Family photograph album, including images of family members, scenes around Palmerston North, animals, music, sport, soldiers, "Huanui" (boat at Foxton), Foxton, Maori Battalion (1940) and farm scenes.
Creator: Newth family
Place: Manawatū
Date: circa 1940 to circa 1950
Beth Thompson's album. Beth was the daughter of Charles and Elizabeth (nee Macauley) Thompson. Album contains photographs of Beth throughout her younger life, Macauley and Thompson families and Maurice and Elayne Thompson (siblings). Also contains...
Creator: Thompson - Macauley families
Place: Palmerston North
Date: circa 1917 to circa 1992
Contains photographs of Beth, Maurice and Elayne Thompson and their parents, Elizabeth and Charles, on their farm in Milson Line, family activities, holidays and Macauley relations. Charles Thompson and Elizabeth Macauley married in 1929 and had t...
Creator: Various
Place: Palmerston North
Date: circa 1925 to circa 1949
Album contains photos of the Dumbleton family, extended families and holidays in New Zealand and England. Most images not identified. Not in chronological order. The name Mina Dumbleton is handwritten inside the front cover.
The Dumbleton family ...
Creator: Unknown
Place: Various
Date: circa 1910 to circa 1965
Album contains photos of the Dumbleton family and extended families. Many are unidentified. Not in chronological order.
The Dumbleton family lived in Cook Street. There were four daughters: Mina; Eileen, who married and became Eileen Ward; Olive...
Creator: Dumbleton Family
Place: Various
Date: circa 1910 to 1963
Beth Thompson was the daughter of Charles and Elizabeth (nee Macauley) Thompson. She grew up on the family farm on Milson Line with her siblings Maurice and Elayne.
Album contains images of Beth and family and Palmerston North's 75th jubilee parade.
Creator: Various
Place: Manawatu
Date: circa 1940 to circa 1959
Community House in Ashhurst was initiated by the Ashhurst Community Service Group. It opened in 1993 in the former Post Office building, purchased by the PNCC as the new Ashhurst Library. The house part of the building was given over as a communit...
Creator: Ashhurst Community House
Place: Ashhurst, Manawatu
Date: 1993
The Hokowhitu Scout Group album relates to their 25th anniversary. It contains photographs, messages of congratulations and a brief history of the group.
The Hokowhitu Scout Group commenced activities in 1959 in a workshop owned by Isaac Bros. Th...
Creator: Hokowhitu Scout Group
Place: Palmerston North
Date: November 1984
The album was created for Mrs Jill Cook, a founder of the club. It contains messages from members of the Club and photographs of members and their children and husbands. It also lists their former home and when they arrived in New Zealand
The Ove...
Creator: Overseas Ladies Club
Place: Palmerston North
Date: circa 1950 to circa 1959
Photograph album documenting the occasion of the Kairanga School 90th anniversary in 1978. Shows group photos of attendees, cake cutting, dinner and outdoor ceremony. Unidentified.
Kairanga School was opened Monday 10 December 1888.
Creator: Kairanga Home & School Association (?)
Place: Kairanga, Manawatu
Date: 1978
Photograph album containing images of the activities of the Ashhurst Arts Centre. Includes: - Arts and Crafts Exhibitions 1971 - 1975 - Centennial Exhibition (Palmerston North) 1971 - Drama Group and other productions 1971 - 1975 - Mrs Ashhurst co...
Creator: Ashhurst Arts Centre
Place: Ashhurst
Date: 1971 to 1975
Photograph album containing photographs of Samuel and Margaretta Macaulay and their family, including Nita, Lena, Elizabeth, Sarah, Joe and Emilie Macauley, and family friends. Also Campbell Aitchison, Thompson home on Milson Line, Aitchison home ...
Creator: Various
Place: Manawatū
Date: circa 1920 to circa 1930
Album of the Linton Branch of the Country Women's Institute (CWI), containing a photograph and report from each President of the Branch during their term in office. Also includes newspaper cuttings, show certificates and photographs of Branch birt...
Creator: Linton CWI
Place: Linton, Manawatū
Date: 1931 to 1993
The first meeting of the Kairanga Girl Guide Company was on 3 April 1954. Kairanga is a farming district on the outskirts of Palmerston North.
The album, entitled 'Camping Days' contains photographs of camps at Himatangi Beach and Kowhai Hut and ...
Creator: Unknown
Place: Manawatū
Date: 1964 to 1966
Maurice Thompson Senior's photograph album. Maurice lived in Invercargill, Timaru and Auckland. His son Charles married Elizabeth Maculey and farmed at Milson Line.
Album contains photographs mainly of the Auckland area, Charles and Elizabeth Th...
Creator: Maurice Thompson (Snr)
Place: New Zealand
Date: circa 1900 to circa 1940
Ian Matheson was the City Archivist for Palmerston North. This interview, with Murray Hulls of Newstalk ZB focuses on an upcoming tour to Foxton, including places of interest, and a short history of local radio stations.
Creator: Newstalk ZB
Place: Palmerston North
Date: 199X
Broadcast on Manawatu People's Radio, 17th March 2020. Arnie Evans, life as a regional radio and TV reporter, part 2 of 3. Broadcasting facilities, 1970s and 1980s. Use of phones. Comparison with TV. TV more costly and more prescribed. Mistake ...
Creator: Stuart Birks
Place: Palmerston North
Date: March 17, 2020
The 10th Annual New Zealand Scouting Jamboree was held in Feilding in January 1984. Held between the 2nd and 10th, Scout groups from across the country were able to take part in events that taught skills (farming tasks, accident response training ...
Creator: Keith Malcolm
Place: Feilding
Date: January 1984
On Thursday 7 January 1954, Queen Elizabeth II travelled by train in the afternoon, passing through Waipawa, Waipukurau, Dannevirke and Woodville, eventually arriving in Palmerston North for a civic reception dinner.
Local footage begins at 03.52...
Creator: National Film Unit
Place: North Island, New Zealand
Date: January 7, 1954
Massey University Television Production Centre created VHS copies of films, likely originally created by the National Film Unit. It is believed they were used as teaching resources at Massey University.
Place: Palmerston North
Date: November 1959
Massey University Television Production Centre created these VHS copies of films, likely originally created by the National Film Unit. It is believed they were used as teaching resources at Massey University.
00:00 - 01.40: Milson Deviation 1959
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Place: Manawatu
Date: 1959 to 1964
This plan relates to Contract No. 62. The specifications for "the Erection of buildings for the Boiling Down and Tallow Departments of the Municipal Abattoir at Awapuni" state: "The works comprised in this Contract consist of the necessary amount ...
Creator: Palmerston North Borough Council
Date: 1924
The Manawatu Evening Standard reported on 4 September 1928, "Instructions were given [to] the borough engineer at last night's meeting of the council to call for tenders for the erection of a shelter and conveniences at the new cemetery." The Pa...
Creator: Palmerston North Borough Council
Date: 1928
This plan relates to Contract No. 314. The specifications for this contract state: "The work comprising this contract includes all the necessary excavation and removal of spoil and the construction in reinforced concrete of the underground pump pi...
Creator: Palmerston North City Council
Date: 1953
Layout of the Transit Camp in Hokowhitu, on what became the site of the Palmerston North Teachers College and later Massey University Hokowhitu campus. After WWII there was a shortage of housing in New Zealand, and this camp provided temporary acc...
Date: 1946 to 1947
This map shows one of the earliest layout plans for Palmerston North. It includes mostly sections south of present day Main Street (labelled Great Northern Road). The map shows some of the landscape features underlying the present day city. Scale ...
Creator: Henry Jackson, Chief Surveyor
Date: circa 1872
Victoria University established an extramural branch in Palmerston North, prior to the demise of the University of New Zealand in 1961 and the establishment of Massey University in 1964. It was based at the former Transit Camp site, on Centennial ...
Creator: Palmerston North City Council (probable)
Place: Centennial Drive, Palmerston North
Date: 1960
The general layout of Memorial Park, showing the arena, skating rink, padding pool and lake. It was originally named Fitzroy Park, and was formally renamed Memorial Park in 1954.
Creator: Palmerston North City Council
Place: Memorial Park, Main Street, Palmerston North
Date: 1951
Plans for houses and ablution blocks for the Transit Camp in Hokowhitu. Both the houses and the ablution blocks were planned to be constructed from re-purposed army huts. Units were also built for purpose.
Post WWII there was a shortage of housin...
Creator: Palmerston North City Council
Place: Centennial Drive, Palmerston North
Date: 1945 to 1946
House plans for units that were built at the Transit Camp in Hokowhitu.
Post WWII there was a shortage of housing in New Zealand, and this camp provided temporary accommodation for families in need. Bathrooms were not a feature of the units and ...
Creator: New Zealand Government (probable)
Place: Centennial Drive, Palmerston North
Date: March 25, 1948