Memorial Square and War Memorial, Carterton

GPS 41.023 S 175.529 E

Carterton’s World War One memorial is on the corner of High Street and Park Road, on land originally owned by the Parker family. As with other communities, Carterton citizens began raising money to fund a memorial soon after the war ended. The memorial seems to be the first completed in the Wairarapa although the Wairarapa Pastoral and Agricultural Society erected memorial gates, to society members who served in the Great War, at the Belvedere Road showgrounds in 1920, demolished in 1976. (more…)