The Patumahoe Domain originally consisted of a single acre of land behind the Patumahoe hall accessed from a stub road off the Mauku Road. After the Second World War, local residents proposed extending the domain and developing further sporting facilities as a community war memorial. Seven acres were added to the domain in 1949. This was formally renamed the Patumahoe War Memorial Domain in 1956, by which time bowling, tennis, croquet, basketball and rugby facilities had been developed.
A further extension to the domain in 1958 allowed the development of war memorial gates to proceed at the domain’s new Patumahoe Road entrance. These were completed by or before March 1959.
Sources: Archives New Zealand, Patumahoe War Memorial Domain files: BAAZ 1109/706/a; BADY 1109 A1645/447/a; BADY 1109 A1645/447/b; Patumahoe School Centennial, 1866-1966, Patumahoe, 1966, p. 51.
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