New Zealand Day

The Sister City relationship with New Zealand began when a Missoula resident Harold Bockemuehl obtained his doctorate at Massey University and shared his admiration of his host city when he returned to the University of Montana. In addition to academic exchanges between the two universities there have been many other contacts since that beginning in 1981. A choral group came to Missoula for the International Chorale Festival. The New Zealand Consul General visited Missoula to discuss more cultural and commercial connections.