The Mount Stewart Centennial Memorial is a historic site on Mount Stewart Halcombe Road in Sanson, Manawatu, and holds a 4.5 rating from fifteen Google reviews. Memorials like this are easy to drive past but reward a proper stop. Many of New Zealand's centennial memorials went up in 1940 for the national centenary, a hundred years after the Treaty of Waitangi, and they typically stand as simple stones or obelisks, often carrying the names of a district's pioneer families. There is no guide or visitor facility at sites of this kind; the pleasure is in reading the inscription slowly, as it often records local history found nowhere else. Rural memorials usually sit right on the roadside, so park well clear of traffic before stepping out. For anyone exploring the back roads around Sanson, it makes a quiet few minutes' pause in Manawatu farming country.