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Wainuiomata mayoral street name to be replaced after just 12 days

Matthew Tso/Stuff Wainuiomata Community Board chairman Gabriel Tupou at the extraordinary meeting in which the naming of a new street after the suburb s former mayor Harry Martin was revoked in favour of Te Ara Raukura – a nod to the mana whenua. Harry Martin Lane’s​ tenure as a street in the Wainuiomata shopping precinct was shorter than its namesake’s time as mayor. Just over a fortnight after the street was named after the suburb’s only mayor, which formerly had its own council, the Wainuiomata Community Board has overturned its choice in favour of Te Ara Raukura​ to acknowledge the area’s mana whenua. The under-construction street will link The Strand with Queen St.

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