Penrose is an industrial area in the city of Auckland, New Zealand. It is located to the southeast of the city centre, at a distance of about nine kilometres, between the suburbs of Oranga and Mount Wellington, and close to the Mangere Inlet, an arm of the Manukau Harbour.
The area was first settled by Europeans as a military establishment during the Maori Wars in the mid 1860s.
Ericsson Stadium, formerly known as Mount Smart Stadium, is located in Penrose.
By 1902 there was such a desperate shortage of bottles in NewZealand that the Government took action in 1903 by putting bottles on the free import list.
The story of NewZealand Glass is told in more detail on a CD-ROM called NewZealand Glass (click here for more information).
In 1980 the NewZealand Society of Artists in Glass was founded, and in 1981 another international workshop was organised.
Penrose is an industrial area in the city of Auckland, NewZealand.
It is located to the southeast of the city centre, at a distance of about nine kilometres, between the suburbs of Oranga and Mount Wellington, and close to the Mangere Inlet, an arm of the Manukau Harbour.
The area was first settled by Europeans as a military establishment during the Maori Wars in the mid 1860s.
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