The Waiuku Line.

Patumāhoe:

Patu, to strike or kill; or a weapon; mahoe, the tree called whitewood, (Melicytus ramifloris). A tradition of the Ngati-Tamaoho tribe narrated to the writer by the old chief Tohikuri-o-Waikato states that a war-party from the Tamaki district attacked the Mauku - Patumahoe people about three hundred years ago. The pa of the Ngati-Tamaoho tribe was on the Titi hill on the present road from Mauku to Waiuku. The battle began on the western side of the place where the Mauku railway station now stands, near the church. Huritini, the chief of the invaders, was killed with a blow delivered with a mahoe stake, or part of a sapling, snatched up hurriedly from the ground by a Ngati-Tamaoho warrior who had dropped his weapon. The invaders were defeated and driven from the district. Hence the name of Patumahoe hill and settlement.

Mauku:

Small ground ferns.

Waiuku:

Clay water; stream with bed and banks of clay.