A lower hutt suburb is getting a well over due spell check.
The council has voted this afternoon to support an application to change the spelling of Petone to Pito One; meaning "end of the sand beach."
That was its original name in keeping with the local Pa, but following a colonial settlement it was apparently misspelt in 1850 and it stuck.
The Lower Hutt council was asked to support an application to the geographic board to change it back to its rightful moniker.
Here's what some local residents had to say. Mayor Campbell Barry speaks to Lisa Owen.
