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October 2012

Breaking Boundries – The Newmarket Young Fashion Designer Award 2012

NYFD 2012 stage shot

The Gala Evening for Newmarket Young Fashion Designer 2012 was on 12 October 2012 at Auckland Grammar's Centennial Theatre. Winners were announced as: overall winner – Yeonjae Choi (pictured bottom right); 1st runner up – Holly Dodson; 2nd runner up – Antonina Fourman.

nyfd award night 2012 Yeonjae Choi - winner NYFD 2012

September 2012

30 Days of Fashion and Beauty Wrap Party

30 days of fashion and beauty prize winner

It was a BEAUTIFUL day for the Wrap party and what a way to finish the 30 days of Fashion and Beauty. The sun poured down and as the DJ’s played their tunes, everyone stopped to relax and soak up the sunshine as they watched the girls battle it out in the stiletto standoff.
We couldn’t have asked for a better host – Colin Mathura-Jeffree oozed charisma and welcomed the crowd in the festivities. The dance crew kept us entertained in between spot giveaways and the anticipation grew as the car draw loomed closer.

Five lucky attendees were drawn from the thousands of entries, but there could only be one winner on the day. A chap named Simon Collins– our only male in the selected five – gentlemanly let the ladies scramble for the keys (hoping that the one they had selected was the winning car key) and as he picked up the last remaining key we all wondered who would win.
It turns out that the winner of the car was Simon, interestingly, he and his brother-in-law Grant Caradus (who lives in Wellington) were buying new clothes at Eurostyle. Simon said he forgot his wallet so Grant paid for the clothes.

The deal was that Simon needed to be at the draw to win the car, but Grant is the one who will get to drive it!! They have come to some sort of arrangement over it all, but that is the nuts and bolts of it. Simon is wrapt any way - so happy endings all around!

Uni brews plan for Lion share of Newmarket

Auckland University describes its intention to purchase the 5.2ha former Lion Breweries site in Newmarket as its most significant property acquisition in a generation.
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Auckland University eyes Lion brewery in Newmarket

Auckland University is considering buying Newmarket's empty Lion site to expand its campus. The brewery site is one of several options for the university as it spends more than $1 billion upgrading facilities.
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Newmarket has a spring in its step

Auckland's second largest retail centre is shrugging off the worst effects of the global economic downturn.
At this week's AGM, Newmarket Business Association Chief Executive Ashley Church said recent research has indicated a consistent improvement over the past couple of years in Newmarket's fortunes as a major shopping destination.
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August 2012

Brainstorming a better Newmarket

Imagine being able to drive straight off the motorway into the heart of Newmarket without dawdling on congested one-way streets. Or taking a bike ride down Gillies Ave, through the Lion Nathan site to the tranquility of Auckland Domain.  These ideas from the Waitemata Local Board are among the "blue sky thinking " for Khyber Pass and Broadway.
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