A plan of the "Ladies Conveniences - The Square". This is one of the original architect's plans drawn up by Palmerston North City Council staff for the construction of a new ladies toilets, built on the site of an earlier building from 1918. The L...

Creator:      Palmerston North City Council
Date:          July 20, 1936

This roading plan for the development of Stanley Avenue shows the name Frits Street crossed out and replaced with Russell Street. In response to the First World War, several Palmerston North streets with German-sounding names were renamed.

Date:          1914

Creator:      Palmerston North Borough Council, Engineer's Department
Date:          1916

Palmerston North experienced flooding of the Manawatū River in early May 1941. This reached a peak level of 19 feet, two inches (584 cm) at the Fitzherbert Bridge gauge on 4 May 1941, the highest level recorded since 1902. The total area covered (...

Date:          1952

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

Built as a Public Hall in 1911 to mark the Coronation of George V, it served as such for the next 50 years. The hall was renovated and modernised in 1939 at a cost of £496. The Terrace End Development and Progressive Association held a concert on ...

Date:          1939

Built as a Public Hall in 1911 to mark the Coronation of George V, it served as such for the next 50 years. The hall was renovated and modernised in 1939. The Terrace End Development and Progressive Association held a concert on 6 December 1939, t...

Date:          1939

Creator:      Reginald Thorrold-Jaggard
Date:          1928

Creator:      Manawatū Catchment Board
Date:          1950

Includes details of land purchased and land under offer.

Date:          1952

Date:          1904

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

Proposed layout for part 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 prov...

Date:          1947

The Pohangina County Council was created in 1895 from the Pohangina Road Board and the part of the Oroua County that it covered. In 1989 Pohangina amalgamated with other councils to form the new Manawatū District Council.

This map features the pr...

Creator:      Land and Survey Department, Wellington
Date:          1917

This plan shows a design for The Square, and includes a proposed new civic administration building between Main Street and Church Street. This plan did not eventuate. It is undated but may have been at the time they were exploring the need for a n...

Creator:      Palmerston North City Council (possibly)
Place:          The Square, Palmerston North
Date:          circa 1960

Creator:      Palmerston North Borough Council, Engineer's Department
Date:          1907

Creator:      Palmerston North City Council, Engineer's Department
Date:          1939

Creator:      Palmerston North Borough Council, Engineer's Department
Date:          1903

Creator:      Palmerston North City Council, Engineer's Department
Date:          1932

Plan showing the layout of the yards, between West Street and The Square. The railway station and yards were in Main Street from 1890 to 1964, when all services finally moved to the Tremaine Avenue site on the edge of Palmerston North. Much of thi...

Creator:      Unknown
Place:          Main Street, Palmerston North
Date:          circa 1948

A design for both men's and women's toilets in The Square and a separate rest room for women.

Creator:      Palmerston North Borough Council
Place:          The Square, Palmerston North
Date:          September 7, 1916

The Palmerston North Golf Club was formed in 1930 and was originally sited in West End, off the corner of Botanical and Park Roads where this club house was built. In the the early 1960s the City Council acquired the land for housing and the Club ...

Creator:      L G West Son and Hornbrook
Place:          Corner of Botannical and Park Roads, Palmerston North
Date:          November 1936

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 Palmerston North City Council depot still operates from this site on the corner of Ferguson Street and Albert Street.

Creator:      Palmerston North City Council
Place:          Corner of Albert and Ferguson Streets, Palmerston North
Date:          December 1962

This plan is undated and is presumed to have not been realised.

There was a tea kiosk in the Victoria Esplanade from 1909 to 1943. It was not replaced until the original post office building was moved from Main Street to the gardens in 1989, to ...

Creator:      J Walker (architect) for PNCC
Place:          Victoria Esplanade, Palmerston North

The Coronation Fountain was first constructed near the centre of The Square in 1902. It was moved in 1926 to accommodate the new war memorial that commemorated those who fell in WWI.

The fountain sat in its new position in The Square, opposite w...

Creator:      Palmerston North Borough Council
Place:          The Square, Palmerston North
Date:          circa 1926

A plan of the proposed swimming pool at the Palmerston North Intermediate Normal School, as produced by the Wanganui Education Board.

The Palmerston North Intermediate School was opened in 1941. It is situated at 56 Linton Street.

Creator:      Wanganui Education Board
Place:          56 Linton Street, Palmerston North
Date:          August 11, 1955

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