PalmyProud celebrates the people, places and events in our city. The free quarterly magazine aims to inspire locals and visitors to learn more about this special place we call home. It’s published by Palmerston North City Council.
Creator: Palmerston North City Council
Place: Manawatū
Date: 2025
PalmyProud celebrates the people, places and events in our city. The free quarterly magazine aims to inspire locals and visitors to learn more about this special place we call home. It’s published by Palmerston North City Council.
Creator: Palmerston North City Council
Place: Manawatū
Date: 2025
This image was taken (but not used) for a story that ran in The Manawatu Evening Standard on 9th March 1988.
"Tonight we're armpit deep in first year students; the real men are solidifying sweat, spilling beer and scoffing obnoxiously at a coupl...
Creator: Manawatū Evening Standard
Place: Massey University
Date: March 1988
This image was taken (but not used) for a story that ran in The Manawatu Evening Standard on 9th March 1988.
"Tonight we're armpit deep in first year students; the real men are solidifying sweat, spilling beer and scoffing obnoxiously at a couple...
Creator: Manawatū Evening Standard
Place: Massey University
Date: March 1988
Brochure advertising a weekend seminar series held at Massey University campus on 20 and 21 November 1965. The speakers included: John Owens; Ian Wards; J M Henderson; Joan Metge; and E O E Hill.
Creator: Department of Adult Education - Victoria University of Wellington
Date: 1965
The programme for a social workers' conference held at Massey University between 9 and 12 February 1966 on the them of "A Critique of the Welfare State."
Creator: New Zealand Association of Social Workers
Date: 1966
Broadcast on Manawatu People's Radio, 16th September 2025. Part 1 of 2. Born in Sydney but lived in a small town about 250km from Sydney then lived in Parkes. Attended secondary school in Sydney. Her brother joined the Royal Australian Navy and...
Creator: Vicki-Marie Buchanan
Place: Palmerston North
Date: September 16, 2025
Broadcast on Manawatu People's Radio, 23rd September 2025. Part 2 of 2. Husband Neil had established a veterinary practice in New Zealand. He was awarded a scholarship from the new veterinary faculty at Massey University. They went to Gla...
Creator: Vicki-Marie Buchanan
Place: Palmerston North
Date: September 23, 2025
Broadcast on Manawatu People's Radio, 1st March 2022, Part 2 of 2. Worked at Massey from 1973 to 2021 aged 78. Type of research, preference for practical applications of chemistry. Past students. Primarily research work until mid-19...
Creator: Stuart Birks
Place: Palmerston North
Date: March 1, 2022
Argosy Studio (Argos Industrial Photos) was a photography business owned and operated between 1950 and 1980 by Joe Greening (formerly employed by Elmar Studios). Originally located in Broadway, Argosy later moved to Cuba Street on the corner with ...
Creator: Joe Greening (Argosy Studios/Argosy Industrial Photos)
Place: Massey University, Palmerston North
Date: July 1973
Argosy Studio (Argos Industrial Photos) was a photography business owned and operated between 1950 and 1980 by Joe Greening (formerly employed by Elmar Studios). Originally located in Broadway, Argosy later moved to Cuba Street on the corner with ...
Creator: Joe Greening (Argosy Studios/Argosy Industrial Photos)
Place: Massey University, Palmerston North
Date: July 1973
Argosy Studio (Argos Industrial Photos) was a photography business owned and operated between 1950 and 1980 by Joe Greening (formerly employed by Elmar Studios). Originally located in Broadway, Argosy later moved to Cuba Street on the corner with ...
Creator: Joe Greening (Argosy Studios/Argosy Industrial Photos)
Place: Massey University, Palmerston North
Date: July 1973
This slide was likely created by David Evans of the City Council's Planning Office. M D (David) Evans was a planning assistant from 1955 to 1968, Deputy City Planner from 1968 to 1978 and Senior Planning Officer (Design and Development) from 1978-...
Creator: D. Evans
Place: Palmerston North
Date: 1960s
This image was taken for a story that ran in The Manawatu Evening Standard on 29 January, 1964. "All enjoying themselves at the New Zealand Veterinary Association cocktail party held on Monday evening are these young visitors. They are, from the l...
Creator: Manawatū Evening Standard
Place: Massey University, Palmerston North
Date: 1964-01-28T00:00:00+00:00
This image was taken for a story that ran in The Manawatu Evening Standard on 26 January, 1964. "While their husbands were occupied with the more serious business of the New Zealand veterinary conference which opened at the Massey University of th...
Creator: Manawatū Evening Standard
Place: Featherston Street, Palmerston North
Date: 1964-01-27T00:00:00+00:00
Pictured is a group of Massey Students enjoying the Palmy sun.
The house, which was next to the Cathedral and behind a Restaurant / Doctors, was demolished prior to 2009
Creator: Unkown
Place: 203 Broadway Ave
Date: 1987
Local historians weekly "Back Issues" article in the Manawatū Standard. Article about the social side of student life at Massey over the past sixty years. Highlighted are the activities that have both reflected and challenged social and cultural n...
Creator: Louis Changuion
Place: Palmerston North
Date: October 5, 2024
This image was taken for a story that ran in The Manawatu Evening Standard on 13 February 1958, page 8: "Professor G. Stewart, of the University of California (right), who was "chief frier" at the Massey College chicken barbeque last night, superi...
Creator: Manawatu Evening Standard
Place: Massey University, Palmerston North
Date: February 13, 1958
PalmyProud celebrates the people, places and events in our city. The free quarterly magazine aims to inspire locals and visitors to learn more about this special place we call home. It’s published by Palmerston North City Council.
Creator: Palmerston North City Council
Place: Manawatū
Date: 2024
Contents:
p. 3 Editorial / Russell Poole
p. 4 School milk, health camps and 'Gunn's Gospel of Grub' / Margaret Tennant
p. 13 'This lovely home'. An account of 'Brabourne', 149 Monmouth Street, Feilding / Gerry Barton
p. 26 Stepping out of the ...
Creator: Manawatū Historic Journal Associates
Place: Manawatū
Date: 2020
Contents:
p. 3 Editorial / Cushla Scrivens
p. 5 Peanuts or beef? A walking challenge / Dorothy Pilkington
p. 11 Manawatū's First World War camps, 1914-1919 / Tim Shoebridge
p. 22 Heirs of Rochdale: the Manawatū Co-operative Society and its fou...
Creator: Manawatū Historic Journal Associates
Place: Manawatū
Date: 2013
This image was taken for a story that ran in the Manawatu Evening Standard on April 30, 1993, with the caption, "Mina McKenzie... world interest in New Zealand's museums." The Manawatū Museum Director and Massey University Museum Studies Associate...
Creator: Manawatu Evening Standard
Place: Palmerston North
Date: April 30, 1993
Mina McKenzie was the first director of the Manawatū Museum and the first Māori museum director in Aotearoa New Zealand. This article focuses on her outstanding contribution to the Manawatū Museum. It was originally published in issue 18 of the *M...
Creator: Margaret Tennant
Place: Manawatū
Date: 2022
Contents:
p. 3 Editorial / Russell Poole
p. 5 Mrs (Dr) Martin tracing Margery Martin, the wife of Dr Arthur Anderson Martin / Leanne Croon Hickman
p. 14 Fragments of a year in the life of a Palmerston North business /Jill White
p. 22 A growing...
Creator: Manawatū Historic Journal Associates
Place: Manawatū
Date: 2018
Contents:
p. 3 Editorial / Russell Poole
p. 5 'Whose river is it anyway? Recreation on the Manawatū.' / Jill White
p. 15 'The story of a schoolbag: going to school in the First World War.' / Kerry Bethell & Cushla Scrivens
p. 23 'A new lease o...
Creator: Manawatū Historic Journal Associates
Place: Manawatū
Date: 2017
Contents:
p. 3 Editorial: Cushla Scrivens
p. 5 Flea-houses and picture palaces: cinema life before the Downtown multiplex / Pauline Knuckey
p. 14 Motorists: look before you peep: the fall and rise of Feilding's town clock / Simon Johnson
p. 22...
Creator: Manawatū Historic Journal Associates
Place: Manawatū
Date: 2014
Contents:
p. 3 Guest editorial / Margaret Tennant
p. 5 'Taonui School' joins in the Queen Victoria diamond jubilee celebrations / Jill White
p. 8 Smut, satire and hairy fairies: Massey University student capping revues / Lucy Marsden
p. 20...
Creator: Manawatū Historic Journal Associates
Place: Manawatū
Date: 2012
Contents:
p. 3 Editorial / Cushla Scrivens
p. 5 Girls, girls... Miss Victoria McKenzie at FAHS / Cushla Scrivens
p. 13 The Catholic Māori Church at Kai Iwi pā / Eljon Fitzgerald & Maureen Lawton
p. 22 Strippers, tubbers & scutchers: life a...
Creator: Manawatū Historic Journal Associates
Place: Manawatū
Date: 2011
Contents:
p. 3 Editorial / Cushla Scrivens
p. 4 Pete the Pedler: remembered by many / Dorothy Pilkington
p. 8 'A desire for the beautiful' the Manawatū Arts and Crafts Club 1911-1932 / Margaret Tate
p. 16 Local identities organised the fir...
Creator: Manawatū Historic Journal Associates
Place: Manawatū
Date: 2005
Plan of Sir James Prendergast's Fitzherbert property, comprising 3743 acres of land in close proximity to the Borough of Palmerston North, to be sold by public auction by Abraham and Williams 31 January 1900. Prendergast owned a large holding dire...
Creator: G L R Scott
Place: Palmerston North
Date: January 1900