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the reserve. Mary Aitkin
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and was crowned champion in 2011, is based in
Kohimarama. Other sports clubs are the Kohimarama Tennis Club, the Kohimarama Yacht Club and Kohimarama Bowling Club which was formerly known as the Mission Bay Women's Bowling Club. The club changed its name in October 2013 after changing the rules about
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Kohimarama has several nature reserves: Madills Farm
Recreation Reserve, Mary Atkin Reserve, Kohimarama Beach Reserve, Sage Road Reserve and Speight Road Reserve. Madills Farm Recreation Reserve used to be part of W.H. Madill's dairy farm in 1919. There are four playing fields on the northern half of
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Kohimarama Wharf was built in 1912 on the Pipimea Head between Kohimarama and Mission Bay. The first business in Kohimarama was a tearoom which catered to the people arriving at the newly built wharf. The access to the wharf was not easy; people had to walk around the rocks to and from the wharf
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Today, Kohimarama is one of the quieter beaches along Tamaki Drive and has cafes along the beach front. The
Kohimarama Yacht Club is located on Tamaki Drive. This club was set up in 1939 for young people and the construction of the club house at Gower’s Point, between the Kohimarama and Saint
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Kohimarama was leased to W.H. Madill, a dairy farmer.
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Kohimarama beach, the longest beach in the Harbour. Porter sent men to clear, fence and drain the area. One of these men was Thomas Kemp, later to be a landowner of the neighbouring suburb, Mission Bay.
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Looking west over the
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Kohimarama covers 1.52 km (0.59 sq mi) and had an estimated population of 4,400 as of June 2023, with a population density of 2,895 people per km.
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is a secondary school (years 9–13) with a roll of 1612.
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1353:Eastern Suburbs AFC
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947:"Sage Road Reserve"
565:Eastern Suburbs AFC
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1170:Mission Bay
1136:New Zealand
657:19 November
589:Kohimarama
414:, 0.1% had
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260:Mission Bay
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105:Local board
99:Ōrākei ward
66:New Zealand
1388:Categories
1311:Government
1226:Karaka Bay
1221:Hobson Bay
1175:Kohimarama
1165:Meadowbank
1160:Glen Innes
983:18 October
957:18 October
879:18 October
685:25 October
631:References
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520:pōhutakawa
470:Ngāti Pāoa
284:Meadowbank
264:St Heliers
252:Kohimarama
238:Glen Innes
228:Meadowbank
203:Kohimarama
128:Population
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811:NZ Herald
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1195:St Johns
1132:Auckland
1089:held in
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