Narrow Neck, New Zealand

Narrow Neck is a suburb located on the North Shore of Auckland, New Zealand.

Until the mid-19th century, Devonport was connected with the rest of the North Shore by a causeway between Ngataringa Bay and the Hauraki Gulf.

[3] In the late 19th century the majority of this mangrove swamp was drained and filled in creating land used as The Takapuna Jockey Club's racecourse until the 1930s and subsequently became the Waitamata golf club.

[citation needed] The suburb includes Fort Takapuna,[4] From 1927 until the mid-1930s a Royal New Zealand Navy ammunition storage facility was located in the suburb;[citation needed] the munitions were moved to the Kauri Point Armament Depot from 1937.

Close to the western edge of the reclaimed area a new road was put through creating a more direct link between Devonport and Takapuna.

The results were 85.9% European (Pākehā); 7.1% Māori; 2.6% Pasifika; 11.1% Asian; 2.2% Middle Eastern, Latin American and African New Zealanders (MELAA); and 0.9% other, which includes people giving their ethnicity as "New Zealander".

A postcard of a Winter meeting at Takapuna Jockey Club
Vauxhall School