A celebration of writing by students from non English speaking backgrounds at Palmerston North Intermediate Normal School.
Creator: Palmerston North Intermediate Normal School
Place: Palmerston North
Date: 2026
The Golden Gate Milk Bar was situated at 78 Courtenay Place, Wellington, opposite the St James Theatre. It was owned and operated by Peter Baresm who was born in Greece and emigrated to New Zealand in 1930. He first owned shops in Invercargill and...
Creator: Raine, Willis Street, Wellington [?]
Place: Wellington
Date: circa 1938
KA class locomotive number 932 pulling train 1515 as it passes through the railway crossing at the junction of Pioneer Highway and Main Street.
Creator: Roland Penhall
Place: Pioneer HIghway and Main Street, Palmerston North
Date: September 1963
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
Pat and Jan playing in the garden of the Hayes family home at 11 Anderson Street, Palmerston North.
Creator: Thomas Hayes [?]
Place: 11 Anderson Street, Hokowhitu, Palmerston North
Date: 1953
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
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
The Palmerston North City Library book bins were created and installed around 1996. The design concept seen here was implemented in 2016. This bin was located at 194 Ruapehu Drive in Aokautere, near the shopping complex in Summerhill.
Creator: PNCC
Place: Ruapehu Drive, Aokautere
Date: June 6, 2023
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
Bulls School pupils and some staff.
Photograph shows a large group of students assembled sitting outdoors, with three adults standing. Far left adult is teacher Margaret Read, Mr Gore is near middle.
Creator: Unknown
Place: Manawatū
Date: circa 1970
Some staff from Bulls School. This photograph shows a social occasion, most likely a dinner.
From left to right - Reg Speller, Mr Gore, Margaret Read, Gwen Evans, Dorothy Speller
Creator: Unknown
Place: Manawatū
Date: circa 1970
This is the programme for the Forty-Fifth Annual Festival of the Manawatū Competitions Society, which was held at the Opera House, Concert Chamber, Baptist Church Hall and St Andrew's Hall between 4 May and 10 May 1968. The competition categories ...
Creator: Manawatū Competitions Society
Date: May 1968
This is the programme for the Fifty-First Annual Festival of the Manawatū Competitions Society, which was held at the Opera House, Concert Chamber and St Andrew's Hall between 20 May and 23 May 1974. The competition categories included speech and ...
Creator: Manawatū Competitions Society
Date: May 1974
A typed list of belongings that expactant mothers should bring with them when entering the Palmerston North Hospital Maternity Wards. It also includes details of visiting hours and regulations about which family members are permitted to visit. Thi...
Date: 196X
A group of seven dancers, dressed in identical outfits, pose with a visiting dance examiner. The dancers are pupils of the well-known Palmerston North dance teacher Zona Broughton and include Angela Ayers and Andrea Ross.
Creator: Manawatū Evening Standard
Date: 196X
A letter sent to Zona Broughton by the manager of the Palmerston North branch of Rail Freighters Ltd., acknowledging that she was leaving their service to get married.
Creator: Rail Freighters Ltd.
Date: May 27, 1963