Upper Hutt is a city in the Wellington Region of New Zealand and one of the four cities that constitute the Wellington metropolitan area.
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17 Facts About Upper Hutt
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Upper Hutt has a temperate climate however due to its sheltered valley location, it generally tends to be warmer than inner city Wellington in summer and much colder in the winter.
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New Zealand local authorities with a large land area are usually termed districts, but Upper Hutt maintains its status as a city largely because of its high degree of urbanisation.
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Upper Hutt was originally administered by the Hutt County Council, which was constituted in 1877.
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Upper Hutt became a Borough on 26 February 1926 and a City on 2 May 1966.
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Today, Upper Hutt City falls entirely within the boundaries of the Remutaka electorate, current held by Labour's Chris Hipkins.
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Upper Hutt was represented by the Heretaunga electorate prior to the introduction of MMP in 1996, when the seat was merged with Eastern Hutt to form Remutaka.
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Upper Hutt is in an area originally known as Orongomai and that of the river was Heretaunga.
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The Upper Hutt Valley is named after one of the founders of this company.
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Dealings from the New Zealand Company and following that, the Crown, with local Maori regarding the land in Upper Hutt were flawed including not transacting with all the iwi that had claims on the land.
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Many years Upper Hutt was a rural service town supporting the surrounding rural farming and forestry community.
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Serious urbanisation of the upper Hutt Valley only started around the 1920s but from the late 1940s onwards Upper Hutt's population exploded as people moved from the crowded hustle and bustle of inner city Wellington into a more secluded yet sprawling Hutt Valley.
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In July 1955, the electrification of the railway line from Wellington to Upper Hutt was completed, allowing fast electric multiple unit trains to replace steam- and diesel-electric-hauled carriage trains.
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Upper Hutt continued to grow in population and became a city within the Wellington metropolitan area on 2 May 1966 after the Government Statistician certified that the population had reached 20 000, allowing the Town Clerk to make application for city status.
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Upper Hutt is in the bed of an ancient river flood plain and as such was prone to flooding.
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State Highway 2 is the principal thoroughfare through Upper Hutt, connecting with Lower Hutt and Wellington's motorway system to the south, and the Wairarapa region via the Remutaka Hill Road to the north.
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Upper Hutt is home to the biggest junior football club in New Zealand.
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