Manawatū Evening Standard Negative Collection

This image was taken for a story that ran in The Manawatu Evening Standard on 17th December 1965 "Jane Lyttleton. (Dux, St. James.)"

This image was taken (but not used) for a story that ran in The Manawatu Evening Standard on 28th December 1965 "Rough seas aggravated by a gale force wind lashed some inland at Foxton Beach today. The beach was all but deserted except for this Feilding family, who, despite the conditions, were seen enjoying themselves along the beach front."

This image was taken (but not used) for a story that ran in The Manawatu Evening Standard on 28th December 1965 "Rough seas aggravated by a gale force wind lashed some inland at Foxton Beach today. The members of the Foxton Life-saving Club had to shovel sand away from the club's driveway before they could drive the surf life-saving van out. Sand carried by the strong wind had built up along the edges of the road causing difficulty to some motorists. They wind was one of the strongest experienced at the beach for some time."

This image was taken for a story that ran in The Manawatu Evening Standard on 28th December 1965 "Rough seas aggravated by a gale force wind lashed some inland at Foxton Beach today. The members of the Foxton Life-saving Club had to shovel sand away from the club's driveway before they could drive the surf life-saving van out. Sand carried by the strong wind had built up along the edges of the road causing difficulty to some motorists. They wind was one of the strongest experienced at the beach for some time."

This image was taken (but not used) for a story that ran in The Manawatu Evening Standard on 28th December 1965 "Rough seas aggravated by a gale force wind lashed some inland at Foxton Beach today. The members of the Foxton Life-saving Club had to shovel sand away from the club's driveway before they could drive the surf life-saving van out. Sand carried by the strong wind had built up along the edges of the road causing difficulty to some motorists. They wind was one of the strongest experienced at the beach for some time."

This image was taken for a story that ran in The Manawatu Evening Standard on 29th December 1965 "A section of the record-breaking crowd on the second day of the Manawatu Racing Club's Christmas meeting are seen watching the running of one of the early races. Despite wintry conditions, the rain held off and the crowd created record figures both in attendance and on the totallisator."

This image was taken for a story that ran in The Manawatu Evening Standard on 28th December 1965 "Rough seas aggravated by a gale force wind lashed some inland at Foxton Beach today. The beach was all but deserted except for this Feilding family, who, despite the conditions, were seen enjoying themselves along the beach front."

This image was taken for a story that ran in The Manawatu Evening Standard on 29th December 1965 "Nurse Bradley holding a pigeon which unexpectedly flew into the ward and made friends with the staff and children."

This image was taken for a story that ran in The Manawatu Evening Standard on 28th December 1965 "In section C of the Manawatu Bowling Centre's pairs tournament H. Huff (Foxton) at the end of play yesterday, had won all his six games."

[Image of players at the Manawatu Bowling Centre's pairs tournament.]

This image was taken (but not used) for a story that ran in The Manawatu Evening Standard on 6th January 1966 "Nine scouts from Papatoetoe East who are spending a week in the Pohangina Valley, near the Totara Reserve. They are under the leadership of Scoutmaster B. Ivory."

Members of the Commonwealth Parliamentary Association's touring party visiting a farm (possibly Massey Agricultural College).

This image was taken for a story that ran in The Manawatu Evening Standard on 7th January 1966 "Some of the 170 boys camping with the Y.M.C.A. at the Totara Reserve, wade across the Pohangina River under the alert eyes of two councillors. River sports play a major part in the boys' outdoor activities."

This image was taken (but not used) for a story that ran in The Manawatu Evening Standard on 7th January 1966 "Work has started on the demolition of the Midland Hotel. The windows are here being removed before the front is [demolished]. The hotel licence has now been transferred to the New Pioneer Hotel."

This image was taken for a story that ran in The Manawatu Evening Standard on 3rd January 1966 "The penny pile being built by a group of volunteers at the Majestic Hotel received a final boost on New Year's Eve. With several donations from well-wishers during the Christmas period, sent to the chairman of the Manawatu Committee for Intellectually Handicapped Children (Mr. K. Williamson, right) he handed to the hotel penny-pile organiser (Mr. C. Sydow, left) a cheque to swell the fund to £425. A further £15 was donated in notes. The final target of £600 is now well in sight, and it is hoped by organisers that the demolition of the pile can be undertaken early in the New Year."

This image was taken for a story that ran in The Manawatu Evening Standard on 27th November 1965 "Among the exhibits at The Manawatu Floral Art Japanese exhibition this week was the interesting collection on loan from Miss D. Aldrich, of Victoria Avenue, Palmerston North. All have an interesting historical association between Japan and New Zealand around the turn of the century.
[These are} -- gifts to Miss Aldrich's grandfather (Mr. A.D. Aldrich) who spent 25 years in Japan before returning to New Zealand as the first Japanese Consul in 1896."

This image was taken for a story that ran in The Manawatu Evening Standard on 29th November 1965 "Members if the Commonwealth Parliamentary Association's touring party attended a civic reception in the Concert Chamber."

This image was taken for a story that ran in The Manawatu Evening Standard on 6th January 1966 "The 31st New Zealand Esperanto Congress opened at Massey University of Manawatu today. The photograph shows congress officials, left to right, Mr. B. Rollason (congress secretary), Mr. R. Dearnley (New Zealand vice-president), Mr. B. Potts (honorary life-president), Professor C.J. Adcock (New Zealand president), Mrs. m. Richardson (secretary Upper Hutt branch) and Mr. R.V. Morgan (Palmerston North president), in front of the board."

This image was taken for a story that ran in The Manawatu Evening Standard on 3
0th November 1965 "Mr. and Mrs. P.T. Ryan and their children, Martin and Jane, on their arrival at Palmerston North Airport. They had flown from Fiji on the first DC-8 flight from there to the new international airport at Mangere. Mr. Ryan, a senior technician in the veterinary biological unit at the Glaxo Laboratories, Palmerston North, was returning from a four-month furlough trip to Britain, where he and his family visited their relations and friends in their home county Yorkshire. They made the most of their trip, travelling out by Hong Kong, India and Rome and back by America. AS is customary, Mr. Ryan spend a month at head office laboratories in London and this, he said, was excellent for new ideas and widening the horizon. All were thrilled to return to their homeland, but after five years in New Zealand they were glad to be back here. If their welcome at home was exciting, it was more than matched by the warm greeting on their return to their adopted country. New Zealand just had something all the other places that they had seen lacked, said Mrs. Ryan."

This image was taken for a story that ran in The Manawatu Evening Standard on 6th January 1966 "One member of the public who is interested in the activities of the Lifesaving Club, and is accordingly grateful, is Mr. R. de Cleene, who is seen presenting the Mayor (Mr. G.M. Rennie) with a further contribution towards the running of the club. [Mr. Pinker (on the right) is the proprietor of the Longburn Motor Garage, where the exchange happened.]"