On July 21, 1919, King George V approved the award of a silk Union Flag to be presented to Territorial Force Battalions and Battalions serving overseas. Here the flags are being presented to the 1st, 2nd & 3rd Battalions, Wellington Regiment, afte...

Creator:      Whalley and Co., Crown Studios,
Place:          The Square, Palmerston North
Date:          April 25, 1920

A midsummer festival named “Carnival of the Lake” was held on the Hokowhitu Lagoon at Centennial Drive, Palmerston North, January 17th – 20th 1964. A variety of activities ensured the public were well entertained during the four day festival. Here...

Creator:      Unknown
Place:          Hokowhitu Lagoon, Hokowhitu, Palmerston North
Date:          1964

This building was constructed as the Colonial Bank in c1892. It was used as a Public Library 1900-1905 and then converted into the administration building of the Palmerston North Borough Council. It was increased in 1925 by the addition of the two...

Creator:      Unknown
Place:          The Square, Palmerston North
Date:          circa 1924

William Penny, born 1863 at Penrose, Masterton, was a sheep farmer in the Wairarapa and Manawatu Districts. He was an acknowledged authority on sheep breeding and Lincoln and Romney sheep breeds, and was successful in the show ring. Penny was the...

Creator:      Whalley and Co., Crown Studios
Place:          Palmerston North
Date:          circa 1911

This photographs shows students at Palmerston North Girls' High School playing hockey. The school was opened in Fitzherbert Avenue in 1920. Previously girls and boys were educated together at Palmerston North High School.

Creator:      K H Shea
Place:          Fitzherbert Avenue, Palmerston North
Date:          1920

Shearers at work on A S Aldrich’s farm “Matsubara”, Bunnythorpe, north of Palmerston North. The “Matsubara” homestead of Mr G H Aldrich was located two miles out of Bunnythorpe, on the Bunnythorpe – Ashhurst road. The homestead was built about 188...

Creator:      A S Aldrich
Place:          Bunnythorpe
Date:          circa 1904

A survey party of four men hauling a canoe up the Otaki River. The Otaki River originates in the Tararua Range and flows for 45 km, firstly heading southwest through a valley in the Tararua Ranges. It turns northwest in the area of Otaki Forks, wh...

Creator:      Wrigglesworth and Binns, Wellington
Place:          Otaki River, Horowhenua Region
Date:          circa 1900

Members of the Women's Service League were each paid 1s 3d (one shilling, three pennies) per hour to bag potatoes on Alfred Seifert's Opiki farm in order to earn funds. They also weeded and cultivated vegetables on a vacant lot on North Street. ...

Creator:      Unknown
Place:          Opiki, Rangiotu
Date:          circa 1940

This photograph shows the access road into the Kahuterawa Valley where bush felling in preparation for farming was taking place in the 1890s. Built in 1890, the original Kahuterawa Valley Road was a six foot track only useful for sledges and went ...

Creator:      Unknown
Place:          Kahuterawa Valley, Manawatu
Date:          circa 1896

This photograph shows the damaged "Southern Cross" when it landed at Milson Airport, Palmerston North. Sir Charles Kingsford Smith and crew of the 'Southern Cross', a Fokker F. VII Trimotor aircraft, were delayed in Palmerston North for several we...

Creator:      G F Framjee [?]
Place:          Milson Airport, Palmerston North
Date:          February 1933

A walkway surrounded by gardens in the Esplanade, near the road. This area was probably originally laid out c1916-20. The Victoria Esplanade Gardens were named after Queen Victoria to celebrate her 60 years on the throne, and opened in 1897.

Creator:      G F Framjee
Place:          Victoria Esplanade, Palmerston North

The Manawatu Scottish Society Pipe Band was one of thirty-six pipe bands involved in a march around The Square as part of the New Zealand Pipe Band Championships held 19 – 21 February in Palmerston North. Front row from left: Dennis Pierce; Neil M...

Creator:      Manawatu Evening Standard
Place:          The Square, Palmerston North
Date:          February 1982

The New Zealand Dairy Farmers Union established this factory in 1893. It was bought by Joseph Nathan Co. Ltd who began the first dried milk operations in New Zealand. 'Glaxo' became the brand name for their baby milk product and Glaxo Laboratories...

Creator:      Unknown
Place:          Bunnythorpe, Manawatu
Date:          1904

This photograph shows Queen Elizabeth II at the Milson Airport during her royal tour in 1970.

Creator:      Manawatu Evening Standard
Place:          Milson Airport, Palmerston North
Date:          March 20, 1970

The interior of Andrews Furnishers Ltd. after its newly renovated premises were destroyed by fire about 2am on 13 July 1977. The fire was one in a series of burglary related fires in the city. One of the oldest family businesses in Palmerston Nort...

Creator:      Manawatu Evening Standard
Place:          Rangitikei Street, Palmerston North
Date:          July 13, 1977

The Youth Centre was built to accommodate 24 young people on remand and 96 longer term young male offenders. It was to have a dual role as a remand institution and training centre for youth. Designed by Struction Group Architects, it opened in 197...

Creator:      Manawatu Evening Standard
Place:          Linton Camp, Palmerston North
Date:          May 6, 1978

A severe storm which crossed the North Island on 2 February 1936 caused substantial damage in and around Palmerston North, one of the hardest hit towns. Houses lost roofs, chimneys were blown over, the grandstands of the A&P Association, the Awapu...

Creator:      Unknown
Place:          Palmerston North
Date:          1936

Workmen fitting out a new Leyland charter coach.

Creator:      Unknown
Place:          Palmerston North
Date:          1978

The property of Bishop Monrad, former Prime Minister of Denmark and family. Translated from Danish on rear of photograph, written by Olga Monrad, daughter in law of Bishop Monrad: “The lake, called lagoon. The garden fence is visible to the right....

Creator:      T Bloch, Nelson
Place:          Palmerston North
Date:          circa 1868

A new coal based Gasworks was opened by the Palmerston North Borough Council 21 December 1923, including a gasholder with a capacity of 500,000 cubic feet. The Gasworks went out of operation November 1970 when Palmerston North was connected to a p...

Creator:      Whalley and Co., Crown Studios
Place:          Palmerston North
Date:          1923

In this photograph, we see the members of the Borough Council and their wives at the annual Mayoral Picnic at Tiritea. The newly built Tiritea Dam was also officially declared open by the Mayoress, who cut the ribbon. After inspecting the dam the ...

Creator:      Crown Studios [?]
Place:          Turitea, Palmerston North
Date:          February 17, 1913

‘The Wattles” was built for Mr William Park, stationer and Mayor of Palmerston North (1893-1895) in 1887, on a 4 acre section. The 20-room house was designed by Ernest Larcomb, a local architect, and constructed of native timbers. The property was...

Creator:      Muir and Moodie
Place:          Palmerston North
Date:          circa 1910

Mr W A Woolcock and Mr C Hosking conducted their foundry and blacksmith business 1875-c1892, after which Mr C Hosking and Son continued the business on their own account. It is thought this photograph is at the second site of the business, Sectio...

Creator:      Unknown
Place:          Palmerston North
Date:          circa 1880 to circa 1890

Built in 1906, the Post Office on the corner of The Square and Main Street was Palmerston North’s fourth. Due to the risks in an earthquake, the clock tower was removed in 1942. They were re-purposed for the Hopwood Clock Tower. In 1988, when Tele...

Creator:      Whalley and Co., Crown Studios
Place:          The Square, Palmerston North
Date:          unknown date to 1907

New Zealand Laykold Ltd, of Wellington, were the contractors for reconstructing the road between Foxton and Foxton Beach. This firm owned a bitumen factory in Wellington and employed Mr L C Eggers (photographer) as overseer for the contract.

Creator:      L C Eggers
Place:          Horowhenua Region
Date:          April 1939

The old gasworks building was located near the railways sheds on Church Street West, which are possibly the ones on fire here. For a full account of the event, see Manawatu Standard, Volume XLI, Issue 9562, 5 August 1913, Page 5 in an article enti...

Creator:      Unknown
Place:          Palmerston North
Date:          August 1913

This portrait shows Vilhelm Klausen Lembert. While not a founding member of the Co-Operative Mauriceville Dairy Co Ltd, he is described as a "guide of (its) destinies" in the company's early, struggling days.

Creator:      Unknown
Place:          Wairarapa Region
Date:          circa 1900

This photograph shows the carpark at the Awapuni Racecourse. The decision to begin race meetings in Palmerston North was made at a meeting of sportsmen in October 1880. D H McArthur was to be President. The first race couse was situated at the end...

Creator:      L T
Place:          67 Racecourse Road, Awapuni, Palmerston North
Date:          1950

Either side of the Manawatu River can be seen the road (to right), constructed from 1871-1872, and railway line (left), opened in 1891, that run through the Manawatu Gorge.

Creator:      Unknown
Place:          Manawatu
Date:          circa 1891

The Miranui Flaxmill was the largest flaxmill built in New Zealand, in 1907. The dining room is in front, with rows of sleeping huts behind. At its height in 1926 the mill employed about 300 men.

Creator:      Unknown
Place:          Horowhenua Region
Date:          circa 1907