Palmerston north Transfers, Taxis & Shuttles

Palmerston north

Palmerston North (pop. 71,000) - named after the 19th C. British statesman Lord Palmerston - lies some 150km northeast of Wellington, on the Manawatu River. The North distinguishes it from another Palmerston near Christchurch on the South Island.

Originally a loggers settlement, the town is now an important traffic hub and the commercial center of a region of pastoral farming, with large creameries and frozen-meat plants.

Palmerston North is important also as the seat of Massey University, a national center of veterinary medicine, nutritional science and biotechnology, and other leading agricultural research and experimental institutions. Among them are the Grassland Research Centre, the New Zealand Dairy Research Institute, the Palmerston North Seed Testing Station and the Awahuri Artificial Breeding Centre. hoppa offers low cost transfers in Palmerston North and surrounds.