Manukau

Manukau or Manukau Central, is a suburb of South Auckland, New Zealand, centred at the Manukau City Centre enterprise district. It is positioned 23 kilometers south of the Auckland Central Business District, west of the Southern Motorway, south of Papatoetoe, and north of Manurewa. The business and industrial suburb of Wiri lies to the east and south. The headquarters of Manukau City Council had been in Manukau Central till the council becomes merged into Auckland Council in November 2010. Manukau Central ought to now not be harassed with the lots larger Manukau City, which changed into the whole place administered with the aid of the city council. The Manukau Central vicinity became a part of the in large part rural region of Wiri in the early twentieth century.

Its transition from farmland become driven by way of Manukau City Council, which formed in 1965 and acquired land there in 1966 for the development of an administrative and business centre. The Manukau City Centre mall, now Westfield Manukau City, opened in October 1976, and the Manukau City Council administration constructing in 1977. Several authorities departments mounted workplaces within the overdue 1970s.