This map has been created by collaging together cadastral maps of various boroughs and counties in the vicinity of Palmerston North, including the areas around Shannon, Foxton and Tokomaru.
Date: 1957
This plan is for the commercial premises of Brick & Pipes Ltd in Featherston Street. The brick building featured an office and storeroom near the street, with a storeroom and garage behind. Today only a portion of the front part of the original bu...
Creator: Reginald Thorrold-Jaggard
Date: 1938
The City Library was originally constructed as the C M Ross Co. Ltd department store, in The Square in 1928. This window on the third floor, overlooking The Square, was from the original building and was retained when renovating the building as a ...
Creator: PNCC
Place: 4 The Square, Palmerston North
Date: circa 1996
Creator: Palmerston North City Council
Date: 1996
This rates register details the renumbering of street numbers in Palmerston North between 1936 and 1939. The register shows the street name, old number, owner of property and new number. The renumbering runs along the entirety of one side of the s...
Creator: Palmerston North City Council
Date: 1936 to 1980
An illustrated booklet providing a history of the Turitea water supply facility, written and researched by Jonathan Berkahn and Margaret Beames. It covers the history of this key piece of local infrastructure from the 1880s until the 1990s.
Creator: Palmerston North City Council
Place:
Date: circa 1994
A report prepared by Peter Crawford, Research Planner, for the Town Planning Department of the Palmerston North City Council. It discusses the recent increase in the Māori population of the city and projected trends for the future. The report is...
Creator: Peter Crawford
Date: November 1968
This report was prepared by Peter Crawford, Research Planner, for the Palmerston North City Corporation Town Planning Office. It considers changes in the demographics of the region's Māori population between 1966 and 1971. The report is a product ...
Creator: Peter Crawford
Date: November 1971
Creator: Palmerston North Single Mothers' Group
Date: 1976
Creator: Palmerston North Single Mothers' Group
Date: 1976
Creator: Palmerston North Single Mothers' Group
Date: 1975
Creator: Palmerston North Single Mothers' Group
Date: 1975
Sir Brian George Conway Elwood, CBE, JP, (born 5 April 1933) is a former New Zealand lawyer, politician, and public servant. He served as mayor of Palmerston North from 1971 to 1985, and was the Chief Ombudsman of New Zealand from December 1994 to...
Creator: Ian Matheson - interviewer
Date: May 2, 1985
The Regent Theatre was built by the Australasian cinema and theatre chain J.C. Williamson Limited. Williamson's began its New Zealand operation in 1926. The theatre, one of several Regents built throughout New Zealand and Australia at this time, w...
Creator: Palmerston North City Council
Place: 53 Broadway Avenue, Palmerston North
Date: November 8, 1996 to June 5, 1997
This building was the first purpose built Post Office in Palmerston North, sited on the corner of The Square and Main Street in 1889. In 1906 when the new Chief Post Office was built the building was first moved back on the site to make way for th...
Creator: Public Works Department
Place: Palmerston North
Date: 1906
Two high backed wooden frame chairs upholstered with salmon coloured fabric. The chairs were made for the visit to Palmerston North of Queen Elizabeth II and the Duke of Edinburgh 7-8 January 1954. They were used by the Royal couple during a Civic...
Creator: Pegdens Furniture store, upholstered by C M Ross Co. Ltd
Place: Palmerston North
Date: circa 1953
This building was the first purpose built Post Office in Palmerston North, sited on the corner of The Square and Main Street in 1889. In 1906 when the new Chief Post Office was built the building was first moved back on the site to make way for th...
Creator: Public Works Department
Place: Palmerston North
Date: 1906
This building was the first purpose built Post Office in Palmerston North, sited on the corner of The Square and Main Street in 1889. In 1906 when the new Chief Post Office was built the building was first moved back on the site to make way for th...
Creator: Public Works Department
Place: Palmerston North
Date: 1906
A pair of metal seals, one with reversed engraving and the other a mirror image. This set would have been used in a hand press to generate an impressed image, with the design pressed into the paper or wax. The seals are 65mm across and depict the ...
Creator: PNCC
Place: Palmerston North
Date: circa 1930 to circa 1939
Ken Tremaine worked for Palmerston North City Council from 1976 - 1994. He was employed as the City Planner and left the organisation as city council development manager. During his 17 years with council he was involved in many of the city's major...
Creator: Ian Matheson
Date: December 1993 to January 1994
A promotional booklet, produced by the Palmerston North City Council. The cover reads, "You Must Come and See Us Too!". Contents include photographs and information about: The Square, the Lakelet, municipal buildings, the Esplanade, the Fitzherber...
Creator: Palmerston North City Council
Place: Palmerston North
Date: 1939
A plan of the "Ladies Conveniences - The Square". This is one of the original architect's plans drawn up by Palmerston North City Council staff for the construction of a new ladies toilets, built on the site of an earlier building from 1918. The L...
Creator: Palmerston North City Council
Date: July 20, 1936
Queen Elizabeth II and her husband, the Duke of Edinburgh, visited Palmerston North 6-7 January 1954. A dinner, organised by the Palmerston North City Council to mark the occasion, was held in the tearooms of the C M Ross department store, January...
Creator: Palmerston North City Council
Place: Palmerston North
Date: January 1954