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Auckland Story for 26 June 2013 - Sustainability Street
3:30 PM.Lisa Thompson finds out about an Australian initiative being piloted in Auckland called Sustainability Street. It's a neighbourhood approach to sustainable living which starts with a group of… Read more Audio
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Auckland Story for 19 June 2013 - Matariki Festival
3:30 PM.Auckland artist Lorna Rikihana of the weaving cooperative Te Roopu Raranga o Tamaki Makaurau has organised a three day workshop at Manukau for school children on harakeke weaving, pottery and… Read more Audio
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Auckland Story for 12 June 2013 - Ride sharing
3:29 PM.A car-pooling advocate says Auckland can fix its congestion problems simply, if more Auckland drivers would only share a ride to work. Audio
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Auckland Story for 5 June 2013 - Puhoi 150th
3:32 PM.The tiny north Auckland community of Puhoi is this month celebrating its founding 150-years ago, by a boat load of settlers from Bohemia, which is now part of what is the Czech Republic. After four… Read more Audio
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Auckland Story for 29 May 2013 - Affordable Housing
3:30 PM.Spoken Features producer Lisa Thompson finds out why a Northland housing trust is now providing accessible housing for people with disabilities in Auckland. Audio
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Auckland Story for 22 May 2013 - Halfway Down
3:30 PM.First it was just a road; twenty years ago it became a song, now its art. Composer Don McGlashan's song 'Dominion Road' has become the subject of a piece of guerrilla art, halfway down Dominion Road… Read more Audio
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Auckland Story for 15 May 2013 - Harbour Clean Up
3:32 PM.An Auckland Trust that's collected 25 million pieces of litter from the city's harbour and the Hauraki Gulf in a decade has launched a new boat this week. Audio
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Auckland Story for 8 May 2013 - Greenways Cycling
3:30 PM.A organisation which is pushing for more cycleways in Auckland says almost half of all Aucklanders own a bike but few use them because it's just too dangerous. Audio
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Auckland Story for 1 May 2013 - Future Population Growth
3:28 PM.Auckland's population is predicted to reach two-and-a-half million people by 2043. Where will everyone live? Audio
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Auckland Story for 24 April 2013 - Refugees as Survivors
3:31 PM.Afghan interpreters who worked with New Zealand defence force there have just moved into the Mangere Refugee Resettlement Centre with their families. The refugee children are being swamped with… Read more Audio
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Auckland Story for 17 April 2013 - Sealink
3:30 PM.One of Auckland's oldest ferry companies wants to bring back car ferries between the city's North Shore and downtown. Sealink also proposes dramatically expanding Auckland's passenger ferry network to… Read more Audio
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Auckland Story for 10 April 2013 - Samoan Master Carving
3:33 PM.A Samoan master carver is finishing his work on the last of five poles to be centre stage at a new South Auckland preschool. Each has been uniquely carved with traditional designs of five Pacific… Read more Audio
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Auckland Story for 3 April 2013 - St Stephens
3:31 PM.A push to re-open the doors to the Anglican Maori boarding school of St Stephens is gaining traction. Audio
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Auckland Story for 27 March 2013 - Drought at Tawharunui
3:30 PM.Dozens of native trees are dying at Auckland's Tawharunui Regional Park as a result of the big dry. Endangered kiwi and pateke (the New Zealand brown teal) are succumbing too. Audio
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Auckland Story for 20 March 2013 - Baird's Mainfreight School
3:34 PM.In 1993 the South Auckland freight company Mainfreight became a benefactor of Otara school Baird's Road Primary. Since then the company's given $750,000 to the school and its now bumping up its annual… Read more Audio
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Auckland Story for 13 March 2013 - Maori Suicide Prevention
3:31 PM.Suicide rates amongst Maori in New Zealand are one-and-a-half times higher than for non-Maori. In an attempt to spread the suicide prevention message to Maori across the whole country, a series of… Read more Audio
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Auckland Story for 6 March 2013 - Arborfield Sanctuary
3:31 PM.The Arborfield Sanctuary near Wellsford is already looking after unwanted cows, donkeys, pigs and llamas, and says it certainly can't take anymore cockerels! David Steemson's gone calling. Audio
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Auckland Story for 27 February 2013 - Young Film Makers
3:33 PM.Young Aucklanders have a unique way to comment on a huge Auckland council blueprint that'll shape the city for the next thirty years. The council wants them to make a movie about its giant Unitary… Read more Audio
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Auckland Story for 20 February 2013 - Tony's Restaurant
3:28 PM.The original Tony's Restaurant on Wellesley Street in the central city has just celebrated its golden jubilee over the weekend. Audio
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Auckland Story for 13 February 2013 - Reroofing Highwic House
3:32 PM.Highwic House has just had its 150th birthday and it's getting a new Welsh slate roof. Audio
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Auckland Story for 30 January 2013 - HMS Orpheus
3:30 PM.Next week marks 150 years since the sinking of the British Royal Navy corvette HMS Orpheus at the entrance to Auckland's Manukau Harbour. The Whatipu Orpheus Commemoration Committee has organised a… Read more Audio
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Auckland Story for 23 January 2013 - Baches for Hire
3:34 PM.There's still plenty of summer left and the Auckland Council's "heritage" baches are proving to be a hit with Aucklanders. There are now eighteen of the old farm homesteads and cottages up for rent… Read more Audio
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Auckland Story for 19 December 2012 - Mandolin Orchestra
3:34 PM.New Zealand's only fully fledged mandolin orchestra has been playing to the Christmas crowds this week raising funds for the Auckland City Mission down at the Britomart Railway Station. The… Read more Audio
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Auckland Story for 12 December 2012 - Waikumete Cemetery
3:31 PM.Waikumete cemetery in West Auckland is expected to reach burial capacity by about 2018 and a cemetery and reserve management plan for the next 10 years has been put out by Auckland Council for… Read more Audio
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Auckland Story for 5 December 2012 - Auckland City Mojo
3:32 PM.Central Auckland's controversial new "shared spaces" where cars and pedestrians have to share the street, are putting more money in the tills of businesses. Audio