New Zealand - Auckland - Flanshaw Primary - Room 6, Junior 1 & 2 - 1984 Photo Courtesy of Sarah Kahi Do you have more information about the school or the people in this photo? Please use the comment section below to share. To search for other photos from this school, please type the schools name in to our search engine. Te Atatū - Te Atatū is the name of two adjacent suburbs, Te Atatū Peninsula and Te Atatū South - The peninsula (and to a large degree, the southern part of the suburb), is defined by Henderson Creek in the west, and the Whau River in the east. Mangroves and other estuarine epifauna dominate the boundaries - The original Maori name for the area was Orukuwai, meaning the place of Rukuwai - The remains of a large Māori settlement were found in many places on the suburb, and the remains of flax baskets, fishing nets, and old clothes were found in the land of a local resident and heaps of pipi shells have been found in farms - The area was known as Henderson Point until 1907 when it was renamed Te Atatu ("the dawn") by Reverend Jackson Bennett. The name was based upon his vision of the morning sun shimmering on the Waitemata - The two suburbs were relatively rural areas until the 1950s when the first stages of the Northwestern Motorway (part of State Highway 16) were opened along the coast of the Waitemata Harbour - In the 1950s, there were plans to build a new deepwater port at the Te Atatū Peninsula