Butt Farm (Wairau Road to Hogans Road)

All the land between Wairau Road and Hogans Road was once part of the Butt farm. George Butt was of Māori descent and previously owned a store in the Hokianga. When the family moved to Glenfield in 1927, they shipped their kauri home by barge to Onehunga. Here it was partially dismantled, then transported by road to Glenfield. George Butt was an accountant in the city and a Justice of the Peace. He and his family cleared much of their 12-acre property and grazed cattle on it.

Shortly after their arrival in Glenfield, the Butts opened a grocery and took over postal duties from the Ferguson family, which had recently left. George died suddenly in 1941 and his wife continued to run the store and post office for several more years. She eventually passed the position of postmistress to the Routhan family. The family home burned down in a fire in 1987 and the property has since been subdivided into a residential neighbourhood.

Continue along Glenfield Road.