Paparangi

Paparangi is one of the northern suburbs of Wellington, New Zealand. It lies approximately 10 km north of the city centre, north-east of Johnsonville, north-west of Newlands and south of Grenada and Woodridge. The population was 2,841 at the time of the 2013 census, an increase of 96 from the 2006 census population.^[1]

The area, originally farms and part of Newlands became a dormitory suburb of Wellington with major subdivisions in the early 1960s. Some of the street names (like Mark Avenue) are the first names of children living in the area then.^[2]

The suburb has a local shopping centre and a primary school, Paparangi School. ^{[3] [4] [5]}

History

The area was settled by a farmer Thomas Drake from Devonshire who was a descendant of John Drake, brother to Sir Francis Drake. He obtained a Crown Grant of 332 acres of land in 1861. His widow Ceres Selina Drake sold the land to the Crown on 3 August 1897, and it was broken into small farms of the Paparangi Estate, as one of the Small Farms Settlements of Richard Seddon’s Liberal Government. Working men got a 2 hectare (5 acre) lease-in-perpetuity section on which they could grow fruit and vegetables and keep pigs, bees and fowls. In the 1920s Sid Styles had a dairy farm, Ocean View Farm in Paparangi supplying milk and cream.^[6][7]

References

Coordinates: 39°42′S 174°58′E / 39.700°S 174.967°E / -39.700; 174.967