AUT has three secondary campuses: North Shore, Manukau, and the Millennium Institute of Sport and Health ( AUT Millennium Campus ).

AUT has four campuses: Wellesley ( Auckland CBD ), Manukau, North Shore and Millennium.

AUT opened the Manukau campus in 2010, creating the first university campus based in the region.

It is a half hour drive to the Manukau City Centre by car, or the same time to the Auckland City Centre by ferry.

The Te Puru Centre was initiated by local effort and fundraising and completed with a generous 50 % grant from former Manukau City Mayor Sir Barry Curtis.

Manukau City was a relatively young city, both in terms of legal status and large-scale settlement – though with a current size of it was also the third-largest in New Zealand as well as the country's fastest-growing.

An example is in Manukau, where a Countdown exists in the Manukau City Mall located at Westfield Manukau as well as in the stand alone Manukau branch located on Great South Road.

As well as the current Papakura District, other territorial authorities such as North Shore City, Rodney District, Waitakere City, Auckland City, Manukau City, and the Franklin District will be abolished and the entire area will be dissolved into a single Auckland city council.

Auckland Airport is located in South Auckland, as well as several other places of interest, including the amusement park Rainbow's End, the Auckland Botanic Gardens and one of the oldest shopping malls in the country, now called Westfield Manukau City.

The Village now houses a Kohanga Reo, a Maori language pre-school, a Koe Oaga Faka Niue-Fatamanu-pre-school, an alternative School for Boys and New Zealand's first Secondary / Tertiary College-Vaka Moana, an integral part of the Manukau Institute of Technology as well as anumber of Community groups

At its narrowest, between the Otahuhu Creek arm of the Tamaki River ( itself an estuarial arm of the Hauraki Gulf ) in the east and the Mangere Inlet ( an arm of the Manukau Harbour ) to the west, the isthmus is only some 1500 metres across.

The Manukau City Council district was divided into seven wards during its existence.

A private Bill, the Manukau City Council ( Control of Street Prostitution ) Bill 2005 led to hearings before a select committee, but failed to pass its second parliamentary reading on 11 October 2006 ( 46: 73 ).

In 1990 the re-organisation of local body government in New Zealand saw Howick become a ward within Manukau City, with its Borough Council being replaced by a Community Board and Councillor representation, a move that was unpopular with the inhabitants of Howick, who feared the loss of identity and having to subsidise the poorer areas of Manukau City.

This was later called Manukau Road before being given its current name, Parnell Road.

Previous Manukau City mayor Barry Curtis tried to discourage use of the name because of its negative connotations.

Manukau City, before its amalgamation, used the slogan " Face of the Future " to reflect its youthful demographic, having one of the highest proportion of people under 18.

The residential and light-industrial suburb, with its approximately 18, 000 residents and almost 1, 000 commercial and industrial businesses, stretches south from Royal Oak to the north shore of the Manukau Harbour.

Due to its extent north-south and its position between Auckland City and its eastern neighbour Manukau City, the River is a natural barrier to traffic, especially as only three bridges cross it, all heavily trafficked and increasingly incapable of taking the peak hour flows.

Despite its name, the " river " is in fact an estuarial arm of the Manukau Harbour.

Ōtara is also known for its Saturday morning ' Flea market ' held in the Ōtara shopping center car park next to Manukau Institute of Technology's South Campus.

The last Manukau mayor, Len Brown, was one of the young volunteers who helped develop the Village in its early days.

Telstra also has the naming rights ( under TelstraClear ) for the TelstraClear Pacific events centre in Manukau City, New Zealand.

The area known as Manukau Central is located close to the junction of these two highways, some 20 kilometres southeast of the centre of Auckland city.

One of the larger suburbs of the area commonly known as South Auckland, it is located to the northwest of central Manukau, and 18 kilometres southeast of Auckland city centre.

Manukau City Council has in early 2009 announced plans to spend millions revitalising the town's centre in the St. George Street area.

The suburb is located on flat land at the northeastern shore of the Manukau Harbour, to the northwest of the centre of Manukau city and 15 kilometres south of Auckland city centre.

It is located nine kilometres to the southeast of the city centre, on the northern shore of the Mangere Inlet, an arm of the Manukau Harbour.

The town and surrounding rural area has a population of 2, 508 ( 2006 census ), and is the centre of an administrative ward of Manukau which takes in much of the largely rural area to the east of the urban heart of the city.

It is 14 kilometres from the centre of the suburb of Manukau, which lies to the northwest.

It is located south of the Manukau city centre, and southeast of the Auckland central business district.

It is located 39 kilometres west of Auckland city centre, on the Tasman Sea coast to the north of the Manukau Harbour, amidst the Waitakere Ranges.

Westfield Manukau remains the main shopping centre for South Auckland.

At that time, Mercury Energy Limited owned the distribution business in Auckland, Manukau and Papakura, and also retailed electricity to customers connected to the network and elsewhere.

* February 7 – HMS Orpheus sinks attempting to enter Manukau Harbour in New Zealand, with the loss of 189 lives.

The result was often a merger of the two into a " district " ( e. g. Rotorua ) or a change of name to " district ' ( e. g. Waimairi ) or " city " ( e. g. Manukau City ).

The Manukau people then called for Tamure to help kill the taniwha.

Manukau City is a former territorial authority district in Auckland, New Zealand, which was governed by the Manukau City Council.

The name Manukau, from the Manukau Harbour west of the city, is of Māori origin, and means ' wading birds ', although it has been suggested that the name of the harbour was also sometimes rendered as Mānuka, meaning a marker post with which an early chief is said to have claimed the area.

Manukau City was formed by the amalgamation of Manukau County and Manurewa Borough in 1965.

The Manukau City area is concentrated immediately to the south of the Otahuhu isthmus, the narrowest connection between Auckland City and the Northland region and the rest of the North Island.

The area to the south of the isthmus contains the heart of Manukau, sprawled on either side of State Highways 1 and 20, the latter of which approaches from the west after crossing Mangere Bridge.

Considerable rural and semi-rural land to the east of Manukau Central was within the city council district.

Beyond Manukau City to the south is Papakura and the Franklin district, which are less urban but still part of the Auckland Region and to some extent regarded as an integral part of Auckland's urban area.

Auckland Airport is located in Mangere, in the west of Manukau, close to the waters of the Manukau Harbour.

Manukau City includes the theme park Rainbow's End, and one of the oldest shopping malls in the country, now called Westfield Manukau City.