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1 January 2000
Graffiti mural artist, Jason Mokotupu, depicts the "energy of the day" (i.e. the first day of the millennium) in a work commissioned for the walls of a Hayman Park toilet block. The same artist has already been involved in works on the walls of the Manukau People's Centre in Halver Road and shop walls near the Manurewa railway station.
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23 January 2000
Mangere businessman George Hoskins, South Auckland's first Olympic athlete, dies. Mr Hoskins had held a number of Auckland and New Zealand distance records during the 1950s and represented New Zealand in the 1500 metres at the 1952 Helsinki Olympic Games.
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24 January 2000
A new combined cycle power station ('Otahuhu B') is opened on beside the existing Otahuhu A power station. Contact Energy soon afterwards announces plans for yet another power station on the site (see also 22 May 2001).
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30 January 2000
Papakura District Council sets a deadline for the closure of a skate park in Elliott Street after numerous complaints from local residents about noise, graffiti, litter and burglaries. Similar problems have been reported previously in Takanini, and are reported afterwards about a skate ramp in Taka Street. Nonetheless, the following year the Council sets aside $200,000 to establish yet more skate parks in the city.
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February 2000
Plans by international landscape architect Peter Walker for the proposed Highbrook industrial estate on the Waiouru Peninsula, East Tamaki, are released. The estate will include 110 hectares of commercial land and 60 hectares of reserves (see also 9 March 2007).
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19 February 2000
The exhibition 'Toi O Manukau - City Treasures' opens at the Fisher Gallery, Pakuranga. This brings together paintings, sculptures, photographs, glassware and ceramics from the Manukau City Council art collection, and includes works by artists such as Fatu Feu'u, Dick Frizzell, Emily Karaka, Richard Killeen, Emily Karaka, John Pule and Marte Szirmay (see also 30 October 2008).
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23 February 2000
Franklin District Council hands over responsiblity for its libraries to the Franklin District Library Trust. In September 2000 the Trust adopts the name 'Bookinopolis' for its libraries.
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27 February 2000
The Hauraki Gulf Marine Park Act is passed. The Hauraki Gulf Forum, set up under the act to manage the park, includes representatives of Government departments (Conservation, Fisheries and Maori Affairs), tangata whenua, and local authorities in the Auckland and Waikato regions (see also 22 March 2005).
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March 2000
The official opening of Mary MacKillop Catholic Primary School, McNaughton Avenue, Mangere, is held. This occupies the site of the former Southern Cross Junior School, which has been moved to the main Southern Cross campus (formerly Nga Tapuwae College).
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10 March 2000
The Queen Elizabeth II National Trust proceeds with the controversial sale of Glenoaks, a 1.5-hectare Howick property bequeathed to it by Les Clarke in 1995. Developers later subdivide the property (Glenoaks Rise), although a small portion is retained as a public esplanade reserve.
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11 March 2000
A new national rugby league club competition is launched replacing the the now defunct Lion Red competition. The twelve teams competing include the Otahuhu Leopards, Manurewa Marlins, and Eastern Tornadoes (see also 25 March 2004).
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16 March 2000
The Manukau Community Charitable Trust (Trust Manukau) is incorporated. On 18 December 2000, in order to generate revenue for the trust, Manukau City Council approves the sale of naming rights and the erection of billboards on selected Council-owned sites. The trust does not meet with early success, and is wound up in February 2006.
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19 March 2000
A plaque commemorating service in World War II, Korea, Borneo, Malaya and Vietnam is added to the Otahuhu First World War memorial.
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20 March 2000
Scenes for a Disney Channel movie, Ready to Run, are shot in Porchester Road, Takanini. The producer has chosen the location because it resembles the film's northern California setting.
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29 March 2000
The Huntington Park Ratepayers and Residents Association hold its first annual general meeting. The association promotes the idea of a separate ward for 'south Howick'.
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31 March 2000
Medical Waste Group Ltd closes a controversial incinerator at its East Tamaki factory which has been discharging dioxins from the burning of medical wastes into the air. The company has installed a new sterilisation system instead.
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1 April 2000
The Tzu Chi foundation, a Buddhist charitable organisation, celebrates the opening of its first New Zealand office, in Somerville Road, Howick. In October 2004 it moves to a new building in Springs Road, East Tamaki.
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8 April 2000
Manukau City Council's vast new Puhinui Reserve, situated on the edge of the Manukau Harbour south of the airport, is officially opened. In November 2003 the Council buys an adjoining 57.6-hectare block in Prices Road to extend the reserve. It is later suggested this could become a motorsport venue.
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11 April 2000
Papatoetoe-based music label Dawn Raid Entertainment launches its first compact disc abum, Southside Story, featuring a range of talented but little-known South Auckland artists (see also 21 September 2002).
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11 April 2000
The varroa mite, a honey bee predator, is discovered in hives at Otahuhu. A few days later it is also found in hives at Pukekohe and Waiuku.
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