Hunterville is a small town in the Rangitikei district of the North Island of New Zealand.

[3] The township was named for George Hunter, who was a member of the Wellington Provincial Council.

[4] It straddles the state highway as well as the main trunk railway in the foothills forming the gateway to the Central Plateau.

Hunterville is well known for its statue of the huntaway, a specialised herding dog that uses its voice to drive the sheep.

[5] There are marae south of the town at Rātā, which are affiliated with Ngāti Hauiti hapū.

[10] Other editors were Cuthbert James Powell,[11][12] Walter Keay,[13] who was also a novelist[14] and whose wife had earlier signed a suffrage petition in 1893, when women first gained a vote.

[15] In 1905 it was the Hunterville Express and Upper Rangitikei Advertiser, published 3 times a week.

[17] The Hunterville railway station on the North Island Main Trunk line opened in 1887 and closed in 1988.