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Sky high spy keeps tabs on stadium progress
EYE ON PROGRESS: The new Kilbirnie indoor sports stadium, viewed from the 'spy' tower over the road. A CAMERA installed on the neighbouring fire training tower is keeping an eye on the construction of...
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QUAKE Day 1: Many feared dead
RUINED ICON: Christchurch's cathedral minus its tower and steeple. QUAKE TIMELINE NewsWire’s team of reporters monitored media coverage of today’s earthquake aftermath, as well as writing stories of...
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Leaky school repairs costing Govt millions
A LEAKY Wellington primary school built as a prototype for more than $5 million less than 10 years ago is now costing nearly as much to repair. Seatoun School (above) was opened on the Fort Dorset site...
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Fencing piste is the new bowling green
GREENS are making way for the piste as the former Wellington Bowling Club building becomes a new home for the city’s swords club. The Tanera Cres venue had been home to the Wellington Bowling club for...
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Building sector growth highest in decade and Auckland is key
New Zealand’s economy may still be struggling, but the building sector is bucking the trend with its largest quarterly increase in 10 years. According to a recent report from Statistics New Zealand,...
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A classroom space to be created out of old dental clinic
The old dental clinic AN EXTRA classroom is to be created from in the building that used to house Dyer Street School’s old dental clinic. Plans to refurbish this area were made by school’s board of...
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Sixteen stories up with nowhere to go – quake nightmare
THE advice is to drop, cover and hold – but for one Wellington man, dropping was the last thing he wanted to do. Work was under way at a construction site in Taranaki street during Sunday’s 6.5 quake....
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Brooklyn is well on the way to quake compliance
BROOKLYN Galleria Owner, Ms Miculetich is taking a solid stance to earthquake safety. LAST week, the 20 year deadline for earthquake prone buildings to meet a 34% minimum standard of the building code...
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More central city pocket parks to come from council’s pockets
RESIDENTS and a property developer back the creation of new “pocket parks” in Wellington’s central business district. A pocket park is a small area of land designed for use by people occupying the...
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Squeezed Victoria students say new science space overdue
HIGH TIME: An artist’s impression of the new science building. IMAGE: Supplied “EXCITED” students are looking forward to the overdue building of a new science block at Victoria University. There is not...
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