The Puketotara Estate was located on the western bank of the Oroua River in the vicinity of its junction with the Manawatūorou River. The Pascal brothers, Claud and John, emigrated to New Zealand from France. They were involved in the flax industr...
Creator: Roy McLennan
Place: Puketotara Station, Ourua, Manawatū
Date: 1886
Paul Rieger was Mayor of Palmerston North from 1985 until 1998. He is showing reading to Terrace End pupils as part of the school's Book Celebration Fortnight.
Date: August 1986
Date: August 1986
Letter from Pat (Percival) Argyle. Pat Argyle (1890-1915) was one of the sons of Henry and Alice Argyle of Bunnythorpe. He and his brother Len enlisted in the NZ Expeditionary Forces together and served in World War One.
This letter from Pat to ...
Creator: Pat Argyle
Date: March 24, 1915
This plan for substantial modifications to a two-storey house was designed by L. G. West for J. O. Batchelar. The Danish-born architect Ludolph Georg West (1846-1919) established an architectural practice in Palmerston North in about 1880. In 191...
Creator: L G West
Date: 1909
This postcard comes from the Mackrell Archive. They came to be in possession of the Mackrell family by way of Huia Mackrell's wife, Doris Cammock (later Mrs Mackrell, of Woodville). They were sent by Doris' brother Frank while he was serving in th...
Creator: Frank Cammock
Date: April 13, 1917
Whakarongo Railway Station was opened on Stoney Creek Road 9 March 1891, on the line through to the Manawatu Gorge. It was closed to passenger service in the 1960s, and the station was sold and demolished in 1967. The remaining goods yard was offi...
Creator: Ken R Cassells
Place: Stoneycreek Road, Whakarongo, Palmerston North
Date: February 1, 1941
This video shows local events that took place in Palmerston North in the mid 1930s. Subjects include chariot racing, fun in the Esplanade, 50th jubilee of Palmerston North parade in 1937 and footage of a Springbok vs Manawatu match. NOTE: There is...
Creator:
Date: 1935 to 1937
Students from Terrace End School watch Prince Charles drive past during his visit to Palmerston North.
Date: April 1, 1981
Menu of the Christmas Day meal served to the Wellington Mounted Rifles troops serving in Egypt during World War One. From the archive of 'A F Batchelar'.
Creator: Wellington Mounted Rifles
Date: December 1914
A school float leaving Railway Lands down Church Street towards The Square.
Creator:
Date: December 4, 2016
A Christmas card sent to Evilyn and Trevor Shannon from 'Uncle Pat'. From the archives of the 'Shannon Family'.
Creator: Unknown
Date: circa 1920 to circa 1929
This photograph album depicts member of the Monrad family and their friends, in Denmark and New Zealand. It is undated but many originate from the 1860s onwards.
Ditlev Gothard Monrad (1811–1887) was a prominent figure in nineteenth-century Denma...
Date: 1860 to 1900s
'Kaingahou' in Palmerston North was built for Ditlev Monrad after he retired from Karere in 1905. He died in 1908. The house was later owned by the Kendall family, Mr R A Swan, Mrs Helen Beckman and Bodil and Gunner Petersen. The 3500 square foot ...
Place: 642 Pioneer Highway
Date: 191X
Oscar Monrad with Viggo and Jan, his only great-grandchildren. Taken not long before his death and may be the last photo taken of him.
Frank, Thekla, Ditlev, Peter, Kamma, Viggo and 2nd wife Johanna (formerly Garde).
Viggo Monrad was the son of Bishop Ditlev Monrad. He married Olga Berg (1843-1884) born in Denmark, married in Denmark in 1865. They came to New Zealand in 1867 and...
Mrs Elizabeth Kendall (1853-1930) pictured at Kaingahou.
'Kaingahou' in Palmerston North was built for Ditlev Monrad after he retired from Karere in 1905. He died in 1908. The house was later owned by the Kendall family, Mr R A Swan, Mrs Helen Be...
Place: 642 Pioneer Highway
Ditlev Monrad wrote this letter to his Aunt in December 1884.
Date: 1884
A certificate issued in 1896, verifying the marriage of Viggo Monrad to Olga Berg in Denmark 1865.
A translation reads:
"Certificate of Marriage
Batchelor, Lieutenant of the Reserve, Viggo Monrad from Hummeltofte and Miss Olga Maria Berg were, ...
Date: 1896
Captioned: 'Potato planting at Karere. O. Monrad, C. Cartwright, S. Ronberg, P. Dalgaard.'
The Monrad farm at Karere was established by Bishop Ditlev Monrad, former Premier of Denmark. He lived there with his family 1866-1869. The farm was contin...
Place: Longburn
Date: 1896
Viggo Monrad wrote this letter to Marie and Johannes Monrad in the United States of America in April 1885.
An English translation by Bodil Petersen can be read in files _004 and _005.
Date: 1885
Letter written by Olga Monrad (nee Berg) wife of Ditlev Monrad.
Written in Danish on the back of a set of photographs, the letter describes life on the farm at Karere between c.1860s and 1870s.
Reproduced here are the photographs, the handwrittin...
Place: Karere, Longburn
Date: 1860 to 1880
Captioned 'From Maria Monrad to Ditlev, July 1896 - Pine tree planted at Karere farm 1866 by Bishop Monrad's wife.'
The Monrad farm at Karere was established by Bishop Ditlev Monrad, former Premier of Denmark. He lived there with his family 1866-...
Place: Longburn
Date: 1896
Diary written by Olga Monrad (nee Berg) wife of Ditlev Monrad.
Written in Danish, the diary talks about everyday life on the farm at Karere between 1869 and 1871.
A translation to English by Bodil Petersen can be read from file _019.
Ditlev Goth...
Date: 1869 to 1871
Ditlev and Kamma Monrad - married 1890. The original photo was taken by James Bragge, Manners Street, Wellington between 1890 and 1899. This image was digitised from a copy made by Tom Law in 1985.
Date: 1890
Johannes Monrad (1849), Louise Bache (1845), Otto Bache (1845), Viggo Monrad (1842), Karen Fredericksen (1858) and Ada Fredericksen (1841).
Bishop Ditlev Gothard Monrad, his wife, sons Viggo and Johannes and families came to the Palmerston North ...
Place: Someren, Netherlands
Date: 1904
Ditlev Monrad wrote this letter to his father from Karere Farm in November 1897.
An English translation by Bodil Petersen can be read in files _004 and _005.
Date: 1897
Ditlev Monrad wrote this letter to his father from Karere Farm in July 1896.
An English translation by Bodil Petersen can be read in file _004.
Date: 1896
Viggo Monrad wrote this letter to Marie and Johannes Monrad in the United States of America. Although undated, it is believed to date to 1884.
An English translation by Bodil Petersen can be read in files _004 and _005.
Date: 1884
Ditlev Monrad wrote this letter to his Aunt Marie in January 1885.
An English translation by Bodil Petersen can be read in file _004.
Date: 1885