At 6.30am, 26 March 2006, a gust of wind felled the controversial cross on the top of Palmerston North's clock tower. In 1981 a permanant cross was erected by the Palmerston North City Council, relacing the temporary cross erected each Christmas. ...

Creator:      Manawatu Evening Standard
Place:          The Square, Palmerston North
Date:          March 27, 2006

A call by the Palmerston North City Council for suggestions for Clock Tower enhancements, resulted in six 'comic' ideas from cartoonist Fin, for the Manawatu Evening Standard.

Creator:      Manawatu Evening Standard
Place:          Palmerston North
Date:          March 22, 2001

The lakelet was constructed in The Square, Palmerston North, in 1909 by the Beautifying Society. In 1953 Arthur Hopwood gifted the city of Palmerston North £10,000 to build a new tower in The Square to hold the clock and chimes removed from the Po...

Creator:      Palmerston North City Council
Place:          The Square, Palmerston North
Date:          circa 1971

Mike O'Donaghue, watch maker, looked after the mechanical workings of the clock in The Square from 1979. The faces of the clock stand 24 metres high and are reached by ladder. Originally housed in the Post Office tower (demolished in 1942) in 1906...

Creator:      The Tribune
Place:          Palmerston North
Date:          February 11, 1996