Petone
Sign in to savethumb|Petone Wharf on a stormy day Petone (Māori: Pito-one) is a large suburb of Lower Hutt, Wellington, New Zealand. It stands at the southern end of the Hutt Valley, on the northern shore of Wellington Harbour. Europeans first settled in Petone in January 1840, making it the oldest European settlement in the Wellington Region. It became a borough in 1888, and merged with Lower Hutt (branded as "Hutt City") in 1989.
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- Petone
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- Aerial view of Petone and Seaview
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- Lower Hutt
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- Hutt City Council
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- Harbour
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- 1840
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- 390
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- 5012
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- Petone Railway StationAva Railway Station
via Wikipedia infobox
Article
22 sectionsContents
- Etymology
- Geography
- History
- Defunct industries
- State housing
- Demographics
- Points of interest
- Jackson Street
- St David's Church
- St Augustine's Church
- Te Puna Wai Ora
- Petone Settlers Museum
- Iona Cross
- Hōniana Te Puni-kōkopu memorial
- Hōniana Te Puni Reserve
- Hikoikoi Reserve
- Petone Wharf
- Petone Rotary Fair
- Education
- See also
- References
- External links
thumb|Petone Wharf on a stormy day Petone (Māori: Pito-one) is a large suburb of Lower Hutt, Wellington, New Zealand. It stands at the southern end of the Hutt Valley, on the northern shore of Wellington Harbour. Europeans first settled in Petone in January 1840, making it the oldest European settlement in the Wellington Region. It became a borough in 1888, and merged with Lower Hutt (branded as "Hutt City") in 1989.
==Etymology== The Māori name has long been taken to mean the end (pito) of the sand (one), referring to the long sandy beach at Petone with pā at each end of the beach. However in 2024 The New Zealand Geographic Board suggested that Pito-one means "an umbilical cord (pito) buried in the sand (one)", as a symbolic tethering of a newborn to the whenua (land) in Māori culture.