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    City Voice, 16th April 1998
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    [...]p to fight for
    their boat harbours in the face of city
    council plans which could see them
    sold off to th[...]l officials said

    11° fax (Of) 385 6767 * email: city.voice@globe.net.nz ° website: bttp://www.cityvoice.co.[...]at the Union

    Venture finished

    BY MARY HOBBS
    THE city council is selling its new
    venture business units[...]birthday review, p.12-14



    Not so clean -
    Green Voice, p.4

    Company owns in the area.

    “The Union Com[...]pany spokesperson Brian
    Paulin, when contacted by City Voice,
    asked for time to prepare a comment
    but did not[...]thday and you’re all invited
    tothe party.

    Yep, City Voice turns five this week and
    to celebrate we're holdi[...]des representation from
    the communities that make City Voice
    the paper that it is: cultural groups,
    ban[...]
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    HAPPY 5TH
    BIRTHDAY
    CITY VOICE

    from

    Mayor Mark Blumsky
    &

    City Councillors











    POSITIVELY,



    Tumeke Pineke
    Wellington City Council

















    Of many in our city,

    Motorway mural

    TE ARO’s young people have pa[...]tto the Terrace tunnel.
    The Campaign for a Better CityCity Voice! ay
    City Voice is an ascet fo Wellington City. Every week Wellingtonians can read a wide range of
    aniicles and opinions and see what's happening in the city.
    * Wellington is a very vibrant, multicultural and diverse place. City Voice represents the vie!
    and offen adds value to an ar[...]t, Sun 19
    Apr, noon, ph 385 6728.

    The Wellington City Council
    givesgrants for earthquake strength-
    enin[...]that
    arges for garages in high-value
    arts of the city could go up from
    120ayearnowtoover $720.
    H[...]
    [...]almost half of what they need. They'll be at the
    City Voice fifth birthday celebration in Civic
    Square this S[...]orial above Breaker
    Bay. Write to the society clo City
    Voice, PO Box 11 647, Wgtn, or ph
    801 5420.

    Treaty cou[...]Campus: Wineera Drive, Private Bag SOP10, PORIRUA CITY Ph: ¢
    Kapiti Campus: Main Road Noah, P 0 Box 245[...]0 further copies are available in street stands.

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    HAPPY Ben
    BIRTHDAY

    from the[...]supplies.









    Proud Suppliers to City Voice




    DOSS Ltd

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    Not so green?

    BY[...]cy-
    clists and joggers - who cop
    lungfuls of this city’s air, don’t
    scream by in protective masks.
    But how greenis our city really?

    Sometimes you can see smog.
    In winter, a[...]ucator Viv Auty will lose
    herjobif the Wellington City Coun-
    cil goes through with its latest cost-
    cutt[...]he has twice been hon-
    oured by the Queen.

    Green city councillor Celia
    Wade-Brown says she was aston-
    i[...]en from the
    natural environment group part
    of the city council’s consultation
    last year about a strate[...]health and women's affairs

    HAPPY FIFTH BIRTHDAY CITY VOICE!

    Phillida Bunkle is the Alliance List MP[...]
    SOCUS

    16April1998 EVoice

    5



    Pornography and the Voice



    A personal reflection on promoting pornography in City Voice, by Simon Collins

    EVER since it opened, the Peaches &
    Cream sex shop has been a regular
    advertiser in City Voice — often, last
    year, onthe front page.

    Its adve[...]Jona Pannett challenged these ads.

    She had read City Voice’s Editorial
    Charter which promises, among other[...]tter
    saying: “In both articles and advertising,
    City Voice exists primarily to give people
    avoice, whether w[...]his
    reponse as “weak”.

    “Ttis unlikely that CityCity Voiceworkers.



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    Here and NOE

    BY JARRATT HELY

    T[...]pm. Simcock is also



    Matthew Simcock

    an MC at City Voice’s fifth birthday
    celebration, Civic Square, Sat[...]okomo Blues, Shayn Wills & Bull-
    frog Rata, Windy City Strugglers and
    Behemoths- anda flexible lineup mo[...]from 8.30pm, free.
    Tonight (16 Apr) dedicated to City
    Voice’s first 5 years. Blues Club mem-
    bership: $10 p[...]um of readers ani that’s where it’s af. see
    j Voice supports the many genres of music happening. within this city. The voice of City Voice projects itself toud and

    Up to speed

    BY[...]
    HVisualeArts

    16April1998 _E'Voice

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    Essential viewing

    BY KATY CORNER
    VISUAL b[...]some of the
    expressive qualities
    before us at the City
    Gallery.

    In The Exhibi-
    tion of the Century,
    we[...]asterpieces from the Stedelijk
    Museum, Amsterdam, City Gallery,
    Civic Square, until 5 July.

    Infinite re[...]one moment,

    photography roundup

    BY KATY CORNER
    CITY VOICE’s David Gurr has

    combed through five years’[...]nce Aberhart, Gary Baigent and
    Les Cleveland.



    CITY GALLERY, NOW SHOWING THE EXHIBITION OF THE CENTURY, CONGRATULATES

    CITY VOICE ON FIVE YEARS OF
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    Monday 20th April 4pm
    Post Entries:

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    CONGRATULATIONS CITY VOICE
    HAPPY 5TH BIRTHDAY

    FROM MANAGEMENT AND STAFF, HO[...]ainMakeR ny
    LATE SHOWS THU/ FRI/ SAT AT
    HOYTS MID CITY & MANNERS MALL Ly] AT)
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    iE u/ Fri un Thu/Fri/Sa[...]andy Ireland is Precious!

    We would like to thank CITY VOICE for their
    excellent coverage and support
    of theat[...]PH 385 1864



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    HAPPY BIRTHDAY CITY VOICE
    Many Happy Reviews!

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    shows[...]
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    LET US PROVIDE YOUR NEXT RIDE
    CALL WELLI[...]Dancing down Cuba
    There’s always a VOICE
    Best place in the CITY
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    On your Sth year of a[...]Live & HOT
    CUBA MALL

    HOTEL
    BRISTOL
    Dedicated to City Voice’s

    5th Birthday ?
    Best Wishes from Capital Blue[...]Mark Te One, Trustee,
    Wellington Tenths Trust

    City Calendar







    Wellington’s best guide

    ‘[...]Arts
    Centre, AllenSt.

    Zebo’s, Abel Smith St.

    VOICE’S CHOICES

    Hamilton band Scooter playing at
    Bod[...]lington
    bands.

    Also on Saturday don't forget the
    City Voice 5th Anniversary show at
    Civic Square... kicks off[...]y evening of
    varied angles and stylisations, (See
    Voice's Choices)

    Roomfulla Blues, Hotel Bristol.
    Regul[...]erformingArts Centre, 7.30pm.

    Saturday 18 April

    City Voice 5th Birthday, Civic
    Square. Featuring Roots Found[...]Trust enthusiastically supports and endorses the City Voice newspaper
    and its support for issues of concern to Maori. The Trust would like to congratulate City Voice on
    the occasion of its Sth birthday and lo[...]
    [...]Performing Arts
    Centre, 18-24 Allen St, 3858033

    VOICE’S CHOICES

    Don't let the hype and probable
    gros[...]r triumph, Bats, 17-19
    April, 7.00pm.



    Disual

    VOICE’S CHOICES

    APrivate View, at Te Papa, is arare[...]ational Library. -Katy Corner.

    PUBLIC GALLERIES

    City Gallery, Civic Square
    The Exhibition of the Centu[...]n St,
    12.30pm.

    Saturday 18 April
    Celebrating our Voice: Music,
    dance, culture, stalls, children's en-
    tertainment & free speech for City
    Voice's 5th birthday, Civic Sq, | lam
    4.30pm. If wet: S[...]T MEETS WEST CUISINE
    Free glass of house wine for City Voice

    readers who dine with us after Spm.
    Open[...]
    [...]Marra, 49, a Wellington
    resident who came to the city as
    a student and has stayed ever
    since,

    To some, it seems a paradox.
    The city that, in the 1980s, sent
    Fran Wilde to Parliament[...]w reform, and elected
    the country’s first Green city
    councillor, has become, in the
    °90s, the only pl[...]T MP.

    Yet to Marra and to many
    others, it is the city’s ability to
    embrace the differences of its
    res[...]Wel-
    lington is more widespread than
    inany other city.

    This is seen both in the Inter-
    national Festiv[...]f
    professionals who choose to live
    in the central cityCity Voice, we asked Tamai Prichard to find out “whatever[...]il is divided but this
    is a result of the diverse city that it
    represents. Wellington has the
    highest av[...]elling-
    ton has always been a liberal, tol-
    erant city and points to the sup-
    portthatthe arts enjoy.

    H[...]pported the

    FOOT & CO

    Congratulate their client
    City Voice

    on creating a more informed community

    385 - 793[...]i Prichard, 22, is working as a waiter (paid) and City Voice

    journalist (unpaid), and intends to study[...]
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    Circus time in the capital

    Wellingt[...]aries

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    HAPPY BIRTHDAY
    CITY VOICECity Voice on its 5th birthday.
    Our previous advertis[...]
    [...]fee and swot, it would seem,
    are helping fuel the city’s job market,
    with an increase of 110 cafes and[...]-
    preting and translating work to
    the creation of voice overs and
    subtitles.

    A recent job involved trans[...]16April1998 Voice 15

    LOAN FUN, Becom. Women helping Women l 1
    AGT[...]1661

    In Celebrating our & th Birthday the

    NZSO Voice

    nates
    have a double Classic Attitude Club[...]
    [...]ofusion of
    dealer galleries today, along
    with the City Gallery, Na-
    tional Library, Page 90 re-
    vamping[...]ition.

    [Peter McLeavey Gallery
    147 Cuba Street.

    City Voice turns five...
    a moving experience !

    Congratulati[...].












    Happy fifth birthday, City Voice! Your hard work and vision has made you vital fo Wellington. City Voice provides a platfort
    Kats and opinions with[...]
    [...]e, “Cheatee, Music

    Angels in real life

    As the City Voice cooperative celebrates its fifth birthday, Mary H[...]The fundis six years old now, one
    year older than City Voice. Co-
    founder Gwenyth Wright is proud
    of the numbe[...]16April1998_ EF} Voice

    17

    Live rock declines, dance parties boom

    BY G[...]re’s been no long-term venue to play
    in. During City Voice’s five years numer-
    ous venues have come and go[...]artments

    For those seeking the ultimate in inner city
    living. Limited number of luxury apartment[...]
    d S Voice 16April 1998

    Wellington inthe’ 90s— “City Nice





    ‘It started with a dream...’

    City Voice asked Philip Tremewan, Mt Vic resident and city worker, to review
    our first five years. Here’s his report

    MANY city dwellers sit down with
    their City Voice each week and read it
    cover to cover.

    This core[...]n
    the news, its arts coverage and its focus
    onthe city.

    People like Mel Bogard, Mt Vic
    resident and leg[...]stuff in my neigh-
    bourhood, which is Wellington city,
    and I like the editorial freedom in the
    back pag[...]ey work phenomenally hard.” She
    points out that City Voice staff keep
    their feet on the ground because it is[...]LATIONS

    CAPITAL DEVELOPMENT AGENCY
    Congratulates City Voice on

    of younger people living in the city is
    brilliant.”

    It started with a dream - a dream
    where the young idealistic City Voice
    thumbs its nose at the giant Goliath
    aka Rupert M[...]contrast with these
    voices of the establishment, City Voice
    proudly prints on its masthead - “Wel-
    lington’s independent newspaper”.

    The City Voice dream - and their
    different approach to news —[...]and powerless. They sec the paper as a
    forum for city people, carrying city
    news and analysis, being the best arts
    newspaper[...]o of them gathered a team to

    5 years of Success

    Voice has been at the forefront of keeping
    oe in touch[...]e Capital

    Development Agency

    801

    -3222

    launch City Voice.

    In many ways it is positioned closer
    to the dai[...]inion
    which has always seen itself as the
    capital city business paper and takes a
    strongly right-wing ed[...]tis attempting to cover some of
    the same bases as City Voice and has
    increasingly ‘tried to woo
    Wellingtonia[...]rongly on the lives and concerns of
    people in the city and its surrounds.

    Intimate

    Yet City Voice offers a more inti-
    mate view of Wellington and q[...]s beaten the dailies to stories
    especially on the city council and
    Lambton Harbour Management.
    Former Po[...]rrison
    remembers how “ we always needed to
    read City Voice for stories we might
    have missed. They kept us up[...]sky and sets out likely scenarios
    for the various city wards — an impor-
    tant story that the Post hasn’t yet
    thought of covering.

    City Voice’s crusade on the
    sale of Capital Power also won
    the hearts of many city folk who
    wanted it kept in council owner-
    ship. That battle was lost but
    City Voice won against user
    charges for the library. The sto-
    ries were detailed, analytical and
    often passionate.

    City Voice doesn’t just go to
    the opinion leaders, the big[...]el-
    ing powerless and scared.

    The first issue of City Voice



    weeelo

    ABSOLUTELY

    POSITIVELY
    WELLINGTON

    Turoke Pérake
    Wellington City Council



    INTRODUCTION TO WOMEN'S STUDIES

    MODU[...]s and piles on
    coffee bar counters in the central city,
    Karoriand Island Bay.

    They have modelled themselves on
    the sort of city paper you can find in
    Boulder, Colorado or Portla[...]of the Heraldproved
    impregnable.

    From the start, City Voice has al-
    ways been edging into the red. They
    rely[...]nt media. North &
    South a couple of years ago put City
    Voiceinits top 10 papers: “ City Voice
    is proof that you don’t need the money
    of Wilso[...]rnalism in this country.
    What you do need — and City Voice
    has it in abundance - is chutzpah.
    Irreverent, sc[...]d fortitude. The Wellington Catho-
    lic paper said City Voicewelcomes you
    “into the everyday life of those who
    live and work in the city. What you
    find is much human goodness and
    enthusiasm.”

    The City Voice team is proud of
    such achievements as the regular[...]steamrollered by the
    Right.

    Half the readers of City Voiceare in
    households earning more than $60,000[...]A third are
    classed as liberal sophisticates. The
    City Voice readers go to movies more
    often than reade[...]
    foo

    16April1998 Voice 19





    BY LUCY CORRY

    A LOVE of travelling the[...]i & Wine Retailer

    BIRTHDAY

    CONGRATULATIONS

    TO

    CITY VOICE

    Midnight Espresso
    178 Cuba Street
    Ph 384 7014 °[...]on
    comes from Morgan Parker, co-
    organiser of the City Voice fifth
    birthday bash, a daytime concert in
    Civic S[...]> ze





    CAFE
    feet!

    HAPPY 5th BIRTHDAY
    CITY VOICE

    THE
    aN he

    OPEN 7 DAYS[...]
    [...]22-26 April 1998, 10pm.

    Other Enlightened Queer
    City Laugh Comedy Festi-
    val Picks:

    * Big Bottomed Wo[...]ution of homo-
    sexuals into the spotlight.

    Queer City is a six-weekly paper in City

    Voice for the lesbi
    trans communities.

    1, gay, bisexua[...]Takes ‘98. May 21st-
    June Ist at the Paramount/ City Cin-
    ema.

    and nonachievers.

    He says that most s[...]ces!

    Cnr Cuba & Vivian Streets
    SEE YOU THERE!!!

    CITY VOICE

    $70 Waged
    $40 Unwaged



    A Listening
    onn[...]
    [...]NOON TUESDAY

    TO LET

    OFFICE space, stylish inner city,
    spacious, private, share facilities/
    expenses wi[...]801 8711

    Access 783 AM
    Friday 17 April

    pm: 6.00 Voice Of Tongan Youth
    SDA, 6.30 Voice of Tonga, 7.00
    Fiji Hour, 8.00 Assyrian Voice,
    8.15 Cm'ty Noticeboard, 8.30 El
    Shaddai, 9.00 Rampage, 10.00
    Voice of the Cook Is, 11.00 Cook
    Is Show.

    Saturday 18[...]he Word from Sinai,
    11.45 PeaceReport.

    pm: 12.00 Voice of the South
    Slavs Club, 1.00 Cyprus Cm'ty,
    2.00[...]first publication of this
    notice.
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    The Wellington City Council through its Safer
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    available from Grants Co-ordinator, Wellington

    City Council, addiss below, phone 04-801 3139,
    fax O-4[...]rts a wide range of arts
    and cultur tivity in the City of Wellington,
    inchiding Tawa.




    Completed ap[...]ful
    Ph 387 2750

    ANNETTE KING MP

    Congratulations City Voice.
    Keep up the good work.




    Newtown

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    ADVERTISING SALES
    CITY VOICE

    Wellington's independent newspaper,
    5 years old[...]GREAT WELLINGTON
    INSTITUTION TO ANOTHER...

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    THANKS FOR 5 FAB YEARS

    VAG ROU te a3
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    22 Voice 16April1998
    New journalism, new politics

    BY TONY[...]ing their own media.

    In Wellington, the battling City
    Voice was the first to expose the gov-
    ernment hiding t[...]erence on
    globalisation (“NZs secret rulers’, City
    Voice, 8 May’97).

    Journalists should challenge the L[...]ance of protest groups,
    nor of police brutality.

    City Voice tries to do so. And, it
    empowers people against i[...]Y (2 Apr) accused
    reviewers of LAGO Adam Shelton (City
    Voice) and Lindis Taylor (Evening
    Post) as being[...]
    [...]people yet to be born.

    IP Hancox, Johnsonville

    CITY VOICE welcomes articles and letters.
    Send to: PO Box 11 647, Wegtn; fax 385
    6767; email: city.voice@globe.net.nz



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    Abdicating[...]
    24 Voice 16April1998
    Luck & drawing

    City Voice’s visual team celebrate the
    look of the paper o[...]the paper,” says
    photographer David Gurr.

    With City Voice since
    its inception, Gurr feels
    “spoilt by what[...]an see to
    finda way out.”

    Through the pages of
    City Voice, Gurr has found
    his own way of capturing
    this city’s moments, cha-
    oticand calm.

    Tim Bollinger al[...]ile always opinion-
    ated as far as politics goes,
    City Voice presented him

    Radiowatch

    BY INGRID KAMSTRA[...]always
    last minute, and she loves
    thechallenge.

    City VoiceCity Voice exhibition,
    New Moon Gallery, Capi-
    tal on[...]

    MD

    City Voice
    City Voice
    Wellington City Libraries
    Wellington City Libraries wishes to thank the former direc[...]