The club aimed to acquire more regular and more challenging competition than that which was on offer in Auckland at the time.
It was so-named because, under the terms of the scheme, it was allocated the area surrounding the Auckland Domain to draw players from.
The Scheme was abandoned in 1920, at which time the club paired its original and district names to form Grafton United.
Victoria Park has been the club's home since the Auckland Cricket Association shifted clubs away from Eden Park in the early 1950s and, when the City Council leased the Campbell Free Kindergarten to it for a clubroom in 1960, it came to be thought of as Grafton's home ground exclusively.
In partnership with the council, a new clubroom and indoor net facility were opened on the site of the old grandstand in 1993 and this continues to be the club's home.