Pauatahanui
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Pedatahanui (; M?ori: [?pa?atahan?i]) is a town on New Zealand's northern island. Situated at the extreme east end of Pauatahanui Inlet, an branch of Porirua Harbour, northwest of Wellington. Pauatahanui is part of the northern district of Porirua City. When Te Rangihaeata was defeated in the Hutt Valley Campaign in 1846, the area became more secure than a trail from the Hutt Valley via Belmont and Judgeford and further on to the N, via Paekakariki to Manawatu and Wanganui.
3 ] The Wellington Strait arrived in Pauatahanui in September 1848, and a dependable northbound highway to Paekakariki was finished in November 1849. Now known as Paekakariki Hill Rd, it remained the principal northbound street until the Paremata highway in 1939.
The Hutt Valley driveway was also converted into a street in 1873, and the street that was to become State Highway 58 from Haywards was built in the 1870s. It was built in 1847 by the former whaling men Edward Boulton and Thomas Wilson. It was burnt down in 1859 and substituted by a Boultons fourteen-room-house.
Since 1865 other the Horokiwi Hotell, the Pauatahanui Hotell, the Empire Hotell and the Junction Hotell, mainly to service the Cobb and Co coachload. The area was "dry" in 1912 and all hotelbars were shut down. During World War II the US Marines had four bases in the Pauatahanui area, in Judgeford, on the Porirua side of Haywards Hill, in Motukaraka and in Moonshine Valley.
During the early 1970', the evolution of the Whitby section in the southern Pauatahanui Inlet region led to a significant sludge build-up and aroused concern in the area. In 1984 the Pauatahanui Wildlife Reserve was founded to maintain the only large estuary of the lower North Island. The school is one of the few in New Zealand that is over 150 years old.
Since February 2018 the Pauatahanui School has 209 pupils from grades 1 to 8 (5 to 12 years). 10 ] The closest grammar school is Aotea College in Aotea and Porirua College in Cannons Creek, both about 8.5 km away. The State Highway 58 runs to Judgeford in the south, only up the hill and across the Hutt to Lower Hutt in the Hutt Valley; to the south, along the south bank of Pauatahanui Inlet and through the Golden Gate to hit New Zealand's main highway, State Highway 1, at Paremata at the estuary of the Inlet.
The Paekakariki Hill Rd, which serves the fruitful Horokiri Valley, is the shorter, but generally not the quickest way to Paekakariki. Just beyond the city limits, Grays Rd. branches off, which leads to Plimmerton. Pauatahanui: Paulahanui Residents Association.