[Image of Palmerston North Public Library. A woman is sitting on a red leather chair relaxing with a book, next to the indoor fountain which was situated under the central staircase. There are pot plants in planters on the edge of the pond and in ...
Creator: Manawatū Evening Standard
Place: Corner of Main Street & the Square, Palmerston North
Date: December 10, 1965
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[Image of the study area on the first floor of the Palmerston North Public Library. A young man is reading by the north facing window, which has a metal grid designed to provide good reading light, and some shade in summer. This was an architectur...
Creator: Manawatū Evening Standard
Place: Corner of Main Street & the Square, Palmerston North
Date: December 10, 1965
A street view of the Palmerston North Public Library, on the corner of Main Street and the Square, taken from beside the Te Peeti Te Awe Awe statue and the rose garden in the Square.
Creator: Jack Cottam
Place: The Square, Palmerston North
Date: 1965?
A vintage fire engine with extension ladder, is fully maned, seen driving through the Square, as part of the Centennary celebrtations of the Palmerston North Fire Brigade. The engine is likely a 1924 model 1924 Tillings-Stevens Peterol/Electric en...
Creator: Jack Cottam
Place: The Square, Palmerston North
Date: 1971
This image was taken for a story that ran in The Manawatu Evening Standard on 18 March 1958, page 12: "Seen after the graduation ceremony at the Palmerston North Hospital last evening are the 11 nurses who were presented with their State medals by...
Creator: Manawatu Evening Standard
Place: Ruahine Street, Palmerston North
Date: March 18, 1958
Programme prepared for Central Normal School's 100th Anniversary in 1973. Held over three days; 23rd to 25th March; The Centenary was widely attended by past pupils and staff.
Creator: Centenary Executive Committee - Central Normal School
Place: Central Normal School, 201 Featherston Street, Palmerston North
Date: March 1973
The first in this set of images was taken for a story published in The Manawatū Evening Standard on 3rd December 1973.
"An 88-strong armada of rafts makes its way down the Manawatu River yesterday during the Awapuni Jaycees' fourth annual raft ra...
Creator: Manawatū Evening Standard Negative Collection
Place: Palmerston North
Date: December 3, 1973
The first image in this pair was taken for a story published in The Manawatū Evening Standard on 4th December 1973.
"Palmerston North's new mobile library "hit the road" yesterday. Driver and librarian Mr K. J. Harrington checks books before goin...
Creator: Manawatū Evening Standard Negative Collection
Place: Palmerston North
Date: December 4, 1973
The first in this set of unpublished images was taken for a story in The Manawatū Evening Standard on 3rd December 1973.
Crew captains raced to their rafts... "after the starting gun had been fired by Manawatu's Miss Commonwealth Games Hostess, T...
Creator: Manawatū Evening Standard Negative Collection
Place: Palmerston North
Date: December 3, 1973
The first in this set of unpublished images was taken for a story in The Manawatū Evening Standard on 3rd December 1973.
"It was a Le Mans-type start at Te Matai Road, with the crew captains racing to their rafts after the starting gun had been f...
Creator: Manawatū Evening Standard Negative Collection
Place: Palmerston North
Date: December 3, 1973
This set of unpublished images was taken for a story published in The Manawatū Evening Standard on 3rd December 1973.
The race was "won by a six-man crew from the Valuation Department. It comprised John Clendin, Dave Roxburgh, Bob Mitchell, Dave ...
Creator: Manawatū Evening Standard Negative Collection
Place: Palmerston North
Date: December 3, 1973
The first in this set of images was taken for a story published in The Manawatū Evening Standard on 3rd December 1973.
"To the victors, certainly not the spoils, but heaps of flour. As the Valuation Department team drifted under the Fitzherbert B...
Creator: Manawatū Evening Standard Negative Collection
Place: Palmerston North
Date: December 3, 1973
This image was taken for a story published in The Manawatū Evening Standard on 22nd November 1973.
"Mr Eric Christensen (left) and Mr Peter Price put up shelves in Palmerston North's new mobile library, which should be in use within two weeks."
...
Creator: Manawatū Evening Standard Negative Collection
Place: Palmerston North
Date: November 22, 1973
This image was taken for a story published in The Manawatū Evening Standard on 22nd November 1973.
"The city librarian, Mr I.W. Malcolm, and the deputy librarian, Miss N.M. Irvine, admire the new mobile library."
The new mobile library replaced ...
Creator: Manawatū Evening Standard Negative Collection
Place: Palmerston North
Date: November 22, 1973
A crowd attends the opening of the community centre attached to the Trinity Methodist Church in Cuba Street. Opened by visiting Reverend R. Thornley (president of the New Zealand Conference of the Methodist Church), the ceremony coincided with the...
Creator: Jack Cottam
Place: Cuba Street, Palmerston North
Date: July 20, 1963
A crowd attends the opening of the community centre attached to the Trinity Methodist Church in Cuba Street. Opened by visiting Reverend R. Thornley (president of the New Zealand Conference of the Methodist Church), the ceremony coincided with the...
Creator: Jack Cottam
Place: Cuba Street, Palmerston North
Date: July 20, 1963
A crowd attends the opening of the community centre attached to the Trinity Methodist Church in Cuba Street. Opened by visiting Reverend R. Thornley (president of the New Zealand Conference of the Methodist Church), the ceremony coincided with the...
Creator: Jack Cottam
Place: Cuba Street, Palmerston North
Date: July 20, 1963
Te Roopu o te Matakite hīkoi welcomed by a large crowd at Te Rau Aroha Māori Battalion Hall after marching along Rangitikei Street and through Te Marae o Hine - The Square in Palmerston North.
Te Roopu o te Matakite hīkoi was a movement created b...
Creator: Jack Cottam
Place: Cnr. Cuba and Pitt Street, Palmerston North
Date: October 6, 1975
Women in traditional Māori dress perform for the Governor General, Sir Arthur Porritt and Lady Porritt, at the re-enactment of the arrival of settlers at the Manawatu River. Large crowds line the river bank to watch the event.
Creator: Jack Cottam
Place: Manawatu River, Palmerston North
Date: March 13, 1971
He mea wero e Mac Whakamoe e pa ana ki te powhiri maumaharatanga o te taenga mai ma runga waka o nga tangata ko Mrs George Snelson raua ko Matilda Montgomery i te tau 1871. Ko Manawatu te awa. Ki to te Ian Matheson whakaaro no Tuhoe a Mac Whakamoe...
Creator: Jack Cottam
Place: Manawatu River, Palmerston North
Date: March 13, 1971
Māori leadership address the crowds in the Square, as part of the official Centenary ceremonies. Koro Wētere, MP for Western Māori is visible in the light gray suit, standing next to a lady in pink.
Creator: Jack Cottam
Place: The Square, Palmerston North
Date: March 13, 1971
A group of women in traditional Māori dress, performing a Haka Pōwhiri, in the Square near the clock tower as part of the Centenary celebrations.
Creator: Jack Cottam
Place: The Square, Palmerston North
Date: March 13, 1971
Māori leadership address the crowds in the Square, as part of the official Centenary ceremonies. Koro Wētere, MP for Western Māori is visible in the light gray suit, seated next to a lady in pink.
Creator: Jack Cottam
Place: The Square, Palmerston North
Date: March 13, 1971
A Daimler car carrying the Governor General, Sir Arthur Porritt and Lady Porritt drive past the crowds of people at the enactment of the settler's landing as part of the Palmerston North Centenary events, down by the banks of the Manawatu River.
Creator: Jack Cottam
Place: Manawatu River, Palmerston North
Date: March 13, 1971
Women in traditional Māori dress, performing a Haka Pōwhiri, in the Square near the clock tower as part of the Centenary celebrations.
Creator: Jack Cottam
Place: The Square, Palmerston North
Date: March 13, 1971
Rugby World Cup fans were able to enjoy a wealth of events in Te Marae o Hine – the Square during the 2011 Rugby World Cup. This image is likely from attempts to break three rugby related Guinness World records. Organiased by Te Wananga o Aotearoa...
Creator: Shane Bayley
Place: Te Marae o Hine, The Square, Palmerston North
Date: September 29, 2011
Rugby World Cup fans were able to enjoy a wealth of events in Te Marae o Hine – the Square during the 2011 Rugby World Cup, including the 'Our People, Our Place Cultural (OPOP) Food and Music Fest' in the lead up to the game between Argentina and ...
Creator: Shane Bayley
Place: Te Marae o Hine, The Square, Palmerston North
Date: October 2, 2011
Rugby World Cup fans were able to enjoy a wealth of events in Te Marae o Hine – the Square during the 2011 Rugby World Cup. This image is likely from attempts to break three rugby related Guinness World records. Organiased by Te Wananga o Aotearoa...
Creator: Shane Bayley
Place: Te Marae o Hine, The Square, Palmerston North
Date: September 29, 2011
Rugby World Cup fans were able to enjoy a wealth of events in Te Marae o Hine – the Square during the 2011 Rugby World Cup. This image is likely from attempts to break three rugby related Guinness World records. Organiased by Te Wananga o Aotearoa...
Creator: Shane Bayley
Place: Te Marae o Hine, The Square, Palmerston North
Date: September 29, 2011
Rugby World Cup fans were able to enjoy a wealth of events in Te Marae o Hine – the Square in the afternoon leading up to the game between Georgia and Romania. A New Zealand supporter with 'Backing Black' transfer.
Other events on the day in Te M...
Creator: Shane Bayley
Place: Te Marae o Hine, The Square, Palmerston North
Date: September 28, 2011