Who doesn’t love a good founding story? Whether a corporation, school or spectacular event, there was initially someone with grand dreams: Suzie Moncrieff dreaming up WOW, the World of WearableArt, or the young Woolf Fisher and Maurice Paykel (and their dads) starting in the 1930s as importers of washing machines before manufacturing their own.
Our cities are harder to pin down to a single visionary. Granted, Wellington has theand the South Island’s cities were visited by whalers in the 1830s before the immigrant ships arrived.
