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The Cyclopedia of New Zealand [Auckland Provincial District]

Warkworth

Warkworth is the county town of Rodney, and lies at the head of the Mahurangi river, forty-two miles from Auckland. The district is noted for its fine fruit-growing qualities, and as the seat of an important industry in the manufacture of hydraulic lime and Portland cement. There is a considerable population in the township, which has a post and telegraph office, a courthouse, public school, and three churches—Church of England, Presbyterian and Wesleyan—a hotel, two temperance boardinghouses, three large general stores, a blacksmith's shop and carriage factory, a livery stable, and a newspaper office which prints the “Rodney Times.” Two steamers ply to and from Wark-worth, and it has also a line of mail coaches, which run thrice a week both ways, between it and Auckland.