150 Years Polish People In New Zealand

Tablets on the Wall of Remembrance are held at the Church of the Immaculate Conception, in memory of the Polish settlers who attended the parish.

It was  August 4, 1876 when the ship Fritz Reuter berthed in Wellington after a long voyage from Hamburg in Germany

The family name of Fabich originated from the small town of Pomeranian, Kokoszki, in Poland.