This image is part of a collection of four images depicting the Weslyan Church in Mauriceville.

Creator:      Unknown
Place:          Above North Road, Mauriceville North, Wairarapa Region
Date:          circa 1920

Minister Edward Nielsen opened the Scandinavian Wesleyan Church in Mauriceville on July 9th 1881. The tiny church was modeled on those from Norway especially with a tapering steeple. Once the population started to move away from Mauriceville t...

Creator:      Unknown
Place:          Above North Road, Mauriceville North, Wairarapa Region
Date:          circa 1920

The Norwegians in Mauriceville were organised by the Methodist minister Edward Nielson, and opened the first church in the Forty Mile Bush on July 9 1881. It cost the community £149 17s. 0d, could hold 120 people it was modeled on Norwegian archit...

Creator:      Unknown
Place:          Above North Road, Mauriceville North, Wairarapa Region
Date:          circa 1920

Minister Edward Nielsen opened the Scandinavian Wesleyan Church in Mauriceville 9 July 1881. The tiny church was modeled on those from Norway especially with a tapering steeple. Once the population started to move away from Mauriceville the chur...

Creator:      Unknown
Place:          Morrisville, Wairarapa
Date:          circa 1920

Jens was the youngest son of Arthur Petersen, son of a Norwegian Prime Minister. Jens helped to found the Mauriceville Dairy Company in 1889. Sometime between 1910 – 1920 the family moved to Palmerston North, where Jen’s son George Conrad became...

Creator:      Unknown
Place:          Manawatu
Date:          circa 1889

This Danish-Norwegian newspaper was produced in Palmerston North on 18 November 1875. The editor was Hjalmar Graff. It is believed that this was the only volume produced. This copy was presented to the Manawatu Evening Standard offices in the 1950...

Creator:      Hjalmar Graff

Date:          November 18, 1875