The official opening by Mr Moohan, Minister of Railways, at the Longburn end of the deviation, just outside Palmerston North. To his right is Mr W B Tennent, Mayor, and Mr W Nash, Prime Minister.

Creator:      Manawatu Evening Standard
Place:          Longburn, Palmerston North
Date:          1959

The Municipal Opera House, designed by F J Wilson and built by J Trevor and Sons, was erected for the Palmerston North Borough Council in 1904-1905 and opened 12 July 1905. In 1952 it was condemned unsafe by the Palmerston North City Council and w...

Creator:      K H Shea
Place:          Church Street, Palmerston North
Date:          circa 1939

The Fitzherbert East School, near Palmerston North, was built in 1889 by Messrs Perrin, Oakley and Meyrick, and opened to the first pupils March 19th 1889. The school as first built comprised of a single classroom and porch. The photograph shows c...

Creator:      Attwood and Co.
Place:          169 Fitzherbert East Road, Aokautere, Palmerston North
Date:          circa 1890 to circa 1899

The election result board posted at the Evening Standard office is seen here the day after the 1935 election. This method was common for informing the public of the election results on the night, before the radio became more prominent in New Zeala...

Creator:      Manawatu Evening Standard
Place:          The Square, Palmerston North
Date:          November 28, 1935

The Manawatu-Oroua Electric Power Board’s building committee inspect the substation; from L to R: Roger Meads (Engineer-Manager); Murray Macphee (Engineer); Matt Green and Russell Signal (Board Chairman). This substation, in Flygers Line near the ...

Creator:      Manawatu Evening Standard
Place:          Flygers Line, Palmerston North
Date:          October 3, 1979

This was to mark the first Christmas after the end of World War One. The presents were packed at the offices of the Manawatu Racing Club, opposite the Barraud and Abrahams building, to be distributed by a number of Father Christmases with the help...

Creator:      Unknown
Place:          Palmerston North
Date:          1918

This is the memorial dedicated to the memory of officers and men of the New Zealand Medical Corps (1914-1918) who were trained the Awapuni Racecourse. It was erected in 1929. The memorial is a stone cairn fountain, inside a pool constructed in the...

Creator:      K H Shea
Place:          Palmerston North
Date:          circa 1930

The first Fitzherbert Bridge across the Manawatu River was built in 1877, with the approaching roads formed in early 1878. The view is from the Fitzherbert side, looking across to Fitzherbert Avenue, still lined with thick, native bush.

Creator:      Unknown
Place:          Fitzherbert Bridge, Palmerston North
Date:          circa 1878

This was the fourth Palmerston North Court House. The first Court House was constructed in 1874, and replaced in 1881. In 1895 a third Court House was built and the second one moved to Church Street for use as the Police Station. The third buildin...

Creator:      Unknown
Place:          Main Street, Palmerston North
Date:          circa 1910

Ingram and Wheatley's book "New Zealand Shipwrecks" relates the story of the "Fusilier", an iron barque of 404 tons net register. She went ashore, between Turakina and Rangitikei Rivers at midday on the 16th January 1884, but no lives were lost. S...

Creator:      Unknown
Place:          Between the Turakina and Rangitikei Rivers, Rangitikei Region
Date:          circa 1963

Taken outside H Richardson’s house, possibly on Albert Street, during the big flood of 5th May 1941. People in the canoe are unidentified.

Creator:      A J Shailer
Place:          Palmerston North
Date:          May 1941

The Manawatu County celebrated its centennial over 2-3 April 1977. This is one of the floats that took part in the procession.

Creator:      Manawatu Evening Standard
Place:          Sanson
Date:          1977

On the third of February 1931, Napier experienced a disastrous earthquake, which resulted in damaging or destroying nearly every building in the city, with fires to follow. This particular shot shows the ruins of St. Johns Cathedral.

Creator:      Unknown
Place:          Napier, Hawkes Bay
Date:          February 1931

There was a week of celebratory activities to mark Palmerston North's beginning as a Borough in 1877. On Wednesday 19 March one of the events was a scene depicting the arrival of the first train from Wellington at the site of the original train st...

Creator:      W W Stewart
Place:          Main Street, Palmerston North
Date:          March 19, 1952

Catherine Collis, centre. The photograph was taken from her grandmother's flat at 487 Main Road, opposite. The circus was held in Devine's Paddock.

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

The wagon display is for Millar and Giorgi, menswear shop (established 1902), and is halted outside the Club Hotel in Church Street. David (Davey) Lloyd, standing by horse, was the last of Palmerston North’s horse-drawn carters, operating until th...

Creator:      Unknown
Place:          Church Street, Palmerston North
Date:          circa 1927

The people in the dugout canoe are probably Mr and Mrs W L Luxford and their daughter, while the people on the bank are Septuagesima Shailer (wife of G W Shailer, photographer) and probably two of the Shailer children, of Palmerston North. Awapuni...

Creator:      George W Shailer
Place:          Palmerston North
Date:          circa 1890

A class of pupils and teachers at Kairanga School. Kairanga School opened 10 December 1888 and is situated 10km from the centre of Palmerston North city on the corner of Rongotea Road and Kairanga-Bunnythorpe Road

Creator:      Central Photo Stores
Place:          Corner of Rongotea and Kairanga Bunnythorpe Road, Manawatu
Date:          1924

Mr Eggleton uses his traction engine to move a boiler from Shannon to Mangahao to the new hydro works. It is thought that the boiler was used to pump air into the tunnels being driven into the rock during the construction of the power station.

Creator:      Unknown
Place:          Mangahao, Shannon
Date:          circa 1920

The first gas works in Palmerston North were constructed by John Coates and Co. and consisted of 11 retorts and two gas holders. It was officially opened 23 February 1889. In 1891 the operation was sold to the Palmerston North Gas Company Ltd, who...

Creator:      Unknown
Place:          Corner of Cook and Main Street, Palmerston North
Date:          1890

The railway viaduct just south of Ohingaiti, was constructed c1897 on the line to Mangaweka. The horse-drawn caravan was owned by an Assyrian (Peter? Kerouz), who traded all over the Manawatu and the Horowhenua.

Creator:      Unknown
Place:          Ohingaiti, Rangitikei Region
Date:          1933

A hot air balloon, ZKFBC, being inflated. Jim Greig, a potter, (shown wearing safety helmet) was the balloonist who took a 2 hour flight over the city the previous week.

Creator:      Don Eade - Manawatu Guardian
Place:          Memorial Park, Main Street, Palmerston North
Date:          November 13, 1974

Grasslands, a division of DSIR and the Dairy Research Institute, was established in 1935, in Palmerston North because of the excellent growing conditions and the easy access to Massey University. The Dairy Research Institute was established in 192...

Creator:      J Cleland
Place:          Dairy Farm Road, Palmerston North
Date:          1971

The photographs in this collection are thought to have been taken in the Forty Mile Bush area of Wairarapa, at Kaiparoro near Mount Bruce. The area was largely settled by Scandinavians who came to Wairarpa in the 1870s to clear the bush. The album...

Creator:      Unknown
Place:          Kaiparoro, Tararua District
Date:          circa 1900 to circa 1910

The ficiticious Darktown Fire Brigade were supporting their Queen, Miss H Adair, and raising money for the Agricultural and Pastoral Association.

Creator:      J H Daroux
Place:          The Showgrounds. Palmerston North
Date:          1924

A group of men in front of the Breeders' Club in Pascal Street.

Creator:      Unknown
Place:          Pascal Street, Palmerston North
Date:          1900s

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:          Showgrounds, Palmerston North
Date:          1936

'Totaranui' was built c1871 by Peter Manson, a sawmiller, on his farm about where Fitzroy Street in Palmerston North stands. It was probably enlarged by him over the years. In 1906 it was sold and the Pascoe family became residents in 1908 and bou...

Creator:      Manawatu Evening Standard
Place:          The Square, Palmerston North
Date:          October 3, 1970

The photographer is looking towards The Square. Caption in Miss Smith's book reads: "Copy from back of photo". The old goods shed is opposite the station buildings.

Creator:      Unknown
Place:          Main Street, Palmerston North
Date:          circa 1895

The fire destroyed the three year old gymnasium, built in 1966 for $42,000. It measured 80 feet by 50 feet and contained $1,500 worth of equipment. At the right is Russell Marsh, who grabbed a school fire hose reel in a courageous attempt to fight...

Creator:      Manawatu Evening Standard
Place:          Rangitikei Street, Palmerston North
Date:          October 7, 1969