Lower Hutt

Lower Hutt is a metropolis in the Wellington Region of the North Island of New Zealand. Administered by means of the Hutt City Council, it's far one of the 4 cities that represent the Wellington metropolitan location. It is New Zealand's 7th maximum populous city, with a population of 105, 900. The general location administered via the Council is 377 km2 across the decrease third of the Hutt Valley and alongside the eastern seashores of Wellington Harbour, of which 135 km2 is city.

It is separated from the city of Wellington by the harbor and from Upper Hutt by the Taita Gorge. Before European agreement, thick wooded area blanketed most of the Hutt Valley, with areas of marshland near the river's mouth. Maori inhabited the coastline, with a pa at each end of Petone seashore. Maori welcomed the arrival of the New Zealand Company ship Tory in 1839, and William Wakefield negotiated with nearby chiefs to permit agreement. The first immigrant ship, the Aurora, arrived on 22 January 1840; an event nonetheless venerated every yr at the Monday closest as Wellington's Anniversary Day.