AUCKLAND is the largest, most populous urban area in New Zealand with 1,354,900 residents, 31% of the country's population. (2010)
It also has the largest Polynesian population of any city in the world.

In Maori Auckland's name is Tamaki Makaurau, or the transliterated version of Auckland, Akarana

The isthmus was settled by Maori around 1350

After the signing of the Treaty of Waitangi in February 1840, the new Governor of New Zealand, William Hobson, chose the area as his new capital, and named it after George Eden, Earl of Auckland, then Viceroy of India

However, even in 1840 Port Nicholson (later Wellington) was seen as a better choice for an administrative capital because of its proximity to the South Island and Wellington became the capital in 1865

The Waikumete Cemetery is located in Glen Eden, West Auckland, between Waikumete and Awaroa Roads.
It covers an area of 108 hectares and since 1908 has served as the main cemetery for the Auckland Region

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It is the largest cemetery in New Zealand and one of the largest in the Southern Hemisphere


the CHAN buried at Waikumete as at June 2011:


NAME - AGE - YEAR OF DEATH

CHAN, AH DOW -79 - 1987

CHAN, ALLAN - 21 - 1944

CHAN, BETSY ISOBEL - 20 days - 1948

CHAN, CHARLIE - 88 - 1976

CHAN, CHE KIN - 64 - 1954

CHAN, COLLEEN - 3 days - 1945

CHAN, DAPHNE - 72 - 2009

CHAN, DICKSON - 81 - 2004

CHAN, DING-CHUNG - 72 - 2004

CHAN, DOW (HEN HON) - 67 - 1956

CHAN, FIN - 66 - 1954

CHAN, FOO (CHUNG POO) - 70 - 1943

CHAN, FREDERICK - 76 - 1976

CHAN, GEORGE - 78 - 1998

CHAN, GERALD CHIU CHU - 62 - 1993

CHAN, GRACE OHIN - 2003

CHAN, GUING - 83 - 1969

CHAN, HAM - 62 - 1954

CHAN, HENRY - 61 - 1963

CHAN, JOHN FU HAI - 38 - 2002

CHAN, JUE KWONG - 77 - 2001

CHAN, KAM MING - 76 - 2004

CHAN, KENNETH - ? - 1998

CHAN, KIN - 56 - 1968

CHAN, LEE COOK - 94 - 2005

CHAN, LIN - 55 - 1955

CHAN, MING KEE - 69 - 2006

CHAN, NG FUNG -52 - 1950

CHAN, POY HOO - 93 - 1991

CHAN, RONALD - 15 - 1959

CHAN, SHEE HON - 78 - 1992

CHAN, SHOKE YEE - 73 - 2006

CHAN, SOOK HING - 74 - 1970

CHAN, WAI SAU - 46 - 1968

CHAN, WONG - 30 - 1938

CHAN, WONG LAY HAR - 50 - 1952

CHAN, WONG SEE - 76 - 1951

CHAN, YEE TIM - 47 - 1948

CHAN, YEUNG YUNG SHIU - 80 -1994

CHAN, YICK KWAN - ? - 1956

CHAN, YIM SANG - 69 - 1965

CHAN, YIN MAE - 84 - 1991

CHAN, YOUNG LING - 55 - 1959

CHAN, PONG YOU SHE - 86 - 1970