The presents were packed at the offices of the Manawatu Racing Club, alongside the premises of Reid & Grey Ltd, to be distributed by a number of Father Christmases with the help of local citizens. This was to mark the first Christmas after the end...

Creator:      Whalley and Co., Crown Studios,
Place:          Rangitikei Street, Palmerston North
Date:          December 25, 1918

A new two-storey brick Post Office, complete with clock tower, was constructed on the corner of The Square and Main Street east, Palmerston North, in 1905-1906. It remained in use as a Post Office until 1988. The crowd is listening to Sir Joseph W...

Creator:      Unknown
Place:          Corner of The Square and Main Street, Palmerston North
Date:          1905

This 18 " sewer was laid on a ferro concrete support as the land was swamp 14 foot deep. Samuel Jickell, also the photographer, was Borough Engineer for the Palmerston North Borough Council 1904-1919.

Creator:      Samuel Jickell
Place:          Palmerston North
Date:          circa 1905

Crowds watch, by street lighting, as the 1938 election results are put up in Palmerston North on the Manawatu Evening Standard Building in The Square.

Creator:      Unknown
Place:          The Square, Palmerston North
Date:          1938

Delivery of the four Commer buses, which made up the first Municpal bus fleet, was taken 7 September 1921, from Messrs Dawber Ltd, and services began 8 September with a universal fare of 3d. A total of 129 applications were received for the posit...

Creator:      Unknown
Place:          Palmerston North
Date:          1921

This photograph is part of a series taken by Thomas Doherty a Steel Construction Worker. The hangar shown here now has the concrete roof and walls in place. Construction of 'barrack' type buildings appears to be underway in the foreground.

Creator:      Thomas Doherty
Place:          Ohakea, Manawatu
Date:          circa 1938 to circa 1939

The opening of the Monro memorial, at Massey University, dedicated to C.J. Munro, who is recognised as introducing rugby to New Zealand. Charles Monro and his family lived in Fitzherbert, across the road from the memorial. He built 'Craiglockhart'...

Creator:      Manawatu Evening Standard
Place:          Bourke Road, Massey University
Date:          May 5, 1975

This team of bullocks is stumping Mr C N Rowe's farm on Rowe's Line, Rongotea. The people in the photograph are, from left: Amey Rowe (daughter of William Rowe), Charlie Rowe (son of William Rowe), Charles Morrell Rowe (son of Thomas Rowe), Willia...

Creator:      Unknown
Place:          Rongotea
Date:          1900

Miss Armstrong (left front); Mrs Donaldson (at right, standing). The lady seated on the right had a nursing home in Cuba street, on the site of the Māori Battalion Hall.

Creator:      Unknown
Place:          Manawatu
Date:          1907

'Highden' was designed by Frederick de Jersey Clere and built in 1898 for the Honourable Walter Woods Johnston. In 1903 a wing, designed by C T Natusch, was added. Highden was bought by the Society of Mary in 1923 and occupied by the Marist Brothe...

Creator:      Manawatu Evening Standard
Place:          Awahuri
Date:          circa September 2, 1967

This group of 'bush whackers' was working Pohangina Valley East Road at Komako. The men were employed by Dick Port and Alex Stewart, who had the contract to fell bush. Identified: Wilf Galer (2nd from left, with arms folded); Dick Port (3rd from l...

Creator:      Charles E Wildbore
Place:          Pohangina East, Manawatū
Date:          circa 1904

Mrs Anderson and Mrs Johanna Oden (nee Anderson), sisters, hold their babies outside a shingle roofed cottage, typical of the basic first home immigrants built in Palmerston North. Johanna Anderson married Carl Johan Oden in Palmerston North in 1...

Creator:      Unknown
Place:          Ashley Street, Palmerston North
Date:          circa 1880 to circa 1889

Digging dahlias during the big flood of 5 May 1941 at Arthur Shailer's nursery on Albert Street. The land was originally owned by his father, G. W. Shailer, who operated an orchard from Scandia Street mainly selling cherries and small fruit. From...

Creator:      Arthur J Shailer
Place:          Hokowhitu, Palmerston North
Date:          May 1941

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 photograph shows the damage done to Zenith Transport Co. building by ...

Creator:      G and R
Place:          Napier, Hawkes Bay
Date:          February 1931

Lord Galway with the Mayor & Mayoress, Mr & Mrs Mansford, thought to be attending the opening of the Fitzherbert bridge. Viscount Galway was Governor-General of New Zealand from 12 April 1935 to 3 February 1941

Creator:      Unknown
Place:          The Square, Palmerston North
Date:          July 20, 1935

The Oddfellows' Hall was situated near the corner of Church and Princess Streets. Dolly Fernley is pictured left, beside Mrs Elizabeth Gilles.

Creator:      Charles Allen
Place:          Cuba Street, Palmerston North
Date:          circa 1920

Dressed in period costume ready for the parade as part of the celebration of 75 years of the Palmerston North. In foreground: ? Milner (3rd from right); Ray Hatwell (4th from right). The three costumed women at the left rear are Miss C Boddy, unid...

Creator:      Unknown
Place:          The Square, Palmerston North
Date:          1952

Local members of the Masonic Lodge in Palmerston North. The bearded figure second from the right in the front row is Alfred James Nash, Mayor of Palmerston North 1908–1923 and Member of Parliament for the city 1918–1935.

Creator:      Unknown
Place:          Palmerston North
Date:          circa 1910

A view of Opiki toll bridge, built by private money, from one of its towers looking towards Palmerston North. The bridge was officially opened in January of 1918. The purpose of the bridge was to transport flax fibre from the Tane & Rangitāne Mill...

Creator:      Unknown
Place:          Opiki, Horowhenua Region
Date:          unknown

This was the fourth Palmerston North Court House, built when the former Court House was burnt down in 1897. The first Court House was constructed in 1874, and replaced in 1881. In 1895 the second building was moved to Church Street for use as the ...

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

This mill, erected in 1874, was situated on the east side of Albert Street, between Grey Street and Broadway Avenue. It was owned by the three Norwegians - John Richter, Jacob Nannestad and Frits Jenssen.

Creator:      Unknown
Place:          Albert Street, Palmerston North
Date:          circa 1885

The Manawatu and West Coast Agricultural and Pastoral Association was set up in Palmerston North in 1886, and the first annual show, in Spring, held that year. In 1903 a Winter Show was also instituted. The committee which organised the first Mana...

Creator:      Unknown
Place:          The Showgrounds. Palmerston North
Date:          July 28, 1903

"At the north-eastern end of the building, part of it which is used as a refreshment bar, was also torn away to ground level. Situated as it is, the roof of the stand would offer little or resistance." Manawatu Evening Standard, February 3, 1936.

Creator:      Unknown
Place:          Showgrounds, Palmerston North
Date:          1936

The quarter scale "Da" Locomotive shown taking children on a train ride not long after the Esplanade Scenic Railway opened on 1 November 1969. Originally it was a half mile track running through native bush. Today (2014) a new extension loop takes...

Creator:      Bruce Watt
Place:          Victoria Esplanade, Palmerston North
Date:          1971

This $1 million complex in the Applied Biochemistry division has a complete surgical unit, laboratories, a cattle building; post-mortem area, shearing facilities and yards for stock.

Creator:      Manawatu Evening Standard
Place:          Massey University, Palmerston North
Date:          December 27, 1977

The Queen Elizabeth College gymnasium was built in 1966. The three year old building was destroyed by the fire during the day.

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

The protesters were demanding the resignation of the District Court Judge, J.W.P. Watts, after remarks he made when sentencing Peter Howse, a man convicted of assaulting his de-facto wife. Identified (from left): Red Parsons (far left, coordinator...

Creator:      Manawatu Evening Standard
Place:          Main Street, Palmerston North
Date:          August 19, 1980

Visitors from the Takapau community look over the new Norsewear factory in Takapau. The Takapau factory was built in fourth month at the cost of $150,000 and was intended to house $400,000 of plant for a 24-hour production. This factory producin...

Creator:      Manawatu Evening Standard
Place:          Norsewood, Tararua District
Date:          April 22, 1980

Huntley Prep. School is an independent school for boys aged 8 to 13 years. It was founded in 1896 and is the oldest preparatory boys' boarding and day school in New Zealand. For the first fifty-seven years of its existence Huntley was privately ow...

Creator:      Manawatu Evening Standard
Place:          Huntley Prepartory School, Marton, Rangitikei Region
Date:          August 16, 1981

The caravan was presented to the Palmerston North Search and Rescue Advisory Committee bu the Palmerston North Jaycees in 1978. The awning was presented by the Woodville Jaycees in October 1979. In the photograph was Sergeant Ian Sutherland (Left)...

Creator:      Manawatu Evening Standard
Place:          Palmerston North
Date:          1979