New Zealand is not as an exclusive name was we may think. There are, for instance, three places in England with the name.
A 3,000 house in a suburb of Derby has the name which is borne by the local very active community Assn. the Park and the local pub, The New Zealand Arms, carrying the name.
A village in Wiltshire also carries the name, which was bestowed by John Dickinson- Poynder the New Zealand Governor General from 1910 to 1912.
The third New Zealand is a village near Aylesbury in in Buckinghamshire which also boasts a pub named The New Zealand. There is also a local bred cows called New Zealand.
While you might think a pub called The New Zealand should serve flowing pints of fresh-hopped craft beer, or maybe freshly ground coffee with breakfast, all indications are that it is in fact very English. There’s a weekly karaoke night, and a menu filled with cheap chips, sausages and baked beans. But in another sense, it’s about as New Zealand as you can get: “Good beer, good people, great time watching the sport,” says one review of the pub.
Thanks to Stewart Sowman – Lund of the Spinoff for the information
