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Feilding - Archives and Genealogy News and views on family history, genealogy, Archives, Museums

03/10/2025

Te Hīkoi Toi, The Te Ahu a Turanga highway is ..., Te Ahu a Turanga Western Gateway Park, Ashhurst, Manawatu / Whanganui, 12 October 2025 - 11 January 202

02/10/2025
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02/09/2025

Piecing together a family's story through letters, newspapers and personal recollections.

02/09/2025

Genealogy Tip - Create an heirloom inventory. Keep a detailed list of family heirlooms, noting their origins, significance and who passed them down.

20/08/2025

Supplies for building Papaioea (Palmerston North) in the 1870s came up the Manawatū River to the Ngāwhakaraua Jetty adjacent to the Rangitāne Pā site. These supplies were transported by bullock wagon for fifteen kilometres to the emerging city site. The jetty was adjacent to where the Rangitāne...

31 August 2025. Sunday. Historic Gorge Cemetery Tour 2:00-3:00 pm.  49718 Napier Road, Woodville. A conducted tour of Wo...
10/08/2025

31 August 2025. Sunday. Historic Gorge Cemetery Tour 2:00-3:00 pm. 49718 Napier Road, Woodville. A conducted tour of Woodville's Historic Gorge Cemetery exploring a piece of Woodville’s rich history.
As 2025 is Woodville’s Sesquicentennial (150 year anniversary), the Historic Gorge Cemetery Tours will concentrate on early pioneers of the district. These will include businesspeople and the settlers who took up land in the Woodville Small Farm Association. Meet at the upper gate to the cemetery. (If it’s too wet, there will be a virtual tour at the Rinitawa Gallery). Everyone is welcome to have a cuppa at Rinitawa Gallery after the tour. Tours will be conducted by Joan McIntyre, phone 06 376 5690 for questions and additional information.

Congratulations
22/07/2025

Congratulations

Huge congrats to Bruce McKenzie of Bruce Mckenzie Booksellers Ltd, who won a lifetime achievement award at the Aotearoa Book Industry Awards 2025! It's an honour to share a building with you, sir.

https://www.stuff.co.nz/culture/360762692/aotearoa-nz-book-industry-celebrates-award-winners-2025

You'll spot a few other familiar names among the lauded authors too, we're sure.

Learn more about Bruce in this interview on Manawatū Heritage,
https://manawatuheritage.pncc.govt.nz/item/fff9e7f6-2ad7-40ab-ad13-ca22506e22c3 or in the book Bold Types: Indie Bookshops of Aotearoa New Zealand by Jane Ussher, Jemma Moreria and Deborah Coddington.

On Neighbourly Pat Dunmore from Feilding is asking if anyone owns a copy of FLOCK HOUSE FARMING by Timothy Gambrill that...
11/07/2025

On Neighbourly Pat Dunmore from Feilding is asking if anyone owns a copy of FLOCK HOUSE FARMING by Timothy Gambrill that they would be willing to sell? Many thanks.

12/06/2025

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