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30 July 2010
Marine Education Centre
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Music
A future at stake
Vector Wellington Orchestra, Wellington Town Hall, July 24, 7.30pm, reviewed…
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Film
In your dreams
At the movies with Dan Slevin I was really enjoying Inception until…
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Beer
Great culinary experience
LAST week there were two events that celebrated how beer can have a place at…
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Are there moose loose aboot the hoose?
A (nearly) Complete History of the Moose in New Zealand by Ken Tustin, Halcyon…
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Sport Talk
How can anyone lose to Australia?
28 July 2010
THERE are some mad buggers in Nelson who believe the US Government is part…
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According to Doyle
Cut to the chase!!!
28 July 2010
THERE’S nothing like a horn in your ear to get your heart pumping. That goes…
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Wine Press
Dynamite wine
28 July 2010
YEARS ago I passed a vineyard way up north. I was on my way to Ahipara…
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According to Doyle
Re Joyce! We’re outa here!
21 July 2010
BASTILLE Day always brings out the best. On 14 July 1789, a mob “stormed the…
Marine Education Centre
Stories
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To the Point
WHAT motivates a small community group to take on a battle of Biblical proportions? David meets Goliath when Save the Point go head to head with the corporate and local government backers of the Marine Education Centre. Aaron Watson talks to Save the Point spokesman… Continue
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Marine Centre has landed
MARINE Education Centre Trust chair Stuart Macaskill is absolutely delighted the project has been granted resource consent. "We believe the commissioners considered all the environmental issues and recognised the substantial community benefits and the national… Continue
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Marine Centre muck up?
THE public has been misled about the size of the proposed Marine Education Centre, according to opponents of the project. Gary McGivney this week told commissioners assessing the proposal that the scale model displayed in Readings, photos of which were widely… Continue
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Big evidence barely fits
EVIDENCE supporting the proposed aquarium on Wellington’s south coast is too big to fit into the Wellington City Council chamber. An 11-metre, 50:1 scale model of the proposed Marine Education Centre at Te Raekaihau Point, between Lyall Bay and Houghton Bay,… Continue
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Trust won’t budge on site
THE only site for the Marine Education Centre is Te Raekaihau Point, says Wellington Marine Conservation Trust founding member Judy Hutt. The "aquarium" proposal has been scheduled for a second resource consent hearing after the first hearing was tied. South… Continue
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Unfair Process?
"What happened to natural justice?" asks Save the Point deputy chairman Nick Dryden in response to the Wellington City Council’s latest proposal in the Marine Education Centre debacle. "ARE they (WCC) in there to totally support the developers or are they… Continue
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Fighting Talk
OPPONENTS of the proposed Marine Education Centre say a second hearing is illegal. Save The Point Inc have mounted a legal challenge in the Environment Court after the commissioners voting on a Resource Consent for the Marine Education Centre were unable to… Continue
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