Studio portrait of the Officers in uniform. Centre is Captain John E Hall, Captain of the Corps 1891 - 1898.

Creator:      George W Shailer
Place:          Palmerston North
Date:          circa 1895

Early Settlers' Picnic held on an unidentified sports ground. Features representatives from settler families known in the Foxton, Rangitikei, Rongotea, Oroua and wider Manawatū. Identified personalities: Man, fourth row from front, second from rig...

Creator:      Unknown
Place:          Palmerston North
Date:          1901

Peace with Germany was announced 8 May 1945 and official celebrations took place in Palmerston North the following day. Church services were held at 10am, followed by general celebrations. The procession marched round The Square to the Band Rotunda

Creator:      Unknown
Place:          Palmerston North
Date:          May 9, 1945

The Miranui Flaxmill was owned by A & L Seifert Company Ltd, and opened in 1907. This 5 ton locomotive crosses the bridge over the Tokomaru Stream as it brings green flax to the mill. The mill was about half a mile away to the left of the photogra...

Creator:      Unknown
Place:          Tokomaru Stream, Horowhenua Region
Date:          circa 1907

This photograph looks southwest towards the railway station on the Main Street in The Square. Two children stand towards the right, while many horse carts can be seen in the distance near the corner of Main Street and The Square.

Creator:      C H Harris
Place:          The Square, Palmerston North
Date:          circa 1885 to circa 1889

The advertisement for The Million Dollar Mystery indicates that this photograph was taken during 1915-1916 as those were the years this 23 part serial ran at Everybody's Theatre. Everybody's Picture Theatre was built in 1913 by Arthur Hopwood...

Creator:      E G Child [?]
Place:          Coleman Place Palmerston North
Date:          1915 to 1916

James Carroll was the proprietor of the Clarendon Hotel in Palmerston North during the 1880s, succeeded by James Owen. The Hotel in this photograph was destroyed by fire in 1904, and replaced with a three story brick building.

Creator:      George W Shailer
Place:          Corner of Rangitikei Street and the Square, Palmerston North
Date:          1880s

Built for Thomas and Mary Lowes as an accommodation house, it was situated on top of the terrace opposite Ashhurst Domain, on the south west side of the road leading from Ashhurst to the bridge over the Manawatu River.

Creator:      Bunting Studio
Place:          Ashhurst, Manawatu
Date:          1905 to 1910

Mr Bill Kemp (centre), owner of Master Token, receives congratulations from the managing director of the Manawatu Standard Ltd, Mr Peter Henson (left) after Master Token won the Evening Standard Centennial Mile at the Centennial Meeting, at the Aw...

Creator:      Manawatu Evening Standard
Place:          Racecourse Road, Awapuni, Palmerston North
Date:          1980

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 image shows road damage along what is thought to be the Westshore emb...

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

Led by a band, members of the Friendly Society march across the railway lines at the Main Street corner of The Square. They are accompanied by familes and supporters. The Friendly Society men can be seen parading through The Square, crossing the ...

Creator:      Unknown
Place:          The Square, Palmerston North
Date:          1900 to 1901

The car was photographed in Cook Street, Palmerston North, near the Ferguson Street corner. People identified as: Arthur Hopwood (driver), a well known Palmerston North businessman; James Hopwood (far right), his father; Arthur’s children Roy and...

Creator:      Unknown
Place:          Corner of Cook and Ferguson Street, Palmerston North
Date:          1910

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:      J C
Place:          Main Street, Palmerston North
Date:          1950

Gathered in the yard of the Palmerston North Polices Station on the occasion of Superintendent James Kerr Simpson’s retirement. Back Row (left to right): John Walker (Marton Junction), Johann Fischer (Ashhurst), William Ferguson (Waldegrave Street...

Creator:      Unknown
Place:          Church Street East, Palmerston North
Date:          1931

This fire occurred behind the TISCO shop at about 6pm. The damage was confined to the contents of the shed.

Creator:      Ross Setford - Manawatu Evening Standard
Place:          Grey Street, Palmerston North
Date:          June 1, 1970

W.E. Bullard was a long time resident of Foxton, working as a saddler. He was the oldest resident at the 1955 Foxton Centenary, aged 98.

Creator:      Unknown
Place:          Foxton
Date:          October 24, 1955

The first Manawatu and West Coast Agricultural and Pastoral Show was held in Palmerston North November 1886, at the Showgrounds, Cuba Street.

Creator:      Unknown
Place:          The Showgrounds. Palmerston North
Date:          circa 1910

The forest created in the main gallery of the Manawatu Museum, as a reminder of what the Manawatu was like before the arrival of European settlers.

Creator:      Manawatu Evening Standard
Place:          Church Street, Palmerston North
Date:          1975

Shown here is the first of the RNZAF’s three Cessna ‘Eagle’ Aircraft which went into service in a training and VIP transport role. The five-seater plane replaced the ageing Devons. The Cessna had a range of 450 nautical miles and cruised at 185 to...

Creator:      Manawatu Evening Standard
Place:          Ohakea, Rangitikei Region
Date:          February 13, 1981

This photograph is from a set of 7 entitled "Grass-Seed Raising in the Manawatu". The accompanying caption reads: “Carting Seed into the Store. This picture tells us the seed has, so to speak, reached a ‘temporary home.’ We see the lorries full...

Creator:      Charles E Wildbore
Place:          Palmerston North
Date:          circa 1904

Broad Street was renamed Broadway in the 1920s. At the time that this photograph was taken, the "Times" building was still owned by C Smith Ltd, but the scaffolding in front could be connected with its purchase and renovation by the newspaper in 1...

Creator:      H Billens and Co.
Place:          Palmerston North
Date:          circa 1929

The entrance to Grasslands Division and Plant Chemistry Laboratory of the DSIR at Palmerston North. The Plant Research Station was established by the DSIR and Department of Agriculture in 1928 but tensions between the two departments led to a reo...

Creator:      Unknown
Place:          Palmerston North
Date:          1950

Workmen laying the first sewer pipes, in Featherston Street, Palmerston North. The steam traction engines are pumping water from the trench. Samuel Jickell, also the photographer, was Borough Engineer for the Palmerston North Borough Council 1904-...

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

W.T. Penny was the secretary of the A & P Association. Major C Dunk, JP, was born in Harton Priory, Kent, in 1849, moved to Australia in 1882 and then to New Zealand where he settled in College Street, Palmerston North. He was Chairman of the Rive...

Creator:      Unknown
Place:          Palmerston North
Date:          circa 1911

One of a series taken by Charles Wildbore between 1922 - 1924, recording the construction of the Mangahao electric power scheme. Mangaore village was the headquarters of the project, with the large white building in the right-hand, middle distance...

Creator:      Charles E Wildbore
Place:          Horowhenua Region
Date:          circa 1922

The event celebrated the restoration of North Slesvig from Germany to Denmark following voting by its inhabitants. The Palmerston North event attracted around 400 Danish settlers and descendants of Danes from around New Zealand. See the 15 April 1...

Creator:      Unknown
Place:          Palmerston North
Date:          April 14, 1920

The fountain was erected to commemorate the coronation of King Edward VII in August 1902. It also commemorates the 25th anniversary of the establishment of the Brough of Palmerston North, and the reaching of city status in 1930. It was originally ...

Creator:      Unknown
Place:          Palmerston North
Date:          circa 1930

The staff of the Longburn Freezing works have their photograph taken with a pair of sheep.

Creator:      Bunting Studio
Place:          Manawatu
Date:          circa 1905

The road through the Manawatu Gorge was constructed in 1872. This photograph is prior to the railway line being built in 1891.

Creator:      Unknown
Place:          Manawatu
Date:          1880s

This unidentified group is probably in the 40 Mile Bush area of North Wairarapa, at Kaiparoro. The photographs have been identified as relating to Alfred and Eliza Falkner.

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