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"The AIDS Risk" - What nurses should know about it

This paper comes from the Berry Bird Papers, held in the Palmerston North Community Archives. Berenice (Berry) Joubert Bird (1934-2020) was a nurse and leading advocate of infection control inititatives in the New Zealand healthcare system. In Nov...

Creator: Berenice Bird
Date: November 18, 1985

Typewritten Copy of J. T. Stewart's Handwritten Manuscript of 1902 describing the Survey and Early European Settlement of the Manawatū (1858-1897) - Resource cover image

Typewritten Copy of J. T. Stewart's Handwritten Manuscript of 1902 describing the Survey and Early European Settlement of the Manawatū (1858-1897)

This copy of John Tiffin Stewart's handwritten manuscript was typed in 1967 by Ian Matheson, who has annotated each paragraph with the page numbers of T. Lindsay Buick's Old Manawatu (1903) containing information derived from Stewart's manuscript.

Date: 1902 to 1967

Outbreak Contained - MRSA Eradicated

Creator: Berenice Bird
Date: July 24, 1990

The Infection Control Nurse's Role - A Practitioners View

Creator: Berenice Bird
Date: 1981

Drawing of Māori meeting house

Drawing of a Māori meeting house, with man and dog, possibly at Puketotora or Raukawa Pā. It is not signed but handwriting on the back says, "Drawn by R Grindell Manawatu 1859". The drawing is in ink and watercolour. Drawn on card measuring 27 x 1...

Creator:      R Grindell
Place:          Unknown
Date:          1859

Drawings of two Māori carved figures

Drawings of two Māori carvings. There are also some faint pencil markings that may indicate that this drawing was not completed. The drawings are in pencil, ink and water colour. Drawn on paper measuring 20.5 x 13 cm. While the artist is unknown, ...

Creator:      Unknown
Place:          Unknown
Date:          1850s

Drawing of "Taranaki from seawards 1858"

Drawing entitled "Taranaki from seawards 1858", handwritten on the back. It depicts two sailing ships, with Taranaki, including Mount Taranaki, in the background The drawing is in ink and water colour. Drawn on card measuring 27 x 5.5 cm. While th...

Creator:      Unknown
Place:          Taranaki
Date:          1858

Shipboard Diary of Emily J. Hewitt [Shannon] - Resource cover image

Shipboard Diary of Emily J. Hewitt [Shannon]

The shipboard diary of Emily J. Hewitt [Shannon] written while a passenger on "Nourmahal" from London to Sydney.

Creator:      Emily Hewitt
Place:          Shannon
Date:          1864 to 1865

Flaxmills of Makerua Swamp

This hand-drawn map of the Makerua Swamp (now Opiki District) shows the approximate location of the flax mills that once operated on the banks of the Manawatu River.

Creator:      Ian Matheson
Place:          Opiki, Manawatu
Date:          1978

New Zealand Women's Land Service Handbook of Information - Resource cover image

New Zealand Women's Land Service Handbook of Information

Women's Land Service Summary of Rules and Procedure

Creator:      New Zealand Women's Land Service
Place:          Palmerston North
Date:          circa 1942

Manawatu Museum Society (Inc.) Newsletter No.9

This edition of the Manawatu Museum Society newsletter includes information regarding upcoming exhibitions, the acquisition of printing equipment, meetings for society members, and accession information.

Creator:      Manawatu Museum Society (Inc.)
Place:          321-326 Church Street, Palmerston North
Date:          July 1977

Manawatu Museum Society (Inc.) Newsletter No.7

This edition of the Manawatu Museum Society newsletter includes information regarding the centenary of the Manchester Block, the planned move to the Pierards Building on Church Street, and a report from the activities committee.

Creator:      Manawatu Museum Society (Inc.)
Place:          15 Amesbury Street, Palmerston North
Date:          March 1974

Manawatu Museum Society (Inc.) Newsletter No. 6

This edition of the Manawatu Museum Society newsletter includes information regarding accessions and storage, plans to move premises to the vacant Pierards Building on Church Street, and a run-down of recent activities at the museum.

Creator:      Manawatu Museum Society (Inc.)
Place:          15 Amesbury Street, Palmerston North
Date:          September 1973

Manawatu Museum Society (Inc.) Newsletter No. 5

This edition of the Manawatu Museum Society newsletter includes information regarding the accession process, flax exhibition, the Society's trip to Norsewood Museum, Totaranui (the museum's Victorian era house then located on the corner of The Squ...

Creator:      Manawatu Museum Society (Inc.)
Place:          15 Amesbury Street, Palmerston North
Date:          March 1973

Manawatu Museum Society (Inc.) Newsletter No. 4

This edition of the Manawatu Museum Society newsletter includes a list officers and members of the society.

Creator:      Manawatu Museum Society (Inc.)
Place:          15 Amesbury Street, Palmerston North
Date:          July 1972

Envelope addressed to the Polish Army League

Envelope addressed to Mrs Ann Jacques of the Polish Army League, from the Prime Minister's office. The Polish Army League, founded in Palmerston North in WWII, corresponded with and sent parcels to Polish soldiers who served with the allies in Wor...

Creator:      Prime Minister's Office
Place:          Wellington
Date:          1943

Polish Army League correspondence -

Letter from the Tadeusz Zażuliński, Minister of Poland, stationed at the Legation de Pologne in Cairo, Egypt, to Mrs Ann Jacques of the Polish Army League. The letter thanks the Polish Army League for gift parcels. The Polish Army League, founded ...

Creator:      Tadeusz Zażuliński, Minister of Poland
Place:          Egypt
Date:          April 27, 1942

Polish Army League correspondence

Letter (aerogramme) from Captain Kubaczka Adam of the 3rd Carpathian Division Social Welfare Department of the Polish Army, to the Polish Army League, thanking them for the friendship shown to Polish soldiers, and his wish that this may continue o...

Creator:      Captain Kubaczka Adam
Place:          Unknown
Date:          1946?