Huntly

Huntly is a metropolis inside the Waikato district and region of the North Island of New Zealand. It is on State Highway 1, ninety five kilometres 59 mi south of Auckland and 32 kilometres 20 mi north of Hamilton. It is located at the North Island Main Trunk NIMT railway and straddles the Waikato River. Huntly is within the Waikato District which is inside the northern part of the Waikato Region neighborhood government place. Originally settled through Māori, European migrants arrived in the area some time in the 1850s. The Huntly call turned into followed inside the 1870s while the postmaster named it after Huntly, Aberdeenshire in Scotland. He used an vintage 'Huntley Lodge' stamp to stamp mail from the early European settlement.

The Lodge become later dropped and the spelling changed to additionally drop the additional. The railway from Auckland reached Huntly in 1877, whilst the Huntly railway station changed into opened. Huntly and its surrounding region is steeped in Māori records and falls within the rohe tribal place of Waikato-Tainui of the Tainui waka confederation. Ngati Mahuta and Ngati Whawhakia are the subtribes within the Huntly vicinity.