Dannevirke, New Zealand

Date: [unknown] [unknown]
Location: Tararua, Manawatū-Whanganui, New Zealand
Surnames/tags: Dannevirke New_Zealand

Dannevirke

Dannevirke is a rural service town in the Tararua District, in the Manawatū-Whanganui Region of the North Island, New Zealand.

Dannevirke was first surveyed as part of the 70-Mile Bush settlement scheme; the settlement founded by a small group of immigrants sent on from the original group arriving at Norsewood 14th October 1872, when it was found that insufficient land had been surveyed there for all who had arrived in the first party of settlers.

Those who walked on through the bush to establish the new settlement they named Dannevirke were - ^[1]

Erick Person

J. Halvorson

S. Sorenson

Pole Jackobsen

Niels Anderson

Anton Nielsen

Erick Fagcr

Amund Amundsen.

Sources

1. ↑ Waipukurau Press, Volume XXVIII, Issue 228, 20 September 1932, Page 6