Pollok, New Zealand

Pollok is a small settlement on the Āwhitu Peninsula in the Auckland Region of New Zealand.

Pollok is a part of the rohe of Ngāti Te Ata Waiohua.

[1] The Crown purchased the land in 1861,[1] and in 1865 the town was founded by Scottish immigrants from Pollokshaws near Glasgow,[2] led by James Milne Smith, the reverend of the Pollokshaws United Original Secession Church.

[1] After Smith's departure, the Auckland Education Board purchased a site next to the Pollok Presbyterian Church, and opened a school on 11 July 1883.

[1] Pollok was originally governed by the Pollock Settlement Road District Board before amalgamating with Franklin County in 1913.