Photo showing the demolition of the Massey Vet Tower, November 2022 

Creator:      Ben Foster

Date:          November 13, 2022

Photo showing the demolition of the Massey Vet Tower, November 2022

Creator:      Ben Foster
Place:          Massey University
Date:          November 13, 2022

The Veterinary Sciences Complex is home to New Zealand’s only veterinary school.

The buildings comprising the complex were erected over several decades. The first building to be erected was the Veterinary Clinic Building, completed in May 1968. F...

Creator:      Ian Matheson City Archives
Place:          Massey University, Manawatū Campus
Date:          October 14, 2021

This building stood on the corner of Cuba and Rangitikei Streets and was destroyed by fire in 1895. This photograph shows the Cuba Street frontage of the building, with workers, some children and dogs outside. William Arthur Browning and Thomas To...

Creator:      Unknown
Place:          Palmerston North
Date:          circa 1891

This photograph is of five men standing in Rangitikei Street, alongside two dogs. From left: H.W. Scott, Chemist (note the man standing on the front step of the shop); The original wooden Phoenix Hotel. This structure was replaced by the concrete...

Creator:      Unknown
Place:          The Square, Palmerston North
Date:          circa 1904

The Vet Tower at Massey University. Construction began in the 1960s and completed in the early 1970s. Massey University is the only veterinary school in New Zealand be set up. By 1961 the Council of Massey Agricultural College was invited to estab...

Creator:      C M Thompson
Place:          Palmerston North
Date:          1970s

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:          February 1955