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Colonel Feilding

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Colonel Feilding

In the 1870s about 1,000 families settled in the Feilding area of Manawatū. Colonel H. W. A. Feilding had negotiated the purchase of land on behalf of the Emigrant and Colonists’ Aid Corporation, which was set up to assist people who were out of work. The town of Feilding is named in his honour.

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Jock Phillips, History of immigration – The immigrants of the great migration, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/photograph/2121/colonel-feilding (accessed 4 June 2026).

Story by Jock Phillips, published 4 March 2009, updated 1 August 2015.