This image was taken for a story that ran in The Manawatu Evening Standard on 22nd December 1965 "For these three children, the school holidays provide ample opportunity to indulge in their favourite pastime -- fishing. They had not been at he Cen...
Creator: Manawatū Evening Standard
Place: Centennial Drive, Palmerston North
Date: December 21, 1965
This image was taken for a story that ran in The Manawatu Evening Standard on 19 January 1961: "Making the most of their school holidays are two small boys seen cockabullie hunting in the Hokowhitu Lagoon."
Creator: Manawatu Evening Standard
Place: Centennial Drive, Palmerston North
Date: January 19, 1961
This image was taken for a story that ran in The Manawatu Evening Standard on 15 January, 1964. "These boys certainly believe in training for a competition--especially if it is fishing. A fishing competition in the lagoon for youngsters is one of ...
Creator: Manawatū Evening Standard
Place: Hokowhitu, Palmerston North
Date: January 14, 1964
This image was taken for a story that ran in The Manawatu Evening Standard on 15 January, 1964. "White capped surf dwarfed this man and son as their patiently dragged a net through the shallows at Waitarere Beach. Up and down they paced, each inte...
Creator: Manawatū Evening Standard
Place: Waitarere
Date: January 14, 1964
This image was taken for a story that ran in The Manawatu Evening Standard on 01 April 1961 "Billy Sutton, doing a spot of quiet fishing for eels, reflects on the effects of the splashes of a canoeist on his chances. He was fishing from the bridge...
Creator: Manawatu Evening Standard
Place: Centennial lagoon, Hokowhitu, Palmerston North
Date: April 1, 1961
Leonard Amey of Rongotea with his children Karen and Perry after a fishing trip to Turangi.
Creator: Unknown
Date: 1960
Bert Anderson, Ernest Davis, Thomas Davis, Pat Anderson and Neal Anderson 'catching tuna' in the Tiritea/Fitzherbert area. Ernest and Thomas were the sons of James and Harriet Davis, who farmed in the area c1897-1910.
Creator: Unknown
Place: Turitea, Palmerston North
Date: circa 1910
The junior angling competition attracted about 280 young anglers to the lagoon. More than 70 fish were caught, including trout, perch, and eels. Contest organisers, The Manawatu-Oroua branch of the Wellington Acclimatisation Society, released a ...
Creator: Manawatu Evening Standard
Place: Centennial Drive, Palmerston North
Date: February 27, 1982
A.R. Bob Mills posing with fish and fishing rod on an unidentified riverbank. This negative comes from the Elmar Collection - a large series of semi-identified and unidentified images from the 1930s-1970s.
Creator: Elmar Studios, 459 Main Street, Palmerston North
Date: 1966