Booklet written to commemorate the golden jubilee of Tiritea School, now Turitea School. Included is the beginning of European settlement, the establishment of the Fitzherbert Road Board and a description of early farming activity. The economic de...
Creator: V.A. Christensen
Place: Turitea
Date: 1945
A 14-page booklet describing the activities of the Gas Department during the conversion from coal gas to natural gas.
Creator: Gas Department, City of Palmerston North
Date: 1971
The Freyberg High School calendar outlines the school year and includes staff and pupil listings, school clubs, sports and activities, a map of the school, school rules, uniform requirements and examination information.
Creator: Freyberg High School
Place: Freyberg Street, Palmerston North
Date: 1970
Contents:
p. 3 Editorial / Russell Poole
p. 4 The everyday life of a boarder at Feilding Agricultural High School, 1960-1962 / Peter Weston
p. 11 From the car shed to the water’s edge. The formation of the Himatangi Beach settlement / Tony Rasm...
Creator: Manawatū Historic Journal Associates
Place: Manawatū
Date: 2021
Contents:
p. 3 Editorial / Russell Poole
p. 4 ‘Simple everyday dishes’ from the Town & Country Patriotic Women Workers’ Cookery Book ...
Creator: Manawatū Historic Journal Associates
Place: Manawatū
Date: 2022
Contents:
p. 3 Editorial / Russell Poole
p. 4 School milk, health camps and 'Gunn's Gospel of Grub' / Margaret Tennant
p. 13 'This lovely home'. An account of 'Brabourne', 149 Monmouth Street, Feilding / Gerry Barton
p. 26 Stepping out of the ...
Creator: Manawatū Historic Journal Associates
Place: Manawatū
Date: 2020
This ten-page report was prepared for the Town Planning Office of the PNCC. The purpose of the report was "to examine the residential site building coverage requirements as laid down in the Palmerston North CIty Council Code of Ordinance. The ma...
Creator: Peter Crawford, PNCC Town Planning Office
Date: December 1970
Brochure documenting the establishment of this accommodation facility to house twelve young men on probation, a joint project of the Department of Justice and the Manawatū Methodist Social Service Centre.
Date: circa 1973
Creator: Palmerston North City Council
Date: 2000s
A brochure promoting Arena Manawatū as a sport and events venue.
Date: 2000s
A brochure promoting the Palmerston North Showgrounds.
Date: 1980s
Creator: Palmerston North City Council
Date: 1996
Local historians weekly "Back Issues" article in the Manawatū Standard. History and description of the statue of Te Peeti Te Awe Awe, one of Rangitāne's notable leaders of the 19th Century. The statue was ceremoniously unveiled in Te Marae o Hine/...
Creator: Virginia and Warren Warbrick
Place: Palmerston North
Date: January 28, 2023
A history of Awatapu College written by Sue Stirling. Chapters consider the school under its first five principals (John Wall; Mike O'Connor; Larry Ching; Tina Sims and Gary Yeatman), with additional chapters dedicated to: camps and trips; sport a...
Creator: Sue Stirling
Date: 2016
A local community newspaper. The content of the issue includes:
Heather Tanguay, 'On Being a City Councillor,' p.2.
John Bevan Ford, 'The Emblem,' p.2.
Rolf Panny, 'A Code of Social and Family Responsibility?' p.3.
'News from the Manawatū Ethn...
Creator: Community Journal Charitable Trust Board
Date: March 1998
This study was produced to document recent population trends and provide estimates of future growth in regional and local areas. The predictions for the Manawatū region are provided on pages 51-54. In 1971 Palmerston North had an urban population ...
Creator: Ministry of Works, Town and Country Planning Division
Date: June 1972
A directory of local businesses and public services for Palmerston North.
Date: 1983 to 1984
An article by Ian Ogier, that appeared in New Zealand Historic Places, no. 68, May 1998, pp.6-8, describing the restoration of The Regent Theatre on Broadway Avenue.
Creator: Ian Ogier
Date: May 1998
An illustrated booklet providing a history of the Turitea water supply facility, written and researched by Jonathan Berkahn and Margaret Beames. It covers the history of this key piece of local infrastructure from the 1880s until the 1990s.
Creator: Palmerston North City Council
Place:
Date: circa 1994
A brochure for a tour of the Regent Theatre, prepared by Barbara Ingram for the Friends of the Regent (Inc).
Creator: Barbara Ingram
Date: 1998
A brochure for a tour of the Regent Theatre, adapted and revised from the original 1998 guide prepared by Barbara Ingram for the Friends of the Regent.
Creator: Friends of the Regent
Date: 2017
A programme describing the Regent Theatre, following its refurbishment and reopening in 1998.
Creator: Regent Theatre
Date: 1998
A souvenir programme for the opening ceremony of the New Longburn Railway Bridge and Deviation. Constructed between 1958 and 1960, the new steel and reinforced-concrete bridge replaced an earlier wooden rail bridge over the Manawatū which dated fr...
Creator: New Zealand Railways
Date: October 18, 1960