New Zealand - Auckland - Western Heights Primary School - Room 5, Standard 2 - 1987 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. Henderson - A major suburb of Auckland - 13 kilometres west of Auckland city centre - Henderson is named after early colonial settler Thomas Henderson, a Scottish immigrant who purchased land from Ngati Whatua in 1844 and established a timber mill in the area in ca. 1847 to process the logs of kauri trees which were cut from the Henderson Valley and further upstream, from the eastern flanks of the Waitākere Ranges - Henderson features a large shopping centre, WestCity Waitakere, with numerous other shops and large stores also located in the area. The West Wave Pool and Leisure Centre, owned by the Auckland Council, was built to host the Aquatics at the 1990 Commonwealth Games - On the outskirts of Henderson is the Corban's Wine Estate, a major New Zealand export wine brand (Reference: Wikipedia)