New Zealand - Feilding
- Feilding is on the Main Trunk railway and this view is toward the south-east over Manchester Square, the centre of the business area, with the railway running through the centre of the borough.
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Feilding
- Won the annual New Zealand's Most Beautiful Town award 16 times.
- An Edwardian-themed town.
- A service town for the surrounding farming district
- The town was named after Colonel William H. A. Feilding, a director of the Emigrants and Colonists Aid Corporation Ltd. who negotiated the purchase of a 100,000 acre (400 km²) block of land from the Wellington provincial government in 1871.
- The first settlers arrived from Great Britain on 22 January 1874.
(source - Wikipedia)
- Whites Pictorial Reference of New Zealand: Representative Airviews of New Zealand Cities and Boroughs
- Whites Pictorial Reference has been produced to tell a new story - a modern story. Aerial photography has been utilised to show where New Zealanders live and the countryside from which comes their wealth. Most important, it also illustrates most vividly the Dominion's growing cities and towns, but perhaps more to the point it shows that there is still plenty of room for further development...
Author: White Leo (compiled)
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