Opposition ignored
By Frank Neill
Wellington City Council has decided to push ahead with a managed on-street parking plan for Wadestown, despite the strong opposition to its plan, expressed during a public meeting on 9 September.
Well over 100 people attended the meeting, held at St Luke’s Church.
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The meeting pointed to a series of problems with the council’s plan, including the view that it was based on poor research.
The general consensus of the meeting was that the proposed Wadestown Parking Management Plan was an overreaction to minor parking issues in the suburb.
At its meeting on 11 September the council’s Regulatory Process Committee decided on what was a cut down version of the original Wadestown plan.
The committee decided to press ahead with a parking management plan for eastern Wadestown, but it postponed the plan for western Wadestown. It also confirmed that the proposed cycleway through Wadestown would be deferred.
“It feels like WCC is determined to pursue the projects in spite of this feedback through public consultation and the strongly opposed views and logic residents shared with WCC Councillors on 9 September,” the acting chair of the Wadestown Residents Association
Greg Hyland says.
He noted that four councillors – Cr Diane Calvert, Cr Sarah Free, Cr Ben McNulty and Cr Ray Chung – attended that meeting.
“We’re disappointed that [the council] did not listen to residents at the [9 September] meeting,”
Jeremy Verity of Wadestown Voices says.
“It was quite clear that the 120 to 200 people at the meeting didn’t
Cr Diane Calvert addressing the 9 September Wadestown public meeting. Photo: Frank Neill.
want the parking plan.
“They thought it was a massive over reach.
“The whole thing is flawed,”
Jeremy says.
Two people have told him that they are considering moving because “they have had enough”.
Two people from Sefton Street, which was considered to have a problem with parking by council staff, had also contacted him.
One had sent him a photo taken at 10am in the morning showing that there was no parking problem and the street was virtually empty.
“We live at the Sefton Street end of Barnard Street and often drive to the bus stop,” the resident told him.
“We have never had a problem finding a car park in 26 years.”
The other person also told him that they had looked over Sefton Street over the last few days and they could not see anything that showed there was a need for park and ride management on the street,
Jeremy says.
“The strong message from the Wadestown community was that the parking changes were a solution looking for a problem when issues with commuters parking in eastern Wadestown streets was localised to a few streets within walking distance of Thorndon and the CBD,” Greg Hyland says.
“Instead WCC proposed to use dozens of P120 signs to limit parking between 8am and 8pm in much of Eastern Wadestown, ‘sell’ residents parking exemption permits at $200 annually and push ahead with installing broken yellow lines based on flawed WCC data and against the needs and wishes of the Wadestown Community.
“The Wadestown community has been telling WCC for years about concerns for the passage of large vehicles and emergency services through Wadestown streets and little was done until WCC decided to combine the cycleway with the Parking Management Plan.
“And here we are, with WCC using inaccurate data and measurements to decide where to remove residents’ parking without acknowledging the feedback and knowledge of residents affected.”
The Wadestown community, Greg says, “wants all road users to be safe and deferring the cycleway from the Wadestown shops west towards Ngaio does not stop the need for a constructive conversation with everyone affected and with WCC.
“Nothing about us, without us,” Greg says.
“We told the WCC cycleway project team in early 2023 that the proposed route through Wadestown was problematic given the road is a narrow and busy route for car traffic.
“We thought it was unrealistic, would adversely impact residents through losing their only source of parking and the flow on effect would be for the road to become more unsafe as the existing parking actually served to calm vehicle traffic.
“The overwhelming message to WCC has been to slow down, get the data right and do the two Wadestown projects properly first time,” Greg says.
When the council’s Regulatory Process Committee looked at the Wadestown Connections plan on 11 September, it effectively split the plan into three sections. One section was the cycleway, the second section was Wadestown east and the third section was Wadestown west.
The committee decided to defer the cycleway, and to defer the Wadestown west plan to be assessed in six months’ time.
It decided to implement the Wadestown east parking plan as a pilot, with a view to rolling it out into other Wellington suburbs. This will see about 30% of the parking become two-hour (P120), 8am-8pm, Monday to Sunday.
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Public transport facing huge cuts
By Frank Neill
Public transport in the Wellington region is now “up against a wall” following the $134 million funding shortfall, the Chair of Greater Wellington Regional Council, Daran Ponter says.
This funding shortfall is included in the 2024-27 National Land Transport Programme (NLTP), released by the New Zealand Transport Agency/Waka Kotahi on 3 September.
“We have to brace ourselves for the fact that it may be a very long winter for public transport,” Cr Ponter says.
Not only has the $134 million shortfall in public transport for the next three years just been implemented, in three years there will be another announcement, he notes.
“Greater Wellington is surprised and disappointed at the severity of these unprecedented, seemingly indiscriminate cuts to public transport funding in the NLTP.
“Excluding a handful of already committed projects, nearly every one of our 40 plus infrastructure, service enhancement and community-based projects have had funding declined with little to no explanation.
“While we believe we have funding to cover most services as they stand today, we are heading down a path of managed decline where there is no money to replace ageing infrastructure or make the public transport network more accessible to our communities.
“We have seen the outcome of this approach to infrastructure investments when we look at our water services and rail assets around the country.
“We will be working hard to ensure this decline does not set in, but that may require some difficult decisions about how to prioritise investment over the coming years,
“We don’t have to just contend with a significant shortfall of funding from government, but we also have to wear the same cost increases that households are having to wear, Cr Ponter says.
Wellington City Council’s TakapŪ/Northern Ward Councillor Tony Randle has also expressed concern about the $134 million
funding shortfall, particularly as it affects the Wellington city bus services.
“The NZTA has denied their share of the funding for a number of projects many of which will have a direct impact on both Wellington north and west,” Cr Randle says.
These include:
capacity of the No 2 bus route, especially -
ing more bus shelters, bus layover facilities and driver toilets.
Randle asks.
The funding that has been approved includes spending “hundreds of millions of dollars on brand new trains to Palmerston North and the Wairarapa”.
Those services were at the top of the regional council and local councils’ priority list.
The region, he says, hasn’t got the “most important things” at the top of the priority list.
“The Wellington city bus service having capacity improvements, because it is actually growing.
“It needs investment literally to carry the number of people coming into town.”
The bus service, Cr Randle says “is a success story that needs investment”.
National apology
Expressions of interest have opened for survivors wishing to attend the Prime Minister’s national apology to survivors of abuse in care, due to take place in Parliament on Tuesday 12 November.
Due to the limited space available in Parliament, the public apology will be live streamed to the Due Drop Events Centre in Auckland, Shed 6 in Wellington, and the Christchurch Town Hall. Survivors of abuse in care and one support person can register their interest to attend Parliament or the event closest to their home address.
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Elaine Elliston would have turned 96 last week.
She was still driving her distinctive Holden Commodore around the area and was living independently in her own Ngaio home up until just a few weeks before her passing last month.
She attended Khandallah School in the 1930s after her parents, service station proprietors Maurice and Myrtle Giles, moved from Lower Hutt and built a two-bedroom stucco home in Jubilee Road.
Elaine and her late husband Doug were founding members of Ngaio Tennis Club, playing first at Ngaio School before being involved in building the current pavilion and eventually both becoming life members of the club.
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Elaine would smile as she fondly remembered that there was still open farmland in their suburb in the early 1960s in an era when she said all young mums did a weekly shop for everything they needed for the week at the Khandallah Shops.
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Elaine Elliston, who lived in Wellington for most of her 95 years. Elliston family photo.
Big crowd at Kapa Haka festival
By Frank Neill
People in the droves descended on Newlands College on Saturday 14 September for the 2024 St Brigid’s Kapa Haka Festival.
The college hall was packed for the performances by 15 schools, 14 of them from Wellington’s northern suburbs as well as Wilton’s Te Kura o tari.
The year’s festival was jointly organised by St Brigid’s and St Benedict’s Schools and Newlands College.
All three schools performed at the festival, along with Cashmere Avenue, Khandallah, Ngaio, Crofton Downs, Churton Park, West Park, Johnsonville and Amesbury Schools, Newlands and Raroa Intermediate Schools, Te Kura o tari and Te K hanga Reo o Ngaio.
The festival is not a competition. It is an opportunity for rangatahi in the northern
suburbs to display their talents.
The day began with a powhiri at 8:30am.
Matu Wayne Firmin was among the speakers at the powhiri.
Wayne founded the St Brigid’s Kapa Haka Festival in 2001.
“My idea was to get all the schools in the northern suburbs together,” Wayne told the “Independent Herald”.
To achieve this he initiated the festival.
“It started with five or six schools and has now grown [to 15 schools],” Wayne said.
Following the performances every school in the festival was presented with a living toanga, a tree that they could take back and plant in their school grounds.
Each year the name of the host school is engraved on a Mauri, which was hand carved by Eugene Ryder, the well known social worker, who campaigns against violence.
Marsden’s archivist wins award
Samuel Marsden Collegiate School’s archivist Rosalba Finnerty has been presented the prestigious 2024 Independent Schools of New Zealand Honours Award.
Rosalba, who is also a Marsden old girl, was presented the award in recognition of her extraordinary contribution to Marsden over several decades, starting as School Bursar in 1966.
Rosalba volunteered as a librarian in 1986, became part-time in 1987, and later served as full-time school librarian from 2002 to 2011, modernising the library and expanding its resources.
Since 2011, as the school archivist, she has meticulously maintained and expanded Marsden's archives, preserving the school's history for future generations.
Students performing during the powhiri at the St Brigid’s Kapa Haka Festival.
Photo: Frank Neill
St Brigid’s Kapa Haka group in action the festival. Photo: Frank Neill
Rosalba Finnerty with her ISNZ Honours
Wadestown’s Sefton Street, with plenty of car parks at 10am in the morning.
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The scheme would give residents priority over commuters who park in the area.
The 11 September committee meeting made some “big concessions,” Cr Diane Calvert says.
That included no cycleway and a reduction in parking removal.
“Residents taking the time to have a say made a big difference to get some of the changes through,” Cr Calvert says.
“While I know some will not be happy with the changes or indeed the proposal, I personally felt it was best to work with my colleagues around the table and with council staff to advocate for and reach some concessions.”
Rather than voting everything down, “given that I would have been in a minority, I was grateful that my colleagues were open to finding a compromise that did get majority support,” Cr Calvert says.
In its media release on the 11 September decision the council quotes the committee Chair, Cr Free, saying she believes thorough consultation has resulted in a good outcome.
Cr Free thanked the 627 people and organi-
sations who provided feedback during the recent consultation, and those who shared their thoughts in person and online a few weeks ago.
“We listened to what people who live in these communities and people who work in the area think about the parking proposal,”
Cr Free said.
“Then, in discussion with staff, we made the change to delay introducing the scheme to Wadestown west to make sure we optimise the quantity of restricted parking and the timing of the rollout there.”
The parking scheme will mean residents who choose to apply for a parking permit and are eligible to get one should find it easier to find parking on a street near their home.
The new scheme should also make it easier for tradespeople and visitors to find shortstay parking spaces, the council’s media release says.
The committee also approved better parking access in Wadestown village for shoppers, short-term visitors and people with mobility permits, and to slightly extend the 30km/h zone at the village that will be combined with planned traffic calming.
125th anniversary of soldiers leaving Karori
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The 125th anniversary of the first New Zealand contingent leaving what is now Ben Burn Park in Karori for the South African (Boer) war will take place on 21 October.
To mark the occasion a new book “New Zealand’s Role in the South African Tragedy 1899-1092” by retired Lieutenant Colonel Tony Howell will be published by John Douglas Publishing Ltd on 21 October.
The First New Zealand Mounted Rifle (NZMR) Contingent from Wellington left for the Boer War on 21 October 1899.
They were first of 6,500 troops New Zealand sent to the war, New Zealand’s first involvement in an overseas war.
To put this in some perspective New Zealand sent lessthan 4,000 to theVietnamWar out of a population of just under three million.Out of a population of 800,000 this country sent 6,500 to the Boer War.
The land where the Ben Burn Park now stands was once part of Campbell’s farm, where a training camp was established for the recruits who would go on to serve in the South African War.
Hundreds of men applied to serve in the war, and by the time the war began in October 1899, the First Contingent was already preparing to depart for South Africa.
The first Kiwi contingent that left Karori comprised 204 men in two companies, with No 1 Company mainly from the North Island and the No 2 Company mainly from the South Island.
By the time peace was concluded 2½ years later, 10 contingents of volunteers plus 8,000 horses had sailed for South Africa, along with doctors, nurses, veterinary surgeons
and about 20 school teachers.
The 125th anniversary comes less than a year after plaque commemorating Wellingtonians who served in the South African War was unveiled at Ben Burn Park.
This took place on 26 November 2023.
Organised by the Wellington and Karori RSAs and the Karori Residents Association, the unveiling ceremony began with a contingent from the Queen Alexandra’s Mounted Rifles marching onto Ben Burn Park.
This is the New Zealand Army’s oldest regiment, having formed in 1864. It is currently an armoured cavalry unit equipped with light armoured vehicles.
The Queen Alexandra’s Mounted Rifles supported the memorial plaque project.
Many books have been written about the Second Boer War but very few have taken the time to try and explain its origins in the historical context provided in the early chapters of “New Zealand’s Role in the South African Tragedy”.
The volume is bookended with a first person account [albeit not a real trooper] of enlistment in the contingents sent from New Zealand, supported and funded initially by public subscriptions as well as Government funds; ending with his return home.
This sets the tone for the telling of subsequent actions; a mixture of personal accounts, official records, an excellent selection of historical images and some wonderful full colour contemporary images of important battle grounds.
Students of war history will find plenty to keep them enthralled, aided by well drawn maps and photos.
The cover of Tony Howell’s new book on the Boer War showing troops leaving Karori. Image Supplied.
Farewell morning tea in Wadestown
A group of Wadestown locals enjoyed a special morning tea held at Wadestown library on Tuesday 17 September to mark the recent closure of the Community Centre and the retirement of long-time coordinator Louise Davies. Louise retired recently after 20 years of supporting and nurturing local community groups and facilitating community social events.
Volunteers from many Wadestown community groups gathered at the Wadestown Library to share stories and deliver gifts and flowers to bid a fond farewell to Louise, who is described by many as a special, caring person with a heart of gold.
While her own incredible service milestones were being celebrated, Louise took time to reflect on many
happy memories from past years and she individually thanked many of the Wadestown volunteers past and present who had also given so much to their community.
Greg Hyland of the Wadestown Residents Association observed that Louise was like everyone’s favourite aunt who always shared her wisdom and infectious enthusiasm for community and life.
Lousie had previously served for 20 years in the Royal New Zealand Navy (RNZN) as an officer before moving to Wellington to work for Wellington City Council. It was very fitting that on behalf of the Wadestown community Mr Hyland was able to surprise Louise with a framed photo of Louise and her husband pictured at the Lennel Road lookout in 2016 admiring
naval vessels from many of the world's navies visiting Wellington harbour during celebrations for the 75th RNZN Anniversary. Louise expressed her appreciation for all the wonderful people she had met from across Wellington and the Wadestown community and for the heartfelt support the community had given her and her family over many years.
Much-loved community Advocate Louise Davies speaking at the morning tea to mark her retirement. Photo: Supplied.
At the morning tea to mark Louise Davies’ retirement. Louise is fifth from the left. Photo: Supplied.
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Colourful Characters in Spy Spoof
Of the nine actors in KAT Theatre’s upcoming production of “Our Man in Havana” only two live in the northern suburbs.
“That’s not unusual,” says Mary Collie-Holmes, the club’s programme coordinator.
“While most of our production crews live nearby we draw in actors from all over Wellington, Porirua and the Hutt Valley.
“This time they come from the south (Kilbirnie, Mt Victoria, Te Aro and the CBD) and the north (Porirua, Paremata and Camborne).”
One of the two who live in the northern suburbs is Reeti Davies, from Newlands.
She plays a multitude of characters: an American tourist, a barman, a waiter, a Spanish-speaking shop assistant, a British office-worker, a pimp and a nun.
“I love the camaraderie of the cast and I love the challenge of acting all those characters differently –especially the ones that are on-stage for quite a short time,” Reeti says. Reeti has only recently taken up
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“I was looking for acting classes for my young son,” she says, “and discovered the adult acting classes run by R t Studios.
“I enrolled with them around 18 months ago and haven’t looked back. I really love acting as a creative outlet.
“So far I have worked on short films and been an extra in feature films. I love being on set.
“I don’t just sit around during all those hours of ‘down-time’ when I’m not in a scene. Whenever I can, I like to be closer to the shoot so I can observe the direction and camera work.”
Reeti says being in “Our Man in Havana” is her first foray into community theatre and it’s very rewarding because she’s learning so much.
“I’m soaking up all the live theatre techniques that Ewen (the director) and the other actors are using.
“All of us had salsa lessons to prep for this play and I am also working
on mastering my Spanish lines. It’s so much fun,” she says.
Clive James’ stage adaptation of the famous Graham Greene novel abounds in colourful characters – the people Jim Wormold, a British-born vacuum-cleaner salesman in 1950’s Cuba, meets when he accepts the invitation of an MI6 agent to be their local spy.
Wormold knows nothing about espionage but he needs the money so he sets about “recruiting” fictitious agents and reporting non-existent enemy activities. All goes well – until it doesn’t.
“It’s a delightfully delicious tongue-in-cheek satire,” Director Ewen Coleman says.
“It pokes fun at the British Secret Service during the cold war years, the British aristocracy and the attitude of colonial Britain towards its colonies.”
There are seven performances of “Our Man in Havana” at Cochran Hall, Cashmere Avenue, Khandallah between 10 and 19 October. Bookings can be made via the KAT Theatre website.
Onslow history: story of Bell Bus Co
By Felicity Wong
The Bell Bus Company started in 1921 by providing tours around marine drive and in 1925 extended to regular services to Ngaio and Khandallah.
For 11 years owners Mr and Mrs Norman Bell ran profitable services between the cenotaph and the hill suburbs.
Mrs Ada (Pixie) Bell was an experienced World War I ambulance driver and became New Zealand’s first woman bus driver.
Her skilful driving was admired and trusted when the Ngaio Gorge road was a narrow steep track and one vehicle had to reverse to let another pass.
The then liberal Government planned the deviation of the Main Trunk railway (via Johnsonville) through new tunnels to the Tawa Flat.
The “Tawa deviation” would bypass the extraordinarily steep incline to Johnsonville which required double steam engines to haul the train up the hill.
The Railways proposed offering the old Johnsonville train track to the Wellington City Council for a tramway.
In 1934 residents mobilised and set up a committee chaired by H L Cummings, (Ngaio Progressive Association and Superintending Engineer with the Post Office), and members of the Khandallah Progress Association and the Johnsonville Town Board.
The committee lobbied to retain a branch link for commuters and welcomed the 1935 Labour Government plan to keep the line and electrify it.
“Opposition was raised” however as the general public was just beginning to realise that “under the protection required by the railway” the Government would require the private bus service to stop running.
Khandallah residents who lived distant from the railway line but were well served by the bus expressed concern.
Mr Todd said “the dangerous thing is that if the railways get power to have an absolute monopoly there will then be no moving them. At present if we are not satisfied with the buses we can get a change.
“We have a certain amount of control.
"Nobody wants to block the children," he said, referring to the argument in favour of the railway electrification, and the Bill that secondary school children would be carried free "but I do not see why they should block us“.
He suggested a public meting to “let the public speak for itself."
While the committee had been successful in persuading the Government not only to retain the branch line but to electrify it, in October 1935 the news reported that residents “had not been consulted”.
A meeting was held soon and a resident said “the trouble was that many people … had not foreseen that the buses would be forced off.
“ It had come as shock and it took some time for people to reconcile themselves and it had been asked whether the Bell Bus Company had ever been given an opportunity to state what service it could put on”.
There were differing recollections about Mr Bell’s position, and about fares, capacity and the need for any
subsidy. Concerns were expressed about the unemployment of the drivers.
The local Independant (conservative) MP, Robert Wright, said he “hoped there would be fair value given” to the owners.
The Ngaio Residents lobbied for the bus drivers to be taken on by the Railways Department.
The Labour Government passed the Government Railways (Wellington to Johnsonville) Act.
The law subjected each passenger to a ten pound fine ($1,400), and a stiffer penalty for the company, if they travelled on a bus in: “ALL that area in the Wellington Land District: Bounded by lines commencing at the intersection of the Kaiwarra Stream with the western boundary of the Hutt Road; thence … to the boundary of the Wellington-New Plymouth Railway; thence by a right line to Mitchel's Trig. (Johnsonville No. 1); thence … to a point on Aurora Road, … Paparangi Settlement” etc.
The Act made provision for compensation.
The owners could require “the Government Railways Board to purchase all motor-omnibuses and other property used by him … at a price to be agreed on between the parties, or, in the event of their being unable to agree, at a price to be fixed by a Compensation Court under the Public Works Act, 1928.”
The business was valued and by agreement the Railways Department paid £25,436 for 11 buses, £3,530 for buildings and plant, and £12,368 for goodwill (about $5.7m).
From 1 July 1936, the 14 Bell Bus drivers (who had been paid more than the Railway bus drivers)
One of the Bell buses that served Ngaio and Khandallah.
became employees of the Railways Department.
A party was held at the Ngaio Town Hall with staff and the public presenting the Bells with gifts and expressing regret about the “separation”.
Mr Bell said that his “impression of many years suburban transport operation was the wonderful loyalty of the staff and the generous support of the public of Wellington, particularly of Ngaio and Khandallah.” By 1937 there were complaints in
the news about the poor standard of the bus service operated by the Railways. The buses being used were said to be broken down and unclean. The Bells were capable business people and after the nationalisation of their business they left for South Africa. A large trunk of their papers and photos are with the Onslow Historical Society, a selection of which are on display at its rooms, 86 Khandallah Rd, open on Sundays from 1pm to 4pm.
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Security cameras wanted in Ngaio
By Frank Neill
Wellington City Council is being asked to install security cameras on Cockayne Road and Perth Street in a petition launced by local resident Kathryn Whitney on 10 September.
The petition can be accessed at https:// wellington.govt.nz/have-your-say/petitions.
“As one of the main thoroughfares through Ngaio, Cockayne Road and Perth Street to Ngaio Gorge Road need to have cameras installed to protect the residents and deter loss of property,” the petition says.
“I petition WCC to install cameras in the following locations: the intersection of Perth Street and Ngaio Gorge Road,
the intersection of Bankot Crescent and Cockayne Road, and the intersection of Mysore Street and Cockayne Road.
“One only needs to look at the rate of stolen and vandalised vehicles to see that more surveillance is needed in the northern suburbs,” background information to the petition states.
“Alongside the efforts we may individually take to secure our personal property, I hope that adding cameras gives the Police another tool to use in solving crimes of vandalism and theft,” Kathryn says.
“Our own vehicle was stolen this year, and many of us in the neighbourhood have had the same unfortunate experience or similar.”
The petition closes on 5 November.
Youth leadership programme
By Frank Neill
The Rotary Club of Johnsonville is keen to support a young person to attend the next Rotary Youth Leadership Awards (RYLA) programme in January next year. For young people aged 18 to 24 years, the next course will be held at Forest Lakes, taki, from 22 to 26 January.
RYLA is an intensive leadership experience organised by Rotary clubs and districts where young people develop their skills as leaders while having fun and making connections.
“This one week can really make a difference to someone as they plan their future,” RYLA says.
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Saving J’ville historical collection
By the Johnsonville Community Association
The Johnsonville Historical Collection 1950-2000 is a significant record of how the local community engaged in matters important to their suburb and its future growth. From the 1950s, when land sales for suburban development were on the rise, many resident societies and associations were established in Johnsonville.
They raised concerns about the lack of progress in providing Johnsonville with public amenities and were concerned with what impact suburban extension would have on the existing residents.
They prepared submissions and corresponded with the Wellington City Council and relevant organisations expressing their local views. They were determined to be heard. Council and the elected members responded. There was mutual re-
spect and a sincere desire to achieve the best outcomes for all concerned.
Minutes of the meetings, correspondence, reference materials, surveys, policy development, community events, local newsletters and newspaper clippings tell the story.
The community records were stored in two, four-drawer filing cabinets, in the now closed Johnsonville Broderick Road Library.
They were maintained and added to by library staff and resident groups over the years, and were available to the public to access. On Saturday 30 November 2019 the library on Broderick Road closed. The new Johnsonville Library did not want the records.
Rather than seeing the records destroyed or abandoned in a storeroom, the Johnsonville Community Association set about preserving them.
In 2023, Judy Siers, past president of the Onslow Historical Society,
was approached and she agreed to archive the collection.
This was no small task. Once the collection was archived the final process of digitisation was completed in August 2024.
The collection has been gifted to the Wellington City Archives.
People can view the Johnsonville Historical Collection online at archivesonline.wcc.govt.nz or make an appointment to see it at 28 Barker Street, Wellington.
The Johnsonville Community Association is grateful for financial assistance from the Johnsonville Charitable Trust and The Trusts Community Foundation.
The Johnsonville Community Association, which meets at 7:30pm on the second Tuesday of each month at the Johnsonville Community Centre, hosted an afternoon tea at the Collective Community Hub in Johnsonville, to mark the completion of the project.
Judy Siers, the Johnsonville Historical Collection archivist, talking about the collection at the afternoon tea. Photo: Paul Stapp.
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Local Seniors’ Week events
A long list of events will be taking place in the northern and western suburbs during Seniors’ Week, which runs from 25 September to 2 October.
The events are:
Running with Scissors – a creative triathlon will be held at the Karori Arts and Crafts Centre, 7 Beauchamp Street, from 10am to 1pm on 25, 26 and 30 September and 1 October. This event is free.
A craft group will be held at the Johnsonville Community Centre, 3 Frankmoore Avenue, from 10:30am to 12:30pm on 25 September and on 2 October This event is free.
Memories of the Royal Family – Angela Robertson will be held at the Karori Library, 247 Karori Road from 10:30am to 11:30am on 25 September. This event is free.
Steady As You Go classes will be held at the Karori Community Centre from noon to 1pm on 25 September and on 30 September from 10:30am to 11:30am. This event is free.
Aquafit morning teams with community pools and ClubActive will be held at the Keith Spry Pool, 6 Wanaka Street, Johnsonville, at 10:30am on 26 September. The Aquafit class is from $8.50 or free with ClubActive membership.
Bring a friend to the pool for free will be held at the Keith Spry Pool from 11am to 3pm on 26, 27 and 30 September and on 1 and 2 October. Usual pool fees.
Ezy Movers will be held at the Nairnville Recreation Centre from 11am to noon on 26 September. The charge is $6 and bring a friend for free.
Tuffa Puffas will be held at the Karori Recreations centre from 11am to noon on 26 September. This event is free.
Blast from the Past Quiz will be held upstairs at the Karori Community Centre from noon to 1pm on 26 September. This event is free.
Table tennis will be held at the Newlands Community Centre from 1:15pm to 4pm on 27 September. The event is free for over 65s and a koha for under 65s.
A seniors’ afternoon tea will be held at the Nairnville Recreation Centre from 2:30pm to 3:30pm on 27 September. This event is free.
Qigong Cong will be held at the Johnsonville Community Centre from 11:30am to 12:30pm on 30 September. This event is free.
Zumba Gold will be held at the Newlands Community Centre at 11:30am on 30 September. Cost $7 cash.
Seniors low impact volleyball will be held at Johnsonville’s Keith Spry Pool from 10am to noon on 1 October. Standard pool entry.
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Senior Move Magic will be held at the Newlands Community Centre, 9 Batchelor Street at 12:30pm on 25 September. This event is free. Community Cards and Board Games will be held at the Johnsonville Community Centre from 1pm to 3pm on 25 September and 2 October. This event is free.
Tai Chi for intermediates or beginners will be held at the Johnsonville Community Centre, the intermediates from 1pm to 2pm and beginners from 2pm to 3pm on 25 September and 2 October. The fee is $4.
Social Drama will be held at the Johnsonville Community Centre from 1pm to 2:30pm on 26 September. This event is free.
Seated exercises will be held at the Karori Recreation Centre at 10am on 27 September. This event is free.
Intro to Line Dancing will be held upstairs at the Karori Community Centre from 11:15am to 11:30am on 27 September. This event is free.
Spin poi will be held upstairs at the Karori Community Centre from 12:40pm to 1pm on 27 September. This event is free.
Mahjong will be held in room 1 of the Karori Community Centre from 10:30am to noon on 1 October. It will also be held at the Newlands Community Centre from noon to 3pm on 1 October.
Retire Inspired – navigating the stages of retirement will be held at the Johnsonville Library, Waitohi Hub at 2pm on 1 October. This event is free.
Morning tea at Karori Library will be held from 11am to noon on 2 October. This event is free.
For more information and to book where necessary visit Seniors’ Week - Events and festivals - Wellington City Council
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Young ones feature in Football
By Hamish Wareham
With most senior club football in the rearview mirror, it's now the young ones’ time to shine as the countdown to Napier’s Under 19’s Nationals held on Labour weekend every year has begun.
A fantastic tournament is run by Napier every year, usually basked in sunshine at Park Island and Bluewater Stadium.
It's one not to be missed for either the casual or intrigued football viewer.
Every year Lower Hutt also run a curtain raiser tournament as build up at Napier, known as the Ivan England Tournament which began over the weekend.
TFS North Wellington under new coach Besim Balicevac had a mixed day on Sunday, beating a young Waterside Karori side 4-1 with goals from Lachie MacGregor, Benji McMillan and a Caleb Turner double.
In their second game, despite playing some lovely stuff with the ball, North Wellington were the
victim of a first half blitz at the hands of Miramar Rangers that saw the side in Black and Blue take a 4-0 halftime lead.
North Wellington dominated the second half, as Miramar took their foot of the gas and a Nate Brosnahan wonder goal pulled one back for Norths but that was all they could muster and ended the day with one win and one loss both score lines being 4-1.
Karori bounced back from their 4-1 defeat first up, to defeat
Whanganui Athletic Under 19s 2-1.
It was a tough day for Island Bay, meanwhile, being on the wrong end of a 5-1 hammering to Miramar and then a 3-1 defeat to Petone in the afternoon.
It was the Campbell Webster show again at Maidstone Artificial on Saturday, as Upper Hutt booked their spot in the Central League for the first time since 2014.
Campbell scored his 30th and 31st goals of the 2024 season as for the second Saturday in a row Upper Hutt bested Palmerston North
Accolade for Netball team
The women who run the northern suburbs netball at Newlands College and Newlands Intermediate School have received an accolade in the latest newsletter of hariu MP Greg O’Connor.
The women, Greg says, are a stand-out.
“This is a massive logistical exercise every Saturday morning, to get hundreds of teams from every primary and intermediate school in the region onto the netball court, with referees, playing games.
“Even the prize-giving on Monday night [16 September] was a
logistical achievement, cramming many players and their parents into a small school hall, on a miserable wet night and seamlessly getting through the whole programme.
“I really stand in awe of this group of women and their achievements,” Greg says.
His newsletter also highlighted the initiative to improve safety for horse riders on New Zealand roads.
The h riu electorate includes many rural roads – in h riu Valley, Takapu Valley and Horokiwi Hills,” the newsletter says.
“There are often horses being
ridden in these areas, and there is currently a campaign to educate drivers around safely passing horses on these roads, with a petition to Parliament Petition of New Zealand Equestrian Advocacy Network: Vulnerable road user status for New Zealand horse riders (petitions.parliament.nz).
“Living in h riu Valley certainly taught me the importance of knowing how to approach and pass horses,” Greg says.
The petition requests “that the House of Representatives hold an inquiry into road user behaviour
J’ville Xmas market returning
By Frank Neill
The date has been set for the 2024 Johnsonville Christmas Market.
It will be held on Saturday 30 November from 10am to 2:30pm.
The location will be the same as last year – in the main car park of Johnsonville Shopping Centre next to the centre's main entrance.
The Rotary Club of Johnsonville has now opened applications for stalls. The stall cost is $50.
People interested in having a stall at the market, can contact the club by using the link to our website or by emailing info@johnsonvillerotary.org.nz.
This will be the second time a Christmas market has been held at the Johnsonville Shopping Centre.
Last year’s market featured more than 45 stalls and was a roaring success, Johnsonville Rotary said.
Crowds of people enjoyed shopping at the wide range of stalls – everything from dog treats to mummified fairies and including original clothing, crafts and jewellery, plants, preserves and cakes were on sale, as well as face painting and nativity photos by the Salvation Army.
Johnsonville Rotary raised funds for local community projects and donations which include the recent Wellington North Primary Schools Citizenship Awards, the Newlands Childrens Picnic, Lifting the Lid, a programme that funds schools to provide wellbeing support for students at risk, as well as the club’s support for foodbanks and other local charities.
Johnsonville Rotary is a small friendly, diverse and active club which welcomes visitors and new members. For more information see https://johnsonvillerotary.org. nz/.
towards vulnerable road users, including people riding horses, recognise that horse riders are vulnerable road users, and amend the Land Transport Act and associated Rules to include safe provision for horse riders in legislation.”
The reason for the petition is that “the European Commission defines a ‘vulnerable road user’ (VRU) as any ‘non-motorised’ road user.
“NZTA told us it does not have a VRU definition,” the petitioners state.
“We think this has led to incon-
United 2-1 to win the playoff 4-2 on aggregate and become the tenth team for Central League 2024. Four more playoffs took place for a spot in Central Two for 2024, previously known as Capital Premier.
A goal inside the first minute helped Te Kotahitanga beat Gisborne Thistle 1-0 and Seatoun beat New Plymouth Rangers 2-1. Taradale thumped Victoria University 4-1, meanwhile Douglas Villa took until extra time to beat Havelock North 4-3.
sistencies in how local, regional and central government agencies view horse riders in road safety, inclusion and access to off-road pathways.
“Horse riders are left out of road safety initiatives and shared pathways.”
The petition is supported by a number of groups including: NZ Equestrian Advocacy Network, Te Hapori H iho - The National M ori Horse Association Aotearoa Trust, Equestrian Sports NZ, New Zealand Riding for the Disabled and New Zealand pony clubs.
World Press Photo show coming here
The prestigious 2024 World Press Photo exhibition is coming to Wellington. Presented by “The Post” this remarkable event will be showcased in Wellington for an exclusive three-week engagement, in partnership with the New Zealand Academy of Fine Arts and with the generous support of the Netherlands Embassy. This globally acclaimed showcase of photojournalism will be on display each day, 10 am till 5 pm, from Saturday 21 September to Sunday 13 October at the Asteron Centre's Ground Floor, conveniently located opposite Wellington Railway Station. The World Press Photo Foundation, established in 1955, is a leading organisation in visual journalism.
Its annual contest recognises and rewards the best in photojournalism and documentary photography, attracting entries from professional photographers worldwide.
The resulting exhibition tours more than 40 countries, showcasing powerful visual stories that capture the most pressing issues of our time.
This year's exhibition features winning photographs from four categories: Singles, Stories, Long-Term Projects, and Open Format.
These images, selected from over 60,000 entries submitted by photographers from 130 countries, represent the pinnacle of photojournalism and visual storytelling.
"In an era dominated by digital media and instant information, press photography remains a powerful medium for conveying truth and sparking meaningful dialogue,”
Tracy Watkins, Editor of “The Post”, says.
“The World Press Photo exhibition demonstrates the enduring impact of visual journalism.
“These images document our world and challenge us to see it from new perspectives, fostering empathy and understanding across cultures and borders.
“We are honoured to bring this important exhibition to Wellington, offering our community a window into the most pressing global issues of our time,” Tracy says.
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Santa and his helpers at last year’s Johnsonville Christmas market. Photo: Supplied.
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