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
28 Ranfurly Street was once a Category Two Historic Place. At the time of photographing, the house was due to be demolished after several fires damaged the property. It was built in 1905 by Frank Kirk. For more information see [the listing](http:/...
Creator: Heather Glasgow - PNCC
Place: Ranfurly Street
Date: February 19, 2018
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
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
This booklet gives a brief overview of the development of the constituent parishes that came together to form Pathways Presbyterian Church. Their story begins in the 1870s and 2026 marks, broadly speaking, 150 years of Presbyterianism in Palmersto...
Creator: Pathways Presbyterian Church
Date: 2026
On the 11th of November 2024, a Hīkoi set off from Cape Reinga toward Parliament. The march was triggered by the introduction of the ACT Party's Treaty Principles Bill which, if passed, would re-interpret Te Tiriti o Waitangi.
On November 16th, ...
Creator: Simon Johnson
Place: Church Street
Date: November 17, 2024
On the 11th of November 2024, a Hīkoi set off from Cape Reinga toward Parliament. The march was triggered by the introduction of the ACT Party's Treaty Principles Bill which, if passed, would re-interpret Te Tiriti o Waitangi.
On November 16th, ...
Creator: Simon Johnson
Place: Church Street
Date: November 17, 2024
On the 11th of November 2024, a Hīkoi set off from Cape Reinga toward Parliament. The march was triggered by the introduction of the ACT Party's Treaty Principles Bill which, if passed, would re-interpret Te Tiriti o Waitangi.
On November 16th, ...
Creator: Simon Johnson
Place: Church Street
Date: November 17, 2024
On the 11th of November 2024, a Hīkoi set off from Cape Reinga toward Parliament. The march was triggered by the introduction of the ACT Party's Treaty Principles Bill which, if passed, would re-interpret Te Tiriti o Waitangi.
On November 16th, ...
Creator: Simon Johnson
Place: Church Street
Date: November 17, 2024
On the 11th of November 2024, a Hīkoi set off from Cape Reinga toward Parliament. The march was triggered by the introduction of the ACT Party's Treaty Principles Bill which, if passed, would re-interpret Te Tiriti o Waitangi.
On November 16th, ...
Creator: Simon Johnson
Place: Church Street
Date: November 17, 2024
On the 11th of November 2024, a Hīkoi set off from Cape Reinga toward Parliament. The march was triggered by the introduction of the ACT Party's Treaty Principles Bill which, if passed, would re-interpret Te Tiriti o Waitangi.
On November 16th, ...
Creator: Simon Johnson
Place: Church Street
Date: November 17, 2024
On the 11th of November 2024, a Hīkoi set off from Cape Reinga toward Parliament. The march was triggered by the introduction of the ACT Party's Treaty Principles Bill which, if passed, would re-interpret Te Tiriti o Waitangi.
On November 16th, ...
Creator: Simon Johnson
Place: Church Street
Date: November 17, 2024
On the 11th of November 2024, a Hīkoi set off from Cape Reinga toward Parliament. The march was triggered by the introduction of the ACT Party's Treaty Principles Bill which, if passed, would re-interpret Te Tiriti o Waitangi.
On November 16th, ...
Creator: Simon Johnson
Place: Church Street
Date: November 17, 2024
On the 11th of November 2024, a Hīkoi set off from Cape Reinga toward Parliament. The march was triggered by the introduction of the ACT Party's Treaty Principles Bill which, if passed, would re-interpret Te Tiriti o Waitangi.
On November 16th, ...
Creator: Simon Johnson
Place: Church Street
Date: November 17, 2024
On the 11th of November 2024, a Hīkoi set off from Cape Reinga toward Parliament. The march was triggered by the introduction of the ACT Party's Treaty Principles Bill which, if passed, would re-interpret Te Tiriti o Waitangi.
On November 16th, ...
Creator: Simon Johnson
Place: Church Street
Date: November 17, 2024
On the 11th of November 2024, a Hīkoi set off from Cape Reinga toward Parliament. The march was triggered by the introduction of the ACT Party's Treaty Principles Bill which, if passed, would re-interpret Te Tiriti o Waitangi.
On November 16th, ...
Creator: Simon Johnson
Place: Church Street
Date: November 17, 2024