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Art-ache or Tooth-ache in Dunedin?
The installation of art works in public places has not always gone well in our City. The sculptured teeth at Portsmouth Drive and the ephemeral installation of the “peep show”in the Octagon have been...
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Planting the Seed at Craigieburn
Students from the Otago Polytechnic Horticulture course continued a 17 year relationship with the Dunedin Amenities Society with further tree planting at Craigieburn recently. The students planted...
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Seats for Weary Walkers
The Dunedin Amenities society have donated seats at the summit of Flagstaff as a welcome rest stop for weary walkers and runners. The Flagstaff reserve is a popular skyline recreation area for walkers...
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Down by the Waterfront
Dunedin City has largely been shaped by its natural environment, with its steep hills and gullies running outwards to the harbour and the wide flat estuarine wetlands of south Dunedin known as...
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Cleaning up Kaituna
There are parts of Dunedin that let our city down due to litter, vandalism, graffiti and general malaise. One area that has concerned the Society for some time is the abandoned Kaituna Tennis and...
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Wharf St Hotel Development Poll
There’s been a plethora of comment in the media over the proposed Wharf Street Hotel development. The Amenities Society would be interested in polling people’s opinion as to what they think about the...
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Dunes in the Hourglass
The drawn out debate over the use of John Wilson Drive has been centred around people’s rights to access, or more accurately their right to use that access by vehicle. The political debate...
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The District Plan Review
A Conservation Conundrum The Dunedin City Council is presently undertaking a review of the District Plan and that review will mean that the Dunedin Amenities Society will also be looking at the...
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The 125th New Year
The blurred tones of ”Auld Land Syne” seem a distant memory as we race through the second month of the 2013 year and settle back into the regular routines of our daily lives after the summer holiday...
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The Loss of Participation
The prospect that the public and community groups like the Dunedin Amenities society may lose the ability to be able to submit on major projects under proposed government changes to the Resource...
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Follow the Yellow Brick Road
One of the most famous lines from “The Wizard of Oz” is when Dorothy says to her little dog “Toto, I’ve a feeling we’re not in Kansas anymore.” That particular line has become a cultural metaphor used...
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Annual General Meeting
The Society will hold its 124th Annual General Meeting on Tuesday 16th of April at the Botanic Gardens Centre (next to the Opoho Bowling Club) in Lovelock Avenue at 5.30pm. The guest speaker for the...
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Southern Heritage Trust at Craigieburn
The Society were pleased to host members of the Southern Heritage Trust at Craigieburn on stunning autumn day on Saturday 13th April. The trust members took a 2 hour guided tour of the Craigieburn area...
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Ross Creek Dam Update
The Dunedin City Council will be clearing approximately 5000 square metres of native bush on the eastern and western portions of the current earth dam. The Society have raised a number of concerns over...
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Ross Creek Clearance Update
Members of the Dunedin Amenities Society met with Council staff and its engineering consultants this morning to review the recent bush clearance below the dam face. The clearance of any native bush...
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Les Cleveland
Members of the Dunedin Amenities society will be saddened to learn of the passing of Society life member Les Cleveland. Les was a man of outstanding achievements, businessman, philanthropist, regional...
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St Clair Esplanade – When History Repeats
The recent damage of the sea wall at St Clair Esplanade is a pertinent reminder of the power and ferocity of the ocean and the continuation of an issue that has been prominent in Dunedin since the...
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The Early Bird Gets the Worm
ouroboros (Photo credit: vaXzine) The continued debate over the process of selection of art in public places continues with the recent furore over the selection of Julia Morison’s giant worm sculpture,...
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Climbing to the Top at Craigieburn
Students and tutors from the Otago Polytechnic Arboriculture course spent three days at Craigieburn undertaking some essential work on the reserve’s trees. The students removed deadwood and damaged...
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Putting the Spade in the Ground – Craigieburn
Otago Polytechnic Horticulture students spent a day planting native trees and shrubs at Craigieburn recently. The planting was the 19th year of the planting project by the Polytechnic Horticulture...
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