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
Three workers, with horses hauling a log along a bush tramway. The background shows evidence of bush clearance by burning off.
Date: circa 1890
Palmerston North experienced a period of severe water shortage in the summer of 1943-1944, when the level of the lake a Turitea fell 3.5m below the bywash of the dam. This photograph shows five year's accumulation of leaf mould.
Date: February 1944
Palmerston North experienced a period of severe water shortage in the summer of 1943-1944, when the level of the lake a Turitea fell 3.5m below the bywash of the dam. This photograph is similiar to an image published in the Manawatu Times on 29 Fe...
Date: February 1944
Palmerston North experienced a period of severe water shortage in the summer of 1943-1944, when the level of the lake a Turitea fell 3.5m below the bywash of the dam. The PNCC had to hastily sink a soak well on the south bank of the Manawatū River...
Date: circa 1944
Palmerston North experienced a period of severe water shortage in the summer of 1943-1944, when the level of the lake a Turitea fell 3.5m below the bywash of the dam. The city's diminishing water supply was reported in the Manawatu Times, 29 Febru...
Date: February 1944
A view of one of the tunnels built as part of the power project. The Mangahao Power Station provides hydroelectric power and is situated near the town of Shannon. It serves Wellington, Horowhenua, Taranaki, Hawkes Bay and the Wairarapa. After bein...
Date: 1920 to 1923
A view of the second Fitzherbert Bridge over the Manawatū River from the Victoria Esplanade gardens. It is similar, but not identical to image 2018P_2018-12_025126.
The second Fitzherbert Bridge was built by Fletcher Construction Co. Ltd between 1...
Date: circa 1940
The second Fitzherbert Bridge was built by Fletcher Construction Co. Ltd between 1933 and 1935. It was opened 20 July 1935 by Viscount Galway, the Governor General. The concrete bridge replaced the original wooden structure completed in 1877. The ...
Date: 1950
The second Fitzherbert Bridge was built by Fletcher Construction Co. Ltd between 1933 and 1935. It was opened 20 July 1935 by Viscount Galway, the Governor General. The concrete bridge replaced the original wooden structure completed in 1877. The ...
Date: circa 1950
The second Fitzherbert Bridge was built by Fletcher Construction Co. Ltd between 1933 and 1935. It was opened 20 July 1935 by Viscount Galway, the Governor General. The concrete bridge replaced the original wooden structure completed in 1877. The ...
Date: 1950