NAMED NEW ZEALAND.
VILLAGE IN WILTSHIRE. SURPRISE FOR AN AUDIENCE. LONDON, August 19. The members of an audience at Bradenstoke, Wiltshire, wore politely sceptical recently when their pastor told them that their chairman had come over from New Zealand that night especially to preside at a concert given bv a Swindon ladies’ choir. They smiled and told themselves that it was a new brand of clerical humour. The local pastor, however, spoke the truth. The chairman had come from New Zealand that night—the village of New Zealand in Wiltshire! It is situated between Colne and Bradenstoke, and there is a reason for its name.
About the middle of last century a farmer who had spent some time in New Zealand bought some land in the locality and named it after the country in which lie had recently lived. Near the farm a number of cottages were built which, with others, form the village as it is constituted to-day.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 58, Issue 284, 12 September 1938, Page 6
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