BISHOP’S SETTLEMENT
In 1865, the ex-Prime Minister of a European state took up farming land in the Manawatu district. This was Bishop Monrad who had retired from Danish politics after the disastrous war with Germany, when, in 1864, Denmark had Schleswig-Holstein forcibly torn from it. Bishop Monrad chose New Zealand as a retreat from the deep disillusionment of these disastrous events. He came out with his two sons and three other Danes, one of them an agricultural expert, and settled down to develop the estate of Karere on the banks of the Manawatu River. He remained three years, working himself and conducting services on Sundays. In 1868 he returned to Denmark to live, but one of his sons remained in New Zealand, to become a pioneer of the dairy industry.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 4 March 1939, Page 7
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130BISHOP’S SETTLEMENT Wairarapa Times-Age, 4 March 1939, Page 7
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