Gracefield, New Zealand
Gracefield is an industrial suburb of Lower Hutt City, located at the bottom of the North Island of New Zealand.
Gracefield | |
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Suburb | |
| Country | New Zealand |
| Local authority | Lower Hutt City |
| Population (2006 [1]) | |
| • Total | 60 |
| Woburn | Waiwhetū | |
  Gracefield  |
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Up until the 1980s, Gracefield and neighbouring Petone were home to woollen mills, railway workshops, car assembly and meat processing plants. But when protective tariffs were lifted in the mid-1980s, many of these industries ceased.[2]
The headquarters and principal laboratories of Callaghan Innovation are in Gracefield, in premises developed largely from the Physics and Engineering Laboratory of DSIR.
Education
Gracefield School is a co-educational state primary school for Year 1 to 6 students,[3][4] with a roll of 209 as of March 2020.[5]
References
- Hutt City Council - 2006 Hutt City Demographic Profile Archived 2008-12-27 at the Wayback Machine Retrieved: 7 January 2009
- Te Ara: The Encyclopaedia of New Zealand - Hutt Valley - south Retrieved: 24 January 2009
- "Gracefield School Official School Website". gracefield.school.nz.
- "Gracefield School Education Review Office Report". ero.govt.nz. Education Review Office.
- "Gracefield School Ministry of Education School Profile". educationcounts.govt.nz. Ministry of Education.
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