McVey Kiwi News: Trip North to the Courts of Masterton, Napier & Palmerston North

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Friday 27 April 2012

Trip North to the Courts of Masterton, Napier & Palmerston North - April 6th & 7th, 2012

On the Friday and Saturday of Easter weekend we decided that with the Overton's we'd travel north to Masterton, Napier and Palmerston North to take photos of the courthouses. It's from these courts that the records come that we've been digitising for the past 8 months and will continue digitising the rest of 2012. The map below details our trip north and the events of the trip. Blue is trip up and red is trip back.

New Zealand has it's own "Stonehenge" similar to England. Issue that you can see is that it's closed on holidays and the sheep could care less!

The countryside is of course very beautiful!

Our next stop was in Masterton to get a photo of us in front of the courthouse...we all wanted to be in the picture so....the Elders were driving by just as we were wondering what to do and took our pics!

Overton's & McVey's in front of the Masterton Courthouse

From Masterton we took a 1-hour side trip

out to the east coast to see Castlepoint Lighthouse. The scenery on the way was beautiful!

From Castlepoint we drove back to Masterton and proceeded north to Dannevirke. Just outside Dannevirke was this home where Matthew Cowley translated the Book of Mormon into Mauri.

Just down the street is this old LDS Chapel "Tamaki". Inside were artifacts from decades of Church history. We emailed President Kezerian and Mike Higgins and volunteered to take our equipment here to digitise what we could. We'll see what comes from the offer.

Then on north to Hastings where we would meet up with Elder and Sister Farnes for dinner and stay the night in a motel.

Historic "Oak Avenue" in Hastings - Planted in 1874

We met the Farnes and they took us north to Napier for dinner. I had Chicken Parmigiana...yum yum!

The Napier Coastline

Sisters Overton, Farnes and McVey
with Elders Overton, Farnes and McVey

We had planned to spend the day with the Farnes in Napier, but the weather was terrible so we took our needed photos and started the 5-hour trek back to Wellington

Here we are Saturday morning in front of the old Napier Courthouse

The Napier Courthouse

All important "Chocolate Shops" outside Napier...a must stop!

Then back on the roads and south with a stop in Palmerston North to get a photo at the courthouse just in case we get to their records while we're digitising!