Image showing flooding around Hokowhitu Lagoon looking out towards the Manawatū Gorge and Wharite Peak in the background.

Creator:      Royal New Zealand Air Force
Place:          Palmerston North
Date:          May 4, 1941

The Occidental Hotel was erected c.1887 and was destroyed by fire in 1891. A second Occidental Hotel erected on the same site, was also burnt down in 1927. On the far left is the Club Hotel. The four two-storey buildings in the centre of the photo...

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

Sir Charles Kingsford Smith and crew of the 'Southern Cross', a Fokker F. VII Trimotor aircraft, were delayed in Palmerston North for several weeks after the aeroplane's wing was damaged during taxiing at Milson Aerodrome 4 February 1933.

Creator:      Snapshots Unlimited
Place:          Palmerston North
Date:          February 1933

The CM Ross hockey team: Back row, from left: Miss J Glendhill, Miss W Boon, Miss W McFennan, Miss E Pickering, Miss E Skinner. Middle row: Mr Stebbing (dress material buyer), Miss F Browning, Miss B Crawford, Miss M Skinner, Mr J Whitehead (head ...

Creator:      Whalley and Co., Crown Studios,
Place:          Palmerston North
Date:          circa 1910

The Technical School main building on Duke Street (now Princess Street) was built in 1909. In 1931 the main building was strengthened and the gables were removed. The Palmerston North Technical School occupied the building until 1956. It is now us...

Creator:      R P Moore, Wellington [?]
Place:          Corner of King and Duke (now Princess) Street, Palmerston North
Date:          circa 1923

A week of activities were held in March 1952 to mark 75 years of the Borough of Palmerston North. On the Wednesday, following the re-enactment of the first train at Palmerston North, a parade of vehicles through the ages was held at the Showground...

Creator:      Bruce Watt
Place:          The Showgrounds. Palmerston North
Date:          March 19, 1952

The Baptist Church was established in Palmerston North in 1894, and a hall built on this site in 1895. The Central Baptist Church, designed by Clere and Clere, replaced the original building, being dedicated on 17 October 1928. In 1982 the buildin...

Creator:      Alex M Crocket
Place:          Church Street, Palmerston North
Date:          1950

An aerial view, looking north, of the Palmerston North Public Hospital. The unfinished building on the left is the laundry extensions being undertaken at the time.

Creator:      Unknown
Place:          Palmerston North Hospital, Palmerston North
Date:          circa 1977

Australian Naval Officers pictured with the Mayor, A.E. Mansford (suited, centre front), Joe Hodgens, Member of Parliament for Palmerston North 1935-1946, and others, on the steps of the Main Building, Massey Agricultural College (now Sir Geoffrey...

Creator:      Snapshots Unlimited
Place:          Palmerston North
Date:          circa 1942

Watchorns Limited was a department store, founded in 1923 as Watchorn and McNaught, 162-163 The Square, Palmerston North. By the mid 1930s it was Watchorns Limited at 162 The Square.

Creator:      Unknown
Place:          Palmerston North
Date:          1930 to 1939

This photograph shows part of the Mangahao river. The Mangahao Power Station provides hydroelectric power and is situated near the town of Shannon. It serves Wellington, Horowhenua, Taranaki, Hawkes Bay, and the Wairarapa. After being delayed by t...

Creator:      Unknown
Place:          Mangahao Stream, Shannon
Date:          circa 1920 to circa 1924

In all, fifteen men from Rongotea died fighting in World War One. These 15 names were inscribed on an obelisk in Douglas Square, Rongotea, which was dedicated by Viscount Jellicoe, Governor-General of New Zealand 1920-1924. Over 1000 people attend...

Creator:      Unknown
Place:          Manawatu
Date:          November 28, 1921

A band plays at the official opening of the second Fitzherbert Bridges, built 1933 - 1935. This replaced the original structure built in 1877. It was constructed by Fletcher Construction and remained until 1986 when it proved too small for the vol...

Creator:      Unknown
Place:          Palmerston North
Date:          March 1935

A view of the New Zealand Dairy Research Institute building.

Creator:      Dairy Research Institute
Place:          Palmerston North
Date:          1967 to 1977

Club football was first played in Foxton in June 1880.

Creator:      R.O. Hornblow, Foxton
Place:          Manawatu
Date:          circa 1905 to circa 1906

There were four main incarnations of Central School - The Original School (corner of Main and Princess Streets, 1872-1890), Campbell Street School (1890-1922), Central School (Featherston Street, built 1922), Central Normal School (became a practi...

Creator:      Unknown
Place:          201 Featherston Street, Palmerston North
Date:          1950

Flax workers at an unidentified Foxton flaxmill.

Creator:      Unknown
Place:          Wellington
Date:          circa 1905

This unidentified family pose outside their home made from corrugated iron. Utuwai is situated in the Pohangina Valley. Early European settlement (from 1886) saw farmers buying land from the Pohangina Farm Homestead Association. An early gold rush...

Creator:      Unknown
Place:          Utuwai
Date:          circa 1904

Oscar Frederick Anderson, who served in World War One, was the son of Mrs H Segren (formerly Anderson, North Street, Palmerston North. He enlisted in the Wellington Mounted Rifles and rose to be Lance Corporal. He died 9 August 1915, at Chunuk Bai...

Creator:      Whalley and Co., Crown Studios,
Place:          Palmerston North
Date:          circa 1914