Editing Mount Roskill (section)

==Etymology==

The name Mount Roskill was first recorded as Mt Rascal in 1841, on a map created by a Wesleyan missionary, referring to the volcanic peak [[Puketāpapa]]. The origin of this name is unclear, however an apocryphal story links the name to a livestock thief from the early colonial era, who allegedly used the peak as a grazing area for stolen sheep and cattle. The peak was variously called Mount Roskill or Mount Kennedy (after landowner Alexander Kennedy). The name Mount Roskill for the peak and the surrounding area likely cemented after 1867, when the local government administering [[Dominion Road]] was formed, which took the name Mt Roskill Highway Board.{{sfn|Reidy|2013|pp=25}} The first uses of Mount Roskill to describe the suburb in newspapers come from the late 1860s.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/DSC18691005.2.13 |via=Papers Past|title=Sales, Meetings, &c., This Day. |newspaper=Daily Southern Cross|volume=XXV|issue=3784|date=5 October 1869 |page=4 |access-date=21 February 2023}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/DSC18690524.2.33.3 |via=Papers Past|title=To Exporters of Lincoln Long-Wool Rams |newspaper=Daily Southern Cross|volume=XXV|issue=3696|date=24 May 1869 |page=5 |access-date=21 February 2023}}</ref>