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They have missed out on making this year’s glory rounds, but Petone remain Wellington’s most successful Jubilee Cup club with 24 title wins. Their first was in the Jubilee Cup’s second year in 1930 and their most recent was in 2005, but prior to that last one 20 years ago they won it regularly in...

While much of the global auction market continues to be in a correction period, overall auction sales at Christie’s, Sotheby’s and Phillips for the first half of 2025 have fallen only 6.2 percent and the number of lots sold rose 1.3 percent compared to the same time last year. “Nothing has felt very good this year, but the data actually showed the decline was 6.2 percent compared to the level of uncertainty, especially due to things like the tariffs ,” Lindsay Dewar, ArtTactic’s chief operating officer and head of analytics, told ARTnews. The art market research and analysis company ArtTactic released five reports earlier this week with detailed analysis of global auction data , including online-only sales, geographic trends, category breakdowns, luxury goods, and the impact of guarantees. While global auction sales fell 6.2 percent overall, sales of post-war and contemporary art dropped 19.3 percent to $1.22 billion, impressionist and modern art fell 7.7 percent to $989.5 million...

Trevor Riley was one of a group of leading first-fives competing in a healthy rivalry with each other and helping to showcase the high standard and popularity of Wellington club rugby in the first half of the 1950s decade. Riley was Hutt’s first-five and later captain, until his move to Poverty Bay and then Auckland...

The cloud-based file transfer company WeTransfer has removed terms in its updated terms of service in regard to intellectual property rights and machine learning models after criticism online. On July 14, users expressed concern and alarm about changes to Section 6.3 of WeTransfer’s Terms of Service, which specifically referred to granting the company “a perpetual, worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free, transferable, sub-licenseable license” and allowing it to use uploaded content “for the purposes of operating, developing, commercializing, and improving the Service or new technologies or services, including to improve performance of machine learning models that enhance our content moderation policies,” as well as “the right to reproduce, distribute, modify, prepare derivative works based upon, broadcast, communicate to the public, publicly display, and perform Content.” Bye forever, WeTransfer. — Rami Ismail (رامي) (@ramiismail.com) 2025-07-14T23:57:25.275Z In simpler lang...

His Majesty’s Canadian Ship (HMCS) St. John’s departed Halifax on July 13 to begin its Operation REASSURANCE, where it will join Standing NATO Maritime Group Two (SNMG2) as part of Canada’s continuing contribution to NATO’s collective defence in European waters, until December 2025. SNMG2 is a core part of the maritime component of the NATO Response Allied Reaction Force and provides a continuous maritime capability to execute NATO missions, demonstrating solidarity and strengthening interoperability between Allied naval forces. Operation REASSURANCE is Canada’s largest overseas military operation, supporting NATO’s deterrence and defence measures in Central and Eastern Europe since 2014. “The deployment of His Majesty’s Canadian Ship St. John’s is a demonstration of Canada’s unwavering commitment to maintaining peace in Europe,” Rear-Admiral Josée Kurtz, Commander of Maritime Forces Atlantic and Joint Task Force Atlantic stated in a press release. “Since the ince...

Paremata-Plimmerton made it third time lucky, by beating Petone on the buzzer in this fixture at home at a very muddy Ngati Toa Domain. After missing out to Tawa at the end two weeks in a row, Paremata-Plimmerton scored an 86th minute try to topple Petone and send themselves to the Jubilee Cup semi-finals, where...

Mudtastic! Paremata-Plimmerton fullback Sione Baker and teammates celebrate their late win over Petone on Saturday. Photo: Stewart Baird. Two weeks remaining in Wellington Premier club rugby and it’s anyone’s guess who is going to win both the Jubilee Cup and Hardham Cup title this year. This coming weekend’s semi-finals are: Jubilee Cup: Hutt Old Boys...