Papakura City was a city near

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. It existed from 1975 to 1989.

History

Papakura City was constituted as a city on 1 January 1975. It existed until the

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, when "Papakura City" was subsumed by "

Papakura District Papakura District was a local council territory in New Zealand's Auckland Region that was governed by the Papakura District Council from 1989 until 2010. The area makes up the southernmost part of the Auckland metropolitan area. The area was ...

". In the 1989 reform, Drury and Karaka were added to Papakura from the

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area, and Ardmore, Alfriston and Takanini (including Conifer Grove) were added from

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References

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