Wingate, New Zealand

Wingate
Wingate
Suburb
	Coordinates: 41°11′17″S 174°57′11″E / 41.188°S 174.953°E
Country	New Zealand
City	Lower Hutt
Local authority	Hutt City Council
Electoral ward	Central, Northern
Population (2006)
• Total	3,036
Train stations	Wingate Railway Station

	Taitā	Taitā
Avalon	Wingate	Stokes Valley
Avalon	Naenae

Wingate is a mixed residential and industrial neighbourhood of Lower Hutt, in the Wellington Region of New Zealand's North Island. Served by Wingate Railway Station, the area comprises parts of the suburbs of Taitā, Avalon and Naenae. The area is home to many of Lower Hutt's manufacturing and export-oriented businesses.^[2]

The area was named after the British general, Orde Wingate,^[3] who was killed in an air crash in Burma in 1944.^[4] Wingate Railway Station was opened in 1950.^[5]

Demographics

Wingate is included in the Taitā statistical areas.

References

^ "2006 Hutt City demographic profile". Archived from the original on 2 June 2010. Retrieved 7 January 2009.
^ "Wingate". Hutt City Council. Retrieved 11 December 2021.
^ "Place name detail: Wingate". New Zealand Gazetteer. New Zealand Geographic Board. Retrieved 11 December 2021.
^ "Memorial to war leader". The Press. Vol. 87, no. 26370. 14 March 1951. p. 7. Retrieved 11 December 2021.
^ "Wingate station". National Library of New Zealand. Retrieved 11 December 2021.