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Mauku NZ Wars memorial

Mauku NZ Wars memorial

Mauku Historical Cemetery is located 4 km north of the rural South Auckland settlement of Mauku and 10 km north-west of Pukekohe. The cemetery – also known as Lower Mauku Cemetery – stands on Glenbrook Road, 1 km south-west of its junction with Kingseat Road.

Mauku Victory Hall

Mauku Victory Hall

Mauku Victory Hall

On 7 June 1922 the Governor-General Viscount Jellicoe formally opened the Mauku Victory Hall. The name had been chosen to show that the hall had been built not as a war memorial, but to commemorate the Allied victory in the First World War.