THE GREAT SOUTH ROAD: WHERE CULTURES CONVERGE Once the main route south from Auckland, the Great South Road took war to the Waikato and opened up the city’s fertile hinterland for pioneer farmers. Eventually supplanted as a transport route by the motorway that grew vinelike about it, the old trunk road now connects a series of diverse communities which reflect the waves of migration that have changed the ethnic face of New Zealand’s largest city. WRITTEN BY VAUGHAN YARWOOD PHOTOGRAPHED BY PETER JAMES QUINN REPOST FROM: New Zealand Geographic (2003). THE GREAT SOUTH ROAD: WHERE CULTURES CONVERGE. (ISSUE 061, JAN - FEB). Retrieved from https://www.nzgeo.com/stories/the-great-south-road-where-cultures-converge/ IT IS HALF past six in the morning and I am standing on the corner of Great South Road and Broadway. The traffic pulsing through the lights into Newmarket and the city beyond feeds mostly from Manukau Road. Great South Road, which crests a rise ...