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1910
David Nathan buys a 100-acre property in Hill Road, Manurewa, for a weekend and summer retreat. He calls the property 'The Hill'. He later adds a storey to the existing house and moves his family there permanently, establishing a show-piece garden in the grounds (see also 22 December 1923).
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12 February 1910
The foundation stone of St Luke's Anglican Church, Manurewa, is laid. The first stage of the church is dedicated on 5 June 1910. A church hall is built in 1924 and later extended; the original church is extended by the addition of a new chancel and memorial sanctuary in 1953; and a new church is built on an adjacent site in 1982.
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Photo: St Luke's Anglican Church, Russell Road, Manurewa, 1979. (Manukau Libraries, MCH: I, 2 no. 137)

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2 March 1910
The surveyor William Breakell reports on a proposed drainage scheme for the Whangamarino swamp, southwest of Mercer. He suggests the work would be prohibitively expensive and a wilful waste of time and money.
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8 March 1910
A money order office is opened at the Manurewa Post Office. This is Manurewa's first and only banking facility until the Bank of New Zealand also sets up an agency in the town about 1923. On 30 October 1939 the National Bank also opens an agency, but both agencies are closed during the war (see also 1 April 1946).
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1 April 1910
The Hospitals and Charitable Institutions Act 1909 comes into force. This divides New Zealand into 36 hospital districts. These include a new Auckland Hospital District covering the Rodney, Waitemata, Eden and Manukau Counties and administered by a triennally-elected Auckland Hospital and Charitable Aid Board. With some modifications, this system - and the Auckland Hospital Board - endures until 1989 (see also 11 December 1989).
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2 April 1910
The Auckland Golf Club opens its new course at 'Middlemore' near Otahuhu (it has moved there from One Tree Hill).
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5 April 1910
A public meeting is held to discuss building a Protestant interdenominational church at Otaua, to be shared by Anglicans, Presbyterians and Methodists. The church is opened in December 1910.
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17 June 1910
The presbytery of the Otahuhu Presbyterian Church resolves to offer the Whitford Public Hall Committee the use of a section it owns in the Whitford Village. A hall has been built on the site by 1912 (see also 11 October 1958).
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17 August 1910
A post office is opened at Mangatangi. (It is closed on 12 December 1936.)
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October 1910
Papakura's first Boy Scout troop is founded. This lasts only a few years, but a new troop is founded in the town in 1926 (see also 11 April 1926).
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27 October 1910
A railway request stop is established at Mangere. This is initially known as the Mangere Road station, or Mangere Crossing, but from 5 February 1911 is officially known just as Mangere (see also 25 October 2005).
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16 December 1910
Farmlets in a new subdivision in the Favona area of Mangere are auctioned. Advertised attractions include clean country air, access to the Manukau Harbour, and proximity to the Otahuhu railway station (see also 9 February 1911).
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28 December 1910
The newly formed Pakuranga Sports Committee holds its first annual athletics meeting at Pigeon Mountain (the event is discontinued about 1914).
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5 January 1911
Members of the newly formed Buckland Tennis Club buy land from the Yates Seed Farm for a tennis court.
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31 January 1911
On the election trail, Prime Minister Sir Joseph Ward visits Otahuhu, Takanini - where he inspects the aeroplane 'Manurewa' under construction - Papakura, Clevedon, Hunua, Patumahoe, Waiuku and Pukekohe, all in one day.
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6 February 1911
The solicitor, Edward Russell, buys 819 acres of land in Manurewa, and later builds a fine English cottage-style house he calls 'Sunlands' there.
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9 February 1911
R. & W. Hellaby Ltd opens a new abattoir at Westfield, near Otahuhu, moving its operations there from Westmere. Like the existing AFFCO and Auckland City Council operations, this drains its wastes directly into the Mangere inlet, polluting the uper reaches of the Manukau Harbour (see also 30 March 1920).
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9 February 1911
Auckland brothers Leo and Vivian Walsh make the first confirmed successful controlled aeroplane flight in New Zealand, at 'Glenora Park' racecourse in Takanini. Their aircraft is called Manurewa ['soaring bird'] Number One. (The date of the flight is sometimes given incorrectly as 5 February 1911.)
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16 February 1911
Representatives of the road boards in Manukau County meet to consider a proposal to bring the Counties Act into force again in Manukau County. They object to reviving the county under its unwieldy 1876 boundaries and instead propose dividing it into two parts. These are what become the new Manukau County and Franklin County (see also 1 April 1912).
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March 1911
The Hunua Gorge road is opened for vehicles. This facilitates access to both the district, which had previously been reached via the difficult Sky High Road from Clevedon, and the scenic Hunua waterfall (see also 7 January 1926).
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