Back Issues: Hitching posts lost to time and space

Description

Local historians weekly "Back Issues" article in the Manawatū Standard. Around the beginning of the twentieth century horse drawn transport was common. In Te Marae o Hine/The Square, hitching rails with posts were erected for horses so that their owners could transact business in the central township. The rails were removed in the early 1900s, but a reducing number of hitching posts were used for tethering horses for several more decades. One post now remains (2023), opposite the Fitzherbert corner. It has heritage protection, Category 2 status with Heritage NZ and Category 1 status with Palmerston North City Council.

Identification

Content type

Born digital

Relation

Manawatū Standard

Date

May 6, 2023

Digitisation id

2023Pa_IMCA-DigitalArchive_041081

Format

Born Digital

Held in

IMCA Digital Archive