History
The City of Wellington has subsumed independent boroughs including:
- Melrose in 1903
- Onslow (Khandallah/Ngaio) in 1919
- Karori in 1920
- Miramar in 1921
- Johnsonville, formerly a Town Board, in 1953
- Tawa in 1989
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