Waiuku came into existence as a port in about 1843, on the
then important trade route between
It was also the terminal of an ancient Maori portage between the
Waiuku was marked out by the Government as a town in 1851. During the
Waiuku
later grew as a farming centre under road board administration, and in 1914
became a town district. It was constituted a borough in 1955, and subsequently
amalgamated into the
A major
development for the town was the Government sponsored establishment, from the
mid 1960s, of
For statistics on Waiuku go towww.stats.govt.nz
For