A rough sleeper has set up a double bed and other paraphernalia in a Main St alcove of the old Post Office building.

Creator:      Brian Way
Place:          Main St, Palmerston North
Date:          February 3, 2024

This image was not published in The Manawatu Evening Standard, taken on 25 January, 1964. [A scout blows up a lilo.] See also: 2017N_2017-20_018375, 2017N_2017-20_018365, 2017N_2017-20_018371, 2017N_2017-20_018373, 2017N_2017-20_018366, 2017N_2017...

Creator:      Manawatū Evening Standard

Date:          January 25, 1964

[Photograph of the manchester department in the refurbished Garner's store, with a single bed covered in a chenille bedspread, and 2 children's mannequins dressed in dressing gowns.]

Creator:      Manawatu Evening Standard
Place:          Between Main Street and Broadway Avenue, Palmerston North
Date:          September 1960

The machinest, Norman Pedersen, making a Haldura mattress at an unknown mattress making business in Palmerston North.

Creator:      K H Shea
Place:          Palmerston North
Date:          1939

Henry Garner opened a drapery store in 1906 under the name ‘Kash’, with the first premises being in The Square and later, Cuba Street. In 1937 the store moved to a new building in Broadway, on the former Zelandia Hall site. In the 1960s the store...

Creator:      Unknown
Place:          Between Main Street and Broadway Avenue, Palmerston North
Date:          circa 1950 to circa 1959

New theatre suites were built at the Palmerston North Public Hospital in 1979. The are included this recovery room, which could accommodate 14 patients for immediate post-operative intensive care.

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

The Grand Hotel was built in 1906 for Martin Craven, to replace the Provincial Hotel on the same site, on the corner of The Square and Church Street. From 30 September 1974 Mrs Maria Toth, shown here, leased the 2nd floor and provided a bed and br...

Creator:      Manawatu Guardian
Place:          Corner of The Square and Church Street, Palmerston North
Date:          September 25, 1974