Marion Leader, 1. January 2021, 9:04
Georgina Campbell in the New Zealand Herald is the only other commentator on the Wellington City Council who serves us nearly as well as Wellington.Scoop.
wendy, 1. January 2021, 10:21
Absolutely agree Lindsay. We don’t need another”creative storyteller” as there are enough of them already in the council. If anything, the council needs a lot less ‘storytelling’ and a great deal more action to solve the enormous problems facing the city.
Traveller, 1. January 2021, 10:25
The Economic Agency has got it right with its images and its list of seaside cafés.
aom, 1. January 2021, 10:43
But they missed the best one – The Beachhouse! Also has fabulous views of the tame, moderate or wild Cook Strait.
A Capital Letter: Wellington Mayor Andy Foster s year in review
23 Dec, 2020 04:00 PM
5 minutes to read
Senior Wellington journalist Georgina Campbell s fortnightly column looks closely at issues in the capital.
OPINION
Wellington s mayor has a nickname for 2020- he s calling it a PPP. One could be forgiven for thinking Andy Foster was making some sort of subtle parallel to the shambles that is Transmission Gully, but he is not talking about a public private partnership.
Foster s PPP acronym stands for pipes, politics and pandemics. Last week he told his councillors in an end of year speech it s fair to say 2020 has been tough.
Wellington s famous Mittens the cat immortalised in song
21 Dec, 2020 08:59 PM
3 minutes to read
NZ Herald
By: Sophie Trigger
Wellington s most famous cat has made it into the New Zealand music charts with the hit single Mittens - Official Song.
Known to pop up at random locations such as rest homes, yoga studios and even managed isolation, Turkish angora cat Mittens has long been an icon in New Zealand s capital city.
Adding to his award of the Key to Wellington City given to the feline by Mayor Andy Foster earlier this year, and a Facebook page of 65,000 fans, Mittens reached No.1 across all genres on the iTunes Charts when the song first went live 10 days ago.
She said the court application was discontinued because there were agreements in place which were “changed now”, and the group was not ruling out any further action against the development. A representative for Ian Cassels, who owns The Wellington Company and Shelly Bay Taikuru, which have recently received a green light from Wellington City councillors to develop the land, has been contacted for comment. While councillors voted 9-6 to sell and lease the land to Cassels for the development, there is an ongoing occupation at the site by Mau Whenua. Cassels earlier bought a much larger section of land for the development from iwi Taranaki Whānui, but the validity of that sale was to be challenged by Mau Whenua in the High Court. This would now no longer go ahead.
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A collapsed pipe in Willis St in December 2019 was the beginning of a bad 12 months for Wellington s ailing water pipe network. (File photo)
Ratepayers have forked out more than $350,000 on public relations experts hired by Wellington Water in the past year to manage major network failures. Figures obtained through the Local Government Official Information and Meetings Act revealed the organisation spent $354,621 on media management contractors between November 2019 and December 2020. The recruitments followed a number of major failures on the capital’s water network during the period, including a collapsed pipe on Dixon St in the central city, and two burst pipes in a tunnel underneath Mt Albert.