Alicetown

Alicetown is a central suburb of Lower Hutt located at the bottom of the North Island of New Zealand.

Alicetown
Suburb
CountryNew Zealand
Local authorityLower Hutt City
Established1900s
Population
 (2013[1])
 • Total1,971
Train station(s)Western Hutt Station, Melling Line. Ava station, Hutt Valley Line.
Maungaraki Normandale Melling
Alicetown
 Lower Hutt CBD
Petone Ava Woburn

The suburb is situated north of the major suburb of Petone and west of the Lower Hutt CBD. Its boundaries are the Ewen Bridge that crosses the Hutt River, New Zealand to the east, the Western Hutt Rd/Melling Railway track to the west, Wakefield St/Hutt Railway track to the south and Railway Ave to the north.

History and culture

Aglionby, on what is now Tama Street, became the first European settlement in the Hutt Valley in 1840. The Aglionby Arms, the valley's first hotel, was built in Alicetown in 1840 and relocated in 1847.[2] Alicetown began as a farming settlement and was settled from the early 1900s by Petone factory workers.[3]

Alicetown was named for Alice Maud Fitzherbert, the daughter of mayor William Fitzherbert who married Professor George William von Zedlitz in 1905.[4]

Te Tatau o Te Pō Marae was established in Alicetown in 1933. It is a marae (tribal meeting ground) of Taranaki Whānui ki te Upoko o te Ika and Te Āti Awa and includes Te Tatau o Te Pō wharenui (meeting house).[5][6]

Education

Alicetown has two schools:

  • Hutt Central School is a state contributing primary (Year 1–6) school in northern Alicetown, and has 284 students as of March 2020.[7]
  • Te Kura Kaupapa Māori o Te Ara Whanui is a state Māori-immersion full primary (Year 1–8) school in Victoria Street, southern Alicetown, and has 281 students as of March 2020.[7]

The nearest state intermediate (Year 7–8) school is Hutt Intermediate School, and the nearest state secondary (Year 9–13) school is Hutt Valley High School, both across the Hutt River in neighbouring Woburn.

References
  1. "Alicetown". stats.govt.nz. Statistics New Zealand. Archived from the original on 2015-02-25. Retrieved 2015-02-25.
  2. Hutt City Libraries - How the Hutt got its name. Retrieved: 7 December 2017
  3. Te Ara: The Encyclopaedia of New Zealand - Hutt Valley - south Retrieved: 13 January 2009
  4. Kaye, George (1987). Bygone Days in Lower Hutt. Lower Hutt: Lower Hutt City Council. pp. 116, 117. ISBN 0-473-00523-9.
  5. "Te Kāhui Māngai directory". tkm.govt.nz. Te Puni Kōkiri.
  6. "Māori Maps". maorimaps.com. Te Potiki National Trust.
  7. "New Zealand Schools Directory". New Zealand Ministry of Education. Retrieved 26 April 2020.

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