Officers of the Manawatu Battalion Home Guard during World War Two. Back Row: Lieutenant B S Lawrence; Lieutenant A Kilpatrick; Lieutenant F S Collier; Lieutenant J W Barber; Lieutenant W E Hale; Lieutenant W R Byne; Lieutenant H C McMillan; Lieu...

Creator:      Unknown
Place:          Palmerston North
Date:          1940 to 1943

The house at 7 Heatley Avenue was built c1870s, and originally stood in Ihaka Street. In the 1970s it was owned by Mr and Mrs A F Fontein.

Creator:      Manawatu Evening Standard
Place:          7 Heatley Avenue, Palmerston North
Date:          September 6, 1975

The Mangahao Power Station is a hydroelectric power station near the town of Shannon, Horowhenua. After being delayed by World War One, access roading and foundation testing was started by late 1919 and the station opened in November 1924. It make...

Creator:      Unknown
Place:          Managhao, Horowhenua Region
Date:          March 10, 1923

Shown here is the Acclimatisation Society’s fish hatchery pond at the eastern end of the Victoria Esplanade. Joe Monkensen, second from right, was from Hillrod, Denmark. The Palmerston North City Council moved that the hatchery be filled in, in 1...

Creator:      Unknown
Place:          Palmerston North
Date:          circa 1907

This postcard comes from a series depicting various holds from the art of ju-jitsu. This card is labelled, "'Ju-jitsu' defence".

Creator:      C Armstrong, Arcade Studios, Dunedin
Place:          Dunedin
Date:          circa 1902 to circa 1908

Alexander Reginald George Radford (1890-1972) in his back garden at 5 Marne Street, Palmerston North, working on his home-built aeroplane. He worked on the aeroplane from 1929-1934, but, when it was almost completed, Radford suffered an accident. ...

Creator:      Unknown
Place:          Palmerston North
Date:          circa 1935

The Fitchett Street Convent was the third built for the Sisters of Mercy in Palmerston North. It was designed by Clere and Clere and built by Trevor Bros in 1925 -1926. It was orginally part of a complex of buildings, with two primary schools and ...

Creator:      C Campbell
Place:          Palmerston North
Date:          1984

Richard Leary's chemist shop is on the near left (on the site of the old Grand Hotel, now Grand Cafe and bar [2014]), Foresters Hall is the building with the large doorway in the middle distance and the Clarendon Hotel is on the far-right in the d...

Creator:      Unknown
Place:          The Square, Palmerston North
Date:          1878

This school was opened on 18 June, 1928 with a roll of 19 pupils. Mr E Farrant was the teacher. The land on which the school was built was donated by Mr Hugh Akers. The original one room was added to in 1930, 1953 and 1961. The school is still in ...

Creator:      Hugh Akers [?]
Place:          Opiki, Manawatu
Date:          circa 1928