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Forget world cup rugby – Scrabble’s the game
By Rodney Brown and Christine Linnell A LARGE crowd gathered on Cuba Mall to watch a giant Scrabble match set up by Literacy Aotearoa Wellington to promote International Literacy Day. International...
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Lone National supporter pleads crowd for a ‘fair go’
SWAYING THE VOTE: From left, Ken Rickeby, Grant Robertson, Stephen Whittington, James Shaw (standing), Laurence Boomert, Michael Appleby (hidden) National may be leading the opinion polls but there was...
View ArticleVocal crowd put election hopefuls to the test in Karori
ELECTION hopefuls faced a vocal crowd at a candidates meeting in Karori last night. St John’s Hall was over-flowing as nine of the 10 candidates standing in Wellington Central faced a barrage of...
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Candidates raise laughs, hackles, heckles and awareness
HANDOUTS: Party pamphlets sitting on chairs at a local candidates meeting in Karori. THINK political meetings are boring? Think again. I’d never had much interest in politics before studying...
View ArticleIconic Aro election meeting doesn’t disappoint
HUNDREDS of people flocked to the Aro Valley Community Centre last night for a meet the candidates meeting. The 10 Wellington Central candidates were booed, heckled and even squirted with water-guns...
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Wet and wild Aro Valley gives candidates a political spray
CROWDED HOUSE: (From left) Labour’s Grant Robertson, National’s Paul Foster-Bell, Internet Mana’s Callum Valentine, Legalise Cannabis’ Alistair Gregory, NZ First Hugh Barr, Conservative’s Brian Hooper,...
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Church niceties observed on altar of polite politics
EAGERLY AWAITING: Wellington Central candidates line up to address the public. IMAGE: Ashleigh Manning A CROWD of 50 people were appropriately quiet in the surrounds of the Central Baptist Church for...
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Students offer passionate election messages at Victoria University
ISSUES ARISE: (From left) Labour’s Grant Robertson, NZ First’s Tracy Martin, Co-leader of Greens Russel Norman and National’s Paul Foster-Bell debated student issues and student loans at the Victoria...
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Paul Foster-Bell quietly confident at the Backbencher
SUPPORTERS of National Party Wellington Central candidate Paul Foster-Bell are gathering at The Back Bencher pub tonight. After a somewhat ‘relaxed’ day of not campaigning, Mr Foster-Bell enjoyed a lie...
View ArticleNational’s man in Wellington Central upbeat despite loss
HE failed to win the Wellington Central seat but got a rousing reception anyway from supporters as he delivered his concession speech on election night. National’s Paul Foster- Bell conceded to Grant...
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