A place of ‘marvellous and terrible things’, it became a source of his ambivalent imagery. Of special significance is Henderson Creek, where, Gee said, ‘I seem to have spent half my boyhood’. Even in the most recent, where Wellington and Auckland play a major part, it is their subdivisions - Wadestown, Karori or present-day Henderson -which dominate.
Again and again his plots are set in Henderson, usually under another name, or other small towns. Gee, Maurice (1931– ), one of New Zealand’s most distinguished novelists, born in Whakatane, passed much of his childhood in the country town of Henderson (now contained by Auckland’s urban sprawl), and this background plays a major role in his fiction. FROM THE OXFORD COMPANION TO NEW ZEALAND LITERATURE
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