Memorial
The New Zealand Garden
The New Zealand Garden - plaque
Source: Copyright John E Scurr
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Current Location
It is in teh north western corner adjacent to Cornwall Road and beyond the Sun Pavillion, The Valley Gardens, Cornwall Road, Harrogate, Harrogate, North Yorkshire, England
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- Type of Memorial
- Garden
- WMR Reference Number
- 87856
- Description
- A number of flower beds containing plants from New Zealand and a Maori Pou Carving
- Inscription
- Welcome to The New Zealand Garden, Valley Gardens/ NEW ZEALAND GARDEN/ Originally created – 1953/ Restored and enhanced - 2010// The City of Wellington, New Zealand and Harrogate Borough Council have a sister-city relationship/ established in the 1950’s to honour the 23 New Zealand Airmen, stationed in North Yorkshire, who lost/ their lives during World War II and who are buried in Stonefall Cemetery. In the 1950’s there were/ exchanges of native plants between Harrogate and Wellington. The area here was designated the/ New Zealand Garden and laid out with new plant material which had arrived all the way from/ “The Land of the Long White Cloud” on the other side of the world.// Pride of place in the restored Gardens goes to/ an original wooden Maori pou (poe) kindly/ gifted by the City of Wellington and its iwi/ partner Port Nicholson Block Settlement Trust/ representing the interests of Te Atiawa, Ngati/ Tama, Ngati Ruanui and Taranaki.
- War
- Second World War (1939-1945)