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Remutaka Forest Park (spelled Rimutaka Forest Park prior to 2017) is a protected area near Wellington, New Zealand. Popular access points are south of Wainuiomata and in the upper Hutt Valley . The park covers 220 square kilometres (85 sq mi), [ 2 ] encompassing the Catchpool Valley and the Ōrongorongo Valley at the southern end of the ...
Khandallah was largely farmland to the 1920s; James Nairn built a farmhouse in 1869 on the old Ngatoto Native Reserve, now Nairnville Park. [39] The opening of the railway to Wellington in 1886 (now the Johnsonville Branch) enabled people to commute into Wellington, and the line was electrified with more frequent and faster trains in 1938. [40]
In 1978 a pedestrian bridge was built over Jervois Quay linking the park to the city. [3] Wellington City Council renamed the park Frank Kitts Park in May 1979, in memory of Sir Frank Kitts who had died two months earlier. Kitts was mayor of Wellington from 1956 to 1974 and a member of the Harbour Board at the time of his death, and the Council ...
Wellington's 70-acre K-Park property at Stribling Way and State Road 7 is leased to J. Alderman Farms Inc. for $40,000 a year. ... including the brands that own their individual department stores.
WELLINGTON — The village will raise its pickleball and padel games this year. Wellington will build six new public pickleball courts in Greenbriar Park, set be unveiled in August.
The building stands at 93 metres high and has twenty five stories above the ground, [1] making it the fourth tallest building in Wellington and the twenty fifth tallest building in New Zealand . [2] The floor size is estimated at 28,000 square metres (300,000 sq ft). The construction was valued at $45 million. [3]
The park increased in size from 4,300 ha (11,000 acres) to 17,000 ha (42,000 acres) under the Labor state government's 2001 "Protecting our old-growth forests" policy. [6] The land now occupied by the park was formerly owned by the Worsley Timber Company. It was gazetted as a class A reserve and set aside for the purpose of "national park" in 2000.
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