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Kōrero: Place names

Marc Ellis Place, East Tāmaki

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Marc Ellis Place, East Tāmaki

Increasingly local councils have named streets after prominent individuals, usually with local connections, using their first and last names. Footballer and later television personality Marc Ellis played rugby for the All Blacks from 1992 to 1995, and rugby league for the Kiwis in 1996–97.

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New Zealand Herald

Reference: 26 August 2005

by Adrian Malloch

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Me pēnei te tohu i te whārang

Malcolm McKinnon, Place names – Naming after 1920, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/mi/photograph/19355/marc-ellis-place-east-tamaki (accessed 4 June 2026).

He kōrero nā Malcolm McKinnon, i tāngia i te 1 March 2009.