Dove Myer Robinson Park (Parnell Rose Garden)
Harbour-view park with five thousand roses, heritage gardens, and a giant pohutukawa tree.
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This guide to Dove Myer Robinson Park (Parnell Rose Garden) in Auckland follows Dove Myer Robinson, the shirtless sewage protester who fought Auckland's council in the 1940s over plans to pump raw waste into the Waitemata Harbour, carried a 43,000-signature petition to Parliament, and helped push through the oxidation ponds known as Robbie's ponds. It traces how that fight carried him to eighteen years as mayor, and how this ground, once Sir John Logan Campbell's private estate, became the park that bears his name. Look up at the huge pohutukawa that was already old when Campbell lived here.
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