Carterton

Carterton is a small metropolis within the Wellington Region of New Zealand and the seat of the Carterton District a territorial authority or neighborhood authority’s district. It lies in a farming place of the Wairarapa in New Zealand's North Island. It is located 14 kilometers southwest of Masterton and eighty kilometers northeast of Wellington. The city has a populace of 5, 320 out of a complete district populace of 9,340. Carterton was the primary region inside the international to select a transgender mayor, Georgina Beyer.

Beyer went on to set some other international's first report, becoming the MP for Wairarapa in 1999. On 7 January 2012, a hot air balloon crashed just north of the city, killing eleven people and making headlines around the arena. The balloon got here into touch with a high-voltage electricity line offering the city, ensuing within the balloon catching fireplace and the city losing strength in brief. In 1956, together with Masterton, Carterton have become the joint first metropolis in New Zealand to apply the 111 Emergency Numbers.