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This page provides links to the range of articles on the suburbs and neighbourhoods of the four metropolitan areas within the greater urban area of the capital of New Zealand, that is, the cities of Wellington, Lower Hutt, Upper Hutt, and Porirua.
From the 1880s, residents and businesses in the Hutt Valley and Petone area sank wells into the aquifer for fresh water, [9] and in 1908 Lower Hutt Borough introduced a public water supply fed from artesian bores. [10] [11] Wellington and Lower Hutt also built dams and used water taken from rivers. Over the years, bores and pumping stations ...
Maungaraki is a suburb of Lower Hutt. It is one of several Lower Hutt suburbs on the western hills of the Hutt Valley. It contains the largest suburban development on the Hutt Valley's western escarpment [2] that runs along the Wellington Fault. Maungaraki translated from Māori means "northern mountain". [3]
The region is administered by the Wellington Regional Council, which uses the promotional name Greater Wellington Regional Council. [6]The council region covers the conurbation around the capital city, Wellington, and the cities of Lower Hutt, Porirua, and Upper Hutt, each of which has a rural hinterland; it extends up the west coast of the North Island, taking in the coastal settlements of ...
Maymorn, a rural area of Upper Hutt city in the Wellington region of New Zealand, consists of Rural Hill and Rural Valley Floor zones. The New Zealand census treats Maymorn as part of Te Mārua for statistical purposes. The usual resident 2013 population of the Te Mārua area was 1,152.
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During the 1960s, the lower parts of Kelson were built on. Residential development did not commence on any large scale until about 1973–1974, when approval was given for its boundaries to be extended into the western hills. [3] [4] The population trebled between 1971 and 1976, making it the fastest-growing suburb in Lower Hutt during that ...
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]