Broadcast on Manawatu people's Radio, 13th April 2021. Part 2 of 3. Getting into politics. Elected in by-election for Mayor of Manawatu. Bob Moody. Consensus politics, 1 vote in 9 years as Mayor. CEOs for management, council for governance. Fei...
Creator: Stuart Birks
Place: Ashhurst
Date: April 13, 2021
Broadcast on Manawatu People's Radio, 20th April 2021. Part 3 of 3. Climate change and the environment. Adaptation. Urbanisation. RSE scheme (Recognised Seasonal Employer scheme). Mechanised dairying. NZ as a Pacific/Asian country. Popula...
Creator: Stuart Birks
Place: Ashhurst
Date: April 20, 2021
Election results were posted, and updated throughout the evening, on a board outside the Manawatu Evening Standard building in Palmerston North. This was a common method by which the public were informed of voting progress in the parliamentary el...
Creator: Linotype Services, Palmerston North
Place: Palmerston North
Date: October 15, 1938
"Vote 81. Lunch hour lecture - discussion series on election issues. Industry & Union 24 July, Dr Alan Williams Business Tudies Department. Health 1 July, Prof Graeme Fraser Sociology Department. Taxation 8 July, Ms Jan Whitwell Economics Departme...
Creator: Unknown
Date: 1981
This image was taken for a story that ran in The Manawatu Evening Standard on 21 November, 1959. “These voters in the municipal elections decided to be in early today in order to take advantage of the good weather.” Other photos associated with th...
Creator: Manawatu Evening Standard
Place: Palmerston North
Date: November 21, 1959
This image was taken for a story that ran in The Manawatu Evening Standard on Wednesday 22 November 1978 “Angry Crowd gives P.M. a rough ride: Election fervour hit Palmerston North at lunch time today when the Prime Minister Mr Muldoon took part i...
Creator: Manawatu Evening Standard
Place: Palmerston North
Date: November 22, 1978
This image was taken for the Manawatū Evening Standard on 17th November 1978. Prime Minister Rob Muldoon visited the Manawatū Evening Standard offices, prior to the General Election held on 25th March 1978. Muldoon toured the country in the days l...
Creator: Manawatu Evening Standard
Place: Palmerston North
Date: November 22, 1978
This image was taken for a story that ran in The Manawatu Evening Standard on Monday 27th November 1978 “Walding makes political history: Smiles in the face of defeat from the former Palmerston North M.P., Mr John Lithgow, and his wife, Ann, at th...
Creator: Manawatu Evening Standard
Place: Palmerston North
Date: November 27, 1978
This image was taken for a story that ran in The Manawatu Evening Standard on Wednesday 22 November 1978 “Mr Lithgow smiles for the camera at the start of the ‘Muldoon Road Show’.”
National candidate for Palmerston North John Lithgow shares the c...
Creator: Manawatu Evening Standard
Place: Palmerston North
Date: November 22, 1978
This image was taken for a story that ran in The Manawatu Evening Standard on 23 November 1960 "Shown at their desks are the Deputy-Returning Officers at the Courthouse whose duty at present is issuing special votes to the public who will be unabl...
Creator: Manawatu Evening Standard
Place: Main Street, Palmerston North
Date: November 23, 1960
This image was taken for a story that ran in The Manawatu Evening Standard on Monday 27 November 1978 “Walding makes political history: Backslapping well-wishers congratulate Palmerston North’s new M.P Joe Walding”
The 1978 General election (on ...
Creator: Manawatu Evening Standard
Place: Palmerston North
Date: November 27, 1978
This image was taken for the Manawatū Evening Standard on 25th November 1978. Electoral officers count local ballots cast in the 1978 New Zealand General Election. Former Labour Member of Parliament Joseph Albert Walding regained the Palmerston No...
Creator: Manawatu Evening Standard
Place: Palmerston North
Date: November 25, 1978
This image was taken (but not used) for a story that ran in The Manawatu Evening Standard on Wednesday 22 November 1978 National candidate for Manawatu, Michael Cox shares the cab of a vintage vehicle with his wife Jenny as part of Prime Minister ...
Creator: Manawatu Evening Standard
Place: Palmerston North
Date: November 22, 1978
Born 18/6/1926, died 1985. Represented Palmerston North as Labour MP 72-75, 78-81. Former Minister of Overseas Trade, Minister of Recreation and Sport, Associate Minister of Foreign Affairs 1973-1975. Served briefly as High Commissioner for New Ze...
Creator: National Publicity Studios
Place: Palmerston North
Date: circa 1970
This image was taken for a story that ran in The Manawatu Evening Standard on 26 November 1960 "Some voters lining up today at the Intermediate Normal School polling booth to cast their votes. The camera captured this voter's expression as he was ...
Creator: Manawatu Evening Standard
Place: Linton Street, Palmerston North
Date: November 26, 1960
Jill White grew up in Feilding. Throughout her busy life she has been a nurse, secondary school teacher, Labour Party Member of Parliament and Mayor of Palmerston North. she has also been involved in many community activities.
Interviewed by Lea...
Creator: Ian Matheson City Archives
Place: New Zealand
Date: March 25, 2021
This image was taken (but not used) for a story that ran in The Manawatu Evening Standard on Wednesday 22 November 1978 Prime Minister Rob shares the cab of a vintage vehicle with his wife Thea as part of his election campaign Road Show. Muldoon’s...
Creator: Manawatu Evening Standard
Place: Palmerston North
Date: November 22, 1978
This image was taken for a story that ran in The Manawatu Evening Standard on 1 November 1978 “Labour promise to get nation working” and “Rowling in top form at opening”. Labour leader Bill Rowling opened his general election campaign at Palmersto...
Creator: Manawatu Evening Standard
Place: Palmerston North
Date: November 1, 1978
The election result board posted at the Evening Standard office is seen here the day after the 1935 election. This method was common for informing the public of the election results on the night, before the radio became more prominent in New Zeala...
Creator: Manawatu Evening Standard
Place: The Square, Palmerston North
Date: November 28, 1935
This image was taken (but not used) for the Manawatū Evening Standard on 17th November 1978. Labour leader Bill Rowling toured the back offices of the Manawatū Evening Standard, speaking with staff and viewing publishing equipment prior to the 197...
Creator: Manawatu Evening Standard
Place: Palmerston North
Date: November 17, 1978
People would watch the election results for the whole of New Zealand as they were posted on a board at the Manawatu Evening Standard Office.
Creator: Manawatu Evening Standard
Place: The Square, Palmerston North
Date: 1935
Emma Belk migrated to Feilding but lived in Palmerston North when she signed the suffrage petition in 1893
Creator: Margaret Tennant
Place: Palmerston North
Date: September 23, 2018
This image of a headstone was taken at Terrace End Cemetery. William Moffatt, OBE, rests here with his wife and son, his grandmother Ereni Te Awe Awe and his cousin Henare Apatari. Moffatt, or Rangi Mawhete, was born in the Palmerston North distr...
Creator: PNCC
Place: Terrace End Cemetery
Date: January 2022
Crowds watch, by street lighting, as the 1938 election results are put up in Palmerston North on the Manawatu Evening Standard Building in The Square.
Creator: Unknown
Place: The Square, Palmerston North
Date: 1938
John Lithgow was born in Wanganui and educated at the Wanganui Collegiate/ He worked in stock firms for three years and farmed in New Zealand and Australia before attending Lincoln Agricultural College, where he completed a diploma in agriculture....
Creator: National Publicity Studios, Wellington
Place: Palmerston North
Date: 1976
Jill White was elected Mayor of Palmerston North in 1998. She was the first woman to hold the position. She also served as a Palmerston North City Councillor from 1983 - 1992, as a Manawatū-Whanganui Regional Councillor (now Horizons) from 1989 - ...
Creator: PNCC
Date: circa 1998
James Alfred Nash (c1868-1952) was Mayor of Palmerston North 1908-1923, and a Borough Councillor 1907-1908. He was the first Mayor to have been born in the Manawatu and came to Palmerston North at 13 years of age, gaining a job at the Ready Money ...
Creator: Unknown
Place: Palmerston North
Date: circa 1909
M.P. for Manawatu 1884-1890 and M.P. for Rangitikei 1890-1892. He was also Mayor of Feilding at one time. See Snelson Scrapbook p 193 and p 213 for obituary and death notices.
Creator: Unknown
Place: Palmerston North
Date: circa 1885
Trevor de Cleene (c1930s-2001), barrister and solicitor, was also a Palmerston North City Councillor for three periods between 1962-1976 and Member of Parliament for Palmerston North 1981-1990. He married Gwenda Taylor in 1962 and had 3 children, ...
Creator: Manawatu Evening Standard
Place: Main Street, Palmerston North
Date: July 5, 1981
Local historians weekly "Back Issues" article in the Manawatū Standard. The Manawatū/Horowhenua campaign for women's voting rights in the 1890s was led by a group of passionate advocates. These included Learmonth White Dalrymple, Margaret Giesen, ...
Creator: Dorothy Pilkington
Place: Manawatū
Date: September 17, 2022