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1870
The Auckland Acclimatisation Society first liberates opossums in the region, somewhere along the Wairoa River between Hunua and Clevedon. It is unclear whether this introduction is successful or not. By the 1940s, however, opossums are numerous in the Hunua Ranges, although an official eradication programme does not begin until the 1960s (see also 8 August 1964).
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1 January 1870
Post offices are first established at Tuakau (see also 18 March 1914) and 'Pakekohe East' (the name is changed to Pukekohe East on 1 January 1874). The Pukekohe East post office is closed on 28 February 1931.
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17 January 1870
A group of local businessmen and landowners meet in Papakura and agree to lobby for work to begin on an Auckland to Hamilton railway line.
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20 January 1870
Frederic Otto, a new immigrant from Germany, begins work on James Wallace's farm in Mangere. He finds the work demanding, the countryside bare and dull, and his employer dour and uncommunicative.
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February 1870
John de Carteret establishes a flax mill at Alfriston. This is one of several mills which flourish over the years along the banks of the Papakura stream.
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2 February 1870
A post office is first established at 'Pakekohe West'. The name is changed to Pukekohe West on 1 January 1874, and to Pukekohe on 1 June 1877 (see also 18 September 1909).
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21 March 1870
The newly formed Mangere and Otara cricket teams meet for the first time in Mr Every McLean's paddock at East Tamaki. A fortnight later they hold a return match in Mr Bowden's paddock at Otahuhu. During the early 1870s country cricket teams from Mangere, Otara or East Tamaki, and Otahuhu are active. A Papakura team is also formed in 1874 (see also 21 February 1874). The Otahuhu team is one of the longest lived (see also 30 March 1878).
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7 May 1870
The Waikato Steam Navigation & Mining Company is established at Ngaruawahia. In 1882 this merges with the Waikato Coal Company to become the Waikato Coal & Shipping Company.
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22 May 1870
Members of the Pollok Special Settlement, adherents of the Scotch Presbyterian Church, open their new church. They open a school in the building soon afterwards. The tiny settlement, which evidently suffers from sectarian or religious differences, shortly afterwards gains a second Presbyterian church and a second school (see also 14 June 1870).
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June 1870
Settler Ambrose Trust builds a wooden cottage for his surviving family on a property beside the Whitford to Howick Road (see also 24 August 2004).
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Photo: Ambrose Trust's cottage on the Howick to Whitford Road, 1979. (Manukau Libraries, MCH: I, 2 no. 50)

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1 June 1870
The Auckland Provincial police force is absorbed into the New Zealand Armed Constabulary, retitled the New Zealand Constabulary Force in 1877 (see also 1 September 1886).
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9 June 1870
There are reports of a rich discovery of gold at Otau. These cause much excitement, but are evidently exaggerated, because mining never gets underway at Otau, unlike nearby Whitford (see also 10 March 1871). Rumours of gold in the Hunuas recur until at least 1911.
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14 June 1870
A schoolroom which is also used intended for use as a Presbyterian church is dedicated at Pollok. This is the tiny settlement's second church and school (see also March 1871). It has been built largely by adherents to the Church of Scotland, and after a purpose-built school is erected in 1883, is largely used as a church (see also 30 September 1984).
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21 June 1870
Justices of the Peace meeting at Drury refuse an application by Charles Hopkinson for a license for a hotel at the Miranda Redoubt. (However, a hotel known as the Bay View Hotel is established in the vicinity within two years.)
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27 July 1870
The Mercer to Thames branch telegraph line is opened.
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30 July 1870
The first recorded funeral takes place at the newly erected St Brigid's Catholic Church at Maketu. Maketu, later known as Ramarama, is largely a Catholic settlement, and St Brigid's at the time is the only Catholic church apart from Waipipi in the area between Otahuhu and the Waikato River. A school is soon afterwards established there (see also 20 March 1871). The church building burns down in 1890 (see also 29 November 1896).
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4 October 1870
Governor Sir George Bowen visits Waiuku. Later in the same month he also visits the Mauku district.
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11 November 1870
By this date a school has been established at Tuakau (see also 8 March 1922).
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15 November 1870
The 'Papatoitoi' Post Office, based in the Raglan Hotel, is renamed the 'Woodside' Post Office (see also 1 May 1875).
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19 December 1870
The Waiuku Band of Hope, a children's temperance organisation, is formed in connection with the local Methodist church Sunday School (see also 25 August 1888).
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