Moonshine Valley, New Zealand

Moonshine Valley is a thinly populated valley with a population of around 201 in the Wellington Region of New Zealand, centered on the Moonshine Hill Road which leaves State Highway 58 near Judgeford and goes over the Tararua Range to the Riverstone Terraces suburbs and then joins River Road, Upper Hutt. The majority of Moonshine Valley is part of Upper Hutt, although the western part of the valley is part of Porirua.

BRANZ, the Building Research Association of New Zealand headquarters is at the beginning of Moonshine Road near Judgeford.[1]

History

The valley was settled in the 1860s by settlers including Ephraim Greenwood who had a sawmill and farm.[2]

In World War II there was a camp for the US Marines with a recreation hall and a vehicle servicing depot in the Moonshine Valley.[3]

Notes
  1. "Building Research Association of New Zealand". BRANZ. 14 May 2015.
  2. Reilly 2013, pp. 56,93.
  3. Reilly 2013, p. 149.

References
  • Reilly, Helen (2013). Pauatahanui: A local history. Wellington: Pauatahanui Residents Association. ISBN 978-0-473-25439-1.


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