The Ballance House Newsletters
We welcome general interest articles and contributions with an Ulster-New Zealand focus, so please do get in touch if you have an article in mind.
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Ballance & McKnight Appreciation Day
Radio Legend Waitangi Day 2025 Guest Speaker
From Timber Tenders to Hi Tech
Elusive photo of Kiwi World War II Airman tracked down
NZ to host World Galloway Congress 2025
Engaging Waitangi Day speaker
Anzac Commemoration Service at The Ballance House
Miss Betty Wilson, great-niece of Premier John Ballance
Medals reflect Lifetime of Service
Kindness across the Years and Miles
Kiwis for Cobh
Father & Son reflect on life in NI and NZ
Former Mayor appointed Trust Director
Samuel John ‘Jack’ Ballance: 1938 - 2023
Caroline Keenan, the newly appointed Honorary Consul for NZ
Sarah Ewart, step-mother of John Ballance
David Twigg, Reflections part 3
UNZT Volunteers dress to impress!
The NZ High Commission visits The Ballance House
Rector recalls Kiwi Flying Farmer
David Twigg, Reflections part 2
UNZT volunteers visit NZ
Kiwi plays in Baillies Mills Accordion Band
The Ballance Farm Environment Award
Young Mum swops Aotearoa for Ardstraw
Reflections on a Kiwi Christmas
From whence came David Twigg?
Affable New Zealander governed Ulster
Sheep genetics with a difference
A new Exhibition for the Ballance Room
High Commissioner visits The Ballance House
Wildlife Introduction - a problem or an asset?
From New Zealand to Moira to buy a tent!
John Ballance - not a lone voice
Ballance Agri-Nutrients supports The Ballance House
Linda, the lady from Leitrim
An unexpected 18 months in NZ
Kauri - NZ’s majestic giants
Flying Kiwi Farmer lands plane on Portadown home farm
A new look Exhibition
Book review: Raids & Settlements
Kiwis helped Ulster flower enterprise bloom
Ballance family tree researched
Book review: ‘Jacinda Ardern’
Let’s raise our hats to Coates
Getting business done in Down
Ulster Assembly member praises Kiwi PM
RNZAF crew remembered on St Kilda
From Cabra, Co Down to Gore, NZ
Ulstermen and NW wines
Newly registered Daffodil ‘Ballance House’
Farewell to two great Volunteers
Recognition of Waitangi Day in NZ
A prolonged stay back home in NI due to Covid
Launch of the ‘Ballance House’ daffodil
LCCC Mayor celebrates UNZT volunteers QAVS Award
Royal New Zealand Fencible Corps (1847-1854)
Agri students ‘utterly’ brilliant NZ experience
How a young family fled famine for NZ
