New Zealand - Upper Hutt
- Fraser Crescent School
- Room 2
- 2001
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Fraser Crescent School
- Opened in 1956 with 228 pupils
Upper Hutt
- An area originally known as Orongomai
- The first residents of the area were Māori of the Ngai Tara iwi.
- Various other iwi controlled the area in the years before 1840.
- Richard Barton, who settled at Trentham in 1841 in the area now known as Trentham Memorial Park, was the first European resident.
- Barton subdivided his land and set aside a large area that was turned into parkland.
- James Brown settled in the area that became the Upper Hutt town in 1848.
(Reference: Wikipedia)