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The name Mount Roskill was first recorded as Mt Rascal in 1841, on a map created by a Wesleyan missionary, referring to the volcanic peak Puketāpapa.The origin of this name is unclear, however an apocryphal story links the name to a livestock thief from the early colonial era, who allegedly used the peak as a grazing area for stolen sheep and cattle.
Mount Roskill (New Zealand electorate), a House of Representatives electorate based on Mount Roskill; Mount Roskill Grammar School, a secondary school in Mount Roskill; Mount Roskill Intermediate, a middle school in Mount Roskill; Puketāpapa, a volcano also known as Mount Roskill in Auckland, New Zealand
Puketāpapa, also known as Pukewīwī and Mount Roskill, is a volcanic peak and Tūpuna Maunga (ancestral mountain) in Auckland, New Zealand. It is located in the suburb that shares its English name, Mount Roskill .
Mount Roskill Grammar School was described by the New Zealand Herald in 2007 as the "best public school in New Zealand". [4] In 2009 Metro Magazine has also ranked MRGS as the top school in Auckland. [9] The school has 10 computer labs [10] catering for students from Year 9-13. The school is also one of the schools participating in the Phase 2 ...
Mount Roskill is a parliamentary electorate in Auckland, New Zealand, returning one Member of Parliament (MP) to the New Zealand House of Representatives. Phil Goff [1] of the Labour Party held the seat from the 1999 election until he resigned from Parliament on 12 October 2016 [2] after contesting and being elected Mayor of Auckland on 8 October 2016 in the 2016 mayoral election.
At just under 23 km 2 (9 sq mi) Mount Roskill has the third-smallest land area among New Zealand's electorates. Following the 2014 boundary changes, it lost New Windsor to the New Lynn electorate, but gained areas around Three Kings and Sandringham and retained the communities of Mount Roskill, Lynfield, Wesley, and Hillsborough. About 39% of ...
Mount Roskill Intermediate is a co-educational school for boys and girls in years 7 and 8. It is located in Denbigh Avenue, Mount Roskill, Auckland, New Zealand next to Mount Roskill Primary and Mount Roskill Grammar School. It currently has a roll of 620 pupils.
The south side of Pukewīwī / Puketāpapa / Mount Roskill, with extensive historic Māori terracing visible In 2014, the Ngā Mana Whenua o Tāmaki Makaurau Collective Redress Deed passed into law. Through the Treaty of Waitangi settlement between the Crown and the Tāmaki Collective, ownership of the 14 Tūpuna Maunga, was vested to the ...