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5 unusual facts about Lower Hutt


Murray Burdan

Murray William Burdan (born 2 May 1975 in Lower Hutt) is a former freestyle and butterfly swimmer from New Zealand, who competed at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, United States, for his native country.

Patrick Jameson

Jameson was born on 10 November 1912 in Wellington, New Zealand and was educated in Lower Hutt before taking up employment as an assurance clerk with Colonial Mutual Life.

Penny Jamieson

In 1985 she was ordained to priesthood and became assistant curate of St James’ Lower Hutt.

Stefania LaVie Owen

Owen lives between New York and Porirua City, the latter of where she attends Chilton Saint James School, an all-girls private school, in nearby Lower Hutt.

Veandercross

Veandercross was a brown, rangy gelding bred by Dr Bill Luey at Lower Hutt not far from the Trentham Racecourse.


Dave Hiscock

Dave and elder brother Neville Hiscock grew up in Stokes Valley, a suburb of Lower Hutt in Greater Wellington, where the pair rode an old BSA Bantam in grass paddocks and later perfected their skills on the Rimutaka Hill climb north of Upper Hutt.

Wingate, New Zealand

Wingate is an unofficial north-eastern suburb of Lower Hutt City situated at the bottom of the North Island of New Zealand, based around Wingate Railway Station.


see also

Ford Telstar

In New Zealand, the Telstar, like the Laser, was assembled locally from 1983 (replacing the highly successful Cortina range) at Ford's original Seaview plant near Lower Hutt and later at the Ford/Mazda joint venture plant in Wiri, Auckland, called Vehicle Assemblers of New Zealand (VANZ).

Gracefield

Gracefield Branch, a section of railway line in Lower Hutt, New Zealand

Shon Siemonek

After leaving high-school Siemonek continued his rugby union career at Hutt Old Boys Marist Rugby Football Club in Lower Hutt where he played with the All Black Piri Weepu, and Hurricane Jeremy Thrush.

Wainuiomata High School

Its effective service area is the entire Wainuiomata Valley, although it is easily accessible from most parts of Lower Hutt via the 160 "Wainuiomata North" public bus route, which stops outside the school and connects to Waterloo Interchange railway station and the Queensgate bus interchange in central Lower Hutt.