Bess was one of 10,000 New Zealand horses who served in World War I. Sadly, she was one of only four to return home to New Zealand pastures at the end of the war ... 

Picturesque St Mark’s Church was completed on its present site in 1875. The 150th Anniversary celebrations taking place this year, in 2025 ... 

The early working men and women of Carterton decided that their growing township needed a public library ...

History shows that Carterton was never meant to exist as a town ...

Carterton has its fair share of hotels, which means there's stories aplenty to accompany these grand establishments of olde ...

As Third Formers in the late 1960s we sat in the front row of the Kuranui College assembly hall ...

The early settlers all over the country may have survived the rigours of three months at sea sailing to New Zealand but moving onto land needing clearing was a monumental task ...

In June 1903 the trustees of the Papawai and Kaikokirikiri Trust announced that a school for Māori boys would open on the estate of the late Lady Tancred ... 

Fensham Reserve is about 5km north-northwest of Carterton and previously has been called Cobham Bush and Belvedere Reserve ... 

Thomas and Mary Ann Reid took possession of their land at fire number 99 Chester Road, Clareville, in 1858 ...

To a small child gazing east across the green expanse of Carrington Park, it appeared there was a ship, two chimneys billowing, sailing south ...