Back Issues: Feilding's flower power campaign
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Local historians weekly "Back Issues" article in the Manawatū Standard. The significance of the Kowhai tree and the history of Feilding. Before World War 1, Feilding botanist and plant man Lewis Thomas Brown was passionate about adopting kōwhai as the national flower of New Zealand. The Feilding Beautifying Society instigated 'Kōwhai Day" in 1910, ecouraging everyone to celebrate the day and wear a kōwhai bouquet. The society raised funds to enable a planted area in South Street to be officially opened as a park and suggested that it was named Kōwhai Park. In recent times, several Feilding sporting clubs include the kōwhai flower in club colours and insignia.
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- Manawatū Standard
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- October 25, 2025
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- 2025Pa_IMCA-DigitalArchive_044033
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- IMCA Digital Archive
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- Marilyn Wightman
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- Feilding
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