Businesswire article by Pattrick Smellie
Contact Energy Ltd, the listed electricity and gas supplier, announced today it was outsourcing up to 60 back office retail processing jobs from its Lower Hutt process centre to one of the fastest growing companies in the Middle East and India, Wipro Technologies. Read more »

Media release – New Zealand Police
Part of a Lower Hutt residential street remain cordoned off today while fire and police investigators attempt to determine the cause of a large blaze that has destroyed or extensively damaged six addresses. Read more »

Media release – Hutt City Council
The Minister of Civil Defence John Carter today visited the Hutt Valley Emergency Management Office to learn more about how New Zealand local authorities can be better prepared for managing emergencies. Read more »

Press release – Victoria University of Wellington
Te Māori – the ground-breaking exhibition of Māori art that toured the United States will be commemorated and celebrated at a breakfast at the Waiwhetū marae in Lower Hutt. Read more »

Newswire article by Tory Regan
Shops along Wellington’s Lambton Quay “golden mile” are emptying at a faster rate than the rise in unemployment, with nearly 7% showing “for lease” signs.

The trend is similar in Hutt Valley retail centres, with 50 empty shops in the two Hutt cities, and Lower Hutt suffering more than its neighbour. Read more »

Wellington.Scoop
by Lindsay Shelton
It opened in 1975 as New Zealand’s first custom-built national television centre. But the gradual abandonment of Avalon Studios began almost immediately, as control of the public television system started to move north.
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Media release – NZ Police
A distinctive folder containing rare stamps was stolen from an exhibition in Lower Hutt at the weekend.
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Press Release – TheNewDowse
CRAFT 2.0 Saturday 11 April 2009, 10am – 3pm / free entry supported by Felt, Cafe Reka, World Sweet World and Phantom at TheNewDowse, 45 Laings Road, Lower Hutt.
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Press release – Greater Wellington Regional Council
Naenae Station and subway will be closed for four days over Easter, so the subway can be cleaned and made safer.
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Press Release: New Zealand Police

It’s four weeks on Saturday since 50-year-old Stephen Baden Adams left his Lower Hutt home indicating he was driving to Wairarapa to visit his mother’s grave. He hasn’t been seen or heard from since and distraught family and friends are desperate to know what has happened to him.

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