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Heads Road is Whanganui's main industrial area and is home to a number of manufacturing and engineering operations. The Wanganui Port, once the centre of industrial transport, still has some traffic but is more noted for the Q-West boat building operation there. F. Whitlock & Sons Ltd was a notable company, first established in 1902. [54]
Map of Whanganui District. Local government in Whanganui began with the creation of the Wanganui Town Board, within Wellington Province, in 1862.Following the abolishment of the Wellington Province, Wanganui County was founded in 1876.
Palmerston North (/ ˈ p ɑː m ər s t ən /; Māori: Te Papa-i-Oea, colloquially known as Palmerston or Palmy) [5] is a city in the North Island of New Zealand and the seat of the Manawatū-Whanganui region.
An 1871 account of a coach journey from New Plymouth to Wellington described the very poor road round the coast via Ōpunake to Whanganui and the much better and well used road south from there. A government subsidy of £3,000 (2016 equivalent $400,000) [ 6 ] a year was being paid for the coach north of Whanganui.
The Marton–New Plymouth Line provides a railway link with Taranaki, and from this line the short Wanganui Branch runs to Whanganui. Road and rail transport give the region's exporters easy access to ports. The region has approximately 16% of the North Island's road length. There are 8,732 km (5,426 mi) of road, of which two-thirds are sealed.
Roslyn is a suburb in the city of Palmerston North, Manawatū-Whanganui, New Zealand.. It is located 3 kilometres (1.9 mi) north-east of the central city and bounded on the north by the North Island Main Trunk Railway (), on the east by Palmerston North-Gisborne Railway (Kelvin Grove), the south by Main Street East (Terrace End) and the west by Ruahine Street (Palmerston North Hospital Area).
Whanganui District covers 2,373.27 km 2 (916.32 sq mi) [1] and had an estimated population of 48,600 as of June 2024, [2] with a population density of 20 people per km 2.All but some 6,100 people in the Whanganui District live in the city itself, meaning there are few prominent outlying settlements.
Whanganui Tramways Museum. Whanganui Central had a population of 4,203 at the 2018 New Zealand census, an increase of 417 people (11.0%) since the 2013 census, and an increase of 72 people (1.7%) since the 2006 census.