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Lower Hutt has celebrated a number of firsts in its history, and is notable for a number of reasons: Petone was the site of the first formal settlement of the New Zealand Company in 1840. We celebrate Wellington Anniversary Day on 22 January every year – the date of the arrival of the first immigrant ship, the Aurora.
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Lower Hutt is a city in the Wellington Region of New Zealand. Administered by the Hutt City Council, it is one of the four cities that constitute the ...
The southern basin of the Hutt Valley, north of Wellington city. During the 20th century, Petone, Alicetown and the state-housing suburbs grew largely as ...
Lower Hutt is the major business centre for the highly urbanized Hutt River valley and is within the Wellington urban area. Its heavy-industrial facilities ...
A timeline of Lower Hutt's history. From settlement in 1840 until present day, a chronology of some of the most significant events in Lower Hutt's history.
Apr 23, 2009 · It was constituted a borough in 1891 and became a city in 1941. During the second 50 years of growth the emphasis slowly changed from ...
Attention turned back to the lower Hutt Valley as the best location for an agricultural settlement. Naming and claiming. Hutt Valley and the Hutt River were ...
The growth of the city was encouraged by the railway line and the Railway Workshops in. Petone (no record, although Lower Hutt Station still stands in Station ...
Lower Hutt has a rich heritage. In the early C19th a number of iwi, particularly from Taranaki, moved into the area and in 1840 it became the site of the first ...