Durie Hill

Durie Hill
Suburb
Durie Hill Memorial Tower
Durie Hill Memorial Tower
Map
Coordinates: 39°56′17″S 175°04′07″E / 39.938026°S 175.068702°E / -39.938026; 175.068702
CountryNew Zealand
CityWhanganui
Local authorityWhanganui District Council
Area
[1]
 • Land257 ha (635 acres)
Population
 (June 2023)[2]
 • Total2,270
Whanganui East
Bastia Hill
(Whanganui River) Whanganui Central
Durie Hill
 Okoia
Putiki Marybank

Durie Hill is a suburb of Whanganui, in the Whanganui District and Manawatū-Whanganui region of New Zealand's North Island.

The suburb was designed in 1920 by Samuel Hurst Seager as a garden suburb based on garden-city planning principles. It was designed with curvilinear streets, reserves, croquet lawns and tennis courts.[3]

The Durie Hill Elevator connects the suburb with Anzac Parade.[4] The elevator and tunnel were proposed by Wanganui Chronicle editor John Ball and Technical School engineering instructor Edward Crow, but most residents of the new suburb refused to fund it.[5][6]

A revitalisation programme was launched in 2019, including the introduction of planter boxes and the founding of a village market.[7]

  1. ^ Cite error: The named reference Area was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  2. ^ "Population estimate tables - NZ.Stat". Statistics New Zealand. Retrieved 25 October 2023.
  3. ^ Schrader, Ben (11 March 2020). "City planning - Planning between the world wars". Te Ara - the Encyclopedia of New Zealand. Ministry for Culture and Heritage.
  4. ^ "Durie Hill Elevator and Tower". Visit Whanganui. Whanganui District Council. Retrieved 12 April 2016.
  5. ^ Smart, Maxwell J.G.; Bates, Arthur P. (1972). The Wanganui Story. Wanganui: Wanganui Newspapers Ltd. p. 187.
  6. ^ Wrigglesworth, Karen (2 January 2011). "Wanganui, NZ: Durie Hill Tunnel & Elevator". Geeky Getaways. Retrieved 12 April 2016.
  7. ^ Brooks, Paul (27 June 2019). "Durie Hill team steps up". New Zealand Media and Entertainment. Wanganui Midweek.