Without setting foot in New Zealand, Sir William Hutt (1801-1882) gave his name to the Hutt River and consequently to the Hutt Valley, Lower and
Petone’s Palace Theatre
The Palace Theatre was the first cinema to open in Petone. Located at 2 Kensington Avenue, the theatre opened in 1910 and closed in 1957. The building
Hutt Settlers – William & Ann Read Welch
Ann and William Welch and their three boys and four girls arrived on the Oriental, the second settler ship to Port Nicholson, in January 1840. They had
Petone World War I Memorial
While we now expect to see memorials in every town, before World War I they were much less widespread. There had been memorials constructed before
The Hutt & Petone Chronicle
The Hutt and Petone Chronicle began in 1887 and only ceased publication in the 1960s.
Wahine Disaster
On April 10, 1968 the Wahine passenger ship foundered on Barrett Reef near the Wellington heads in New Zealand’s worst maritime disaster since 1909. Winds of