{"id":639759,"date":"2026-10-24T06:44:11","date_gmt":"2026-10-24T06:44:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/639759\/"},"modified":"2026-10-24T06:44:11","modified_gmt":"2026-10-24T06:44:11","slug":"replica-panmure-sign-unveiled-after-seven-year-wait","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/639759\/","title":{"rendered":"Replica Panmure sign unveiled after seven year wait"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A replica of the retro-style <a href=\"https:\/\/www.1news.co.nz\/2026\/09\/28\/panmures-landmark-sign-returns-but-not-to-its-spiritual-location\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Panmure sign<\/a> has been unveiled in its new location, seven years after the original was removed.<\/p>\n<p>Despite community advocacy, efforts to have the sign reinstalled had been unsuccessful since 2021.<\/p>\n<p>Now, the new sign stands at the entrance to the Te Horata cycleway on the Ellerslie Panmure Highway.<\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/the-replica-panmure-sign-has-been-unveiled-F7FRYLDZPRAIZL5GNMBX3TCHGU.png\" alt=\"The replica Panmure sign has been unveiled.\" width=\"800\" height=\"445\" loading=\"eager\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"ImageMetadata__MetadataParagraph-sc-hi5x8q-0 cWTYyG image-metadata\">The replica Panmure sign has been unveiled. (Source: Supplied)<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We hope you enjoy this familiar landmark back in the ground,&#8221; Maungakiekie-T\u0101maki Local Board said in a post to social media.<\/p>\n<p>The original was built to reflect the township&#8217;s growth from the 1940s to the 1960s, designed with a 1950s space-age theme.<\/p>\n<p>It was removed and placed into storage in 2019 as part of the Auckland Manukau Eastern Transport Initiative. Then, an engineer&#8217;s report found it had been damaged in removal and wouldn&#8217;t meet wind regulations. <\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/the-replica-was-installed-seven-years-after-the-original-was-72NESKKG6NDRHJEFGFVM7TOSVM.png\" alt=\"The replica was installed seven years after the original was removed and stored.\" width=\"800\" height=\"407\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"ImageMetadata__MetadataParagraph-sc-hi5x8q-0 cWTYyG image-metadata\">The replica was installed seven years after the original was removed and stored. (Source: Supplied)<\/p>\n<p>The new version stands at 13 metres tall, two metres shorter than the original. <\/p>\n<p>The fencing around the sign is due to be removed next week, according to the local board.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A replica of the retro-style Panmure sign has been unveiled in its new location, seven years after the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":639760,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[51,111,43,139,69],"class_list":["post-639759","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-auckland","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-nz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/639759","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=639759"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/639759\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/639760"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=639759"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=639759"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=639759"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}