have a chance to see a breathtaking exhibition that explores the world of whales for free at Te Papa.
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WELLINGTON CITY — A blend of traditional Chinese watercolours and elements of New Zealand landscapes by Wei Wu will adorn the walls of Toi Poneke Gallery from next week (9 May).
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WELLINGTON CITY — Swimmers and surfers are advised to stay away if possible from the South Coast for at least the next 24 hours following sewage overflows resulting from the heavy rain yesterday.
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WELLINGTON — For one day only, Wellington city residents and ratepayers have a chance to see a breathtaking exhibition that explores the world of whales for free at Te Papa.
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WELLINGTON CITY — A large paved area for markets or performances, stylish new seating, a stormwater system that waters 30 recently-planted trees and spaces dedicated to the exhibition of art are all part of Courtenay Place Park, to be officially opened by Mayor Kerry Prendergast tomorrow night (Friday 2 May).
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WELLINGTON — Wellington residents are invited to meet Mayor Kerry Prendergast and their local ward councillors at a series of Saturday morning ward clinics starting in the Southern Ward this Saturday 3 May.
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WELLINGTON — Wellington City Council is proposing a bold new approach to managing future residential growth in the city.
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TAWA — The Tawa Schools and Community Music Festival, in which up to 800 talented young people will perform, has received $4000 from the Council as part of the Tawa Community Grants allocations.
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WELLINGTON — Greater Wellington Regional Council has absolutely no proposal for congestion charging, Chair Fran Wilde said today.
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WELLINGTON — Recycling bins are popping up around the central city thanks to the help of Wellington City Council and the Ministry for the Environment.
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WELLINGTON CITY — A range of climate change initiatives and some city safety and sportsfield improvements are among the things that Wellingtonians can comment on in this year’s Draft Annual Plan 2008/09.
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WELLINGTON CITY — Making use of existing city pipes and laying new ducting for fibre-optic cable while other work is carried out are two of the low cost options Wellington City Council will investigate as part of its bid to improve community access to fast, affordable broadband.
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WELLINGTON CITY — A survey of central-city apartment dwellers is to be launched by the Wellington City Council this week.
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 In a new energy project officially launched today, greenhouse gas from Wellingtons Southern Landfill is being used to generate electricity.
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WELLINGTON — An upgrade of the sewer and stormwater mains in College Street and Cambridge Terrace is due to start this Monday (7 April).
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WELLINGTON — One of Toi Poneke’s inaugural studio artists, Naomi Clements, will exhibit the culmination of a year’s work, Snapshot, at the gallery on Abel Smith Street from next Friday (11 April).
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WELLINGTON CITY — Wellington City Council has confirmed its 2008/09 Draft Annual Plan – the first since the Council signed up to its vision for a carbon neutral Wellington.
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WELLINGTON — Wellington has been selected to host the Official Draw for the inaugural FIFA U-17 Women's World Cup on June 1 at New Zealand's renowned national museum Te Papa.
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WELLINGTON — On Easter Sunday, up to 16 hot-air balloons will be inflated - weather permitting - on Oriental Bay Beach, providing a stunning sunset spectacle.
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WELLINGTON CITY — One of Wellington’s most popular beaches, Scorching Bay, will be officially reopened this Sunday 30 March following the completion of a five-month upgrade.
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WELLINGTON — The future shape and feel of the city-end of Adelaide Road will be the focus for a team of designers and planners who will get together with the community in a few weeks’ time to come up with a draft plan for the area.
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WELLINGTON — Gather the troops and head down to Martin Luckie Park next weekend (29 March) for a day of football, food and festivities as Wellington’s own mini-world cup gets in gear.
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WELLINGTON — Wellingtonians should avoid the Te Kopahou Reserve – the area between the Brooklyn wind turbine and the South Coast – for a few hours next week while a helicopter goat cull is carried out.
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WELLINGTON — Wellington City Council’s Strategy and Policy Committee yesterday agreed to a range of new initiatives and other changes that if approved will result in an average real rates increase of 5.1 percent.
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WELLINGTON — Wellington is set to host one of the fastest and most exhilarating water sports events on Saturday 15 March.
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WELLINGTON — A helicopter is to be used this week to help remove five hazardous trees from the steep bank above the road into the Lady Norwood Rose Garden and two old pines in Kelburn Park.
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WELLINGTON CITY — A helicopter is to be used next week to help remove five hazardous trees from the steep bank above the road into the Lady Norwood Rose Garden and two old pines in Kelburn Park.
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WELLINGTON — Wellingtonians are invited to join an interactive exhibition at Toi Poneke from Thursday 13 March while a group of installation artists transform the gallery into their own giant workbook.
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WELLINGTON — Victoria University students will have the chance to get rid of their Orientation empties and earn a few dollars if they take part in a ‘bottle buy-back’ event in the Kelburn Campus Quad this Friday 7 March.
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WELLINGTON — This Saturday 8 March Wellingtonians have a chance to see the inner workings of one of our city’s most crucial pieces of infrastructure.
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WELLINGTON — Fresh from the Southern Ocean, a French reconnaissance team is expected to sail into Wellington tomorrow (6 March) as part of preparations for the first SolOceans single-handed round-the-world yacht race in 2009.
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WELLINGTON — Northern suburbs’ sportsfields, play areas, reserves and parks are the focus of a new draft management plan that is available for public feedback from today (3 March).
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WELLINGTON CITY — Waitangi Park will, from this Friday 7 March, house a new photography exhibition, Winds of Change – 1000 Women for Peace, celebrating women from all over the world who have worked towards peace.
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WELLINGTON — Wellington City Council last night agreed that a public poll be held to decide whether the Single Transferable Voting (STV) or First Past the Post (FPP) electoral system is used for the 2010 and 2013 local authority elections.
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WELLINGTON — Wellington Mayor Kerry Prendergast is encouraging Wellingtonians to turn off their lights in support of Earth Hour on Saturday, 29 March.
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WELLINGTON — An astonishing circus spectacular, where science fiction collides with hard physics, will soon be making Civic Square look like a gravity-free zone.
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WELLINGTON — This year’s Stepping Out! booklets are now in Feeling Great stands across the city, highlighting a whole host of walking activities that Wellington City Council is promoting throughout the month of March.
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WELLINGTON — Cruise ship passengers will be properly welcomed to Wellington with the installation of a new gateway and better access to the city, Mayor Kerry Prendergast says.
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WELLINGTON CITY — The Dell in the Botanic Garden will be closed to the public for a few days next week while two pine trees are removed.
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WELLINGTON CITY — The deadline for the next round of the Creative Communities NZ local funding scheme is fast approaching.
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WELLINGTON CITY — Wellington City Council’s Strategy and Policy Committee yesterday agreed to recommend to a full Council meeting that a public poll be held to decide whether the Single Transferable Voting (STV) or First Past the Post (FPP) electoral system is used for the 2010 and 2013 local authority elections.
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WELLINGTON CITY — Wellington's struggling Little Blue Penguin population is receiving much needed help thanks to a Council funded initiative called Places for Penguins.
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WELLINGTON — Owhiro Bay Beach has reopened today after water-quality testing has established that the pollution that closed the beach last week has dissipated.
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WELLINGTON — The number of young Wellingtonians taking part in the annual Pumpkin Patch KiwiTri is growing each year, making the children’s triathlon one of the biggest community sporting events in the city.
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WELLINGTON — A stage of the 2008 International Women’s Cycle Classic will be raced around the Miramar Peninsula – and through Miramar itself - on Saturday 1 March.
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WELLINGTON — If you fancy yourself as the next Ronaldo, Henry, or Leo Bertos, head down to Lyall Bay this weekend (23-24 February) as football fever begins with Wellington’s first Beach Soccer Festival.
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WELLINGTON — Owhiro Bay Beach has been closed to the public as a result of a suspected sewage leak in the area.
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WELLINGTON — This weekend is set to be one of the busiest on the Meridian Summer City calendar with several major events taking place around Wellington's waterfront.
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WELLINGTON — Wellington’s libraries will soon be the scene for an examination of when and why we should ‘sanitise’ or ban children’s books.
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WELLINGTON — This weekend, the world’s best concrete riders will be tearing it up at what’s widely regarded as New Zealand’s best bowl.
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WELLINGTON CITY — Wellington's Frank Kitts Park will be a kaleidoscope of Pacific Island dance and song, and traditional foods and crafts next Saturday (16 February) as the city's inaugural Absolutely Positively Pasifika Festival kicks off at 10.00am.
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WELLINGTON CITY — Alannah Gunter was researching webcams from all over the world for her Masters in Fine Arts, when she felt compelled to return to the webcam at Time Square, New York.
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WELLINGTON CITY — Media are invited to attend the launch of Solace in the Wind, an artwork by English artist Max Patté on Tuesday 12 February at Te Papa Promenade.
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WELLINGTON CITY — Bike the Bays - Wellington’s favourite family ride is back.
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WELLINGTON — It’s the start of the school year, and like every year hundreds of children will be dropped off and picked up from school in a car.
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WELLINGTON CITY — Sevens Fever kicked off in Wellington today (31 January) with the customary parade through the city by the 16 teams playing in this weekend’s NZI Sevens tournament at the Westpac Stadium.
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WELLINGTON — Wellington City Council is going to remove some trees from below The Crescent play area in Roseneath next week.
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WELLINGTON — Wellington will be celebrating New Zealand’s national day in style, thanks to Meridian Energy Summer City.
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WELLINGTON CITY — On Thursday 31 January (tomorrow) the NZI Rugby Sevens street parade is taking place.
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WELLINGTON — The Council’s Public Art Panel, known for bringing sculpture and painted works to Wellington, will branch out into supporting performance art next month with a Maori and Butoh (contemporary Japanese) dance collaboration, No Naianei (From this Moment).
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WELLINGTON CITY — Users of the popular Cummings Park Library in Ngaio will soon be seeing some changes.
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WELLINGTON CITY — Users of the popular Newtown Library will soon be seeing some changes.
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WELLINGTON CITY — Parents, be prepared: the social calendars of Wellington's younger residents are looking particularly busy this weekend, thanks to the Meridian Energy Summer City festival.
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Courtenay Place, between Tory Street and Cambridge Terrace, will be closed to traffic on the evening of Saturday 2 February so International Rugby Sevens fans can have more room to enjoy themselves.
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WELLINGTON — Wellingtonians are invited to watch live coverage of Sir Edmund Hillary’s State Funeral on a big screen in Wellington Town Hall next Tuesday, 22 January.
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WELLINGTON — The diverse range of free events taking place across the Capital this weekend will provide opportunities for Wellingtonians to celebrate their city's anniversary in fitting style.
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WELLINGTON — Don’t miss the awe-inspiring Shaolin Monks performing at the Michael Fowler Centre next month.
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WELLINGTON — Acting Wellington Mayor Ian McKinnon says a Book of Remembrance will be opened tomorrow (Monday) so Wellingtonians can pay their respects to Sir Edmund Hillary.
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This weekend, in Lyall Bay and, weather permitting, right across Cook Strait, Thundercats are go! Thundercat racing is a high-adrenalin, high-action sport with explosive wave jumping and tight competitive surf racing in tunnel-hulled inflatable boats.
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WELLINGTON CITY — Wellington city workers are being encouraged to get out of their chairs and get moving in 2008 as part of the Putting the Well in Wellington exercise campaign.
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WELLINGTON CITY — Several truckloads of soft dune sand are to be temporarily spread on Oriental Bay Beach from today to make life less abrasive for competitors in the International Beach Volleyball event on Saturday 12 and Sunday 13 January.
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WELLINGTON CITY — Construction of a new park area at the intersection of Courtenay Place and Taranaki Street is starting this week.
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WELLINGTON CITY — Walking into Toi Poneke Gallery’s next exhibition – beautifully crafted works by interior architect Lizzy Vullings – will be like walking back in time.
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WELLINGTON — A huge array of talented musicians will be weaving their magic over the Botanic Garden’s Sound Shell for 22 consecutive nights this month.
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WELLINGTON — Beachgoers at Oriental Bay and Scorching Bay will be able to push play, get some free sunscreen or relax on a Cancer Society deckchair during the holidays thanks to the SunSmart Beach Ambassadors.
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WELLINGTON — Wellington's Environmental Reference Group, which advises the Council on the management of the city's natural environment and environmental policies, is looking for more members.
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WELLINGTON — Wellington Mayor Kerry Prendergast today congratulated the Port Nicholson Block Claims Team and the Government on the signing of an Agreement in Principle to settle all outstanding historical Treaty of Waitangi claims for Taranaki Whanui (Wellington).
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WELLINGTON CITY — Graffiti / tagging is on the rise again with numerous new tags appearing on properties in Newtown and Island Bay - ...
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WELLINGTON CITY — Meridian Energy Summer City is back for another festival of great summer fun, and the programme is chock-full of sizzling summer events.
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WELLINGTON CITY — Wellington City Council has received a building consent application for the demolition of the Boys and Girls Institute buildings, along with a number of other buildings, on the site of a proposed supermarket in Tasman Street, Mt Cook.
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WELLINGTON — The Council will tomorrow formally sign an agreement with Oceania representatives of the International Council for Local Environmental Initiatives (ICLEI), making Wellington New Zealand’s operational headquarters for tackling climate change.
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NEWTOWN PARK — Workers are today stringing up a brand-new set of lights that are guaranteed to make Newtown’s own Christmas Tree - in Carrara Park - a spectacular festive landmark from tomorrow night.
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WELLINGTON CITY —  Wellington City Council has raised concerns with the Fair Trading Branch of the Commerce Commission over a growing tendency for some local developers and real estate agents to advertise housing developments before they have received planning consent.
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WELLINGTON CITY — A big increase in the pigeon population in Midland Park and corresponding increases in complaints from outdoor diners in the area means the Council will have to take action with extreme prejudice against the birds – unless people stop feeding them.
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WELLINGTON — Five Wellington City schools were presented with awards last week as part of the Enviroschools end of year celebration.
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WELLINGTON CITY — Change is afoot at Wellington City Council’s composting facility at Carey’s Gully (the Southern Landfill).
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WELLINGTON CITY — Wellington City Council has agreed to achieve carbon neutrality by 2012.
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WELLINGTON CITY — If you receive an unexpected gift in the post in January and wonder where it came from, chances are you will have met and made an impact on visual artist Lee Kit during his stay in Wellington.
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WELLINGTON CITY — The silly season is upon us already and what better way to celebrate than to head down to Mighty Mighty in Cuba Street next week for an evening of drama and comedy with the Six O’clock Swill.
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WELLINGTON CITY — Many Wellingtonians will have seen a green monster painted on top of Toi Poneke, Wellington Arts Centre on Abel Smith Street over the last few months ...
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WELLINGTON — They’re big, sturdy and yellow – and they’re the perfect gift for Wellingtonians this Christmas.
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WELLINGTON — Wellington Botanic Garden is the place to head this summer to see a free international exhibition of flower photographs which highlight the sexual nature of plants.
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