Suburb:	Tawa
City:	Wellington
Island:	North Island
Surrounded by  - to the north  - to the east  - to the south  - to the west Wellington (Te Whanganui-a-Tara or Poneke) is the capital of New Zealand, the countrys second-largest urban area and the most populous national capital in Oceania. ...	Linden Greenacres Redwood - Redwood is a suburb of Tawa, Wellington, New Zealand. ...

Tawa's main shopping centre, photographed in December 2005.

Tawa is a locality between Wellington and Porirua in the North Island of New Zealand. It takes its name from a broadleaf tree which was once prolific throughout the area. Image File history File links Download high resolution version (1280x960, 217 KB) Summary Main street of Tawa, New Zealand. ... Image File history File links Download high resolution version (1280x960, 217 KB) Summary Main street of Tawa, New Zealand. ... Wellington (Te Whanganui-a-Tara or Poneke) is the capital of New Zealand, the countrys second-largest urban area and the most populous national capital in Oceania. ... Porirua is a city in New Zealand, 20 km north of Wellington. ... North Island The North Island is one of the two main islands of New Zealand, the other being the South Island. ... Binomial name Beilschmiedia tawa The Tawa tree (Beilschmiedia tawa) is a New Zealand broadleaf tree common in coastal areas in the central parts of the country. ...

Originally "Tawa Flat Borough", then just "Tawa Borough", in 1989 it became part of Wellington City, electing two city councillors, and soon supplied a Mayor, Kerry Prendergast. Wellington (Te Whanganui-a-Tara or Poneke) is the capital of New Zealand, the countrys second-largest urban area and the most populous national capital in Oceania. ... A mayor (from the Latin māior, meaning larger,greater) is in modern times the title of the highest ranking municipal officer, who discharges certain judicial and administrative functions, in many systems an elected politician, who serves as chief executive and/or ceremonial official of many types of municipalities. ... Kerry Prendergast has served as the Mayor of Wellington since 2001. ...

The image of the town in the New Zealand public psyche is partially shaped by the character "Lynn of Tawa", a stereotypical lower-middle-class woman invented by comedienne Ginette McDonald.

Arguably Tawa's most famous son was writer Elsdon Best, who spent many years living among Māori and became the foremost Maori ethnologist. Elsdon Best, 1931[1] Elsdon Best (1856-1931) was an ethnographer who made important contributions to the study of the Māori of New Zealand. ... For the Māori language, see Māori language. ... Ethnology (greek ethnos: (non-greek, barbarian) people) is a genre of anthropological study, involving the systematic comparison of the folklore, beliefs and practices of different societies. ...

Schools

Several schools exist in Tawa, an (uncompleted) list includes:

• St. Francis Xavier School
• Redwood School
• Tawa School
• Greenacres School
• Hampton Hill School

Hampton Hill School also hosts the annual Tawa Zone School Cross Country, where the top kids in their age group and gender compete for first place.

Roads & Streets

List of Roads & Streets in Tawa(This list also includes roads in neighboring Redwood)This list is probably inclompletable, and is likely to never be completed:

• Main Road
• Kiwi Crescent
• Larsen Crescent
• Roy Street
• Huia Street
• Sunrise Blvd
• Tui Terrace
• Chester Road
• Bede Grove
• Mascot Street
• Duncan Street
• Kereru Bend
• The Drive
• Frederick Street
• Nuffield Street
• St. Johns Terrace
• Redwood Avenue
• Lyndhurst Road
• Lincoln Avenue
• Balliol Drive
• Oriel Avenue
• Oriel Place
• Victory Cresent
• Oxford Street
• Surrey Street
• Essex Street
• Greyfriars Street
• St. Edmond Cresent
• Tawa Terrace
• Taylor Terrace

History

Tawa Flat was first settled by Pākehā in the mid-19th century, under direction of Edward Gibbon Wakefield of the New Zealand Company. Tawa was originally divided up into 100- and 1-acre blocks, much the same as any other early New Zealand settlement. Much of the Eastern side of the Tawa valley was owned by a single family, until the demand for housing land overtook the benefits of farming the land. In 1951, a Town District was established covering Tawa and Linden. Within two years this had become Tawa Flat Borough. Pākehā is a term generally used to describe New Zealanders of Anglo/European extraction, but to many Māori it also means non-Māori or foreigner. ... Edward Gibbon Wakefield Edward Gibbon Wakefield (20 March 1796 – May 16, 1862) was the driving force behind much of the early colonization of South Australia, and later New Zealand. ... The New Zealand Company formed in 1839 to promote the colonisation of New Zealand. ... 1951 (MCMLI) was a common year starting on Monday; see its calendar. ...

In the very early 1960s, the Wellington Motorway way built through Tawa, on the Eastern side of the valley. The line of the motorway effectively followed the railway that was already established through Tawa. At this time, Tawa was starting to become a fairly large suburb of Wellington City, with land being at a premium in the steep terrain of the region. In 1962, Tawa College was built on land that straddles the motorway, with the main school campus being West of the motorway, and playing fields East of it. The outrageously crowded Woodstock festival epitomized the popular antiwar movement of the 60s. ...

Since the mid-20th century, Tawa has been slowly but surely expanding, mainly spreading Eastward up onto the hills of the Belmont Range, which separates the Tawa Valley from the Hutt Valley. The Hutt Valley is the large area of fairly flat land in the Hutt River valley in the Wellington Region of New Zealand. ...

Sources

• Carman, Arthur H (1956). Tawa Flat and the Old Porirua Road.

External links

• http://www.tawalink.com
• Tawa Business Directory
• Tawa Historical Society