Local historians weekly "Back Issues" article in the Manawatū Standard. Horticulture was once an important industry in the West End suburb. Three nurseries that no longer exist in 2025 were prominant. First was the Botanical Nurseries owned by the...
Creator: Russell Poole
Place: Palmerston North
Date: April 12, 2025
Local historians weekly "Back Issues" article in the Manawatū Standard. The story of The Active Eye contemporary photo exhibition, 1975.
By 1975, the Manawatū Art Gallery had established a reputation for presenting diverse and innovative exhibitio...
Creator: Jaime Ridge and Ralph Body
Place: Palmerston North
Date: April 5, 2025
Journalist Tina White's weekly "Memory Lane" article in the Manawatū Standard. The life of Elworthy Thomas Doddrell (1868-1950). Employed by Collinson and Cunninghame in 1910, he suggested to the store owners that they install a Christmas grotto, ...
Creator: Tina White
Place: Palmerston North
Date: December 18, 2010
Journalist Tina White's weekly "Memory Lane" article in the Manawatū Standard. Women in the 1930s-1950s sewed and mended clothes and other household items by hand and on sewing machines. The heritage textile items created are now sought after at a...
Creator: Tina White
Place: Manawatū
Date: December 4, 2010
Journalist Tina White's weekly "Memory Lane" article in the Manawatū Standard. Brian Dredge recalls his father Cyril Dredge's war time experiences and career. Cyril Dredge joined the Manawatū Home Guard during World War II. He was an active member...
Creator: Tina White
Place: Manawatū
Date: September 4, 2010
Journalist Tina White's weekly "Memory Lane" article in the Manawatū Standard. From the early 20th century, retailers in Palmerston North placed jingles to sell products in the local newspapers. Chemist product, cures for ailments, were commonly a...
Creator: Tina White
Place: Manawatū
Date: October 30, 2010
Journalist Tina White's weekly "Memory Lane" article in the Manawatū Standard. Article about the earliest European families who lived on Milson's Line. Robert Milson, after whom today's Milson area is named, purchased 173 acres on Milson Line for ...
Creator: Tina White
Place: Palmerston North
Date: November 13, 2010
Local historians weekly "Back Issues" article in the Manawatū Standard. Prime Minister Michael Joseph Savage (1872-1940) died in office 27 March 1940. His body was transported over two days by train to Auckland for burial. It stopped in Palmerston...
Creator: Margaret Tennant
Place: Palmerston North
Date: March 29, 2025
Local historians weekly "Back Issues" article in the Manawatū Standard. Life story of Palmerston North Samoan community leader Tile Vamaua Verne Tile (circa 1915-1978), known as Verne. Verne was born in Samoa and settled in Palmerston North in 195...
Creator: Tile Vamaua Vernon Tile
Place: Manawatū
Date: March 22, 2025
Local historians weekly "Back Issues" article in the Manawatū Standard. Life story of Victor Emmanuel SMITH (1863-1951). Amongst the many roles he held in Feilding, he was a land agent, Palmerston North Hospital board representative, Feilding comm...
Creator: Marilyn Wightman
Place: Manawatū
Date: March 15, 2025
Local historians weekly "Back Issues" article in the Manawatū Standard. The story of Eileen Neilson, later Eileen Savell (1883-1970) a Pohangina farmer who for over three years served in Egypt during World War 1. Eileen joined a volunteer organisa...
Creator: Lesley Courtney
Date: March 8, 2025
Local historians weekly "Back Issues" article in the Manawatū Standard. The Manawatū rugby side beat Auckland in 1976 to win the Ranfurly Shield at Eden Park, Auckland. The win occurred during a time of change, for Manawatū rugby, the city and the...
Creator: Stephen Berg
Place: Manawatū
Date: August 15, 2026
Local historians weekly "Back Issues" article in the Manawatū Standard. The life, work and legacy of Mina McKenzie (1930-1997). Mina was appointed as Manawatū Museum's first director in 1978. As a leader in the sector, she influenced museums in Ne...
Creator: Karis Evans
Place: Palmerston North
Date: March 1, 2025
Local historians weekly "Back Issues" article in the Manawatū Standard. When the Feilding and Districts Community Archive opened in 2009, it received a time capsule from the Feilding Public Library. The capsule had been filled and sealed in 1986 b...
Creator: Marilyn Wightman
Place: Feilding
Date: August 8, 2026
Local historians weekly "Back Issues" article in the Manawatū Standard. History of Coombrae, the first "home for the aged" built in Feilding. Land for the facility was donated by the Coombe family, who lived at 30 North Street Feilding. A 21 bed f...
Creator: Marilyn Wightman
Place: Feilding
Date: May 23, 2026
Journalist Tina White's weekly "Memory Lane" article in the Manawatū Standard. History of the Majestic Hotel, Fitzherbert Avenue 1930-1990.
Creator: Tina White
Place: Palmerston North
Date: May 10, 2014
Journalist Tina White's weekly "Memory Lane" article in the Manawatū Standard. A 94 year old man's living conditions caused controversy in 1975. Bill Marshall was living independently in a run down shack behind a house in Pioneer Highway. Two week...
Creator: Tina White
Place: Palmerston North
Date: October 16, 2010
Local historians weekly "Back Issues" article in the Manawatū Standard. The history and construction of Palmerston North City Council Civic Administration Building and Convention Centre. Construction of the brutalist style buildings started in Oct...
Creator: Lesley Courtney
Place: Palmerston North
Date: January 24, 2026
Creator: Jocelyn Woodward-Candy
Date: November 5, 2025
The Palmerston North City Library book bins were created and installed around 1996. The design concept seen here was implemented in 2016. This bin was located at 194 Ruapehu Drive in Aokautere, near the shopping complex in Summerhill.
Creator: PNCC
Place: Ruapehu Drive, Aokautere
Date: June 6, 2023
Local historians weekly "Back Issues" article in the Manawatū Standard. For a time, the Pellow family was the only New Zealand company making custom made dance shoes. Albert Pellow started making dance shoes in Pitt Street Palmerston North in abou...
Creator: Dr Tania Kopytko
Place: Palmerston North
Date: January 17, 2026
Local historians weekly "Back Issues" article in the Manawatū Standard. On 30 April 1874, Alexander McDonald, standing on Awahuri bridge, shot Mac a mail stagecoach horse above the right eye. Remarkably the horse was treated and survived.
Creator: Val Burr
Place: Manawatū
Date: January 3, 2026
Local historians weekly "Back Issues" article in the Manawatū Standard. The establishment and history of Papaioea Park, a 3.6 Terrace End park accessible fron Ruahine Street, Featherston Street, Rangitira Avenue and Papaioea Place. Established in ...
Creator: Geoff Watson
Place: Palmerston North
Date: December 27, 2025
Local historians weekly "Back Issues" article in the Manawatū Standard. The history of a historic Feilding homestead, originally located on a 15 hectares site in the 1870s, at 142 Denbigh Street Feilding. The home was moved to 6 North Street Feild...
Creator: Marilyn Wightman
Place: Feilding
Date: January 10, 2026
Local historians weekly "Back Issues" article in the Manawatū Standard. Since 1959, the Manawatū rugby team has had a mascot. Cassius the Colt was followed by Cassius the Colt II in 1990 and Cassius the Colt III in 1995. Manawatū Stu was introduce...
Creator: Clive Akers
Place: Manawatū
Date: June 20, 2026
Local historians weekly "Back Issues" article in the Manawatū Standard. The grandstand at the Showgrounds, later Central Energy Trust Arena, has been extensively damaged a number of times in its history. Opened in 1900 with seating capacity for 22...
Creator: Murray Brown
Place: Palmerston North
Date: April 11, 2026
Journalist Tina White's weekly "Memory Lane" article in the Manawatū Standard. The life and career of Madame Lauri Alwyn, women's health advocate. Madame Alwyn visited Palmerston North in May 1936 and presented a number of lifestyle, health and fi...
Creator: Tina White
Place: Manawatū
Date: November 27, 2010
Local historians weekly "Back Issues" article in the Manawatū Standard. The history of the wishing well in Te Marae o Hine/The Square 1963-1990. Erected as a fundraiser for local charities by the Palmerston North branch of the New Zealand Jaycees.
Creator: Heather Glasgow
Place: Palmerston North
Date: May 16, 2026
Local historians weekly "Back Issues" article in the Manawatū Standard. Construction on the Mangahao hydroelectric power scheme commenced in 1920. It lies behind Shannon, on the Mangahao River. It was a large construction project, employing 900 me...
Creator: Isaac Heaphy
Place: Manawatū
Date: May 2, 2026
Journalist Tina White's weekly "Memory Lane" article in the Manawatū Standard. Home deep freezing food was popular in the 1970s. British born Norma McCulloch, née Proudlove (1933-2010) from Rongotea became an expert in deep freezing techniques and...
Creator: Tina White
Place: Manawatū
Date: November 20, 2010