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Trade Me is New Zealand's largest online auction and classifieds website. Managed by Trade Me Ltd., the site was founded in 1999 by New Zealand entrepreneur Sam Morgan, who sold it to Fairfax in 2006 for NZ$700 million. [1] Trade Me was publicly listed as a separate entity on 13 December 2011 under the ticker "TME".
Trade Me kept him very busy and at one point he was living 200 metres from the main office on Wellington Waterfront. On March 6, 2006, John Fairfax Holdings agreed to buy Trade Me for NZ$700 million, plus another NZ$50 million if financial targets were met over the next two years. Sam Morgan received $227 million (excluding future bonuses ...
Lower Hutt City had a population of 107,562 in the 2023 New Zealand census, an increase of 3,030 people (2.9%) since the 2018 census, and an increase of 9,324 people (9.5%) since the 2013 census. There were 53,082 males, 54,009 females and 468 people of other genders in 39,279 dwellings. [29] 3.8% of people identified as LGBTIQ+. The median age ...
Wallace stood for the National Party in the seat of Pencarrow (which covered much of Lower Hutt) at the 1990 general election. He lost to Labour's Sonja Davies . Wallace was first elected to Hutt City Council in the Wainuiomata ward in a 1995 by-election , he served as deputy mayor from 2001 to 2004. [ 2 ]
The camp was built by the government, and in the 1950s housed 200 mostly immigrant men who were working on the electrification of the Hutt railway line. [20] In the 1970s, the camp housed groups of up to 100 Tongans brought to Lower Hutt on six-month work schemes by the Hutt Valley Chamber of Commerce, to alleviate a shortage of local workers. [21]
The Hutt City Council is a territorial authority in New Zealand, governing the city of Lower Hutt. Lower Hutt is the country's seventh largest city . The city borders Porirua to the north, Upper Hutt to the northeast, South Wairarapa District to the east, and Wellington to the southwest and west.
1912 Lower Hutt City Borough by-election [1] Party Candidate Votes % ±% Independent: Thomas Charles Dawson : 483 : 72.96 : Independent: George Mumford 174 26.28 Informal votes 5 0.75 Majority 309 46.67 Turnout: 662 20.73
The sitting mayor of Lower Hutt City was elected as mayor of the expanded Hutt City Council in 1989, however retaining the title mayor of Lower Hutt despite the "Lower" being dropped from the name of the council. [7] The longest-serving mayor was Percy Dowse who held office for twenty years, from 1950 to 1970. [8]