New Zealand has had a long connection with Paraguay in that several New Zealanders joined William Lane's New Australia settlement at Villa Rica in the early 1890s. A New Zealander now permanently resident in the country is Dr G. A. Smith, a medical practitioner in Asuncion.
Co-creator
Michael Wordsworth Standish, M.A. (1920–62), late Dominion Chief Archivist, Wellington.Bernard John Foster, M.A., Research Officer, Department of Internal Affairs, Wellington and Heather Margaret Reid, B.A., Housewife, Dunedin.