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Thursday, 25 February 2021, 1:48 pm
Pest and weed removal from Taputeranga Island,
story-telling and natural environment improvements in Te
Kopahou Reserve on the south coast, and a transformation of
the former Kilbirnie Bowling Club site have been given the
go-ahead at this week’s Wellington City Council
meeting.
The Taputeranga Island work and the
improvements to the coastal area west of Owhiro Bay will be
funded by $700,000 paid to the Council in 2013 by the Crown
as part of its Tiriti o Waitangi settlement with Ngāti Toa
Rangatira.
Landscaping of the former bowling club site
on Kilbirnie Park will be funded by $1.5 million from the
News from Wellington City Council
Pest and weed removal from Taputeranga Island, story-telling and natural environment improvements in Te Kopahou Reserve on the south coast, and a transformation of the former Kilbirnie Bowling Club site were given the go-ahead at this week’s Wellington City Council meeting.
The Taputeranga Island work and the improvements to the coastal area west of Owhiro Bay will be funded by $700,000 paid to the Council in 2013 by the Crown as part of its Tiriti o Waitangi settlement with Ngāti Toa Rangatira. Landscaping of the former bowling club site on Kilbirnie Park will be funded by $1.5 million from the Plimmer Bequest.
He said, if this were apartheid-era South Africa, they would have “been necklaced with a burning tire [sic] around your necks”. Shelly Bay, on the western side of the Miramar peninsula, is where developer Ian Cassels plans a $500-million development that has spent years bogged down by courts, commissioners and council conflict.
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Anaru Mepham started his Shelly Bay occupation as a one-man sentry in November. It is now a large operation. Wellington Mayor Andy Foster, whose previous support for the occupation extended to him helping fix a wind-damaged tent at the occupation site, on Sunday said he was “deeply disturbed to see these angry and violent words”.
The land around Waiwhetu Marae was wrongly taken by the Government in 1939 and never properly returned.
Te Āti Awa received very little compensation when the Crown confiscated land belonging to mana whenua in Lower Hutt. Now properties in the area sell for more than $700,000. Brittany Keogh reports. Teri Puketapu spent much of the first decade of his life growing up on a farm. He and his nine siblings would look after piglets their father caught on hunting trips in the Wainuiomata bush, and help plant corn and potatoes on whānau land, in Lower Hutt’s Waiwhetu. “We had our house cow, a couple of hundred chooks, 20 ducks in the Awamutu stream that ran past our house and the property,” Puketapu, now aged 81, says.