This house was located at 18 Princess Street, where the UCOL (Universal College of Learning) Atrium now stands.

Creator:      Unknown
Place:          Palmerston North
Date:          September 5, 1992

Berry Engineering was established in 1907 by Edwin Daniel Berry as E. D. Berry General Engineer. It was originally located in Main Street, but as the business grew, it moved to Ferguson Street, later expanding up Ashley Street.

All three of Edwi...

Creator:      Unknown
Place:          Ferguson Street, Palmerston North
Date:          1940 to 1941

This family portrait was likely taken just before Edwin Daniel Berry left New Zealand to conduct missionary work in Fiji. From left:

• Rimu (Reme) Ruahine Victoria Perkins nee Berry b.1899

• Francis (Frank) Leslie Berry b.1900

• Edwin Daniel Be...

Creator:      Berry Family
Date:          1930 to 1935

Berry Engineering was established in 1907 by Edwin Daniel Berry as E. D. Berry General Engineer. It was originally located in Main Street, but as the business grew, it moved to Ferguson Street, later expanding up Ashley Street.

All three of Edwi...

Creator:      Unknown
Place:          Ferguson Street, Palmerston North
Date:          1935

Berry Engineering was established in 1907 by Edwin Daniel Berry as E. D. Berry General Engineer. It was originally located in Main Street, but as the business grew, it moved to Ferguson Street, later expanding up Ashley Street.

All three of Edwi...

Creator:      Unknown
Place:          Ferguson Street, Palmerston North
Date:          1935

Creator:      James Lashbrooke, attributed to
Date:          1975 to 1976

Creator:      James Lashbrooke, attributed to
Date:          1975 to 1976

Creator:      James Lashbrooke, attributed to
Date:          circa 1976

The race took place on the Manawatū River from Tematai Road to Fitzherbert Bridge.

Creator:      Manawatū Evening Standard
Place:          Palmerston North
Date:          1970 to 1980

Maurice Sexton (Chairman Library and City Councillor) speaking at the official opening of the public library.

Creator:      "Wally D' - W. R. Davies, Palmerston North
Place:          Corner of Main Street and The Square, Palmerston North
Date:          November 1965

A publicity image used in the souvenir programme for the offical opening of the public library in 1965. The reverse reads: "A view from the ground floor showing ornamental pool and internal stair to first floor."

Creator:      Argosy Industrial Photos, Palmerston North
Place:          Corner of Main Street and The Square, Palmerston North
Date:          November 1965

Eleanor Dracup (left) and Pamela Mardon (right), library staff at the newly opened Palmerston North Public Library.

Creator:      "Wally D' - W. R. Davies, Palmerston North
Place:          Corner of Main Street and The Square, Palmerston North
Date:          November 1965

Ropes divide off the New Zealand Collection from the remainder of the reference collection and a sign tells borrowers why. The City Librarian, Ian Malcolm, estimates that 3-4% of the collection is disappearing off the shelves. This means that betw...

Creator:      Manawatu Evening Standard
Place:          Main Street, Palmerston North
Date:          1982

A series of images spanning 4 May - 14 September, 1965, depicting the construction of the Public Library on the corner of Main Street and The Square. The library was officially opened on 4 November, 1965.

Creator:      "Wally D' - W. R. Davies, Palmerston North
Place:          Corner of Main Street and The Square, Palmerston North
Date:          November 1965

A series of images depicting unidentified children in the Children's Department of the newly construction Palmerston North Public Library. This photograph shows children listening to a librarian.

Place:          Corner of Main Street and The Square, Palmerston North
Date:          circa 1966

The water feature in the newly opened Palmerston North Public Library.

Creator:      "Wally D' - W. R. Davies, Palmerston North
Place:          Corner of Main Street and The Square, Palmerston North
Date:          November 1965

This negative proof sheet shows a variety of scenes in the Public Library that once stood on the corner of Main Street East and The Square.

Creator:      Unknown
Place:          Corner of The Square and Main Street, Palmerston North
Date:          1974

The Lower Turitea Dam was originally completed in 1907 but was raised to 50 feet in 1912. It was officially opened February 17, 1913. This enlarged dam remained in use until 1957 when a 100 ft high dam was constructed. The spillway is on the left.

Creator:      Unknown
Place:          Turitea, Palmerston North
Date:          1913

Broadcast on Manawatu People's Radio, 21st March 2023.  Part 2 of 3. Record keeping in schools, the “brown card”. School reports, attendance, parent-teacher interviews. Balancing the rolls. Pupil turnover. Assessing teacher performance by ...

Creator:      Stuart Birks
Place:          Palmerston North
Date:          March 21, 2023

Broadcast on Manawatu People's Radio, 21st February 2023.  Part 1 of 3. Grandfather’s house in Featherston. Father on leave during WWII. To Greytown. Father doing Maori cooking, wine making. Danish maternal grandfather came as child in 186...

Creator:      Stuart Birks
Place:          Feilding
Date:          February 21, 2023

Broadcast on Manawatu People's Radio, 28th February 2023.  Part 2 of 3. Rural life in Otaki, neighbours, change of interests. Handling horses. Moving onto own farm. Father’s gardening using the moon for planting times, commercial flower gr...

Creator:      Stuart Birks
Place:          Feilding
Date:          February 28, 2023

This photograph, showing Dennis Rickards in the backyard of his recently constructed home at 125 Vogel Street, Roslyn, was taken with a Brownie E. camera. Rickards' purchased the property in about 1950 and had a house constructed by A. Arnold in c...

Creator:      
Date:          circa 1952

This is a view of the Upper Turitea dam, completed in 1957.

Creator:      Argosy Studios
Place:          Turitea, Palmerston North

"Pressing an electric button on the official platform a short distance from the city end of the new Fitzherbert bridge, His Excellency the Governor-General, Lord Galway, to-day, broke a red, white and blue ribbon stretched taut across the end of t...

Date:          July 20, 1935

The Woodville Post Office was completed in 1904 and demolished in 1982. It was damaged in the 1931 Hawke's Bay earthquake and the brickwork from the top storey was removed at that time. The postmaster originally lived in the top storey of the buil...

Creator:      Manawatu Evening Standard
Date:          July 29, 1981

In June 1980 the Government rejected plans to turn the Woodville Maternity Annexe into a hostel for children with intellectual disabilities. The hostel accomodation would have allowed the children to have six hour schooling a day instead of three ...

Creator:      Manawatu Evening Standard
Date:          June 4, 1980

These 112 stuffed birds were the main evidence in the biggest prosecution ever brought by the Wildlife Division of the Internal Affairs Department, in Palmerston North on April 4, 1977. Ninety nine of the birds collected and stuffed were absolutel...

Creator:      Manawatū Evening Standard
Date:          April 5, 1977

Tokomaru is situated on Highway 57, 11.3km north of Shannon and 19.3km south of Palmerston North. Horseshoe Bend Reserve is a popular swimming spot on the Manawatū River.

Creator:      Manawatū Guardian
Date:          January 22, 1975

Tokomaru is situated on Highway 57, 11.3km north of Shannon and 19.3km south of Palmerston North.

Creator:      Manawatū Evening Standard
Date:          August 9, 1975

E G Child was an engine driver at flaxmills in the vicinity of Oroua Bridge. Albert Adsett's mill was situated alongside the main road from Palmerston North to Foxton. It stood on the south side of the road, a few yards on the Palmerston North sid...

Creator:      E. G. Child
Date:          June 8, 1907