‘catch and release: Poems from Manawatu’ is the first e-publication from Palmerston North City Library. As part of the experimental poetry programme KUPU - PoetryBeyondWords, the book is one of a series of initiatives designed to engage the comm...
Creator: Palmerston North City Library
Place: Manawatū
Date: August 2015
This "McDougall Farmers' Notebook 1935-36" was used as a diary by an unknown farm worker who went on 'Tour of N.I.', beginning 15 October 1935 (first entry). He travelled from Blenheim, and records his holiday, mainly in the Hawkes Bay and Giborne...
Creator: Anonymous, possibly J Lane
Date: 1935 to 1936
Terrence E R Hodgson was born in Otago in 1956. He graduated in music from Canterbury University and studied architechture at Auckland University in 1978. He authored many books in his lifetime - including 'Fire and Decay: The Destruction of the L...
Creator: Manawatu Evening Standard
Place: Palmerston North
Date: December 28, 1978
William Maughan was born in Newcastle on Tyne, England in 1940 and educated at Rossall School in Lancashire and at Victoria University in Wellington, New Zealand, where he achieved a Master's Degree in Greek. For seven years, he worked for the New...
Creator: Manawatu Evening Standard
Place: Palmerston North
Date: September 1975
Dorothy Pilkington, Local historian for 2017, Councillor Rachel Bowen, Chair of the arts, culture and heritage committee, Margaret Tennant, Chair of the Palmerston North Heritage Trust, at the presentation ceremony at Caccia Birch House.
Creator: Simon Johnson
Place: Caccia Birch, Hokowhitu, Palmerston North
Date: June 18, 2017
Dorothy Pilkington receiving her award as Local Historian of the Year, from the Palmerston North Heritage Trust, at a ceremony at Caccia Birch House, Palmerston North
Creator: Simon Johnson
Place: 130 Te Awe Awe Street, Hokowhitu, Palmerston North
Date: June 18, 2017