What is "waiwhetu"

Waiwhetū is a suburb of Lower Hutt, Wellington situated at the bottom of the North Island of New Zealand.

In the settler period it was worked by Irish-born Alfred Ludlam, who was a member of three of New Zealand's four earliest parliaments.

Waiwhetū is largely built on land set aside as a native reserve for the Te Āti Awa tribe in the 1840s. In the 1930s the land was compulsorily acquired by the government, with new homes being built for the Te Āti Awa.