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Hamilton, New Zealand

March 31, 2023

Hamilton (Māori: Kirikiriroa) is an inland city in the North Island of New Zealand. Located on the banks of the Waikato River, it is the seat and most populous city of the Waikato region. With a territorial population of 179,900,[4] it is the country's fourth most-populous city. Encompassing a land area of about 110 km2 (42 sq mi),[5] Hamilton is part of the wider Hamilton Urban Area, which also encompasses the nearby towns of Ngāruawāhia, Te Awamutu and Cambridge. In 2020, Hamilton was awarded the title of most beautiful large city in New Zealand.[6]

Hamilton
Kirikiriroa (Māori)
City
Hamilton from Till's Lookout, from Whitiora to Fairfield Bridge, traffic on SH1, Māori Garden, Hamilton Station, city offices and WINTEC
Coat of arms
Nicknames: 
Hamiltron, the Tron,[1] H-Town.[1] Previously: the Fountain City.[2]
Location of the Hamilton Territorial Authority
Hamilton
Location of Hamilton, New Zealand
Coordinates: 37°47′S 175°17′E / 37.783°S 175.283°E / -37.783; 175.283Coordinates: 37°47′S 175°17′E / 37.783°S 175.283°E / -37.783; 175.283
CountryNew Zealand
IslandNorth Island
RegionWaikato
Government
 • MayorPaula Southgate
 • Deputy MayorAngela O'Leary
 • Territorial authorityHamilton City Council
Area
[3]
 • Territorial110.8 km2 (42.8 sq mi)
 • Urban
110.37 km2 (42.61 sq mi)
Elevation
40 m (131 ft)
Population
 (June 2022)[4]
 • Territorial179,900
 • Density1,600/km2 (4,200/sq mi)
 • Urban
179,900
 • Urban density1,600/km2 (4,200/sq mi)
 • Demonym
Hamiltonian
Time zoneUTC+12 (NZST)
 • Summer (DST)UTC+13 (NZDT)
Postcode(s)
3200, 3204, 3206, 3210, 3214, 3216
Area code07
Local iwiTainui
Websitewww.hamilton.govt.nz
www.waikatoregion.govt.nz

The area now covered by the city was originally the site of several Māori villages, including Kirikiriroa, from which the city takes its Māori name. By the time English settlers arrived, most of these villages, which sat beside the Waikato River, were abandoned as a result of the Invasion of Waikato and land confiscation (Raupatu) by the Crown.

Initially an agricultural service centre, Hamilton now has a diverse economy and is the third fastest growing urban area in New Zealand, behind Pukekohe and Auckland.[7] Hamilton Gardens is the region's most popular tourist attraction. Education and research and development play an important part in Hamilton's economy, as the city is home to approximately 40,000 tertiary students and 1,000 PhD-qualified scientists.[8]

Name

The settlement was named by Colonel William Moule after Captain John Fane Charles Hamilton,[9] the commander of HMS Esk, who was killed in the battle of Gate Pā, Tauranga.[10] On 10 March 2013 a statue of Captain Hamilton was given to the city by the Gallagher Group;[11] a gesture that has since been viewed as controversial by some.[12] On 12 June 2020, the Hamilton City Council removed the statue at the request of local Māori iwi Waikato Tainui.[13] The statue's removal has been linked to calls for the removal of statues of figures associated with colonialism and racism in New Zealand and the world, which were precipitated by the protests related to the murder of George Floyd. A local Māori elder Taitimu Maipi, who had vandalised the statue in 2018, has also called for the city to be renamed Kirikiriroa, its original Māori name.[14]

History

The area now covered by the city was originally the site of several Māori villages (kāinga), including Te Parapara,[15] Pukete, Miropiko and Kirikiriroa ("long stretch of gravel'), from which the city takes its Māori name. Local Māori were the target of raids by Ngāpuhi during the Musket Wars,[16] and several pā sites from this period can still be found beside the Waikato River. In December 2011 several rua or food storage pits were found near the Waikato River bank, close to the Waikato museum.

In 1822, Kirikiriroa Pa was briefly abandoned to escape the Musket Wars. However, by the 1830s Ngati Wairere’s principal pa was Kirikiriroa,[17] where the missionaries, who arrived at that time,[18] estimated 200 people lived permanently.[17] A chapel and house were built at Kirikiriroa for visiting clergy,[19] presumably after Benjamin Ashwell established his mission near Taupiri.

Between 1845 and 1855 crops such as wheat, fruit and potatoes were exported to Auckland, with up to 50 canoes serving Kirikiriroa. Imports included blankets, clothing, axes, sugar, rum, and tobacco.[19] Millstones were acquired and a water wheel constructed, though possibly the flour mill wasn't completed.[17] However, one article said Kirikiriroa flour was well known.[20]

Magistrate Gorst, estimated that Kirikiriroa had a population of about 78 before the Invasion of Waikato via the Waikato Wars of 1863–64. The government estimated the Waikato area had a Māori population of 3,400 at the same time. After the war in the Waikato, large areas of land (1.2 Million Acres), including the area of the present city of Hamilton were attained by the Crown under the New Zealand Settlements Act 1863.[21] On 10 August 1864 the government advertised for tenders to build 10 huts and a hospital at Kirikiriroa.[22] Hamilton was settled by the 4th regiment of the Waikato Militia.[23] The 1st Regiment was at Tauranga, the 2nd at Pirongia, the 3rd at Cambridge and the 4th at Kirikiriroa.[18][24] The settlement was founded on 24 August 1864.[25] Many of the soldier/settlers who intended to farm after the 1863 war, walked off their land in 1868 due to its poor quality. Much of the land was swampy or under water. In 1868 Hamilton's population, which was about 1,000 in 1864, dropped to 300 as farmers left.[26] On 22 December 1875 the first brickworks opened in Hamilton.[27]

 
Victoria Bridge in 1910

The road from Auckland reached Hamilton in 1867 and the railway in December 1877. That same month, the towns of Hamilton West and Hamilton East merged under a single borough council.[28] The first traffic bridge between Hamilton West and Hamilton East, known as the Union Bridge, opened in 1879. It was replaced by the Victoria Bridge in 1910.

The first railway bridge, the Claudelands Bridge, was opened in 1884. It was converted to a road traffic bridge in 1965.[29] Hamilton reached 1,000 people in 1900, and the town of Frankton merged with the Hamilton Borough in 1917.[24] Between 1912 and 1936, Hamilton expanded with new land in Claudelands (1912), Maeroa (1925), and Richmond – modern day Waikato Hospital and northern Melville (1936).[30] Hamilton was proclaimed a city in 1945.[18]

In the latter 19th century, the areas of Te Rapa and Pukete were important sites for the kauri gum trade of the late 19th/early 20th centuries, being some of the southern-most locations where gum could be found.[31]

 
Hood Street in 1962

The city is near the southernmost navigable reach (by the settlers' steam boats) of the Waikato River, amidst New Zealand's richest and now fertile agricultural land that was once largely Raupo and Kahikatea swamp.[32] Beale Cottage is an 1872 listed building in Hamilton East.

From 1985 MV Waipa Delta[33] provided excursions along the river through the town centre. In 2009 Waipa Delta[34] was moved to provide trips on Waitematā Harbour in Auckland,[35] but replaced by a smaller boat. That too ceased operation and the pontoon at Parana Park was removed in 2013.[36] The Delta moved to Taupō in 2012.[37] The former Golden Bay vessel,[38] Cynthia Dew, ran 4 days a week[39] on the river from 2012,[40] but was in liquidation in December 2022.[41]

Contemporary history

 
Corner of Hood Street.
 
Hood Street in Hamilton Central.

Hamilton Central, on the Waikato River, is a bustling retail precinct. The entertainment area is quite vibrant due to the large student population. The 2008 Lonely Planet guide states that "the city's main street has sprouted a sophisticated and vibrant stretch of bars and eateries that on the weekend at least leave Auckland's Viaduct Harbour for dead in the boozy fun stakes."[42] Many of the city's venues and attractions are located on the old Town Belt, including Hamilton Gardens, Waikato Stadium, Seddon Park, and the Hamilton Lake Domain.

As of 2016, the city continues to grow rapidly. Development is focused on the northern end of the city although in 2012 the council made a decision to balance the city's growth by approving an urban development to the south. Traffic congestion is increasing due to population growth, though the council has undertaken many road development projects to try to keep up with the rapid growth.[43] State Highway 1 runs through the western and southern suburbs and has a major junction with State Highway 3 south of the city centre, which contributes to congestion. The Hamilton City Council is building a 2/4-lane arterial road, Wairere Drive, through the northern and eastern suburbs to form a 25 km suburban ring road with State Highway 1, which is due for completion in early 2015,[44] while the New Zealand Transport Agency plans to complete the Hamilton section of the Waikato Expressway by 2019, easing congestion taking State Highway 1 out of the city and bypassing it to the east.[45]

The rapid growth of Hamilton has brought with it the side effects of urban sprawl especially to the north east of the city in the Rototuna area. Further development is planned in the Rototuna and Peacocke suburbs.[46] There has been significant development of lifestyle blocks adjacent to the Hamilton Urban Area, in particular Tamahere, and Matangi.

Geography

 
Waikato River in Hamilton Central from Parana Park

Hamilton's geography is largely the result of successive volcanic ash falls, plus debris, which swept down the Waikato River in at least two massive floods, created by ash blocking the outlet of Lake Taupō. In its present form the landscape originated around 20,000 years ago (20 ka), after the Oruanui eruption of the Taupō Volcano. The dates given for the eruption vary. A 2007 study said it was between 22.5 and 14 ka.[47] Another in 2004 put it 26.5 ka. After the eruption Lake Taupō rose to about 145 m (476 ft) above the present lake. Around 20 ka. the ash dam eroded and the lake rapidly fell some 75 m (246 ft), creating massive floods. The ash they carried formed the main Hinuera Surface into an alluvial fan of volcanic ash, which extends north of Hamilton and drops about 60 m (200 ft) from Karapiro. The Waikato changed its course from flowing into the sea at Thames at about that time, possibly just because sediment built up. The peat lakes and bogs also formed about that time; carbon dating gives maximum ages of 22.5 to 17 ka. Due to an ice age, vegetation was slow to restabilise the ash, so dunes formed up to 25 m (82 ft) above the local Hinuera surface. The current Waikato valley had cut into the debris by about 12 ka. and was further modified by the 181 AD Hatepe eruption, when again Lake Taupō level fell 34 m (112 ft), generating a 20 km3 (4.8 cu mi) flood, equivalent to 5 years' normal flow in just a few weeks.[48] About 800 years ago aggradation began raising the river bed by about 8 m (26 ft).[47]

With the exceptions of the many low hills such as those around the University of Waikato, Hamilton Lake, Beerescourt, Sylvester Road, Pukete and to the west of the city, and an extensive network of gullies, the terrain of the city is relatively flat. In some areas such as Te Rapa, one old path of an ancient river can be traced. The relatively soft and unconsolidated soil material is still being actively eroded by rain and runoff.

In its natural state, Hamilton and environs was very swampy in winter with 30 small lakes connected to surrounding peatlands. Hamilton was surrounded by 7 large peat bogs such as Komakorau to the North and Rukuhia and Moanatuatua to the South, as well as many smaller ones all of which have now been drained with only small remnants remaining.[49] The total area of peat bog was about 655 km2.[50] Early photos of Hamilton East show carts buried up to their axles in thick mud. Up until the 1880s it was possible to row and drag a dinghy from the city to many outlying farms to the North East. This swampy, damp environment was at the time thought to be an ideal breeding ground for the TB bacillus, which was a major health hazard in the pioneering days. The first Hamilton hospital was constructed on a hill to avoid this problem. One of the reasons why population growth was so slow in Hamilton until the 1920s was the great difficulty in bridging the many arms of the deep swampy gullies that cross the city. Hamilton has 6 major dendritic gully complexes with the 15 km long, 12 branch, Kirikiriroa system being in the north of the city and the southern Mystery creek-Kaipaki gully complex being the largest.[51] Others are Mangakotukutuku, Mangaonua and Waitawhiriwhiri.[52]

In the 1930s, Garden Place Hill, one of the many small hills sometimes referred to as the Hamilton Hills, was removed by unemployed workers working with picks and shovels and model T Ford trucks. The Western remains of the hill are retained by a large concrete wall. The original hill ran from the present Wintec site eastwards to the old post office (now casino). The earth was taken 4 km north to partly fill the Maeroa gully adjacent to the Central Baptist Church on Ulster Street, the main road heading north.[53]

Lake Rotoroa (Hamilton Lake) began forming about 20,000 years ago. Originally it was part of an ancient river system that was cut off by deposition material and became two small lakes divided by a narrow peninsula. With higher rainfall and drainage from the extensive peat land to the west, the water level rose so the narrow peninsula was drowned so forming one larger lake. To the north the lake is 8 m deep and in the southern (hospital) end 6 m deep. The old dividing peninsula, the start of which is still visible above water on the eastern side, is only 2 m below the surface.

Suburbs

Western Hamilton suburbs

Beerescourt; Bader; Crawshaw; Deanwell; Dinsdale; Fitzroy; Forest Lake; Frankton; Glenview; Grandview Heights; Hamilton Central; Hamilton North; Hamilton West; Livingstone; Maeroa; Melville; Nawton; Peacocke; Pukete; Rotokauri; St Andrews; Stonebridge; Te Rapa; Temple View; Thornton; Western Heights; Whitiora.

Eastern Hamilton suburbs

Ashmore; Callum Brae; Chartwell; Chedworth Park; Claudelands; Enderley; Fairfield; Fairview Downs; Flagstaff; Hamilton East; Harrowfield; Hillcrest; Huntington; Magellan Rise; Queenwood; Ruakura; Riverlea; Rototuna; Silverdale; Somerset Heights; St James Park; St Petersburg.

Towns/Suburbs in the Hamilton Urban Area

Cambridge; Te Awamutu; Ngāruawāhia; Taupiri; Horotiu; Horsham Downs; Huntly; Gordonton; Ōhaupō; Ngāhinapōuri; Te Kowhai; Whatawhata; Tamahere; Matangi; Tauwhare; Rukuhia; Kihikihi.

Climate

Hamilton's climate is oceanic (Köppen: Cfb ), with highly moderated temperatures due to New Zealand's location surrounded by ocean. As the largest inland city in the country, winters are cool and mornings can feature the lowest temperatures of the North Island's main centres, dropping as low as −3 °C (27 °F) several times per year. Nighttime temperatures are even cooler outside of the city. Likewise, summers can be some of the warmest in the country with temperatures rising over 28 °C (82 °F), on an annual basis. Hamilton also features very high humidity (similar to tropical climates such as Singapore) which can make temperatures feel much higher or lower than they are. Ground frosts are common and snow is possible but rare. The only recorded snowfall in modern times was light snowflakes in mid-August 2011 during a prolonged cold period that saw snowfall as far north as Dargaville.[54]

Hamilton receives considerable precipitation amounting to around 1,100mm over 125 days per year. This coupled with annual sunshine hours of around 2,000 makes Hamilton and the surrounding Waikato an extremely fertile region.

Typically summers are dry and winters are wet. Fog is common during winter mornings, especially close to the Waikato River which runs through the city centre. Hamilton is one of the foggiest cities on earth, however, fog usually burns off by noon to produce sunny and calm winter days.[55] Hamilton also has the lowest average wind speed of New Zealand's main centres as a result of its inland location, in a depression surrounded by high hills and mountains.[56]

Climate data for Hamilton, New Zealand (1981–2010)
Month Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec Year
Average high °C (°F) 23.9
(75.0) 		24.3
(75.7) 		22.7
(72.9) 		19.9
(67.8) 		16.9
(62.4) 		14.3
(57.7) 		13.8
(56.8) 		14.7
(58.5) 		16.5
(61.7) 		17.9
(64.2) 		19.8
(67.6) 		21.9
(71.4) 		18.9
(66.0)
Daily mean °C (°F) 18.4
(65.1) 		18.8
(65.8) 		17.1
(62.8) 		14.5
(58.1) 		11.9
(53.4) 		9.5
(49.1) 		8.9
(48.0) 		9.8
(49.6) 		11.6
(52.9) 		13.2
(55.8) 		14.9
(58.8) 		16.9
(62.4) 		13.8
(56.8)
Average low °C (°F) 12.9
(55.2) 		13.2
(55.8) 		11.4
(52.5) 		9.1
(48.4) 		6.9
(44.4) 		4.7
(40.5) 		4.0
(39.2) 		4.9
(40.8) 		6.7
(44.1) 		8.4
(47.1) 		9.9
(49.8) 		11.9
(53.4) 		8.7
(47.7)
Average precipitation mm (inches) 76.3
(3.00) 		68.7
(2.70) 		79.4
(3.13) 		80.3
(3.16) 		99.7
(3.93) 		113.2
(4.46) 		118.2
(4.65) 		103.4
(4.07) 		91.5
(3.60) 		91.9
(3.62) 		85.0
(3.35) 		100.7
(3.96) 		1,108.2
(43.63)
Average precipitation days (≥ 1.0 mm) 7.8 6.2 7.7 8.4 11.0 12.6 12.8 13.3 11.7 11.7 10.7 10.5 124.4
Average relative humidity (%) 80.5 84.3 84.7 86.4 89.9 91.4 90.8 88.2 83.2 81.9 79.1 79.9 85.0
Mean monthly sunshine hours 229.8 192.9 193.3 165.1 138.3 112.8 126.4 144.1 147.5 174.8 187.1 207.6 2,019.6
Source: NIWA[57]


Climate data for Hamilton Airport, New Zealand
Month Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec Year
Average high °C (°F) 24.4
(75.9) 		24.9
(76.8) 		23.0
(73.4) 		19.6
(67.3) 		16.5
(61.7) 		13.8
(56.8) 		13.4
(56.1) 		14.4
(57.9) 		16.2
(61.2) 		18.1
(64.6) 		20.1
(68.2) 		22.3
(72.1) 		18.9
(66.0)
Average low °C (°F) 10.3
(50.5) 		11.4
(52.5) 		10.1
(50.2) 		7.4
(45.3) 		5.1
(41.2) 		3.0
(37.4) 		2.0
(35.6) 		3.6
(38.5) 		4.8
(40.6) 		6.7
(44.1) 		8.2
(46.8) 		9.9
(49.8) 		6.9
(44.4)
Source: CliFlo[58]

Demographics

Historical population
YearPop.
18861,201
19011,253
19062,150[59]
19114,655[60]
19165,677
192111,441
192613,980
193115,400[59][61]
193616,150[60]
194521,982[59]
195129,838[60]
195635,941[62]
YearPop.
196142,212[63]
196663,000[64]
197174,784[65]
197687,968[66]
198191,109[67]
198694,511[68]
1991101,448[69]
1996109,043[70]
2001116,604[71]
2006129,588[72]
2013141,612[72]
2018160,911[72]
New Zealand census

Hamilton covers 110.37 km2 (42.61 sq mi)[73] and had an estimated population of 179,900 as of June 2022,[4] with a population density of 1,630 people per km2. The city is home to 3.5 percent of New Zealand's population.

Hamilton had a population of 160,911 at the 2018 New Zealand census, an increase of 19,299 people (13.6%) since the 2013 census, and an increase of 31,323 people (24.2%) since the 2006 census. There were 54,858 households, comprising 78,354 males and 82,554 females, giving a sex ratio of 0.95 males per female. The median age was 32.2 years (compared with 37.4 years nationally), with 34,413 people (21.4%) aged under 15 years, 40,293 (25.0%) aged 15 to 29, 67,197 (41.8%) aged 30 to 64, and 19,005 (11.8%) aged 65 or older.

The percentage of people born overseas was 26.9, compared with 27.1% nationally.

Although some people chose not to answer the census's question about religious affiliation, 46.5% had no religion, 36.3% were Christian, 1.4% had Māori religious beliefs, 3.6% were Hindu, 2.2% were Muslim, 1.3% were Buddhist and 3.1% had other religions.

Of those at least 15 years old, 32,202 (25.5%) people had a bachelor's or higher degree, and 19,701 (15.6%) people had no formal qualifications. The median income was $30,200, compared with $31,800 nationally. 19,068 people (15.1%) earned over $70,000 compared to 17.2% nationally. The employment status of those at least 15 was that 62,763 (49.6%) people were employed full-time, 17,631 (13.9%) were part-time, and 7,095 (5.6%) were unemployed.[74]

Largest groups of overseas-born residents
Nationality Population (2018)[75]
India 6,120
China 5,541
England 4,737
South Africa 3,048
Fiji 2,778
Philippines 2,577
Australia 2,316
South Korea 921
Samoa 765
Malaysia 711
Individual wards
Name Area
(km2)		 Population Density
(per km2)		 Households Median age Median
income
West Ward 64.18 75,891 1,182 26,586 32.3 years $31,800[76]
East Ward 46.19 85,020 1,841 28,269 32.2 years $28,600[77]
New Zealand 37.4 years $31,800

The main area of population growth is in the Flagstaff-Rototuna area. With its large tertiary student population at Wintec and Waikato University, approximately 40,000 tertiary students, Hamilton has a significant transient population.[78] Hamilton is the second fastest growing population centre after Auckland.

In the 2013 census, Roman Catholicism was the largest Christian denomination with 12.0 percent affiliating, followed by Anglicanism (9.9 percent) and Presbyterianism (6.3 percent). Hinduism (2.9 percent), Islam (1.9 percent) and Buddhism (1.6 percent) were the largest non-Christian religions.[79]

Culture and identity

Ethnicities were 63.6% European/Pākehā, 23.7% Māori, 6.1% Pacific peoples, 18.5% Asian, and 3.5% other ethnicities. People may identify with more than one ethnicity.[74]

English is the most spoken language (94.6%) followed by Te Reo Māori (6.0%), Mandarin (2.2%), Hindi (2.1%) and Sinitic or other Chinese dialect (1.5%). Percentages add up to more than 100% as people may select more than one language.

Government and politics

Local government

Hamilton is located in the administrative area of the Hamilton City Council. The current mayor of Hamilton is Paula Southgate,[80] who was first elected to the position in 2019[81] and re-elected in 2022.[82] The current deputy mayor is Angela O'Leary.[83]

Hamilton City is itself part of the Waikato region, controlled administratively by the Waikato Regional Council.

Coat of arms

Coat of arms of Hamilton
 
Notes
Hamilton City adopted a coat of arms in 1946. The blazon is:[84]
Crest
A mural crown.
Escutcheon
Barry-wavy of eight argent and azure; on a bend verte, 3 oxen heads erased, or.
Supporters
A pūkeko, on either side, rampant proper.

The city's coat of arms has received some criticism, being accused of not reflecting the history and diversity of the city, with suggestions that it should be changed.[85][86]

Central government

Hamilton has three electorate MPs in the New Zealand Parliament. Both Hamilton East and Hamilton West electorates are considered bellwether seats.

The electorates are currently represented by:

General electorates:

Māori electorate:

Hamilton based List MPs:

Economy

Education and research are important to the city—Hamilton is home to two institutes of higher education, the University of Waikato and the Waikato Institute of Technology (Wintec). Research at the Ruakura research centres have been responsible for much of New Zealand's innovation in agriculture. Hamilton's main revenue source is the dairy industry, due to its location in the centre of New Zealand's largest dairying area.

Hamilton annually hosts the National Agricultural Fieldays at Mystery Creek, the southern hemisphere's biggest agricultural trade exhibition. Mystery Creek is the country's largest event centre and hosts other events of national importance, such as Parachute Christian Music Festival, the National Car Show and the National Boat Show.

Manufacturing and retail are also important to the local economy, as is the provision of health services through the Waikato Hospital. The city is home to New Zealand's largest aircraft manufacturer, Pacific Aerospace, which manufactured its 1,000th aircraft in August 2009, and previously Micro Aviation NZ which manufactured and exported high-quality microlight aircraft.[90] It also has its largest concentration of trailer-boat manufacturers such as Buccaneer. Hamilton is also the home of Gallagher Group Ltd, a manufacturer and exporter of electric fencing and security systems. Employing 600 people Gallagher has been doing business in Hamilton since 1938. Hamilton is also home to Vickers Aircraft Company, a startup aircraft manufacturer making a carbon fibre amphibious aircraft called the Wave.[91]

Recent years have seen the firm establishment of the New Zealand base of the British flight training organisation L3. L3 trains over 350 airline pilots a year at its crew training centre at Hamilton Airport.[92]

Tainui Group Holdings Ltd, the commercial arm of the Waikato tribe, is one of Hamilton's largest property developers. The Waikato tribe is one of the city's largest landowners. Tainui owns land at The Base, Centre Place, The Warehouse Central, University of Waikato, Wintec, the Courthouse, Fairfield College, and the Ruakura AgResearch centre.[93] The Waikato tribe is a major shareholder of the Novotel Tainui and the Hotel Ibis.

It has developed the large retail centre The Base in the old Te Rapa airforce base site which was returned to Tainui, following confiscation in the 1860s, as part of a 1995 Treaty of Waitangi settlement. In mid-2010, The Base was further expanded with Te Awa Mall complex stage 1.[citation needed] Many large retailers such as Farmers and other nationwide speciality chains have located at Te Awa. In 2011 a further stage was opened, with cinemas, restaurants, shops and an underground carpark.

The city's three major covered shopping malls are Centre Place (formerly Downtown Plaza)[94] in the CBD, Chartwell Shopping Centre and most recently Te Awa at The Base. After Farmers Hamilton moves from its existing site on corner of Alexandra and Collingwood streets into the redeveloped Centre Place in late 2013,[95] each major mall will have the department store as an anchor tenant.

The western suburb of Frankton is home to a smaller shopping centre and long-standing local furniture and home department store Forlongs.[96] There are many other small suburban shopping centres or plazas, often centred on a New World or Countdown supermarket, such as in Rototuna, Hillcrest and Glenview.

Culture

 
Garden Place

In 2004, Hamilton City Council honoured former resident Richard O'Brien with a life-size bronze statue of him as character Riff Raff, of The Rocky Horror Picture Show, in his space suit. The statue was designed by Weta Workshop, props makers for The Lord of the Rings films. It stands on the former site of the Embassy Cinema, where O'Brien watched science fiction-double features.[97]

Several Māori Pa have been part restored at Pukete, Hikuwai and Miropiko along the banks of the Waikato River.

The city is host to a large number of small galleries and the Waikato Museum. The latter includes Te Winika, one of the best-preserved waka taua (Māori war canoe) from the pre-colonisation era. It is also home to one of the country's premier experimental black box theatres, The Meteor Theatre.

Music

Hamilton is host to several large scale music festivals including the Soundscape music festival, which is one of New Zealand's largest street parties.[98][99][100] The city also hosts the Opus Chamber Orchestra which draws musicians from around the Waikato Region[101] and is the home of the New Zealand Chamber Soloists.[102] An ongoing classical concert series featuring world class musicians[102] is held throughout the year at the Gallagher Concert Chamber, organised by the University of Waikato, Conservatorium of Music.

Events

 
Tronik DJs play at the sellout Soundscape street party

Sport

The local rugby union teams are Waikato (Mitre 10 Cup) and the Chiefs (Super Rugby). The local colours are red, yellow and black, and the provincial mascot is Mooloo, an anthropomorphic cow. Both teams play at Waikato Stadium. Hamilton is also home to a football club, WaiBOP United, that competes in the ASB Premiership during summer. The winter football clubs Hamilton Wanderers and Melville United competing in the Lotto Sport Italia NRFL Premier League are also based in Hamilton.

 
Waikato Stadium, Lions vs. NZ Māori, 2005.

Seddon Park (formerly Westpac Park) is Hamilton's main cricket venue and hosts Test matches, One Day Internationals and T20 Internationals. It is the home ground of the Northern Districts Cricket Association.

Hamilton is fast becoming a motorsport venue as well. A round of the WRC was held in 2006 and the annual V8 Supercars race on a street circuit started in 2008 and ended in 2012.

Rugby league is also played in Hamilton with the two local teams, Hamilton City Tigers and Hamilton Hornets/College Old Boys, playing in the Premier Division of the Waikato Rugby League.

Sailing takes place on Hamilton lake for 9 months of the year. The Hamilton Yacht Club has its clubrooms, slipway and ramp on the western side of Lake Rotoroa. Motor boats are not allowed on the lake, with an exception of the Yacht Club rescue boats.

Each year in April, Hamilton supports the '5 Bridges' swimming challenge. The course starts in Hamilton Gardens, and continues for 6 kilometres finishing at Ann St Beach. The swim is assisted by the current, with the full distance typically covered in under an hour. The event celebrated its 71st year on 11 April 2010.[104]

Media

The major daily newspaper is the Waikato Times. Weekly community newspapers include the Hamilton Press, Hamilton News and Waikato University student magazine Nexus.

Local radio stations include The Breeze, Free FM, More FM, Contact FM. The Edge and The Rock, two of New Zealand's most popular radio stations, were originally based in Hamilton.

City facilities and attractions

Hamilton Gardens is the region's most popular tourist attraction and hosts the Hamilton Gardens Summer Festival each year. The Base is New Zealand's second largest shopping centre, with over 7.5 million visitors per year to the 190 stores. Te Awa, an enclosed speciality retail mall at The Base, was awarded a silver medal by the International Council of Shopping Centres for the second-best expansion in the Asia Pacific region.[110]

Other local attractions include Hamilton Zoo, the Waikato Museum, the Hamilton Astronomical Society Observatory, the Arts Post art gallery, and the SkyCity casino. Just 20 minutes' drive away is Ngāruawāhia, the location of Turangawaewae Marae and the home of Māori King Tuheitia Paki.

Hamilton has six public libraries located throughout the city with the Central Library housing the main reference and heritage collection. Hamilton City Theaters provides professional venue and event management at two of the three theatrical venues in the city: Founders Theatre (closed since 2016),[111] and Clarence St Theater. The Meteor theatre was bought by the One Victoria Trust in 2013 after the Hamilton City Council proposed the sale of the theatre and is now privately operated.

St Peter's Cathedral, built in 1916, is the Anglican cathedral in Hamilton, on Cathedral Hill at the southern end of Victoria Street. There is also St Mary's Roman Catholic cathedral on the opposite side of the river.

The Hamilton New Zealand Temple of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is located in Temple View, Hamilton. It was opened along with the Church College of New Zealand, a large high school owned by the church, in the late 1950s. Both the college and the temple were built by labour missionaries. The school was closed in December 2009. Every year, the temple hosts a large Christmas lighting show which attracts large crowds from all over the country.

Hospitals

 
Waikato Hospital in Hamilton West

Hamilton's public hospital is Waikato Hospital with 600 beds, 22 operating theatres[112] and about 5,000 worked there in 2014.[113] There are two other major private hospitals in Hamilton City; Braemar Hospital, located in the same area that Waikato Hospital is located, and Southern Cross Hospital, located in Hamilton East. Hamilton also has a two private primary maternity hospitals, which are fully funded by the Waikato District Health Board, Waterford Birth Centre and River Ridge East Birth Centre.[114]

Transport

The New Zealand Household Travel Survey 2015 – 2018 said that 86% of Hamilton trip legs were made by car (60% as driver, 26% as passenger), 10% were walking, 2% cycling and 1% by bus.[115]

Air

Hamilton Airport serves as a domestic airport. It is jointly owned by Hamilton City and neighbouring district councils. The airport is located just outside Hamilton's boundary, within the Waipa District. There are direct flights with Air New Zealand to Christchurch and Wellington, Origin Air to Napier, Nelson and Palmerston North and with Sunair to Great Barrier Island and Whangarei also there are charter flights to other destinations throughout the North Island. The airport also served as a major base for now defunct low-cost airlines Freedom Air and Kiwi Air. Virgin Australia offered three international flights a week, to and from Brisbane Airport, Sydney Airport, Melbourne Airport and Gold Coast Airport. However, all international flights have now been discontinued, primarily due to a small market.

The airport is the base for pilot training schools and the aircraft manufacturer, Pacific Aerospace, is located at the northern end of the runway.

Cycling

Hamilton has 97 km (60 mi) of on-road, 21 km (13 mi) of off-road and 28 km (17 mi) of riverside cycleways,[116] which link the city centre with the outlying suburbs.[117][118] These cycleways consist of a mixture of dedicated cycle lanes, which are 1-metre-wide strips either coloured green or with a painted outline of a cycle and mixed use cycle/walk ways which are mainly located alongside the Waikato River.[119] The City's design guide says the preferred width for cycleways is 3 m (9.8 ft).[120] A cycleway was built beside Greenwood Street and Kahikatea Drive in 2015 and beside Ohaupo Road and Normandy Avenue in 2016.[121] A $6.7m, 2.7 km (1.7 mi) Western Rail Trail opened in 2017 linking Glenview, Melville, and Deanwell, Hamilton Girls’ High School, Wintec and the city centre.[122]

Road

New Zealand's main road artery State Highway 1 runs through several of Hamilton's suburbs and connects with State Highway 3 at a major intersection within the city boundaries. The Hamilton section of the Waikato Expressway, due for completion in 2020, or possibly 2021,[123] or mid 2022,[124] will shift SH 1 to the east of Hamilton City, effectively bypassing the city and easing congestion between commuting city traffic and through traffic. It will also, as expressed in a District Council report, "undermine the attractiveness of public transport as a mode of choice for many years to come."[125]

Safer Speed Areas 40 km/h limits were first introduced in Hamilton in 2011 and by 2014 there were 36 of them,[126] many in suburbs near the river.[127]

From 1864 Hamilton was on the Great South Road, linking Auckland to Te Awamutu. The road was gradually upgraded and renamed.[128][129][130][131]

Ring Road

As well as being bypassed by the Expressway, Hamilton will also have the Ring Road and, prior to those, the city centre was bypassed by Anglesea Street in 1964[132] and the main road diverted from the north end of Victoria Street[133] onto Ulster Street, which was extended to absorb Gurnell Avenue and form a 4-lane main road,[134] by putting Waitewhiriwhiri Stream in a culvert and filling the valley.[135]

The Hamilton Ring Road project was initiated to free some of the city's streets from peak-traffic congestion and improve connectivity around the city. It consists of five segments, opening between 1963 and 2024. It was linked to the Te Rapa Section of the Waikato Expressway in 2012.[136]

Cobham Drive

The first part of the ring road, Cobham Drive, from Tristram St to Cambridge Road, was named in 1963 after the Governor-General, Viscount Cobham. It was originally named Southern Outlet.[137] It linked to SH3 along Normandy Drive.[138] Prior to that the junction with SH3 had been at Victoria Street / Bridge Street and SH1 had used Grey Street and Cambridge Road.[139]

Greenwood Street and Kahikatea Drive

To the west and south, Greenwood Street, which had existed since 1907, was extended south to Kahikatea Drive,[140] which was named in 1971[141] and opened about 1974.[142][143]

Avalon Drive

The next part of the ring road, on the western side, opened when SH1 was diverted from the city centre to run east of the city, through Nawton from 1 July 1992.[144] Norton Road Extension was renamed Avalon Drive.[145] The road was originally built about 1919.[146][147]

Wairere Drive

Wairere Drive forms the north east part of the ring road. Initially it ran from Avalon Drive to River Road at Flagstaff, via Pukete Bridge. The land for it was gazetted in 1995[148][149] and the road was on the 1998 map.[150] It had a 70 km/h speed limit.[151] The extension to Hukanui Rd was on the 2009 map.[152] It was then extended from Hukanui Rd to Crosby Rd in 2010, to Ruakura Rd in 2013[136] and 5.5 km (3.4 mi) to Cambridge Rd in 2014,[153] when the Pukete Rd to Resolution Dr section was widened from 2 to 4 lanes,[136] and roundabouts replaced with traffic lights, at a cost of $84m.[153] The extension from Hukanui Road to Tramway Road cost $1.5m in 2005/06, plus $3.3m in 2007/08.[154] In 2008, on the budget had been over $14m.[127] The road includes a 3 m (9.8 ft) wide cycleway.[155] Completion is planned for 2022.[156]

Traffic at Pukete Bridge in 2006 was 25,200 vehicles a day.[157] In 2018 it was 38,400.[158]

In 2017, it was noted that a drop in passenger numbers on the Orbiter bus correlated with opening of the extension to Cambridge Rd in 2014.[159]

Southern Links

The final part of the ring road will be the Southern Links, through Peacocke.[160] Construction of the $150m bridge over the Waikato is planned between 2020 and 2023.[161] The plan for the area says, "it is intended that the arterial routes also make provision for alternative modes of transport such as light rail by maintaining corridors."[162]

Bridges

 
Fairfield Bridge, in central Hamilton.
 
Claudlands Bridge, Waikato
 
Claudelands Bridge, Hamilton, NZ. Taken from just below the Bridge Street bridge.

The six road bridges that cross the river[163] are often the focus of morning and evening traffic delays. The six road bridges within the city are (from north to south):

In addition to the road bridges within the city, the Horotiu bridge is located approximately 10 km north of the city centre and the Narrows Bridge approximately 10 km to the south. The Narrows bridge was closed for reconstruction of its piles in September 2010.[164] In Jan 2011 widening of the 1 km approach road Wairere Drive to Pukete bridge began. The bridge was expanded to 4 lanes in early 2013.

The river is also crossed by a rail bridge and a pedestrian bridge:

Buses

Main article: Public transport in Hamilton and Waikato

Hamilton has buses linking the CBD to most of its suburbs and an Orbiter service linking many of those suburbs to each other, to suburban shopping centres, the hospital, university, etc.

Rail

Stations

Main articles: Hamilton Railway Station, New Zealand and Hamilton Central railway station, Waikato

Hamilton's station is located in Frankton at the junction of the East Coast Main Trunk line (ECMT) and the North Island Main Trunk line (NIMT). A disused platform on the ECMT lies beneath the CBD.[165]

In 2006, a study was done into a possible re-introduction of daily commuter train services to Auckland and the benefits that might flow from it.[166] The new service, dubbed Te Huia, commenced on 6 April 2021.

Freight

Hamilton's rail network serves as a major hub for the distribution of dairy products to the ports of Auckland and Tauranga. This hub is located on Crawford St, on land that was formerly part of the Te Rapa Marshalling Yard, just north of the locomotive depot.[167] Te Rapa is at the northern end of the 25 kV AC 50 Hz electrification between Hamilton and Palmerston North.

Preserved stock

Hamilton also has two locomotives on display:

  • NZR F class 230 was donated by Ellis & Burnand, the central North Island sawmillers, in 1956 for static display. Formerly used as the yard engine at their Mangapehi sawmill, it was placed on display at Lake Rotoroa and its boiler filled with concrete. This engine has become a 0-4-2ST in later years following the loss of her rear coupling rod.
  • NZR DSA 230 (TMS DSA359), a 0-6-0DM diesel shunting locomotive built by English Electric for the Drewry Car Company, was withdrawn in 1986 and placed on display at Frankton minus its Gardner 8L3 diesel engine and transmission. It was moved in the early 2000s with its shelter to Minogue Park, where it was united with an open seating wagon built on the underframe of wagon W 960, built in 1946 and converted to Way & Works wagon E 7784 in April 1966.[168]

The railway settlement

From the arrival of the railway in Hamilton, Frankton was a railway town. In 1923, the suburb became even more railway-orientated when the Frankton Junction Railway House Factory opened, producing the famous George Troup designed railway houses sent to many North Island railway settlements, which are now sought-after pieces of real estate. Its 60 workers[169] produced almost 1400 pre-fabricated railway houses at a peak rate of 400 a year, using rimu and matai from the railway's central North Island forests. When, in 1926, government cuts reduced the need for railway houses, the factory also started to supply houses for local councils.[170] Those supplied to Lower Hutt were claimed to be £500 cheaper than comparable houses.[171] The sawmill also produced everything else such as signal masts and boxes, bridges, sleepers, and even furniture for railway stations. It was too efficient for private builders, who got the housing factory closed in 1929. When it finally closed in the 1990s it was very dilapidated, but NZHPT supported restoration of the Category 1 historic place, retaining original windows, big sliding doors and the saw-tooth roof.[172] It is now home to a range of businesses.[173]

Frankton also was home to the Way and Works depot, still in operation as the KiwiRail Network depot. This was connected to the main line by a short siding that ran past the factory; this line was last used in 1997 when a shunting locomotive retrieved two flat wagons from the Way and Works depot.[citation needed]

The railway workers' community was centred largely around the W&W depot and sawmill, containing some 200 houses and a Railways Social Hall.[174] Many of the houses are still in place, the majority being the classic 90sq2 three-bedroom design used as standard across New Zealand for railway staff.[175]

Education

See also: List of schools in Waikato, New Zealand § Hamilton City

Hamilton is home to more than 40,000 tertiary students, mostly enrolled in one of the city's three main tertiary institutes; the University of Waikato, Waikato Institute of Technology and Te Wananga o Aotearoa.

As well as state and private primary, intermediate and high schools, it also notably includes a number of Kura Kaupapa Māori primary schools offering education in the Māori language.

The city has seven state secondary schools, in a clockwise direction from north: Rototuna High School in Rototuna, Fairfield College in Fairfield, Hamilton Boys' High School in Hamilton East, Hillcrest High School in Silverdale, Melville High School in Melville, Hamilton Girls' High School in the central city, and Fraser High School in Nawton. Both Boys' and Girls' High offer boarding facilities. A new state secondary school is opened for the Rototuna area to serve the booming north-eastern corner of the city. The project had been delayed several years as the previous secondary school serving the area, Fairfield College, was below capacity. The new secondary school opened in 2016.[176]

Additionally, Hamilton is home to a number of state-integrated and private schools. There are numerous state-integrated Catholic primary schools throughout the city. Sacred Heart Girls College and St John's College are the integrated Catholic high schools, for girls and boys respectively. Southwell School is a private co-educational Anglican primary school. Waikato Diocesan School for Girls is an integrated Anglican high school.'[176] St Paul's Collegiate School is a private high school for boys, also accepting girls from Year 11. All three Anglican schools are boarding and day schools. Hamilton Christian School is a private coeducational nondenominational Christian school for Years 1–13, founded in 1982.

Utilities

Although telegraph came to Hamilton with the 1864 invasion which established the town, it was quite late in developing its gas (1895), water (1903), sewage (1907) and electricity supplies (1913), probably because its population remained low; in 1911 Hamilton's population was 3,542 and Frankton's 1,113.[177] Optical cables and microwave towers now provide telecommunications links, gas is supplied by pipeline from Taranaki, water from the Waikato River by the Water Treatment Station at Waiora Terrace, sewage flows for treatment at Pukete and electricity comes from the national grid. Restrictions are still placed on garden sprinklers in summer and the Pukete sewage works was still not always meeting discharge Resource consent conditions in 2013.[178]

Telephone

A telegraph line from Auckland came shortly after the invasion,[179] reaching Whatawhata, Te Awamutu and Cambridge by October 1864.[180] Telephones came to Hamilton from 1882.[180] Hamilton got a telephone exchange in 1904 with 39 subscribers.[181] Hamilton telephones were put on an automatic exchange between 1915[182] and 1920.[180] From the 1950s Hamilton was linked into the network of microwave towers via the towers at Te Aroha and Te Uku.

Gas

Auckland Gas Company had been set up in 1862, but it wasn't until the Hamilton Gasworks Act 1895 that Henry Atkinson (son of the manager of Auckland gasworks)[183] was allowed to set up a gasworks in Clarence St on allotment 322 (see photo of the [1] 16 October 2015 at the Wayback Machine) and put gas pipes under the streets. Work started on laying about 50 tons of pipes in July 1895.[184]

 
Clarence St gasworks in 1967 with Pembroke Rd, Pembroke La, Thackeray St, Tristram St in background – Hamilton, including city buildings.

It also allowed the city to purchase after 12 years at a price determined by arbitration.[185] A 1907 referendum authorised the city council to take over the gasworks. In 1911 the Privy Council set the purchase price at £34,402/14/3d ($5.7m at 2017 prices),[186] half of which was for goodwill.[187]

A 100,000 cubic feet (2,800 m3) gasholder was authorised in 1911.[188] In 1913 the works was expanded and mains laid over the railway bridge into Hamilton East and along Ohaupo Rd.[189]

As well as gas, coke, tar and tar paint were produced.[190] Additions were made to the works as late as 1961.[191] Waikato coal was mixed with coal shipped via Greymouth and Raglan from 1964 until 25 March 1970, when Hamilton switched to natural gas and the gasworks closed. The site was cleaned up after demolition in the 1990s, but is still monitored by Regional Council for contamination.[192]

Hamilton was one of the original nine towns and cities in the North Island to be supplied with natural gas when the Kapuni gas field enters production in 1970. Gas from the Kapuni field in south Taranaki was transported north via a 373 km long, 200 mm diameter pipeline to Papakura in south Auckland, with Hamilton supplied via an offtake at Temple View.[193]

Water

By 1890 complaints were being made of a shortage of water in the wells and tanks.[194] In 1902, a poll of ratepayers approved borrowing £5,000 to set up a water supply.[195] In 1903 3.2 km (2 mi) of pipes supplied water to 80 properties in Victoria, Anglesea, Collingwood, Clarence and Selkirk streets and the borough turncock reported average use at 15 imperial gallons (68 L) a day[196] (average consumption is now 224 litres (49 imp gal) a day).[197] By 1908 nearly all of Hamilton West had piped water, extended to Frankton and Claudelands in 1912.[198] A contract to pump the water into a tower was let in 1912.[199] By 1916[200] a 75-foot-high (23 m) water tower on Lake Rd[201] had been built to give extra pressure, mainly for the Fire Brigade[202] whose station opened in 1917.[203] Use was reported as 6,942,000 imperial gallons (31,558,957 L) in the month of August 1918.[204] In 1931 the system was upgraded, with larger pipes and an 86 ft (26 m) tower on Ruakiwi Rd, holding 2,600,000 imp gal (11,819,834 L).[205] Until 1939 on Sundays visitors could climb the tower for 6d.[206] The old tower remained until 1966.[207] A treatment works was built in 1923,[208] using candy filters and supplying water at 75psi.[201]

The 1930 Hillsborough Terrace Water Treatment Station had a maximum continuous capacity slightly over 30 megalitres per day (ML/d). By 1970 peak demands exceeded 45 ML/d with the average annual daily demand being around 25 ML/d, but the site was too small to expand. So Waiora Terrace Station, Glenview (opposite Hamilton Gardens), was commissioned in mid 1971. It was designed for a maximum capacity of 65 ML/d, expandable to 190 ML/d,[209] was increased to approximately 85ML/d with the addition of polymer dosing in the 1980s[210] and by 2010 had a capacity of 106 ML/d.[197] It was built to a Patterson Candy design with coagulation, rapid sand gravity filtration and chlorine gas disinfection.[211]

Chlorine is added at 0.3 ppm and fluoride has been added since 1966, though with a brief withdrawal in 2013/14 and referendums supporting it in 2006[212] and 2013.[213] The river water has 0.2 to 0.4 ppm[209] fluoride which is increased to around 0.75ppm[197] through the station. Arsenic in the Waikato River is also monitored. It can be about 3 times above the WHO limit, but treatment effects a 5-fold reduction to a level which meets the standards.[214]

From river level the water is pumped up to 8 reservoirs, which uses 410 kWh of power for each million litres of water pumped.[197] To cope with river levels below the intake pipes, a floating pumping platform was installed in 2016. It can pump up to 70 million litres a day.[215] Average use in 2010 was 224 litres per day per person. The 2006 population was 129,249, so total annual consumption was a bit over 10,000 million litres, using over 4 million kWh.[197] A shows the location of water, stormwater and sewage infrastructure and a description of the water distribution system is in this 2001 HCC Strategic Planning document.

Reservoirs

A 24 million litre reservoir opened at Kay Road in north Rototuna in 2017,[216] providing Hamilton's ninth reservoir, the others being at Dinsdale (2), Fairfield, Hillcrest, Maeroa, Pukete and, as above, at Ruakiwi.[217] A 12 million litre reservoir will be added at Ruakura in 2020.[218]

Sewage

Sewage long lagged behind other utilities. Initially sections were large enough for septic tanks to work as well as they could in peatlands, but it wasn't long before the 1882 drainage scheme[208] was used for sewage connections. By 1904 complaints were being made about the blocked insanitary drain between Victoria and Anglesea Streets, resulting in a faltering start on a night soil service. The 1907 referendum, which approved purchase of the gasworks also agreed to raise a loan for sewage pipes (though rejected a plan for a steam[219] tram).[198] In 1917 Mayor Ellis rejected the Health Minister's suggestion, saying it was impossible to afford a sewage farm.[220] By 1919 only about a third of the city had sewers,[221] but between 1923 and 1925 "considerable progress" was made and sewage reticulation was further extended in 1933. However, there was a sewage related epidemic in Melville in 1940 and Melville, Fairfield and Hillcrest were added to the sewer network from 1949. Although by 1956 80% of Hamilton had sewage pipes, it was only piped to 14 septic tanks (17 when replaced in 1976[222]), which were emptied several times a year, either into the Waitawhirwhiri Stream, or directly into the Waikato.[198] In 1956 the Pollution Advisory Council said, "the daily flow of sewage effluent and trade wastes from Hamilton City is three million gallons… in effect, partly digested sludge and raw sewage is being disposed of into the Waikato River". Downstream from Hamilton contaminants increased 10 times between the 1950s and the early 1970s.[223] The set up a Pollution Advisory Council, but it had no control powers until 1963.[224]

 
Pukete sewer bridge 165m long 14 m high built mid 1970s. Photo 2015.

In 1964, the Department of Health ordered adequate treatment for the sewage. Steven and Fitzmaurice, Consulting Engineers, presented a plan to Council early in 1966. There was some work on piping new areas in 1966, but work on the major trunks and interceptors didn't start until 1969 and building at Pukete sewage works started in January 1972. The first sewage was treated in July 1975 and was fully connected early in 1977.[222]

 
Prestressed concrete box girder bridge over Kirikiriroa Stream at Tauhara Gully. Photo 2015.

The trunk lines needed a 165-metre-long (541 ft) bridge, about 14 m (46 ft) above the Waikato, another prestressed concrete box girder bridge over Kirikiriroa Stream at Tauhara Gully and 2 steel pipe bridges over other gullies. The River bridge was designed by Murray-North Partners and the others by council engineers.[222]

The Pukete sewage works cost $12.5m ($160m at 2015 prices). It now cleans 40 million litres (11,000,000 US gal)/day, which is aerated for about 2 hours in a sedimentation tank, disinfected with chlorine, dechlorinated with sulphur dioxide and discharged into the Waikato through a diffuser outfall on the river bed.[225]

CH2M Beca, successor to the previous engineers, upgraded the plant from 1998 to 2002 to improve nitrogen, BOD and suspended solids levels, with a change from chlorination to UV treatment and biogas and natural gas 1.5 million watts (2,000 hp) cogeneration units, able to power the treatment processes and export surplus to the grid.[226]

A further 5 year upgrade started about 2009 expanding and improving the plant, including phosphorus removal.[227]

Despite the improvements there have been on-going problems. In 2012 the council was prosecuted for a sewage sludge spill[228] and consent conditions were breached in 2013 due to a bacterial problem.[178] In 2014 up to 800 m3 (180,000 imp gal) of untreated sewage got into the river.[229]

There are also problems with pumping stations. Out of over 130, up to 20 fail each month.[230]

Electricity

Hamilton was also late in getting electricity. Reefton had electricity from 1888. Some Hamiltonians had their own dynamos from about 1912, the year the first licence was given for building lines and a generating plant in the Frankton Town Board area. It cost over £8,000 (about $1.3m in 2017 prices)[186] for the initial network, powered by two 45 kW (60 hp) DC Brush generators in Kent St, driven by two 4-cylinder 90 hp (67 kW) suction gas engines (suction gas engines used low pressure gas from coal[231]), which started on 23 April 1913 (officially opened by Prime Minister Massey on 4 June). Lighting was provided for streets, houses and the Empire Hotel in Frankton, initially only from 7.30am to 5pm, using a labourer, a meter reader and two linesmen. Electricity was sold at 10d (2015 equivalent $15) per kWh. The first Chief Electrical Engineer was Mr A Beale, followed by Lloyd Mandeno, (1913–1916) and Israel (Jack) Webster, who stayed for nearly 40 years. From May 1916, Hamilton was connected and, in 1917, the supply area was widened to a 5-mile radius and an 80 kW (110 hp) and then two more 45 kW (60 hp) sets were added at Kent St.[232] Despite this, by 1920, Frankton was unable to cope with demand. The mayor, P H Watts, proposed buying a second-hand steam plant for £17,000, but it was rejected at a poll on 23 April 1920. The mayor, 6 councillors and the electricity staff all resigned.[233]

The problem was resolved by a link to Horahora Power Station completed, like Frankton, in 1913. In 1919 it was bought by the government and, by 1921, an 11 kV AC line linked it to Hamilton.,[232] allowing the "noisy, smoky", Kent St power station to close in July 1922,[234] by which time it was rated at 170 kW.[235]

There were over 1,500 connections in Hamilton by 1923. Undergrounding began in 1926, when the 11 kV cable was extended from Peachgrove Rd to Seddon Rd sub-station. By 1928 the Council had 3,381 consumers and charges were down to 6d per kWh for lighting and 2d per kWh for power and heating. By 1935 4,458 were connected, with 55 mi (89 km) of line and lighting was down another penny. By 1950, the 11 kV rings in Hamilton East and Claudelands were finished. Soon afterwards mercury vapor street lighting was installed in London Street and Norton Rd. 33kV gas- and oil-filled cables were laid from 1960 and switched on in April 1974. By 1987 there were 12,247 connections, 291 km (181 mi) of line and charges down to 6.577c/kWh[232] (about 13c in 2015 prices). In 2015 prices varied from 11.31 to 22.92 cents per kWh.[236]

Legislation in 1988 amalgamated the Central Waikato Electric Power Board with Hamilton's Electricity Division from April 1989 as Waikato Electricity Limited,[232] now known as WEL Networks,[237] one of the distribution companies.

Hamilton now has a 220kV link to the National Grid and Transpower provides for a peak load of 187MW, expected to rise to 216MW by 2030.[238]

Notable people

Sister cities

Hamilton has four sister cities:

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hamilton, zealand, hamilton, māori, kirikiriroa, inland, city, north, island, zealand, located, banks, waikato, river, seat, most, populous, city, waikato, region, with, territorial, population, country, fourth, most, populous, city, encompassing, land, area, . Hamilton Maori Kirikiriroa is an inland city in the North Island of New Zealand Located on the banks of the Waikato River it is the seat and most populous city of the Waikato region With a territorial population of 179 900 4 it is the country s fourth most populous city Encompassing a land area of about 110 km2 42 sq mi 5 Hamilton is part of the wider Hamilton Urban Area which also encompasses the nearby towns of Ngaruawahia Te Awamutu and Cambridge In 2020 Hamilton was awarded the title of most beautiful large city in New Zealand 6 Hamilton Kirikiriroa Maori CityHamilton from Till s Lookout from Whitiora to Fairfield Bridge traffic on SH1 Maori Garden Hamilton Station city offices and WINTECCoat of armsNicknames Hamiltron the Tron 1 H Town 1 Previously the Fountain City 2 Location of the Hamilton Territorial AuthorityHamiltonLocation of Hamilton New ZealandCoordinates 37 47 S 175 17 E 37 783 S 175 283 E 37 783 175 283 Coordinates 37 47 S 175 17 E 37 783 S 175 283 E 37 783 175 283CountryNew ZealandIslandNorth IslandRegionWaikatoGovernment MayorPaula Southgate Deputy MayorAngela O Leary Territorial authorityHamilton City CouncilArea 3 Territorial110 8 km2 42 8 sq mi Urban110 37 km2 42 61 sq mi Elevation40 m 131 ft Population June 2022 4 Territorial179 900 Density1 600 km2 4 200 sq mi Urban179 900 Urban density1 600 km2 4 200 sq mi DemonymHamiltonianTime zoneUTC 12 NZST Summer DST UTC 13 NZDT Postcode s 3200 3204 3206 3210 3214 3216Area code07Local iwiTainuiWebsitewww hamilton govt nz www waikatoregion govt nzThe area now covered by the city was originally the site of several Maori villages including Kirikiriroa from which the city takes its Maori name By the time English settlers arrived most of these villages which sat beside the Waikato River were abandoned as a result of the Invasion of Waikato and land confiscation Raupatu by the Crown Initially an agricultural service centre Hamilton now has a diverse economy and is the third fastest growing urban area in New Zealand behind Pukekohe and Auckland 7 Hamilton Gardens is the region s most popular tourist attraction Education and research and development play an important part in Hamilton s economy as the city is home to approximately 40 000 tertiary students and 1 000 PhD qualified scientists 8 Contents 1 Name 2 History 2 1 Contemporary history 3 Geography 3 1 Suburbs 3 2 Climate 4 Demographics 4 1 Culture and identity 5 Government and politics 5 1 Local government 5 1 1 Coat of arms 5 2 Central government 6 Economy 7 Culture 7 1 Music 7 2 Events 7 3 Sport 8 Media 9 City facilities and attractions 10 Hospitals 11 Transport 11 1 Air 11 2 Cycling 11 3 Road 11 3 1 Ring Road 11 3 1 1 Cobham Drive 11 3 1 2 Greenwood Street and Kahikatea Drive 11 3 1 3 Avalon Drive 11 3 1 4 Wairere Drive 11 3 1 5 Southern Links 11 3 2 Bridges 11 3 3 Buses 11 4 Rail 11 4 1 Stations 11 4 2 Freight 11 4 3 Preserved stock 11 4 4 The railway settlement 12 Education 13 Utilities 13 1 Telephone 13 2 Gas 13 3 Water 13 3 1 Reservoirs 13 4 Sewage 13 5 Electricity 14 Notable people 15 Sister cities 16 References 17 External linksName EditThe settlement was named by Colonel William Moule after Captain John Fane Charles Hamilton 9 the commander of HMS Esk who was killed in the battle of Gate Pa Tauranga 10 On 10 March 2013 a statue of Captain Hamilton was given to the city by the Gallagher Group 11 a gesture that has since been viewed as controversial by some 12 On 12 June 2020 the Hamilton City Council removed the statue at the request of local Maori iwi Waikato Tainui 13 The statue s removal has been linked to calls for the removal of statues of figures associated with colonialism and racism in New Zealand and the world which were precipitated by the protests related to the murder of George Floyd A local Maori elder Taitimu Maipi who had vandalised the statue in 2018 has also called for the city to be renamed Kirikiriroa its original Maori name 14 History EditThe area now covered by the city was originally the site of several Maori villages kainga including Te Parapara 15 Pukete Miropiko and Kirikiriroa long stretch of gravel from which the city takes its Maori name Local Maori were the target of raids by Ngapuhi during the Musket Wars 16 and several pa sites from this period can still be found beside the Waikato River In December 2011 several rua or food storage pits were found near the Waikato River bank close to the Waikato museum In 1822 Kirikiriroa Pa was briefly abandoned to escape the Musket Wars However by the 1830s Ngati Wairere s principal pa was Kirikiriroa 17 where the missionaries who arrived at that time 18 estimated 200 people lived permanently 17 A chapel and house were built at Kirikiriroa for visiting clergy 19 presumably after Benjamin Ashwell established his mission near Taupiri Between 1845 and 1855 crops such as wheat fruit and potatoes were exported to Auckland with up to 50 canoes serving Kirikiriroa Imports included blankets clothing axes sugar rum and tobacco 19 Millstones were acquired and a water wheel constructed though possibly the flour mill wasn t completed 17 However one article said Kirikiriroa flour was well known 20 Magistrate Gorst estimated that Kirikiriroa had a population of about 78 before the Invasion of Waikato via the Waikato Wars of 1863 64 The government estimated the Waikato area had a Maori population of 3 400 at the same time After the war in the Waikato large areas of land 1 2 Million Acres including the area of the present city of Hamilton were attained by the Crown under the New Zealand Settlements Act 1863 21 On 10 August 1864 the government advertised for tenders to build 10 huts and a hospital at Kirikiriroa 22 Hamilton was settled by the 4th regiment of the Waikato Militia 23 The 1st Regiment was at Tauranga the 2nd at Pirongia the 3rd at Cambridge and the 4th at Kirikiriroa 18 24 The settlement was founded on 24 August 1864 25 Many of the soldier settlers who intended to farm after the 1863 war walked off their land in 1868 due to its poor quality Much of the land was swampy or under water In 1868 Hamilton s population which was about 1 000 in 1864 dropped to 300 as farmers left 26 On 22 December 1875 the first brickworks opened in Hamilton 27 Victoria Bridge in 1910 The road from Auckland reached Hamilton in 1867 and the railway in December 1877 That same month the towns of Hamilton West and Hamilton East merged under a single borough council 28 The first traffic bridge between Hamilton West and Hamilton East known as the Union Bridge opened in 1879 It was replaced by the Victoria Bridge in 1910 The first railway bridge the Claudelands Bridge was opened in 1884 It was converted to a road traffic bridge in 1965 29 Hamilton reached 1 000 people in 1900 and the town of Frankton merged with the Hamilton Borough in 1917 24 Between 1912 and 1936 Hamilton expanded with new land in Claudelands 1912 Maeroa 1925 and Richmond modern day Waikato Hospital and northern Melville 1936 30 Hamilton was proclaimed a city in 1945 18 In the latter 19th century the areas of Te Rapa and Pukete were important sites for the kauri gum trade of the late 19th early 20th centuries being some of the southern most locations where gum could be found 31 Hood Street in 1962 The city is near the southernmost navigable reach by the settlers steam boats of the Waikato River amidst New Zealand s richest and now fertile agricultural land that was once largely Raupo and Kahikatea swamp 32 Beale Cottage is an 1872 listed building in Hamilton East From 1985 MV Waipa Delta 33 provided excursions along the river through the town centre In 2009 Waipa Delta 34 was moved to provide trips on Waitemata Harbour in Auckland 35 but replaced by a smaller boat That too ceased operation and the pontoon at Parana Park was removed in 2013 36 The Delta moved to Taupō in 2012 37 The former Golden Bay vessel 38 Cynthia Dew ran 4 days a week 39 on the river from 2012 40 but was in liquidation in December 2022 41 Contemporary history Edit Corner of Hood Street Hood Street in Hamilton Central Hamilton Central on the Waikato River is a bustling retail precinct The entertainment area is quite vibrant due to the large student population The 2008 Lonely Planet guide states that the city s main street has sprouted a sophisticated and vibrant stretch of bars and eateries that on the weekend at least leave Auckland s Viaduct Harbour for dead in the boozy fun stakes 42 Many of the city s venues and attractions are located on the old Town Belt including Hamilton Gardens Waikato Stadium Seddon Park and the Hamilton Lake Domain As of 2016 the city continues to grow rapidly Development is focused on the northern end of the city although in 2012 the council made a decision to balance the city s growth by approving an urban development to the south Traffic congestion is increasing due to population growth though the council has undertaken many road development projects to try to keep up with the rapid growth 43 State Highway 1 runs through the western and southern suburbs and has a major junction with State Highway 3 south of the city centre which contributes to congestion The Hamilton City Council is building a 2 4 lane arterial road Wairere Drive through the northern and eastern suburbs to form a 25 km suburban ring road with State Highway 1 which is due for completion in early 2015 44 while the New Zealand Transport Agency plans to complete the Hamilton section of the Waikato Expressway by 2019 easing congestion taking State Highway 1 out of the city and bypassing it to the east 45 The rapid growth of Hamilton has brought with it the side effects of urban sprawl especially to the north east of the city in the Rototuna area Further development is planned in the Rototuna and Peacocke suburbs 46 There has been significant development of lifestyle blocks adjacent to the Hamilton Urban Area in particular Tamahere and Matangi Geography EditThis section needs additional citations for verification Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources Unsourced material may be challenged and removed Find sources Hamilton New Zealand news newspapers books scholar JSTOR October 2018 Learn how and when to remove this template message Waikato River in Hamilton Central from Parana Park Hamilton s geography is largely the result of successive volcanic ash falls plus debris which swept down the Waikato River in at least two massive floods created by ash blocking the outlet of Lake Taupō In its present form the landscape originated around 20 000 years ago 20 ka after the Oruanui eruption of the Taupō Volcano The dates given for the eruption vary A 2007 study said it was between 22 5 and 14 ka 47 Another in 2004 put it 26 5 ka After the eruption Lake Taupō rose to about 145 m 476 ft above the present lake Around 20 ka the ash dam eroded and the lake rapidly fell some 75 m 246 ft creating massive floods The ash they carried formed the main Hinuera Surface into an alluvial fan of volcanic ash which extends north of Hamilton and drops about 60 m 200 ft from Karapiro The Waikato changed its course from flowing into the sea at Thames at about that time possibly just because sediment built up The peat lakes and bogs also formed about that time carbon dating gives maximum ages of 22 5 to 17 ka Due to an ice age vegetation was slow to restabilise the ash so dunes formed up to 25 m 82 ft above the local Hinuera surface The current Waikato valley had cut into the debris by about 12 ka and was further modified by the 181 AD Hatepe eruption when again Lake Taupō level fell 34 m 112 ft generating a 20 km3 4 8 cu mi flood equivalent to 5 years normal flow in just a few weeks 48 About 800 years ago aggradation began raising the river bed by about 8 m 26 ft 47 With the exceptions of the many low hills such as those around the University of Waikato Hamilton Lake Beerescourt Sylvester Road Pukete and to the west of the city and an extensive network of gullies the terrain of the city is relatively flat In some areas such as Te Rapa one old path of an ancient river can be traced The relatively soft and unconsolidated soil material is still being actively eroded by rain and runoff Hamilton Central from Somerset Heights In its natural state Hamilton and environs was very swampy in winter with 30 small lakes connected to surrounding peatlands Hamilton was surrounded by 7 large peat bogs such as Komakorau to the North and Rukuhia and Moanatuatua to the South as well as many smaller ones all of which have now been drained with only small remnants remaining 49 The total area of peat bog was about 655 km2 50 Early photos of Hamilton East show carts buried up to their axles in thick mud Up until the 1880s it was possible to row and drag a dinghy from the city to many outlying farms to the North East This swampy damp environment was at the time thought to be an ideal breeding ground for the TB bacillus which was a major health hazard in the pioneering days The first Hamilton hospital was constructed on a hill to avoid this problem One of the reasons why population growth was so slow in Hamilton until the 1920s was the great difficulty in bridging the many arms of the deep swampy gullies that cross the city Hamilton has 6 major dendritic gully complexes with the 15 km long 12 branch Kirikiriroa system being in the north of the city and the southern Mystery creek Kaipaki gully complex being the largest 51 Others are Mangakotukutuku Mangaonua and Waitawhiriwhiri 52 In the 1930s Garden Place Hill one of the many small hills sometimes referred to as the Hamilton Hills was removed by unemployed workers working with picks and shovels and model T Ford trucks The Western remains of the hill are retained by a large concrete wall The original hill ran from the present Wintec site eastwards to the old post office now casino The earth was taken 4 km north to partly fill the Maeroa gully adjacent to the Central Baptist Church on Ulster Street the main road heading north 53 Lake Rotoroa Hamilton Lake began forming about 20 000 years ago Originally it was part of an ancient river system that was cut off by deposition material and became two small lakes divided by a narrow peninsula With higher rainfall and drainage from the extensive peat land to the west the water level rose so the narrow peninsula was drowned so forming one larger lake To the north the lake is 8 m deep and in the southern hospital end 6 m deep The old dividing peninsula the start of which is still visible above water on the eastern side is only 2 m below the surface Suburbs Edit Western Hamilton suburbsBeerescourt Bader Crawshaw Deanwell Dinsdale Fitzroy Forest Lake Frankton Glenview Grandview Heights Hamilton Central Hamilton North Hamilton West Livingstone Maeroa Melville Nawton Peacocke Pukete Rotokauri St Andrews Stonebridge Te Rapa Temple View Thornton Western Heights Whitiora Eastern Hamilton suburbsAshmore Callum Brae Chartwell Chedworth Park Claudelands Enderley Fairfield Fairview Downs Flagstaff Hamilton East Harrowfield Hillcrest Huntington Magellan Rise Queenwood Ruakura Riverlea Rototuna Silverdale Somerset Heights St James Park St Petersburg Towns Suburbs in the Hamilton Urban AreaCambridge Te Awamutu Ngaruawahia Taupiri Horotiu Horsham Downs Huntly Gordonton Ōhaupō Ngahinapōuri Te Kowhai Whatawhata Tamahere Matangi Tauwhare Rukuhia Kihikihi Climate Edit Hamilton s climate is oceanic Koppen Cfb with highly moderated temperatures due to New Zealand s location surrounded by ocean As the largest inland city in the country winters are cool and mornings can feature the lowest temperatures of the North Island s main centres dropping as low as 3 C 27 F several times per year Nighttime temperatures are even cooler outside of the city Likewise summers can be some of the warmest in the country with temperatures rising over 28 C 82 F on an annual basis Hamilton also features very high humidity similar to tropical climates such as Singapore which can make temperatures feel much higher or lower than they are Ground frosts are common and snow is possible but rare The only recorded snowfall in modern times was light snowflakes in mid August 2011 during a prolonged cold period that saw snowfall as far north as Dargaville 54 Hamilton receives considerable precipitation amounting to around 1 100mm over 125 days per year This coupled with annual sunshine hours of around 2 000 makes Hamilton and the surrounding Waikato an extremely fertile region Typically summers are dry and winters are wet Fog is common during winter mornings especially close to the Waikato River which runs through the city centre Hamilton is one of the foggiest cities on earth however fog usually burns off by noon to produce sunny and calm winter days 55 Hamilton also has the lowest average wind speed of New Zealand s main centres as a result of its inland location in a depression surrounded by high hills and mountains 56 Climate data for Hamilton New Zealand 1981 2010 Month Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec YearAverage high C F 23 9 75 0 24 3 75 7 22 7 72 9 19 9 67 8 16 9 62 4 14 3 57 7 13 8 56 8 14 7 58 5 16 5 61 7 17 9 64 2 19 8 67 6 21 9 71 4 18 9 66 0 Daily mean C F 18 4 65 1 18 8 65 8 17 1 62 8 14 5 58 1 11 9 53 4 9 5 49 1 8 9 48 0 9 8 49 6 11 6 52 9 13 2 55 8 14 9 58 8 16 9 62 4 13 8 56 8 Average low C F 12 9 55 2 13 2 55 8 11 4 52 5 9 1 48 4 6 9 44 4 4 7 40 5 4 0 39 2 4 9 40 8 6 7 44 1 8 4 47 1 9 9 49 8 11 9 53 4 8 7 47 7 Average precipitation mm inches 76 3 3 00 68 7 2 70 79 4 3 13 80 3 3 16 99 7 3 93 113 2 4 46 118 2 4 65 103 4 4 07 91 5 3 60 91 9 3 62 85 0 3 35 100 7 3 96 1 108 2 43 63 Average precipitation days 1 0 mm 7 8 6 2 7 7 8 4 11 0 12 6 12 8 13 3 11 7 11 7 10 7 10 5 124 4Average relative humidity 80 5 84 3 84 7 86 4 89 9 91 4 90 8 88 2 83 2 81 9 79 1 79 9 85 0Mean monthly sunshine hours 229 8 192 9 193 3 165 1 138 3 112 8 126 4 144 1 147 5 174 8 187 1 207 6 2 019 6Source NIWA 57 Climate data for Hamilton Airport New ZealandMonth Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec YearAverage high C F 24 4 75 9 24 9 76 8 23 0 73 4 19 6 67 3 16 5 61 7 13 8 56 8 13 4 56 1 14 4 57 9 16 2 61 2 18 1 64 6 20 1 68 2 22 3 72 1 18 9 66 0 Average low C F 10 3 50 5 11 4 52 5 10 1 50 2 7 4 45 3 5 1 41 2 3 0 37 4 2 0 35 6 3 6 38 5 4 8 40 6 6 7 44 1 8 2 46 8 9 9 49 8 6 9 44 4 Source CliFlo 58 Demographics EditHistorical populationYearPop 18861 20119011 25319062 150 59 19114 655 60 19165 677192111 441192613 980193115 400 59 61 193616 150 60 194521 982 59 195129 838 60 195635 941 62 YearPop 196142 212 63 196663 000 64 197174 784 65 197687 968 66 198191 109 67 198694 511 68 1991101 448 69 1996109 043 70 2001116 604 71 2006129 588 72 2013141 612 72 2018160 911 72 New Zealand censusHamilton covers 110 37 km2 42 61 sq mi 73 and had an estimated population of 179 900 as of June 2022 4 with a population density of 1 630 people per km2 The city is home to 3 5 percent of New Zealand s population Hamilton had a population of 160 911 at the 2018 New Zealand census an increase of 19 299 people 13 6 since the 2013 census and an increase of 31 323 people 24 2 since the 2006 census There were 54 858 households comprising 78 354 males and 82 554 females giving a sex ratio of 0 95 males per female The median age was 32 2 years compared with 37 4 years nationally with 34 413 people 21 4 aged under 15 years 40 293 25 0 aged 15 to 29 67 197 41 8 aged 30 to 64 and 19 005 11 8 aged 65 or older The percentage of people born overseas was 26 9 compared with 27 1 nationally Although some people chose not to answer the census s question about religious affiliation 46 5 had no religion 36 3 were Christian 1 4 had Maori religious beliefs 3 6 were Hindu 2 2 were Muslim 1 3 were Buddhist and 3 1 had other religions Of those at least 15 years old 32 202 25 5 people had a bachelor s or higher degree and 19 701 15 6 people had no formal qualifications The median income was 30 200 compared with 31 800 nationally 19 068 people 15 1 earned over 70 000 compared to 17 2 nationally The employment status of those at least 15 was that 62 763 49 6 people were employed full time 17 631 13 9 were part time and 7 095 5 6 were unemployed 74 Largest groups of overseas born residentsNationality Population 2018 75 India 6 120China 5 541England 4 737South Africa 3 048Fiji 2 778Philippines 2 577Australia 2 316South Korea 921Samoa 765Malaysia 711Individual wards Name Area km2 Population Density per km2 Households Median age MedianincomeWest Ward 64 18 75 891 1 182 26 586 32 3 years 31 800 76 East Ward 46 19 85 020 1 841 28 269 32 2 years 28 600 77 New Zealand 37 4 years 31 800The main area of population growth is in the Flagstaff Rototuna area With its large tertiary student population at Wintec and Waikato University approximately 40 000 tertiary students Hamilton has a significant transient population 78 Hamilton is the second fastest growing population centre after Auckland In the 2013 census Roman Catholicism was the largest Christian denomination with 12 0 percent affiliating followed by Anglicanism 9 9 percent and Presbyterianism 6 3 percent Hinduism 2 9 percent Islam 1 9 percent and Buddhism 1 6 percent were the largest non Christian religions 79 Culture and identity Edit Ethnicities were 63 6 European Pakeha 23 7 Maori 6 1 Pacific peoples 18 5 Asian and 3 5 other ethnicities People may identify with more than one ethnicity 74 English is the most spoken language 94 6 followed by Te Reo Maori 6 0 Mandarin 2 2 Hindi 2 1 and Sinitic or other Chinese dialect 1 5 Percentages add up to more than 100 as people may select more than one language Government and politics EditLocal government Edit Hamilton is located in the administrative area of the Hamilton City Council The current mayor of Hamilton is Paula Southgate 80 who was first elected to the position in 2019 81 and re elected in 2022 82 The current deputy mayor is Angela O Leary 83 Hamilton City is itself part of the Waikato region controlled administratively by the Waikato Regional Council Coat of arms Edit Coat of arms of Hamilton Notes Hamilton City adopted a coat of arms in 1946 The blazon is 84 Crest A mural crown Escutcheon Barry wavy of eight argent and azure on a bend verte 3 oxen heads erased or Supporters A pukeko on either side rampant proper The city s coat of arms has received some criticism being accused of not reflecting the history and diversity of the city with suggestions that it should be changed 85 86 Central government Edit Hamilton has three electorate MPs in the New Zealand Parliament Both Hamilton East and Hamilton West electorates are considered bellwether seats The electorates are currently represented by General electorates Hamilton East Jamie Strange Labour 87 Hamilton West Tama Potaka National 88 Maori electorate Hauraki Waikato Nanaia Mahuta Labour 89 Hamilton based List MPs David Bennett National 87 Economy Edit University of Waikato campus Education and research are important to the city Hamilton is home to two institutes of higher education the University of Waikato and the Waikato Institute of Technology Wintec Research at the Ruakura research centres have been responsible for much of New Zealand s innovation in agriculture Hamilton s main revenue source is the dairy industry due to its location in the centre of New Zealand s largest dairying area Hamilton annually hosts the National Agricultural Fieldays at Mystery Creek the southern hemisphere s biggest agricultural trade exhibition Mystery Creek is the country s largest event centre and hosts other events of national importance such as Parachute Christian Music Festival the National Car Show and the National Boat Show Manufacturing and retail are also important to the local economy as is the provision of health services through the Waikato Hospital The city is home to New Zealand s largest aircraft manufacturer Pacific Aerospace which manufactured its 1 000th aircraft in August 2009 and previously Micro Aviation NZ which manufactured and exported high quality microlight aircraft 90 It also has its largest concentration of trailer boat manufacturers such as Buccaneer Hamilton is also the home of Gallagher Group Ltd a manufacturer and exporter of electric fencing and security systems Employing 600 people Gallagher has been doing business in Hamilton since 1938 Hamilton is also home to Vickers Aircraft Company a startup aircraft manufacturer making a carbon fibre amphibious aircraft called the Wave 91 Recent years have seen the firm establishment of the New Zealand base of the British flight training organisation L3 L3 trains over 350 airline pilots a year at its crew training centre at Hamilton Airport 92 Tainui Group Holdings Ltd the commercial arm of the Waikato tribe is one of Hamilton s largest property developers The Waikato tribe is one of the city s largest landowners Tainui owns land at The Base Centre Place The Warehouse Central University of Waikato Wintec the Courthouse Fairfield College and the Ruakura AgResearch centre 93 The Waikato tribe is a major shareholder of the Novotel Tainui and the Hotel Ibis It has developed the large retail centre The Base in the old Te Rapa airforce base site which was returned to Tainui following confiscation in the 1860s as part of a 1995 Treaty of Waitangi settlement In mid 2010 The Base was further expanded with Te Awa Mall complex stage 1 citation needed Many large retailers such as Farmers and other nationwide speciality chains have located at Te Awa In 2011 a further stage was opened with cinemas restaurants shops and an underground carpark The city s three major covered shopping malls are Centre Place formerly Downtown Plaza 94 in the CBD Chartwell Shopping Centre and most recently Te Awa at The Base After Farmers Hamilton moves from its existing site on corner of Alexandra and Collingwood streets into the redeveloped Centre Place in late 2013 95 each major mall will have the department store as an anchor tenant The western suburb of Frankton is home to a smaller shopping centre and long standing local furniture and home department store Forlongs 96 There are many other small suburban shopping centres or plazas often centred on a New World or Countdown supermarket such as in Rototuna Hillcrest and Glenview Culture Edit Garden Place In 2004 Hamilton City Council honoured former resident Richard O Brien with a life size bronze statue of him as character Riff Raff of The Rocky Horror Picture Show in his space suit The statue was designed by Weta Workshop props makers for The Lord of the Rings films It stands on the former site of the Embassy Cinema where O Brien watched science fiction double features 97 Several Maori Pa have been part restored at Pukete Hikuwai and Miropiko along the banks of the Waikato River The city is host to a large number of small galleries and the Waikato Museum The latter includes Te Winika one of the best preserved waka taua Maori war canoe from the pre colonisation era It is also home to one of the country s premier experimental black box theatres The Meteor Theatre Music Edit Hamilton is host to several large scale music festivals including the Soundscape music festival which is one of New Zealand s largest street parties 98 99 100 The city also hosts the Opus Chamber Orchestra which draws musicians from around the Waikato Region 101 and is the home of the New Zealand Chamber Soloists 102 An ongoing classical concert series featuring world class musicians 102 is held throughout the year at the Gallagher Concert Chamber organised by the University of Waikato Conservatorium of Music Events Edit January Parachute music festival discontinued after 2014 Festival One from 2015 February Hamilton Gardens Arts Festival Couch Soup Festival of One Act Plays March Waikato Food amp Wine Festival citation needed March Soundscape 98 March Indigo Festival citation needed April The Great Pumpkin Carnival at Hamilton Gardens 103 April Waikato Show citation needed April Armageddon Expo Sci Fi amp Comics Convention April Balloons over Waikato hot air ballooning festival April 5 Bridges River Swim 104 May Hamilton Circle Jerk music event June National Agricultural Fieldays June Hamilton Fuel Festival citation needed July Soundscape 98 Tronik DJs play at the sellout Soundscape street party August World Rally Championship August International Festival of Media Arts and Design 105 August International Film Festival September Hamilton Pride Festival Archived 15 August 2018 at the Wayback Machine September The Great Race September Hamilton Underground Film Festival 106 October Hamilton Fringe Festival 107 November Bridge to Bridge water skiing event 108 November Round the Bridges running event 109 Sport Edit The local rugby union teams are Waikato Mitre 10 Cup and the Chiefs Super Rugby The local colours are red yellow and black and the provincial mascot is Mooloo an anthropomorphic cow Both teams play at Waikato Stadium Hamilton is also home to a football club WaiBOP United that competes in the ASB Premiership during summer The winter football clubs Hamilton Wanderers and Melville United competing in the Lotto Sport Italia NRFL Premier League are also based in Hamilton Waikato Stadium Lions vs NZ Maori 2005 Seddon Park formerly Westpac Park is Hamilton s main cricket venue and hosts Test matches One Day Internationals and T20 Internationals It is the home ground of the Northern Districts Cricket Association Hamilton is fast becoming a motorsport venue as well A round of the WRC was held in 2006 and the annual V8 Supercars race on a street circuit started in 2008 and ended in 2012 Rugby league is also played in Hamilton with the two local teams Hamilton City Tigers and Hamilton Hornets College Old Boys playing in the Premier Division of the Waikato Rugby League Sailing takes place on Hamilton lake for 9 months of the year The Hamilton Yacht Club has its clubrooms slipway and ramp on the western side of Lake Rotoroa Motor boats are not allowed on the lake with an exception of the Yacht Club rescue boats Each year in April Hamilton supports the 5 Bridges swimming challenge The course starts in Hamilton Gardens and continues for 6 kilometres finishing at Ann St Beach The swim is assisted by the current with the full distance typically covered in under an hour The event celebrated its 71st year on 11 April 2010 104 Media EditThe major daily newspaper is the Waikato Times Weekly community newspapers include the Hamilton Press Hamilton News and Waikato University student magazine Nexus Local radio stations include The Breeze Free FM More FM Contact FM The Edge and The Rock two of New Zealand s most popular radio stations were originally based in Hamilton City facilities and attractions EditHamilton Gardens is the region s most popular tourist attraction and hosts the Hamilton Gardens Summer Festival each year The Base is New Zealand s second largest shopping centre with over 7 5 million visitors per year to the 190 stores Te Awa an enclosed speciality retail mall at The Base was awarded a silver medal by the International Council of Shopping Centres for the second best expansion in the Asia Pacific region 110 Other local attractions include Hamilton Zoo the Waikato Museum the Hamilton Astronomical Society Observatory the Arts Post art gallery and the SkyCity casino Just 20 minutes drive away is Ngaruawahia the location of Turangawaewae Marae and the home of Maori King Tuheitia Paki Hamilton has six public libraries located throughout the city with the Central Library housing the main reference and heritage collection Hamilton City Theaters provides professional venue and event management at two of the three theatrical venues in the city Founders Theatre closed since 2016 111 and Clarence St Theater The Meteor theatre was bought by the One Victoria Trust in 2013 after the Hamilton City Council proposed the sale of the theatre and is now privately operated St Peter s Cathedral built in 1916 is the Anglican cathedral in Hamilton on Cathedral Hill at the southern end of Victoria Street There is also St Mary s Roman Catholic cathedral on the opposite side of the river The Hamilton New Zealand Temple of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter day Saints is located in Temple View Hamilton It was opened along with the Church College of New Zealand a large high school owned by the church in the late 1950s Both the college and the temple were built by labour missionaries The school was closed in December 2009 Every year the temple hosts a large Christmas lighting show which attracts large crowds from all over the country Hospitals Edit Waikato Hospital in Hamilton West Hamilton s public hospital is Waikato Hospital with 600 beds 22 operating theatres 112 and about 5 000 worked there in 2014 113 There are two other major private hospitals in Hamilton City Braemar Hospital located in the same area that Waikato Hospital is located and Southern Cross Hospital located in Hamilton East Hamilton also has a two private primary maternity hospitals which are fully funded by the Waikato District Health Board Waterford Birth Centre and River Ridge East Birth Centre 114 Transport EditThe New Zealand Household Travel Survey 2015 2018 said that 86 of Hamilton trip legs were made by car 60 as driver 26 as passenger 10 were walking 2 cycling and 1 by bus 115 Air Edit Hamilton Airport serves as a domestic airport It is jointly owned by Hamilton City and neighbouring district councils The airport is located just outside Hamilton s boundary within the Waipa District There are direct flights with Air New Zealand to Christchurch and Wellington Origin Air to Napier Nelson and Palmerston North and with Sunair to Great Barrier Island and Whangarei also there are charter flights to other destinations throughout the North Island The airport also served as a major base for now defunct low cost airlines Freedom Air and Kiwi Air Virgin Australia offered three international flights a week to and from Brisbane Airport Sydney Airport Melbourne Airport and Gold Coast Airport However all international flights have now been discontinued primarily due to a small market The airport is the base for pilot training schools and the aircraft manufacturer Pacific Aerospace is located at the northern end of the runway Cycling Edit Hamilton has 97 km 60 mi of on road 21 km 13 mi of off road and 28 km 17 mi of riverside cycleways 116 which link the city centre with the outlying suburbs 117 118 These cycleways consist of a mixture of dedicated cycle lanes which are 1 metre wide strips either coloured green or with a painted outline of a cycle and mixed use cycle walk ways which are mainly located alongside the Waikato River 119 The City s design guide says the preferred width for cycleways is 3 m 9 8 ft 120 A cycleway was built beside Greenwood Street and Kahikatea Drive in 2015 and beside Ohaupo Road and Normandy Avenue in 2016 121 A 6 7m 2 7 km 1 7 mi Western Rail Trail opened in 2017 linking Glenview Melville and Deanwell Hamilton Girls High School Wintec and the city centre 122 Road Edit New Zealand s main road artery State Highway 1 runs through several of Hamilton s suburbs and connects with State Highway 3 at a major intersection within the city boundaries The Hamilton section of the Waikato Expressway due for completion in 2020 or possibly 2021 123 or mid 2022 124 will shift SH 1 to the east of Hamilton City effectively bypassing the city and easing congestion between commuting city traffic and through traffic It will also as expressed in a District Council report undermine the attractiveness of public transport as a mode of choice for many years to come 125 Safer Speed Areas 40 km h limits were first introduced in Hamilton in 2011 and by 2014 there were 36 of them 126 many in suburbs near the river 127 From 1864 Hamilton was on the Great South Road linking Auckland to Te Awamutu The road was gradually upgraded and renamed 128 129 130 131 Ring Road Edit As well as being bypassed by the Expressway Hamilton will also have the Ring Road and prior to those the city centre was bypassed by Anglesea Street in 1964 132 and the main road diverted from the north end of Victoria Street 133 onto Ulster Street which was extended to absorb Gurnell Avenue and form a 4 lane main road 134 by putting Waitewhiriwhiri Stream in a culvert and filling the valley 135 The Hamilton Ring Road project was initiated to free some of the city s streets from peak traffic congestion and improve connectivity around the city It consists of five segments opening between 1963 and 2024 It was linked to the Te Rapa Section of the Waikato Expressway in 2012 136 Cobham Drive Edit The first part of the ring road Cobham Drive from Tristram St to Cambridge Road was named in 1963 after the Governor General Viscount Cobham It was originally named Southern Outlet 137 It linked to SH3 along Normandy Drive 138 Prior to that the junction with SH3 had been at Victoria Street Bridge Street and SH1 had used Grey Street and Cambridge Road 139 Greenwood Street and Kahikatea Drive Edit To the west and south Greenwood Street which had existed since 1907 was extended south to Kahikatea Drive 140 which was named in 1971 141 and opened about 1974 142 143 Avalon Drive Edit The next part of the ring road on the western side opened when SH1 was diverted from the city centre to run east of the city through Nawton from 1 July 1992 144 Norton Road Extension was renamed Avalon Drive 145 The road was originally built about 1919 146 147 Wairere Drive Edit Wairere Drive forms the north east part of the ring road Initially it ran from Avalon Drive to River Road at Flagstaff via Pukete Bridge The land for it was gazetted in 1995 148 149 and the road was on the 1998 map 150 It had a 70 km h speed limit 151 The extension to Hukanui Rd was on the 2009 map 152 It was then extended from Hukanui Rd to Crosby Rd in 2010 to Ruakura Rd in 2013 136 and 5 5 km 3 4 mi to Cambridge Rd in 2014 153 when the Pukete Rd to Resolution Dr section was widened from 2 to 4 lanes 136 and roundabouts replaced with traffic lights at a cost of 84m 153 The extension from Hukanui Road to Tramway Road cost 1 5m in 2005 06 plus 3 3m in 2007 08 154 In 2008 on the budget had been over 14m 127 The road includes a 3 m 9 8 ft wide cycleway 155 Completion is planned for 2022 156 Traffic at Pukete Bridge in 2006 was 25 200 vehicles a day 157 In 2018 it was 38 400 158 In 2017 it was noted that a drop in passenger numbers on the Orbiter bus correlated with opening of the extension to Cambridge Rd in 2014 159 Southern Links Edit The final part of the ring road will be the Southern Links through Peacocke 160 Construction of the 150m bridge over the Waikato is planned between 2020 and 2023 161 The plan for the area says it is intended that the arterial routes also make provision for alternative modes of transport such as light rail by maintaining corridors 162 Bridges Edit Fairfield Bridge in central Hamilton Claudlands Bridge Waikato Claudelands Bridge Hamilton NZ Taken from just below the Bridge Street bridge The six road bridges that cross the river 163 are often the focus of morning and evening traffic delays The six road bridges within the city are from north to south Pukete Bridge Fairfield Bridge Whitiora Bridge Claudelands Bridge Victoria Bridge Cobham BridgeIn addition to the road bridges within the city the Horotiu bridge is located approximately 10 km north of the city centre and the Narrows Bridge approximately 10 km to the south The Narrows bridge was closed for reconstruction of its piles in September 2010 164 In Jan 2011 widening of the 1 km approach road Wairere Drive to Pukete bridge began The bridge was expanded to 4 lanes in early 2013 The river is also crossed by a rail bridge and a pedestrian bridge Claudelands Rail Bridge Pukete Flagstaff Pedestrian Sewer Bridge see Sewage section below Buses Edit Main article Public transport in Hamilton and WaikatoHamilton has buses linking the CBD to most of its suburbs and an Orbiter service linking many of those suburbs to each other to suburban shopping centres the hospital university etc Rail Edit Stations Edit Main articles Hamilton Railway Station New Zealand and Hamilton Central railway station Waikato Hamilton s station is located in Frankton at the junction of the East Coast Main Trunk line ECMT and the North Island Main Trunk line NIMT A disused platform on the ECMT lies beneath the CBD 165 In 2006 a study was done into a possible re introduction of daily commuter train services to Auckland and the benefits that might flow from it 166 The new service dubbed Te Huia commenced on 6 April 2021 Freight Edit Hamilton s rail network serves as a major hub for the distribution of dairy products to the ports of Auckland and Tauranga This hub is located on Crawford St on land that was formerly part of the Te Rapa Marshalling Yard just north of the locomotive depot 167 Te Rapa is at the northern end of the 25 kV AC 50 Hz electrification between Hamilton and Palmerston North Preserved stock Edit Hamilton also has two locomotives on display NZR F class 230 was donated by Ellis amp Burnand the central North Island sawmillers in 1956 for static display Formerly used as the yard engine at their Mangapehi sawmill it was placed on display at Lake Rotoroa and its boiler filled with concrete This engine has become a 0 4 2ST in later years following the loss of her rear coupling rod NZR DSA 230 TMS DSA359 a 0 6 0DM diesel shunting locomotive built by English Electric for the Drewry Car Company was withdrawn in 1986 and placed on display at Frankton minus its Gardner 8L3 diesel engine and transmission It was moved in the early 2000s with its shelter to Minogue Park where it was united with an open seating wagon built on the underframe of wagon W 960 built in 1946 and converted to Way amp Works wagon E 7784 in April 1966 168 The railway settlement Edit From the arrival of the railway in Hamilton Frankton was a railway town In 1923 the suburb became even more railway orientated when the Frankton Junction Railway House Factory opened producing the famous George Troup designed railway houses sent to many North Island railway settlements which are now sought after pieces of real estate Its 60 workers 169 produced almost 1400 pre fabricated railway houses at a peak rate of 400 a year using rimu and matai from the railway s central North Island forests When in 1926 government cuts reduced the need for railway houses the factory also started to supply houses for local councils 170 Those supplied to Lower Hutt were claimed to be 500 cheaper than comparable houses 171 The sawmill also produced everything else such as signal masts and boxes bridges sleepers and even furniture for railway stations It was too efficient for private builders who got the housing factory closed in 1929 When it finally closed in the 1990s it was very dilapidated but NZHPT supported restoration of the Category 1 historic place retaining original windows big sliding doors and the saw tooth roof 172 It is now home to a range of businesses 173 Frankton also was home to the Way and Works depot still in operation as the KiwiRail Network depot This was connected to the main line by a short siding that ran past the factory this line was last used in 1997 when a shunting locomotive retrieved two flat wagons from the Way and Works depot citation needed The railway workers community was centred largely around the W amp W depot and sawmill containing some 200 houses and a Railways Social Hall 174 Many of the houses are still in place the majority being the classic 90sq2 three bedroom design used as standard across New Zealand for railway staff 175 Education EditSee also List of schools in Waikato New Zealand Hamilton City Hamilton is home to more than 40 000 tertiary students mostly enrolled in one of the city s three main tertiary institutes the University of Waikato Waikato Institute of Technology and Te Wananga o Aotearoa As well as state and private primary intermediate and high schools it also notably includes a number of Kura Kaupapa Maori primary schools offering education in the Maori language The city has seven state secondary schools in a clockwise direction from north Rototuna High School in Rototuna Fairfield College in Fairfield Hamilton Boys High School in Hamilton East Hillcrest High School in Silverdale Melville High School in Melville Hamilton Girls High School in the central city and Fraser High School in Nawton Both Boys and Girls High offer boarding facilities A new state secondary school is opened for the Rototuna area to serve the booming north eastern corner of the city The project had been delayed several years as the previous secondary school serving the area Fairfield College was below capacity The new secondary school opened in 2016 176 Additionally Hamilton is home to a number of state integrated and private schools There are numerous state integrated Catholic primary schools throughout the city Sacred Heart Girls College and St John s College are the integrated Catholic high schools for girls and boys respectively Southwell School is a private co educational Anglican primary school Waikato Diocesan School for Girls is an integrated Anglican high school 176 St Paul s Collegiate School is a private high school for boys also accepting girls from Year 11 All three Anglican schools are boarding and day schools Hamilton Christian School is a private coeducational nondenominational Christian school for Years 1 13 founded in 1982 Utilities EditAlthough telegraph came to Hamilton with the 1864 invasion which established the town it was quite late in developing its gas 1895 water 1903 sewage 1907 and electricity supplies 1913 probably because its population remained low in 1911 Hamilton s population was 3 542 and Frankton s 1 113 177 Optical cables and microwave towers now provide telecommunications links gas is supplied by pipeline from Taranaki water from the Waikato River by the Water Treatment Station at Waiora Terrace sewage flows for treatment at Pukete and electricity comes from the national grid Restrictions are still placed on garden sprinklers in summer and the Pukete sewage works was still not always meeting discharge Resource consent conditions in 2013 178 Telephone Edit A telegraph line from Auckland came shortly after the invasion 179 reaching Whatawhata Te Awamutu and Cambridge by October 1864 180 Telephones came to Hamilton from 1882 180 Hamilton got a telephone exchange in 1904 with 39 subscribers 181 Hamilton telephones were put on an automatic exchange between 1915 182 and 1920 180 From the 1950s Hamilton was linked into the network of microwave towers via the towers at Te Aroha and Te Uku Gas Edit Auckland Gas Company had been set up in 1862 but it wasn t until the Hamilton Gasworks Act 1895 that Henry Atkinson son of the manager of Auckland gasworks 183 was allowed to set up a gasworks in Clarence St on allotment 322 see photo of the 1 Archived 16 October 2015 at the Wayback Machine and put gas pipes under the streets Work started on laying about 50 tons of pipes in July 1895 184 Clarence St gasworks in 1967 with Pembroke Rd Pembroke La Thackeray St Tristram St in background Hamilton including city buildings It also allowed the city to purchase after 12 years at a price determined by arbitration 185 A 1907 referendum authorised the city council to take over the gasworks In 1911 the Privy Council set the purchase price at 34 402 14 3d 5 7m at 2017 prices 186 half of which was for goodwill 187 A 100 000 cubic feet 2 800 m3 gasholder was authorised in 1911 188 In 1913 the works was expanded and mains laid over the railway bridge into Hamilton East and along Ohaupo Rd 189 As well as gas coke tar and tar paint were produced 190 Additions were made to the works as late as 1961 191 Waikato coal was mixed with coal shipped via Greymouth and Raglan from 1964 until 25 March 1970 when Hamilton switched to natural gas and the gasworks closed The site was cleaned up after demolition in the 1990s but is still monitored by Regional Council for contamination 192 Hamilton was one of the original nine towns and cities in the North Island to be supplied with natural gas when the Kapuni gas field enters production in 1970 Gas from the Kapuni field in south Taranaki was transported north via a 373 km long 200 mm diameter pipeline to Papakura in south Auckland with Hamilton supplied via an offtake at Temple View 193 Water Edit By 1890 complaints were being made of a shortage of water in the wells and tanks 194 In 1902 a poll of ratepayers approved borrowing 5 000 to set up a water supply 195 In 1903 3 2 km 2 mi of pipes supplied water to 80 properties in Victoria Anglesea Collingwood Clarence and Selkirk streets and the borough turncock reported average use at 15 imperial gallons 68 L a day 196 average consumption is now 224 litres 49 imp gal a day 197 By 1908 nearly all of Hamilton West had piped water extended to Frankton and Claudelands in 1912 198 A contract to pump the water into a tower was let in 1912 199 By 1916 200 a 75 foot high 23 m water tower on Lake Rd 201 had been built to give extra pressure mainly for the Fire Brigade 202 whose station opened in 1917 203 Use was reported as 6 942 000 imperial gallons 31 558 957 L in the month of August 1918 204 In 1931 the system was upgraded with larger pipes and an 86 ft 26 m tower on Ruakiwi Rd holding 2 600 000 imp gal 11 819 834 L 205 Until 1939 on Sundays visitors could climb the tower for 6d 206 The old tower remained until 1966 207 A treatment works was built in 1923 208 using candy filters and supplying water at 75psi 201 The 1930 Hillsborough Terrace Water Treatment Station had a maximum continuous capacity slightly over 30 megalitres per day ML d By 1970 peak demands exceeded 45 ML d with the average annual daily demand being around 25 ML d but the site was too small to expand So Waiora Terrace Station Glenview opposite Hamilton Gardens was commissioned in mid 1971 It was designed for a maximum capacity of 65 ML d expandable to 190 ML d 209 was increased to approximately 85ML d with the addition of polymer dosing in the 1980s 210 and by 2010 had a capacity of 106 ML d 197 It was built to a Patterson Candy design with coagulation rapid sand gravity filtration and chlorine gas disinfection 211 Chlorine is added at 0 3 ppm and fluoride has been added since 1966 though with a brief withdrawal in 2013 14 and referendums supporting it in 2006 212 and 2013 213 The river water has 0 2 to 0 4 ppm 209 fluoride which is increased to around 0 75ppm 197 through the station Arsenic in the Waikato River is also monitored It can be about 3 times above the WHO limit but treatment effects a 5 fold reduction to a level which meets the standards 214 From river level the water is pumped up to 8 reservoirs which uses 410 kWh of power for each million litres of water pumped 197 To cope with river levels below the intake pipes a floating pumping platform was installed in 2016 It can pump up to 70 million litres a day 215 Average use in 2010 was 224 litres per day per person The 2006 population was 129 249 so total annual consumption was a bit over 10 000 million litres using over 4 million kWh 197 A Hamilton City map shows the location of water stormwater and sewage infrastructure and a description of the water distribution system is in this 2001 HCC Strategic Planning document Reservoirs Edit A 24 million litre reservoir opened at Kay Road in north Rototuna in 2017 216 providing Hamilton s ninth reservoir the others being at Dinsdale 2 Fairfield Hillcrest Maeroa Pukete and as above at Ruakiwi 217 A 12 million litre reservoir will be added at Ruakura in 2020 218 Sewage Edit Sewage long lagged behind other utilities Initially sections were large enough for septic tanks to work as well as they could in peatlands but it wasn t long before the 1882 drainage scheme 208 was used for sewage connections By 1904 complaints were being made about the blocked insanitary drain between Victoria and Anglesea Streets resulting in a faltering start on a night soil service The 1907 referendum which approved purchase of the gasworks also agreed to raise a loan for sewage pipes though rejected a plan for a steam 219 tram 198 In 1917 Mayor Ellis rejected the Health Minister s suggestion saying it was impossible to afford a sewage farm 220 By 1919 only about a third of the city had sewers 221 but between 1923 and 1925 considerable progress was made and sewage reticulation was further extended in 1933 However there was a sewage related epidemic in Melville in 1940 and Melville Fairfield and Hillcrest were added to the sewer network from 1949 Although by 1956 80 of Hamilton had sewage pipes it was only piped to 14 septic tanks 17 when replaced in 1976 222 which were emptied several times a year either into the Waitawhirwhiri Stream or directly into the Waikato 198 In 1956 the Pollution Advisory Council said the daily flow of sewage effluent and trade wastes from Hamilton City is three million gallons in effect partly digested sludge and raw sewage is being disposed of into the Waikato River Downstream from Hamilton contaminants increased 10 times between the 1950s and the early 1970s 223 The 1953 Water Pollution Act set up a Pollution Advisory Council but it had no control powers until 1963 224 Pukete sewer bridge 165m long 14 m high built mid 1970s Photo 2015 In 1964 the Department of Health ordered adequate treatment for the sewage Steven and Fitzmaurice Consulting Engineers presented a plan to Council early in 1966 There was some work on piping new areas in 1966 but work on the major trunks and interceptors didn t start until 1969 and building at Pukete sewage works started in January 1972 The first sewage was treated in July 1975 and was fully connected early in 1977 222 Prestressed concrete box girder bridge over Kirikiriroa Stream at Tauhara Gully Photo 2015 The trunk lines needed a 165 metre long 541 ft bridge about 14 m 46 ft above the Waikato another prestressed concrete box girder bridge over Kirikiriroa Stream at Tauhara Gully and 2 steel pipe bridges over other gullies The River bridge was designed by Murray North Partners and the others by council engineers 222 The Pukete sewage works cost 12 5m 160m at 2015 prices It now cleans 40 million litres 11 000 000 US gal day which is aerated for about 2 hours in a sedimentation tank disinfected with chlorine dechlorinated with sulphur dioxide and discharged into the Waikato through a diffuser outfall on the river bed 225 CH2M Beca successor to the previous engineers upgraded the plant from 1998 to 2002 to improve nitrogen BOD and suspended solids levels with a change from chlorination to UV treatment and biogas and natural gas 1 5 million watts 2 000 hp cogeneration units able to power the treatment processes and export surplus to the grid 226 A further 5 year upgrade started about 2009 expanding and improving the plant including phosphorus removal 227 Despite the improvements there have been on going problems In 2012 the council was prosecuted for a sewage sludge spill 228 and consent conditions were breached in 2013 due to a bacterial problem 178 In 2014 up to 800 m3 180 000 imp gal of untreated sewage got into the river 229 There are also problems with pumping stations Out of over 130 up to 20 fail each month 230 Electricity Edit Hamilton was also late in getting electricity Reefton had electricity from 1888 Some Hamiltonians had their own dynamos from about 1912 the year the first licence was given for building lines and a generating plant in the Frankton Town Board area It cost over 8 000 about 1 3m in 2017 prices 186 for the initial network powered by two 45 kW 60 hp DC Brush generators in Kent St driven by two 4 cylinder 90 hp 67 kW suction gas engines suction gas engines used low pressure gas from coal 231 which started on 23 April 1913 officially opened by Prime Minister Massey on 4 June Lighting was provided for streets houses and the Empire Hotel in Frankton initially only from 7 30am to 5pm using a labourer a meter reader and two linesmen Electricity was sold at 10d 2015 equivalent 15 per kWh The first Chief Electrical Engineer was Mr A Beale followed by Lloyd Mandeno 1913 1916 and Israel Jack Webster who stayed for nearly 40 years From May 1916 Hamilton was connected and in 1917 the supply area was widened to a 5 mile radius and an 80 kW 110 hp and then two more 45 kW 60 hp sets were added at Kent St 232 Despite this by 1920 Frankton was unable to cope with demand The mayor P H Watts proposed buying a second hand steam plant for 17 000 but it was rejected at a poll on 23 April 1920 The mayor 6 councillors and the electricity staff all resigned 233 The problem was resolved by a link to Horahora Power Station completed like Frankton in 1913 In 1919 it was bought by the government and by 1921 an 11 kV AC line linked it to Hamilton 232 allowing the noisy smoky Kent St power station to close in July 1922 234 by which time it was rated at 170 kW 235 There were over 1 500 connections in Hamilton by 1923 Undergrounding began in 1926 when the 11 kV cable was extended from Peachgrove Rd to Seddon Rd sub station By 1928 the Council had 3 381 consumers and charges were down to 6d per kWh for lighting and 2d per kWh for power and heating By 1935 4 458 were connected with 55 mi 89 km of line and lighting was down another penny By 1950 the 11 kV rings in Hamilton East and Claudelands were finished Soon afterwards mercury vapor street lighting was installed in London Street and Norton Rd 33kV gas and oil filled cables were laid from 1960 and switched on in April 1974 By 1987 there were 12 247 connections 291 km 181 mi of line and charges down to 6 577c kWh 232 about 13c in 2015 prices In 2015 prices varied from 11 31 to 22 92 cents per kWh 236 Legislation in 1988 amalgamated 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