The Old Porirua Road in the 19th century was the main road north up the west coast from Wellington to Porirua in New Zealand. It ran from Kaiwarra (now...
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around Porirua Harbour. The road climbing the hill from Kaiwharawhara towards Ngaio, Khandallah, Johnsonville and Tawa still bears the name "Old Porirua Road"...
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as "The Halfway" from 1840 until 1928. Middleton Road was part of the 19th-century Old Porirua Road north from Wellington. Public transport is provided...
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during the "Māori Scare" of 1846, near the present Anglican Church; see Old Porirua Road. Khandallah, comprising the statistical areas of Khandallah Reserve...
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Drive becomes Main Road, and its southern entrance is the Tawa exit of the Johnsonville-Porirua Motorway (State Highway 1). The Porirua Stream flows northwards...
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day junction of Crofton Road and Kenya Street. A recent subdivision built off Old Porirua road honoured Daniell by naming the road leading to it 'Captain...
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two-lane road now called Middleton Road, through Glenside; part of the Old Porirua Road. This section was New Zealand's first motorway. The southern end of...
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State Highway 1 (New Zealand) (redirect from Far North Road)
motorway opened. The Johnsonville-Porirua Motorway was constructed in the 1940s and 1950s to replace the Old Porirua Road. The first section of motorway...
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of the 58th and "Superintendent, Military Roads" was responsible for construction of the Old Porirua Road north from Wellington, where a steep section...
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was originally the site of a Māori track from Wellington to Porirua (the Old Porirua Road), and had no indigenous inhabitants prior to European settlement...
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Whitby, New Zealand (redirect from Discovery School (Porirua))
Whitby, a large suburb of Porirua City, New Zealand, located along much of the southern shore of the Pauatahanui Inlet of Porirua Harbour was comprehensively...
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Tawa Flat deviation (section Takapu Road station)
January–February 1951 page 17 Carman, A. H. (1956). Tawa Flat and the Old Porirua Road. Wright and Carman. p. 235. Tawa Heritage, Wellington City Libraries...
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Ngauranga Gorge (category Infobox road temporary tracking category 1)
north found the road up the Ngaio Gorge, now the Old Porirua Road, too steep and dangerous. The road had been built privately for access to a farm with...
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The Mexteds of Pluckley, Kent and Tawa Flat, Wellington (2019) The Old Porirua Road (2021) McConnell, Lynn. "Spirit of Wellington cricket remembered at...
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decision of the New Zealand Geographic Board. The Old Porirua Road went up the Ngaio Gorge to Ngaio and Porirua. From 1890 Kaiwharawhara was part of the Borough...
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ISBN 978-1-877572-48-7. Carman, Arthur (1982) [1956]. Tawa Flat and the Old Porirua Road: 1840-1982 (3 ed.). Wellington: Wright and Carman. p. 59. Bremner,...
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included The Birth of a City: Wellington 1840-1843 and Tawa Flat and the Old Porirua Road, which went into three editions (1956, 1970, 1982). Carman became a...
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Transmission Gully Motorway (category Porirua)
terminates at Linden on the boundary of Porirua and Wellington City, where it merges on to the older Johnsonville–Porirua Motorway. The length is 27 kilometres...
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The only road, Takapu Road, which runs by the Takapu Stream, goes down past Grenada North to the intersection with the Johnsonville-Porirua Motorway,...
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effective from 20 January 2016 Carman, A. H. (1956). Tawa Flat and the Old Porirua Road. Wright and Carman. p. 235. Tawa Heritage, Wellington City Libraries...
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Tom Jordan. Carman, Arthur H (1956, 1970, 1982) Tawa Flat and the Old Porirua Road, ASIN B0007K64LC (page 98) "Municipal Elections". Wairarapa Daily Times...
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ISBN 0-908582-59-5. Carman, Arthur (1982) [1956]. Tawa Flat and the Old Porirua Road: 1840-1982 (3 ed.). Wellington: Wright and Carman. (also 1970 edition)...
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University Press. ISBN 978-1-927322-36-9. Murray, Bruce (2021). The Old Porirua Road. Wellington: Tawa Historical Society. ISBN 978-0-473-54017-3. Scholefield...
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wider Wellington metropolitan area, including the cities of Lower Hutt, Porirua and Upper Hutt, has a population of 440,700 as of June 2024. The city has...
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Plimmerton (category Suburbs of Porirua)
The suburb of Plimmerton lies in the northwest part of the city of Porirua in New Zealand, adjacent to some of the city's more congenial beaches. State...
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Pāuatahanui (category Suburbs of Porirua)
as the Pāuatahanui Inlet (since renamed to Te Awarua-o-Porirua Harbour), an arm of the Porirua Harbour, northeast of Wellington. In local government terms...
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Papakōwhai (category Suburbs of Porirua)
Papakōwhai is a suburb of Porirua City. It lies approximately 22 kilometres (14 mi) north of Wellington in New Zealand. The name "Papakōwhai" (Māori pronunciation:...
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List of people who died in traffic collisions (redirect from List of famous people who died in road accidents)
collisions. This list does not include those who were killed competing on closed-road events whether in motorsport or in competitive cycling events. Passengers...
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Controlled-access highway (redirect from Freeway-standard road)
five-kilometre (3.1 mi) motorway now forms the southern part of the Johnsonville-Porirua Motorway and part of State Highway 1. Auckland's first stretch of motorway...
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Pukerua Bay (category Suburbs of Porirua)
terms it is the northernmost suburb of Porirua City, in the Wellington Region. It is 12 km north of the Porirua City Centre on State Highway 59, and 30 km...
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