kilbirnie

1. the hub of the eastern suburbs. Could do with a lick of paint.
2. a middle-class blue collar place with sea views stuck to a snib of land joining the rest of Wellington to Miramar.
2a. a place with a good beach in Lyall Bay, which although regarded as a suburb in its own right is also a child of Kilbirnie
3. a windbreak for antarctic chills

king, annette

1. Labour MP for Rongotai, an electorate spanning the eastern and southern suburbs and chatham islands.
2. minister in charge of fixing broken things. a safe pair of hands.
3. Quite a nice lady too, I've met her.

hataitai

1. the most misprounounced suburb name in the history of time, somehow mutated from ha-taitai to hai-taitai), to blazes with the spelling. an interested linguistic note about speech patterns.
1a. originally "whataitai", the name of a mythological taniwha.
1b. if you follow this link, it explains what a taniwha is.
2. residential area on the eastern side of Mount Victoria (hill). pleasantly uneventful place.
3. Suburb at the end of two tunnels, one for cars and people and the other for buses.