The New Zealand Railways Magazine, Volume 9, Issue 11 (February 1, 1935)

“Williamson's Clearing.”

“Williamson's Clearing.”

Such is the picture; a hundred authentic traditions hang to the scene of beauty. It was not always so softly pastoral. The hill was the ancient Pukewhau of the Maoris; its first pakeha name was “Williamson's Clearing,” a name dating back to 1860. The westward face of this great green dome of land covered with small farms and diversified with small groves of forest, was then just an oasis in a vast expanse of dense bush. Williamson's was one of a series of grassed clearings extending down toward Pukekohe East. Bombay township, with its church, did not then exist.