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Map of areas East and South East of Palmerston North

Map of areas East and South East of Palmerston North

 
562 Featherston Street, Palmerston North

562 Featherston Street, Palmerston North

This house was probably designed by architect Acton Wylde-Browne.

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Palmerston North
 
Unidentified house, Palmerston North

Unidentified house, Palmerston North

An unidentified house in Palmerston. Probably designed by architect Acton Wylde-Browne.

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Palmerston North
 
Farm house near Feilding
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Farm house near Feilding

A house on a farm near Feilding. It was probably designed by architect Acton Wylde-Browne.

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Near Feilding
 
R. M. Moss house, Palmerston North

R. M. Moss house, Palmerston North

A house built for R. M. Moss. It was probably designed by architect Acton Wylde-Browne.

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Palmerston North
 
Sitting room, Pierard house, Palmerston North

Sitting room, Pierard house, Palmerston North

This house at 23 Montgomery Terrace, Hokowhitu, was built for the Mr A. G. Pierard and family in the 1960s. It was probably designed by architect, Acton Wylde-Brown.

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Montgomery Terrace, Palmerston North
 
Meyrick house, Feilding
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Meyrick house, Feilding

This house is believed to have been designed for the Meyrick family in circa 1960s. It is thought the architect is Acton Wylde-Browne, of Palmerston North.

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Feilding
 
Salford Place Kindergarten
Salford Place Kindergarten

Salford Place Kindergarten

The newly built Salford Place Kindergarten, also called West End Kindergarten. It was probably designed by architect Acton Wylde-Browne in circa 1960s.

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5 Salford Place, Palmerston North
 
Kelly Printing and Office Supplies
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Kelly Printing and Office Supplies

The Kelly Printing and Office Supplies building at an unknown location.

This image was part of a collection held by architect Acton Wylde-Browne. It is thought he could have designed the building.

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New Zealand
 
Dr Uttley's house, Palmerston North
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Dr Uttley's house, Palmerston North

This house is believed to have been designed for Dr K. F. M. Uttley and family in circa 1960s. In the late 1960s Dr Uttley was living at 564 Featherston Street, which may be the address of this house. The architect was probably Acton Wylde-Browne, of Palmerston North.

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564 Featherston Street (?), Palmerston North
 
Artificial Breeding Centre, Awahuri
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Artificial Breeding Centre, Awahuri

The 200 acre, Awahuri Artificial Breeding Centre opened in 1961, for the purposes of herd improvement. It was built to service the Taranaki, Wellington, Hawkes Bay and South Island areas.

These images were in a collection held by architect, Acton Wylde-Browne. It is thought he probably designed the building.

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Awahuri, Manawatū
 
Co-Op shop, Corner of Vogel and Hayden Streets
Unidentified Co-Op shop (2)

Co-Op shop, Corner of Vogel and Hayden Streets

This Co-op dairy was situated on the corner of Hayden and Vogel Street (8 Hayden Street). As can be seen in the images, the shop fronted onto Vogel Street, with a house attached at the back, fronting onto Hayden Street. At the time there were a large number of co-op shops that served the suburban areas of Palmerston North. It continued to operate until about the mid 1980s.

The building was believed to have been demolished by the Samoan Assembly of God (AOG), who subsequently built on the site. The church is first listed at 8 Hayden Street in the telephone directories in 1989 and continues to operate from there to this day (2023).

This image is part of a set of images held by Palmerston North architect, Acton Wylde-Browne, so was probably one he designed. The photographer is from Wellington.

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New Zealand
 
Unidentified house
Unidentified house (2)

Unidentified house

It is unknown where this house is situated.

It is part of a set of images held by Palmerston North architect, Acton Wylde-Browne, so was probably one he designed. He did design buildings outside the area, and as the photographer is from Wellington it may be from there.

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New Zealand
 
Square Circular - October 2008

Square Circular - October 2008

The Square Circular was Palmerston North City Council's monthly community publication, informing Palmerstonians of PNCC initiatives, activites, and events. This month's issue includes:

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Palmerston North
 
Memory Lane - "A mother's murder most foul"

Memory Lane - "A mother's murder most foul"

Journalist Tina White's weekly "Memory Lane" article in the Manawatū Standard. People were fascinated by the sensational 1920 murder of Palmerston North woman Mary Etheline in Terrace End. The man initialy suspected of her murder, Harry Deeley, took his own life a month after the event. And so the mystery remains.

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Palmerston North
 
Napier Hill after Napier Earthquake

Napier Hill after Napier Earthquake

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 wrecked and damaged homes in May Avenue, Napier.

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Napier, Hawkes Bay
 
Memory Lane - "Family roots part of city's past"

Memory Lane - "Family roots part of city's past"

Journalist Tina White's weekly "Memory Lane" article in the Manawatū Standard. Carol Davidson (née Jefferies) was adopted when she was a baby. Around 1995, Carol started making contact with her birth family. A 1939 picture of people sitting outside Ladies' Rest in Te Marae o Hine/The Square gave Carol Davidson the first glimpse of her birth mother Marion Emerson and aunts. In 2010, Mrs Davidson had another photo taken at the same spot with her aunts and granddaughter.

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Manawatū
 
William Bentley Draper, W. Park Bookseller, and R. Leary Chemist shops, The Square

William Bentley Draper, W. Park Bookseller, and R. Leary Chemist shops, The Square

These three premises were situated on the southern side of The Square, between Church Street and Main Street west. William Park bought his business in Palmerston North in 1882, and later this building of 8000 square feet was designed by Ernest Larcomb, for him.. Richard Leary, a chemist and optician, established his business in 1875. This building, also designed by E Larcomb, was purpose built for Leary, made of wood and iron and had a floor space of 5200 square feet.

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Trooper Alfred Henry Bryant

Trooper Alfred Henry Bryant

Alfred Bryant was killed in action on 28 May 1915, at 33 years of age. he was amember of the Wellington Mounted Rifles NZEF, serving in World War One. He is buried at Ari Burnu Cemetery at Anzac, Gallipoli in Turkey.

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Palmerston North
 
Crossing the Manwatu River by punt at Ashhurst

Crossing the Manwatu River by punt at Ashhurst

A punt operated from from 1871 to 1886 when the first wooden bridge across the river was built. The photograph is looking towards the Tararua Ranges. People identified as Mrs Septuagesima Shailer and her children, and ferryman William Allwright of Opiki.

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Palmerston North
 
Bank of Australasia

Bank of Australasia

The Bank of Australasia, constructed around 1878, was located on the corner of The Square and Broad Street (now Broadway Avenue)

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Corner of Broadway Avenue and the Square, Palmerston North
 
Three Officers of the Palmerston North Rifles

Three Officers of the Palmerston North Rifles

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

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Palmerston North
 
Members of the Manawatu Mounted Rifles

Members of the Manawatu Mounted Rifles

Two unidentified members of the Manawatu Mounted Rifles, on horseback, at an encampment, possibly the Hokowhitu Rifle Range.

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Palmerston North
 
Member of the Manawatu Mounted Rifles

Member of the Manawatu Mounted Rifles

Studio portrait of a uniformed member of the Manawatu Mounted Rifles. The Manawatu Mounted Rifles were a cavalry unit, formed in 1891.

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Palmerston North
 
G W Shailers Photographic Studio and Residence,  Main Street East

G W Shailers Photographic Studio and Residence, Main Street East

Mr George William Shailer was a photographer in Palmerston North 1881-1893. His studio and residence was situated on section 658, Main Street east. The building was demolished 1965.

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Main Street East, Palmerston North
 
L G West Land Agency Building

L G West Land Agency Building

L G West's Land Agency building after 1882. Ludolph George West, an early architect of Palmerston North, established his business in about 1880, although the earliest architectural drawing is dated 1884. During the first 30 years of business, Mr West carried out his architectural contracts in association with his work as a general commission agent (specialising in timber, insurance, real estate and land valuation), but by 1912 (when he first formed a partnership with his son, Ernest Vilhelm West) the architectural work appears to have been a full time activity. He designed many of the prominent buildings of the early township.

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Palmerston North
 
Hastings Street, Napier after Hawkes Bay Earthquake

Hastings Street, Napier after Hawkes Bay Earthquake

On the 3rd of February 1931, Napier experienced a disastrous earthquake, which resulted in damaging or destroying nearly every building in the city, with fires to follow. Shown here is the wreckage in Hastings Street.

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Hastings, Hawkes Bay
 
Andrew Young Street, Name and History

Andrew Young Street, Name and History

Name: The street is named for Andrew Young, the owner-driver of the first coach service between Foxton and Palmerston North.

The map is a derivative of this Palmerston North Borough map from 1923.

History: In September of 1884, councillor Sutton motioned, and councillor George seconded, that plans be made for the construction of Andrew Young Street. The resolution passed. By November 1884, RN Keeling, Town Clerk, was calling for contractor tenders. D.P.451, sections 327, 328, 333 and 334 were consequently subdivided in 1889.

Early businesses on the street included Sing Kee & Company Laundry; William Arthur Browning Coach Builder (later, Browning and Tory Coachbuilders, corner of Cuba and Rangitikei streets); and Fearnley’s Coffee Palace, established 1900, Ernest Albert Fearnley, proprietor. Fearnley's later became a private hotel, it was extensively fire damaged in 1943.

The Palmerston North branch of the Young Mens’ Christian Association (YMCA) acquired a property in Andrew Young Street in 1905 for a gymnasium. In collaboration with the YMCA, the Manawatū Camera Club attached a darkroom to the building. The gymnasium was the venue of a public debate in 1906 between The Palmerston North Young Men's Debating Society and the YMCA. The motion being, "war is a better method of settling international disputes than arbitration."

Mouldey’s Variety Store (later known as Variety Hall) was a second-hand dealership and variety store at 3 Andrew Young Street. Mr Henry W Mouldey, proprietor, advertised its wares from 1908 until his death in 1919. It was situated near Central Hotel.

In November of 1909 a fire broke out at Dustin’s Bakehouse on Andrew Young Street. Fortunately, they were insured and the business continued. Here is the frontage of Dustin’s circa. 1914-1918, on Main Street.

Herbalist, Mr J Hepworth, was advertising his business on the corner of Main Street and Andrew Young from 1912.

In 1913 there was talk, initiated by a special committee appointed by the Borough Council, of changing the name from Andrew Young Street to Young Street. This never eventuated.

In 1914, one of Palmerston North’s first motorised taxi cab businesses was established by John Jarvie Gillies at 13 Andrew Young Street. Mr Gillies had worked in the Manawatū saw-milling and dairy industries previously. He originally drove a cab that could accommodate five passengers, and by 1924 JJ Gillies had a 7-seater Buick Limousine on offer. He lived in Andrew Young Street at several different addresses during this time and died at his wife, Elizabeth’s, boarding house at 22 Andrew Young Street on Christmas day of 1940, aged 74 years.

From 1917, Plumbers, Beattie and Proctor Ltd., were located on the corner Andrew Young and Cuba streets. By 1930 their business had grown significantly, and a new business premises was built in Cuba Street.

Fritz Holland a well-known pugilist, opened Fritz Holland’s Boxing school in the Variety Hall (formerly Mouldey's) opposite Fearnley’s Coffee Palace in July 1920. Thirty students originally signed up and by August the school numbered fifty-seven. However, the school was short-lived.

Fortunately for boxing enthusiasts, Jim “Kid” Harris, bantam-weight ex-champion of England, under the patronage of the Manawatū Boxing Association, re-opened the school of boxing, physical culture and massage in January 1921. By March, “Kid” Harris had indicated he was settling in Palmerston North permanently. He and his students feature frequently in the local sports news until 1926. In 1925 the boxing gymnasium re-opened in the Produce Hall of the Palmerston North Showgrounds.

Renumbering: The addresses on Andrew Young were renumbered between 1936 and 1939. See p.194 of the Rates Register of Street Numbers - Old and New.

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Bourke Street, Name and History

Bourke Street, Name and History

Name: Bourke Street, interchangeably called Burke Street, is named after roading contractor, Mr Bourke, who put the street through in 1875. Papers Past show that there was a Mr D Burke operating as a roading contractor in the Manawatū in the 1880s and 1890s.

The map is a derivative of this Palmerston North Borough map from 1923.

History: Deposited 24 March 1875, D.P.22 (the Cuba Street end) was subdivided in 1875. The sections were owned by Arthur William Follett Halcombe, an early settler of Feilding, and the surveyor was Thomas McKay Drummond. D.P.1195 was subdivided in 1901 and the sections owned by Charles E Waldegrave.

In 1876, the Clausen brothers, Christian Nicolai and Johan Frederick, first laid eyes on Palmerston as children of early Scandinavian settlers. They recalled the Bourke and Waldegrave street blocks being great paddocks of oat crops.

October 23, 1880, a special meeting of the Palmerston Borough Council was held to consider reports from the Reserves Committee and sub-committee. The latter presented a “Report of the Division of the Town.” This was a recommendation of general allocation of costs for street clearing and formation, based on the town map. Councillor Coleman said he would have preferred a breakdown by street in which outlay was expected. His Worship, Mayor James Linton, could not see the necessity, as per the report all the town streets would either be cleared or formed. Councillor Coleman pointed out that there may be streets the sub-committee members were unaware of – Bourke and Campbell streets for example. The sub-committee affirmed it was unaware of Bourke Street and hadn’t counted Campbell Street, a private street on a piece of land cut up by Mr Halcombe, leading to a large paddock. Councillor Coleman asserted that the latter was on the map and residents on both contributed revenue to the town. There was discussion around the concern that if the council were to take over and spend money on private streets, they would be springing up all over the place. Councillor Ferguson stated that if Campbell Street was on the map as a public street, then its development was in fact covered by the report. If not, the Council would not be justified in spending money on the street. The report was received and adopted.

In October of 1902, Mr Arthur Giorgi went into partnership with Mr Maurice Millar, to establish the menswear firm of Millar & Giorgi in the Square. They opened a Hastings branch of the same in December of 1905. Mr Arthur Giorgi married Miss Beatrice Humphreys in 1904 and the Giorgi’s lived at 7b Bourke Street (owning the properties at no. 7) until 1918, when they moved to the Hawkes Bay to manage the Hastings branch. Arthur’s brother, Mr Louis Giorgi, Hairdresser & Tobacconist, plus fishing tackle supplier, lived at 24 Bourke Street. His store was also in the Square.

Early business on the street included:

Many short-term businesses, such as chimney sweeping, clairvoyant healing, eye specialist, landau cabs, and dressmaking, were operated from residents' homes. There was also a healthy trade in poultry.

Ward Bros., Painters and Paperhangers, operated from 22 Bourke Street from 1911 to 1919. At that stage the business had outgrown the site and they moved to a new premises in Cuba Street.

The Carow Ladies’ College, also known as Carow Girls Collegiate School, moved a number of times from its inception in 1891. From 1912 to 1914 the Carow School of music and painting ran at 47 Bourke Street. This was the residence of principal, Mrs Elizabeth Von Blaramberg, and her husband Mr Cecil Augustus Victor Hortezzi de Cortando von Blaramberg.

From 1924 to 1928, Miss Ulu Hancock, provided tuition in elocution and dramatic art, from her parents’ house at 7b Bourke street. Her father, Allen, was a motorcycle dealer. The property was sold in 1936. Miss Ulu Hancock then recommenced tuition in 1938 from 72 Bourke Street.

In 1929, the Boniface brothers, John and Amos, modernised their bakery and confectionery business (established 1916) with a purpose-built bakehouse near the corner of Cuba and Bourke Street. It had a frontage of 66 feet. Circa. 1936, the Boniface Brothers Bakery extended their business into Bourke Street, 70 feet, with the establishment of a small goods manufacturing department.

Renumbering: The addresses on Bourke Street were renumbered between 1936 and 1939. See p.89 and p.90 of the Rates Register of Street Numbers - Old and New.

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J.J. Gillies and Group with Automobile

J.J. Gillies and Group with Automobile

John Jarvie Gillies was an early taxi driver in Palmerston North. His wife, Elizabeth, operated a boarding house at 22 Andrew Young Street directly opposite Fearnley Private Hotel. Here he is shown with an unidentified group of people in front of an automobile.

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Palmerston North
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