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Crofton Downs Primary School held its Matsuri Gala from 11:am to 2pm on Saturday, 19 November.

The Foodstuffs supermarket chain is believed to be behind a deal to buy the large Exclusive Brethren church property next to the Crofton Downs Woolworths in Wellington.

Brethren Church in Crofton Downs

Statistics about Ngaio and Crofton Downs are now available on Wellington City Council’s Community Profile website.

They show Ngaio’s population increased slightly between 1996 and 2006, because new dwellings were built. We have more people in the younger age groups (0-17) than Wellington overall but fewer older people (60+).

Key statistics about Ngaio

Key statistics about Crofton Downs

Crofton Downs Primary School is having a gala on Saturday 13 November at the school on Chartwell Drive from  11:00 am – 2:00 pm.

There will be plenty of international cuisine and lots for children to do – including the Great BIG Ginormous Jaffa Roll.

Ngaio Progressive Association will have a stall there too – so come and meet us.

Read more about the gala in this flyer (PDF)

New Crofton Downs sign

Students from Crofton Downs Primary School thought the “Welcome to Crofton Downs” signs were rather tatty.  They came up with a new design and took their ideas to Wellington City Council.

Council liked what they saw and put the children’s ideas into action.  They have erected a row of flags along Churchill Drive and replaced the existing signs.

Planters in action, 2010

View upstream

A dog's view

Nearly finished

Ngaio Progressive Association had another working bee behind the Playcentre on Silverstream Road recently.

Armed with spades and grubbers, we planted out 100 shrubs from Wellington City Council in a couple of hours.

We planted shrubs that enjoy growing beside streams – such as flaxes, kowhai, wineberry.  Closer to the Huntleigh Park bushline we planted long term species such as  rimu, rewarewa, tawa.

We found a few bottles, car parts and an escaped kangaroo (which we lobbed back into the Playcentre.)

Earlier planting bees

This was our 5th planting bee.  Our first was in 2006.  It’s great to see that the akeake and olearia  are growing well.  Many shrubs we planted earlier struggled with rank grass and, in turn, over enthusiastic weed cutting.