Local historians weekly "Back Issues" article in the Manawatū Standard. Rostrata private maternity hospital ushered thousands of Palmerston North babies into the world 1918-1962. Named after a large red gum tree on the site (eucalyptus rostrata), ...

Creator:      Lesley Courtney
Place:          Palmerston North
Date:          June 3, 2023

This image of nurses holding babies is from a series of slides that shows life at Rostrata Maternity Home in the late 1950s. Situated on the corner of Ruahine and Ferguson Streets, Rostrata was owned by E B Watson who ran it as a private maternity...

Creator:      Joyce Una Baker

Date:          1957

This image was taken for a story that ran in The Manawatu Evening Standard on 29th December 1965 "Staff-Nurse Willtshire watches while nine-month-old Karen McDonald (Feilding) tries what teeth she may have on a rubber carrot which was a gift from ...

Creator:      Manawatū Evening Standard
Place:          Hospital, Palmerston North
Date:          December 27, 1965

Broadcast on Manawatu People's Radio, 10th September 2024. 

Mike Lawrence First child born in 1965 when husbands weren’t allowed in the delivery suite. Had to wait in waiting room for eight hours. He had to work ful...

Creator:      Stuart Birks
Place:          Palmerston North
Date:          September 10, 2024

This image of nurses holding babies is from a series of slides that shows life at Rostrata Maternity Home in the late 1950s. Situated on the corner of Ruahine and Ferguson Streets, Rostrata was owned by E B Watson who ran it as a private maternity...

Creator:      Joyce Una Baker

Date:          1957

This image was taken for a story that ran in The Manawatu Evening Standard on 19 September 1960 "The winners of the baby show held at the West End Plunket gala day on Saturday are photographed with their mothers. They are Stephen Bretts, who won t...

Creator:      Manawatu Evening Standard
Place:          West End, Palmerston North
Date:          September 19, 1960

This image was taken for a story that ran in The Manawatu Evening Standard on 20 August, 1959. "Mr and Mrs R. Hessell, the proud parents of twin girls born on August 17 at the District Maternity Home, are now faced with the all important problem o...

Creator:      Manawatu Evening Standard
Place:          Palmerston North
Date:          August 20, 1959

[Photograph of husband and wife holding a baby]

Creator:      Manawatu Evening Standard

Date:          September 16, 1960

This image was taken (but not used) for a story that ran in The Manawatu Evening Standard on 3rd January 1966 "Both the District Maternity Home at Palmerston North and the Feilding Maternity Home had New Year babies, although Palmerton North went ...

Creator:      Manawatū Evening Standard
Place:          Feilding
Date:          January 3, 1966

This image was taken (but not used) for a story that ran in The Manawatu Evening Standard on 3rd January 1966 "Both the District Maternity Home at Palmerston North and the Feilding Maternity Home had New Year babies, although Palmerton North went ...

Creator:      Manawatū Evening Standard
Place:          Palmerston North
Date:          January 3, 1966

This image was taken for a story that ran in The Manawatu Evening Standard on 28th December 1965 "For those happy Manawatu mothers, Christmas day 1965 was certainly auspicious. For both of them, the arrival of a son greeted Christmas morning at th...

Creator:      Manawatū Evening Standard
Place:          Heretaunga Street, Palmerston North
Date:          December 27, 1965

This image was taken (but not used) for a story that ran in The Manawatu Evening Standard on 28th December 1965 "For those happy Manawatu mothers, Christmas day 1965 was certainly auspicious. For both of them, the arrival of a son greeted Christma...

Creator:      Manawatū Evening Standard
Place:          Heretaunga Street, Palmerston North
Date:          December 27, 1965

This image of a "baby trolley" is from a series of slides that shows life at Rostrata Maternity Home in the late 1950s. Situated on the corner of Ruahine and Ferguson Streets, Rostrata was owned by E B Watson who ran it as a private maternity hosp...

Creator:      Joyce Una Baker
Place:          Corner of Ruahine and Ferguson Street, Palmerston North
Date:          1957

An unidentified baby posed in a studio portrait, probably related to the Pike family.

Creator:      Billens, Palmerston North
Place:          Palmerston North
Date:          circa 1910