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Travel Directory 2011
Travel Directory 2011 ITOC - Celebrating 40 years THE DISTRIBUTION CHANNEL for NEw Zealand Tourism mARKETING NEw ZEALAND OVERSEAS 1971-2011 Open daily from 10am • Cnr Great South & Wiri Station Roads, Manukau Infoline: 09 262 2044 • www.rainbowsend.co.nz www.itoc.org.nz Welcome Published in association with the Inbound Tour Operators Council PO Box 1888, Wellington 6140 Welcome to the New Zealand Inbound Travel Directory 2011, New Zealand your authoritative guide to those New Zealand tour operators Phone +64 4 496 4898 and suppliers who handle a large share of New Zealand's Fax +64 4 499 0786 Email [email protected] inbound tourism business and who are members of the Website www.itoc.org.nz Inbound Tour Operators Council (ITOC). We know from feedback that this annual publication is valued as a major source of information by our New Zealand Publisher members and overseas tour wholesalers and retail TPL Media PO Box 9596, Newmarket travel agencies. Auckland 1149, New Zealand Phone +64 9 529 3000 ITOC plays an important role within the country's tourism Fax +64 9 529 3001 Email [email protected] industry and enjoys a close working relationship with the various Regional Tourism Organisations, Tourism New Editor Zealand, Qualmark and other key national tourism bodies. Gordon Gillan Phone +64 9 529 3026 Our focus is very much on stimulating business to business relationships between companies throughout the travel Sales Manager distribution chain as well as in enhancing quality and Pam Brown Phone: +64 9 529 3003 adding value. Production Manager In recent years ITOC has strengthened its focus on quality by Lisa Morris implementing an Inbound Tour Operator accreditation system Advertising Co-ordinator in conjunction with Qualmark. -
Speculations on History's Futures
WHAT IF? WHAT NEXT? SPECULATIONS ON HISTORY’S FUTURES SESSION 2C ROUTES TO THE PAST Legacy: Presenting the Value of the Past Through Constructed and Cultural Landscapes TO CITE THIS PAPER | Brent Greene and Fiona Johnson. “Millennial Urban Park Design in Melbourne and Wellington: How Divergent Colonial Foundations within the Trans-Tasman Bubble Impact Landscape Practice.” In Proceedings of the Society of Architectural Historians Australia and New Zealand: 37, What If? What Next? Speculations on History’s Futures, edited by Kate Hislop and Hannah Lewi, 329-340. Perth: SAHANZ, 2021. Accepted for publication December 11, 2020. PROCEEDINGS OF THE SOCIETY OF ARCHITECTURAL HISTORIANS AUSTRALIA AND NEW ZEALAND (SAHANZ) VOLUME 37 Convened by The University of Western Australia School of Design, Perth, 18-25 November, 2020 Edited by Kate Hislop and Hannah Lewi Published in Perth, Western Australia, by SAHANZ, 2021 ISBN: 978-0-646-83725-3 Copyright of this volume belongs to SAHANZ; authors retain the copyright of the content of their individual papers. All efforts have been undertaken to ensure the authors have secured appropriate permissions to reproduce the images illustrating individual contributions. Interested parties may contact the editors. MILLENNIAL URBAN PARK DESIGN IN MELBOURNE AND WELLINGTON: HOW DIVERGENT COLONIAL FOUNDATIONS WITHIN THE TRANS-TASMAN BUBBLE IMPACT LANDSCAPE PRACTICE Brent Greene | RMIT University Fiona Johnson | RMIT University Despite their shared colonial origins, trans-Tasman comparisons of landscape architecture practice between Australia and Aotearoa New Zealand are rare. An oft-cited critical point of difference is the respective presence (New Zealand) and absence (Australia) of a treaty with indigenous nations of the land at the time of foundation, a scenario that we argue establishes distinct conceptualisations of urban park design during the 1990s and early 2000s. -
TE ARA O NGA TUPUNA HERITAGE TRAIL MAIN FEATURES of the TRAIL: This Trail Will Take About Four Hours to Drive and View at an Easy TE ARA O NGA TUPUNA Pace
WELLINGTON’S TE ARA O NGA TUPUNA HERITAGE TRAIL MAIN FEATURES OF THE TRAIL: This trail will take about four hours to drive and view at an easy TE ARA O NGA TUPUNA pace. Vantage points are mostly accessible by wheelchair but there are steps at some sites such as Rangitatau and Uruhau pa. A Pou (carved post), a rock or an information panel mark various sites on the trail. These sites have been identified with a symbol. While the trail participants will appreciate that many of the traditional sites occupied by Maori in the past have either been built over or destroyed, but they still have a strong spiritual presence. There are several more modern Maori buildings such as Pipitea Marae and Tapu Te Ranga Marae, to give trail participants a selection of Maori sites through different periods of history. ABOUT THE TRAIL: The trail starts at the Pipitea Marae in Thorndon Quay, opposite the Railway Station, and finishes at Owhiro Bay on the often wild, southern coast of Wellington. While not all the old pa, kainga, cultivation and burial sites of Wellington have been included in this trail, those that are have been selected for their accessibility to the public, and their viewing interest. Rock Pou Information panel Alexander Turnbull Library The Wellington City Council is grateful for the significant contribution made by the original heritage Trails comittee to the development of this trail — Oroya Day, Sallie Hill, Ken Scadden and Con Flinkenberg. Historical research: Matene Love, Miria Pomare, Roger Whelan Author: Matene Love This trail was developed as a joint project between Wellingtion City Council, the Wellington Tenths Trust and Ngati Toa. -
How to Kill Rats and Engage a Community
HOW TO KILL RATS AND ENGAGE A COMMUNITY INTRODUCTION Predator Free Miramar is a volunteer community project, established in winter 2017 to rid Wellington’s Miramar Peninsula of rats, stoats and weasels, and bring back the birds and the bush to the eastern suburbs. Over the last three years we’ve created a community of backyard trappers, by asking people to install a trap in their backyards, keep it baited, and report their catches. Simple. The initial target was to have a rat trap in one out of every five backyards, effectively a trap every 50 metres, which is thought to be roughly the home range of a rat. There are about 7500 households on the peninsula, which means we needed 1500 backyards traps to meet the target. As we approach Christmas 2019, we have 1448 traps out, and Predator Free Wellington’s eradication operation is almost complete. As a community working together, in two and a half years, we’ve removed more than ten thousand rats, mice, hedgehogs and weasels from the Miramar landscape. My hugely supportive wife Jess is able to access our deep freezer again, now that my stash of frozen ‘sample’ rats and weasels have been cleared, and the months of deferred maintenance in our own backyard might just get a look in, now that I don’t have quite so many trapping missions to complete. So what follows is a reflection on how we got here. Despite the title, this is not an instruction manual on how another group should proceed; what makes these projects so great is that there’s no one way of doing it. -
Te Motu Kairangi Miramar Peninsula Draft Prospectus
TE MOTU KAIRANGI MIRAMAR PENINSULA A PROSPECTUS OF OPPORTUNITIES DOCUMENT PREPARED BY BOFFA MISKELL FOR WELLINGTON CITY COUNCIL DECEMBER 2016 What are we looking for? GIVE US 2 YEARS TO MAKE A PLAN WITH YOU Wellington City Council (WCC) is looking for a commitment from central government to partner with it, iwi and stakeholders - regional government, private enterprise and the community - to work together to agree a holistic plan that can optimise the benefits on offer for all the interests at Te Motu Kairangi/ Miramar Peninsula. The opportunity is now, before firm committments have been made about all the large areas of government land. It is time to seize the day - lets create a plan for Te Motu Kairangi/Miramar Peninsula by bringing all the interests together. The process to make the plan allows mutual benefits to be discovered. WCC will resource the 2 year plan making process. If we join together the sum of the parts can be greater than the whole. THE + +++ + = MIRAMAR PLAN TE MOTU KAIRANGI/MIRAMAR PENINSULA PLAN 3 2ND DRAFT 05.12.2016 What are we looking for? Public Ownership (Other) GIVE US 2 YEARS TO MAKE A PLAN WITH YOU Port Nicholson Settlement Block Trust (PNSBT) We are looking for a 2 year commitment that central government land (Land Information New Zealand, Her Majesty the Queen Ministry of Defence, Housing New Zealand, Ministry of Education, Airways Corporation, NIWA, Ministry of Culture and Heritage, Department of Corrections and Department of Conservation) can be Wellington City Council openly considered as part of the Miramar opportunity. Many of the once government facilities are now redundant. -
Our Natural Capital
Our Natural Capital Wellington’s biodiversity strategy and action plan 2015 Cover photo: Juvenile New Zealand fur seal at Frank Kitts Park, Wellington City. The main Wellington seal colony is at Sinclair Head on the edge of Te Kopahau Reserve. This is a “haul out” area for New Zealand fur seals during winter (May–October). Breeding season is November–January. New Zealand fur seals are also seen around Wellington Harbour. When around seals, people are advised to stay at least 10 metres away and to keep their dogs on a lead. New Zealand fur seals – particularly those living near the city – connect people with the natural world and represent the link between the marine and terrestrial environments. Our Natural Capital 3 Contents 1. Summary 4 10. Measuring Wellington City Council’s performance 61 Part One: Strategy 7 10.1 City Biodiversity Index 61 2. Introduction 7 10.2 Operational monitoring 65 2.2 What is natural capital? 7 11. Rationale for goals, objectives and actions 67 2.3 What is biodiversity? 8 11.1 Protect 67 2.4 Why is this important? 9 11.2 Restore 77 3. Māori and mana whenua relationship 11.3 Connect 84 to biodiversity 13 11.4 Research 91 4. Vision 15 Glossary 97 5. Guiding principles 17 Appendix 1 – Policy context 100 6. Policy framework 19 Appendix 2 – Ecological significance criteria 104 7. Wellington’s biodiversity journey 21 Appendix 3 – Wellington’s vegetation 106 7.1 Past 21 Appendix 4 – Significant Ecological Sites 107 7.2 Present 22 7.3 Future 30 Appendix 5 – Nationally threatened, regionally threatened and locally significant species 108 8. -
Appendix 13 Shelly Bay Cultural Impact Statement
CULTURAL IMPACT ASSESSMENT WHĀTAITAI, MARUKAIKURU, SHELLY BAY Taikuru Prepared by Kura Moeahu, Peter Adds and Lee Rauhina-August on behalf of Taranaki Whānui Ki Te Upoko o Te Ika and The Port Nicholson Block Settlement Trust, September 2016 STATUS: FINAL 1 Executive Summary This is a Cultural Impact Assessment Report for Shelly Bay/Marukaikuru commissioned by the Wellington Company Limited. It assesses the Māori cultural values of Marukaikuru Bay from the perspective of the tangata whenua, namely the iwi of Taranaki Whānui represented by the PNBST. The main findings of this cultural impact assessment are: • Marukaikuru Bay has high cultural significance to the iwi of Taranaki whanui • Taranaki Whānui people actually lived in the Bay until 1835 • We have found no evidence of other iwi connections to Marukaikuru Bay • Taranaki Whānui mana whenua status in relation to Marukaikuru and the Wellington Harbour is strongly supported in the literature, including the Waitangi Tribunal report (2003) • The purchase of Shelly Bay by PNBST from the Crown was a highly significant Treaty settlement transaction specifically for the purpose of future development • Any development of Marukaikuru must adequately take account of and reflect Taranaki Whānui cultural links, history and tangata whenua status in Wellington. • Taranaki Whānui have kaitiakitanga (guardianship) responsibilities to ensure the protection of the natural, historical and cultural dimensions of Marukaikuru. • The resource consent application submitted by the Wellington Company Limited is supported by the Port Nicholson Block Settlement Trust. 2 WHĀTAITAI, MARUKAIKURU, SHELLY BAY Taikuru Kapakapa kau ana te manu muramura ki te tai whakarunga Māwewe tonu ana te motu whāriki o te tai whakararo Makuru tini e hua ki whakatupua-nuku Matuatua rahi e hua ki whakatupua-ruheruhe Pukahu mano e hua ki whakatupua-rangi Inā te tai hekenga ki runga o Tai Kuru e.. -
A Guide to Wellington Architecture
1908 Tramways Building 1928 Evening Post Building 1942 Former State Insurance 1979 Freyburg Building 1987 Leadenhall House 1999 Summit Apartments 1 Thorndon Quay 82 Willis St Office Building 2 Aitken St 234 Wakefield St 182 Molesworth St 143 Lambton Quay Futuna Chapel John Campbell 100 William Fielding 36 MOW under Peter Sheppard Craig Craig Moller 188 Jasmax 86 5 Gummer & Ford 60 Hoogerbrug & Scott Architects by completion date by completion date 92 6 St Mary’s Church 1909 Harbour Board Shed 21 1928 Former Public Toilets 1987 Museum Hotel 2000 VUW Adam Art Gallery Frederick de Jersey Clere 1911 St Mary’s Church 2002 Karori Swimming Pool 1863 Spinks Cottage 28 Waterloo Quay (converted to restaurant) 1947 City Council Building 1979 Willis St Village 90 Cable St Kelburn Campus 170 Karori Rd 22 Donald St 176 Willis St James Marchbanks 110 Kent & Cambridge Terraces 101 Wakefield St 142-148 Willis St Geoff Richards 187 Athfield Architects 8 Karori Shopping Centre Frederick de Jersey Clere 6 Hunt Davis Tennent 7 William Spinks 27 City Engineer’s Department 199 Fearn Page & Haughton 177 Roger Walker 30 King & Dawson 4 1909 Public Trust Building 1987 VUW Murphy Building 2000 Westpac Trust Stadium 1960 Futuna Chapel 2005 Karori Library 1866 Old St Paul's Church 131-135 Lambton Quay 1928 Kirkcaldie & Stains 1947 Dixon St Flats 1980 Court of Appeal & Overbridge 147 Waterloo Quay 62 Friend St 247 Karori Rd 34-42 Mulgrave St John Campbell 116 Refurbishments 134 Dixon St cnr Molesworth & Aitken Sts Kelburn Campus Warren & Mahoney Hoogerbrug Warren -
Green Space in Wellington's Central City
Green Space in Wellington’s Central City: Current provision, and design for future wellbeing Report for Wellington City Council October 2019 Authors: Paul Blaschke, Ralph Chapman, Elaine Gyde, Philippa Howden-Chapman, Jenny Ombler, Maibritt Pedersen Zari, Meredith Perry, Ed Randal. Key points summary • Green space is needed in central city areas to provide health and wellbeing benefits for current and future residents, commuters and visitors, and increased amenity, liveability and economic benefits. Green spaces also provide ecosystem and resilience benefits that will help mitigate and adapt the city to climate change and other environmental shocks. • We report here on a detailed study of the provision of public green space in central Wellington City in relation to current and projected future population levels. • The study focused on the three Census Area Units (CAU) of central Wellington City. These CAUs contain a total of 41.19 ha of public green space. More than half of the central city’s public green space is located not in City parks and gardens but in road reserves or in other non-council areas, and some is of relatively low quality and poorly accessible. • The amount of green space per capita in each CAU is highest at 41m2 in Thorndon-Tinakori Road CAU, 23m2 in Lambton CAU, and lowest at 6m2 in Willis St-Cambridge Terrace CAU. There is a very significant lack of greenspace within 300m of the population-weighted centre of the Willis St– Cambridge Terrace CAU. • Green space amount per capita in central Wellington City declines substantially - by half on average - when projected population growth to 2043 for the three CAUs is considered. -
Te Aro Park, Actions Taken to Date and Potential Solutions
Executive Summary This report outlines safety concerns within Te Aro Park, actions taken to date and potential solutions. The numbers of events associated with social harm, occurring within the park are consistently higher in Te Aro Park than other central city parks. In order to improve safety within Te Aro Park the report outlines a number of options to address these issues, which have been categorised into projects for possible implementation over short, medium and long term and are outlined below. Short Term - as at January 2020 • Increased maintenance of the park – inclusion of Te Aro Park in the Central City Cleaning contract. • Removal of the canopy between the two toilet blocks and addition of directional lighting. • Lighting changes o If the canopy between the two toilets is not removed, additional lighting should be installed. o Vertical lighting should be installed on the Opera House side to improve night-time flow and a more defined route. o Lighting should also be added to the murals on the toilet building to increase attention to the artwork. o Lights should be added to the canopy of the Oaks building o Canopy lighting should be added to the tree. • Remove Spark phone booth as it creates blind spots and concealments. • Installing pedestrian crossings into both Manners and Dixon street to improve safe access to the park • Increase patrols to the Te Aro Park area during the hours of high activity and high social harm - this includes Police, Local Hosts and Maori Wardens • Improve guardianship of the park by involving businesses and other stakeholders in activity that occurs within the park, with central coordination from Council and intentional place-making Medium Term • Recognise and acknowledge the cultural significance of the park with interpretive signage and revitalise the park into more of a destination. -
Schedule One: Restricted and Prohibited Areas for Freedom Camping
SCHEDULE ONE: RESTRICTED AND PROHIBITED AREAS FOR CAMPING Camping in Wellington is restricted or prohibited as illustrated and described within the following aerial photographs. Glover Park Te Aro Park Midland Park Central Railway Station Post Office Square Waitangi Park Frank Kitts Park Prohibited Camping Areas 0 80 160 320 metres , Wellington C.B.D. I E'.'ZJ Proh ibited scale 1:s. ooo Property boundaries. 20m Contours, road names, rail line, address & titie poinls sourced from Land MAP PRODUCED BY: ORIGINAL MAP SIZE: A4 1 Information NZ. Crown Copyri~t reserved. Pnperty boundanes aca.iracy: +/-1m In urban areas, +/-30m ln Wellington Cit)' Council AUTHOR presto2j Absolutely Positively rural areas_ Census data sourced from Statistics NZ. Postcodes sourced from NZ Post. wakef1eld Street DATE: Wellington City Council Assets, contours. water and drainage ink>rmaOOn shown 1s approximate and must not be used t>r detaHed 101 711012014 Me Hd:e Kl Nneke engineering design. WELLINGTON, NZ REFERENCE: other data has been compded tom a valiety of sources and ils accuracy may vary, butis generally +/- 1rn Cobblestone Park Memorial Park (Te Puke Ahu) Basin Reserve Canal Reserve Prohibited Camping Areas 0 75 150 300 metres , Wellington C.B.D. scale 1 :5,900 Property boundaries, 20m Contours, road names, rail line, address & title points sourced from Land MAP PRODUCED BY: O RIGINAL MAP SIZE: A4 1 Information NZ. Crown Copyright reserved. Property boundaries acooracy: +/-1m in Ufban areas, +/-30m in Wellington Cily council AUTHOR presto2j rural areas_ Census data sourced from Statistics NZ. Postcodes sourced from NZ Post. Absolutely Positively 101 wakefield Street DATE: 711012014 Assets. -
Coastal Historic Heritage
COASTAL HISTORIC HERITAGE OF THE WELLINGTON REGION For Greater Wellington Regional Council Front cover photo: Days Bay Wharf, Eastbourne. COASTAL HISTORIC HERITAGE OF THE WELLINGTON REGION Survey for the Coastal Plan Review Report prepared by COCHRAN & MURRAY CONSERVATION ARCHITECTS CHRIS COCHRAN B Arch, FNZIA RUSSELL MURRAY B Arch Hons, ANZIA The Wedge, 20 Glenbervie Tce, Wellington, New Zealand Tel 04-472 8847 Email [email protected] MICHAEL KELLY HERITAGE CONSULTANT 21 Myrtle Crescent , Mt Cook, Wellington, New Zealand Tel 04-970 2244 Email [email protected] ANDY DODD ARCHAELOGICAL CONSULTANT P O Box 31, Paekakariki 5258, New Zealand Tel 04-902 3290 Email [email protected] 30 June 2012 Updated: 31 October 2014 i CONTENTS 1.0 INTRODUCTION 1.1 Commission .......................................................................................................... iv 1.2 Process ................................................................................................................... iv 1.3 Sources of Information ........................................................................................ iv 1.4 Acknowledgements .............................................................................................. v 1.5 References ............................................................................................................ v1 2.0 INVENTORY Schedule E1 – Structures Shed 5, Queen’s Wharf, 1887 ................................................................................ 2 Shed 3, Queen’s Wharf, 1887 ...............................................................................