Photograph shows flooding of the new housing are in Takaro, including Clausen Crescent and Featherston Street.

Creator:      Royal New Zealand Airforce
Place:          Featherston Street, Palmerston North
Date:          1953

A photograph in the same set as this was published September 1928 in the Manawatu Daily Times over the news heading "Steering a Plane". The caption underneath reads, "The Southern Cross at Sockburn - a photograph specially taken showing the huge w...

Creator:      Unknown
Place:          Sockburn, Christchurch
Date:          September 1928

The Central Hotel is visible on the right of this postcard of the Square from around 1908. The Central Hotel was built in the 1890s on the corner of Andrew Young Street and Main Street (having relocated from The Square). The business continued unt...

Creator:      Whalley and Co., Crown Studios
Place:          Main Street, Palmerston North
Date:          circa 1908

The Gorge road opened in 1872, and in 1875 the Government established a tollhouse at the Woodville end to defray the cost of maintaining the road. In 1912 tolls were abolished, the tollhouse was demolished and the small settlement which grew up ar...

Creator:      Unknown
Place:          The Gorge, Tararua District
Date:          1880s

An anaesthetic room in one of the eight new theatre suites built in the clinical services block of Palmerston North Hospital.

Creator:      Manawatu Evening Standard
Place:          Ruahine Street, Palmerston North
Date:          November 7, 1979

Stanley Roche (right) with Grace Morton, aged 82, at the launch of her book “Foreigner'. 'Foreigner' was written about Grace Morton and her life in China and Europe. In later life she settled in Palmerston North.

Creator:      Manawatu Evening Standard
Place:          Fitzherbert Avenue, Palmerston North
Date:          1979

The sports ground is now know as Fitzherbert Park.

Creator:      L T
Place:          Palmerston North
Date:          1950

This view of The Square was probably taken from the top of the Grand Hotel. Some of the visible landmarks are The Lakelet, the cannons, the band rotunda, the observatory and the Te Peeti Te Awe Awe statue.

Creator:      Unknown
Place:          The Square, Palmerston North
Date:          1911 to 1918

The small triangular reserve at the junction of Main Street, Park Street and Avenue Road was originally the site of Maori meeting house. In c1899 the reserve was enclosed with a white post and black chain fence, as seen here. The Returned Soldiers...

Creator:      Unknown
Place:          Manawatu
Date:          1900 to 1920

Joseph Beale was a well known farmer in the Palmerston North district, owning land at Fitzherbert West and also at Longburn. He was involved with the establishment of the Gear Meat Company in Wellington during the 1880s, and the Longburn Freezing...

Creator:      Unknown
Place:          Palmerston North
Date:          circa 1890

From left: Back - I Walther, M McKenzie, E Secker, J Koehler, F Fowler, D Hopkirk. Front - H Bett, M Permain (Vice-Captain), O Bett (Captain), I McKenzie, M Hopkirk. Absent - H Park.


The school was opened in Fitzherbert Avenue in 1920. Previousl...

Creator:      Bunting Studio
Place:          Palmerston North
Date:          1913

This photograph shows a man loading newspapers at what is thought to be the Main Street Railway Station in Palmerston North.

Creator:      Unknown
Place:          Palmerston North
Date:          circa 1960

From left, Back Row: A. Anderson (Sec), J. Cameron, A. Sanson, B. Poneke, E. Gust, K. Marsh, W. Gust, M. Griffin, E. Arnott (Selector). Middle Row: H. Howell, R. Nichol, G. Goldfinch, L. Staite (Captain), K. Vile, D. Sanson. Front Row: L. Knight, ...

Creator:      Unknown
Place:          Rongotea
Date:          1926

"Totara Reserve" is the popular name of the 740 acre public reserve situated on the east bank of the Pohangina River and officially known as Pohangina Valley Domain. Since 1947, this reserve has been owned by the Palmerston North City Council. The...

Creator:      Charles E Wildbore
Place:          Manawatu
Date:          circa 1900

The company was formed in 1897 and manufactured butter under the brand name of “Red Rose’. It amalgamated with the Rongotea Co-operative Dairy Company Limited in 1960 to form the Manawatu Co-operative Dairy Company Limited.

Creator:      J E Lewis
Place:          Manawatu
Date:          circa 1930

The first St Peters Anglican Church was built on Ruahine Street, opposite the Broadway Avenue intersection inn 1902. Choristers, from left.Back Row: Porteous; Unknown; Gladys Hudges. Third Row: Charlie Kuhtze; Rhoda Sollitt; Mrs. Porteous; Unknown...

Creator:      Crown Studios
Place:          Palmerston North
Date:          circa 1910

Wd 360 was derailed at Halcombe on 14 November 1902. It was a 'special' train running from Wanganui to Palmerston North to the West Coast and Manawatu A&P Show. There were 290 people on board. Only minor injuries were incurred in the accident.

Creator:      Newham and Brady, Wanganui
Place:          Halcombe
Date:          1902

This is a standing chop, with four men standing on the planks wedged into the tree trunk. This photograph was possibly taken on C M Miller's farm at Apiti. The men are unidentified.

Creator:      Unknown
Place:          Apiti
Date:          1900 to 1910

This engineering display was to show Engineering Officers and Senior Officers the capabilities of equipment used by the New Zealand Army.

Creator:      Manawatu Guardian
Place:          Palmerston North
Date:          June 18, 1975

This view of the scheme shows constuction of the power house underway. The Mangahao Power Station is a hydroelectric power station near the town of Shannon, Horowhenua. After being delayed by World War One, access roading and foundation testing wa...

Creator:      Unknown
Place:          Mangahao Road, Shannon
Date:          August 5, 1923