The long-running saga of Wellington's wharewaka has taken a new twist, with the city council conceding that the $12.5 million building is too small for one of the waka expected to be housed in it.
The admission comes as defiant Waiwhetu Maori ignore a council deadline to return Wellington's ceremonial waka, Te Raukura.
Oh dear. But that's not all; read on:
Wellington City Council admits Te Raukura's Hutt Valley sister waka, Te Aniwaniwa, will not fit in the wharewaka, but says it was never meant to.
Spokesman Richard MacLean said that, although the building was designed to house two waka, Te Aniwaniwa, the longer canoe, was not one of them.
"It appears whoever designed the thing, they obviously decided that, `No, it's not going to house the Hutt one'. It sounds like another dispute."
Oh dear, oh dear! Why would you go to the expense of building a wharewaka which was too nohinohi to house the largest, most impressive waka in the area? Isn't local government wonderful?
And it brings back memories of another measurement cock-up. The first Tri-Nations rugby competition was played in 1996 between New Zealand, South Africa and Australia. The All Blacks won the series when they beat the South Africans at Cape Town, and Sean Fitzpatrick was presented with an enormous cup. It wasn't supposed to be enornous; it's just that the jeweller who made it was used to working in inches, not centimetres, and the cup was 2.5 times its intended size, and has never been presented since!
I guess that we should at least be grateful that the builders contracted by the Wellington City Council didn't err that way!!
11 comments:
Inv2!
You are one of the boys! Indulging in a bit of gang-bashing on another person's blog!
I am amazed!
# Rex Widerstrom (3,987) Says:
February 19th, 2011 at 1:10 pm
It’s still early over here, and I’m still on the first coffee of the day.
But I come here and read something about a bunch of girls ganging up on another girl… and then everyone starts picking on phil.
Phil gives as good as he gets RG; have you chastised him for calling people "knuckledraggers", or for calling Yvette a "harridan" today?
BTW - what does Phillip Ure (or Rex Widerstrom for that matter) have to do with a post about a building SNAFU in Wellington?
Nothing at all Inv2 but you have no 'general' thread for such things.
Phil visited me in Riverton and so I have a very good idea of where he's coming from. You seem to enjoy attacking him. Why is that?
Robert Guyton
why dont you Piss off to your own blog and do a general on your own blog instead of telling people what to do on their blogs.
Your copy and paste comments are rather boring. Dont you greenies have any of your own ideas and thoughts?
RGGA@4:08 - boring? Rex's comments are pithy and insightful and aching to be shared. Just doing my bit to connect thoughts across the internet. None of yours so far are of the standard but when you do present us with something interesting, I'll share you around as well. Do you have a view on anything at all?
You do seem fascinated by me and while that's flattering, you don't really add anything to the general pool of knowledge with your sycophantic fawnings. Perhaps you know something about politics? That's an interesting topic. What do you think of John Key's recent tumble in the public perception?
Can he erase the memory of that mincing fashion appearance? Will his lies about the BMWs be forgotten before the election? How will he get around his promise not to resile from his plans to seel our assets in he face of polls that show huge opposition from New Zealanders?
Come on RGGA!
Share your wisdom!
Now look here young Robert; if you're going to persist in threadjacking, we might have to have words!
You have your own blog; you can advance your agenda there. After all; I wouldn't come into your home and tell you what you're cooking for dinner now ...
It's a lovely pie cooked by the two French people who are staying at present. They both work as chefs in France, in a beautiful chalet that specializes in duck (raising and cooking). It's not a duck pie though.
One of your regular commenters has defected to my blog btw Inv2. You'll miss him I'm sure and I'm sorry to have taken him but all's fair in love and war!
Good as gold Robert, and enjoy the pie. Mrs Inv and I had a young Swedish couple come and stay a couple of weeks back, and have an open invitation to visit them sometime so we're saving our pennies.
And unless you believe in monoblogamy, I'm happy for commenters here to comment on your blog as well, as I do myself. I just wish that you and DPF would mend your differences, because I used to enjoy the thrust and counterthrust with you at Kiwiblog. We may have our differences politically, but that's not the end of the world IMHO.
Well I2 - I guess KS is my KB now!
Farrar lacks your tolerance and humour.
I regard your blog the superior and your ability to turn provocation into enjoyable banter vastly superior to Farrar's. God knows, I gave Farrar dozens of opportunities to learn to manage someone who didn't fawn over him and his National Party but he didn't have it in him - too shallow and humourless imho.
Ah; so you're admitting being provocative then RG? I generally enjoy the banter too, but like Len Brown, with limits.
Sleep beckons; trust your pie was delicious!
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