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Commercial and industrial inner-city suburb, bordering the Auckland Domain. Newmarket’s role derived from its strategic site at the junction of railway lines north, south and west, and the Great South Road and Manukau Road. It became the centre for early cattle markets and the site of railway workshops from 1884 to 1928. When the southern motorway was built in the 1950s, many industries relocated to South Auckland. The construction of apartments in the 1980s reversed the population’s downward trend, while the ‘277’ shopping mall made Newmarket an upmarket retail centre.
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Meaning of place name
So named because it was a centre for early cattle markets
