Officers of the Manawatu Battalion Home Guard during World War Two. Back Row: Lieutenant B S Lawrence; Lieutenant A Kilpatrick; Lieutenant F S Collier; Lieutenant J W Barber; Lieutenant W E Hale; Lieutenant W R Byne; Lieutenant H C McMillan; Lieutenant J B Chrystall; Second Lieutenant C D Collis; Lieutenant C M Croucher; Lieutenant L A Sadler; Lieutenant L Boddy. Third Row: Lieutenant W A Matheson; Lieutenant L A Lancaster; Second Lieutenant A E Wilkins; Lieutenant W C Scott; Captain A K Furrie NZTS Area G3; Lieutenant S L Orr, NZTS Bn. Adjutant; Captain F Gatley NZTS Zone G3; Lieutenant E N Rowe; Lieutenant D B Rowe; Lieutenant W Redmayne; Lieutenant J R Veale; Lieutenant J Edmond. Second Row: Captain N H Tunnicliff; Captain R F Scott; Captain D Walker; Captain R W Wrightson, MC, Bn 2i/c; Lieutenant-Colonel J E H Mewett, OBE, MC Zone Commander; Major H V Bond, Bn CO; Lieutenant-Colonel S H Gould, Area Commander; Colonel C V Ciochetto, MC, MM, Regional Commissioner; Captain W H H Foster; Captain J Q Cameron; Captain R M White. Front Row: Second Lieutenant D D McKenzie; Lieutenant W A P Wheeler, Bn IO; Second Lieutenant H D Lovelock; Lieutenant J F Riches; R Durie; Lieutenant A Thomson. Absent: Lieutenants A A N Alsop; C G Beattie; F G Brown; H L King; G A McDonell; R D McKelvie; I W McLeod; C W Newman; T M B Rowe; G R Tomkies; P R Teague; J C Warren.

The house at 7 Heatley Avenue was built c1870s, and originally stood in Ihaka Street. In the 1970s it was owned by Mr and Mrs A F Fontein.

The Mangahao Power Station is a hydroelectric power station near the town of Shannon, Horowhenua. After being delayed by World War One, access roading and foundation testing was started by late 1919 and the station opened in November 1924. It makes use of Mangahao River, through a series of tunnels and piplines totaling 4.8 kilometers, in the Tararua Ranges. Mangahao Power Station became the power station for Wellington, Horowhenua, Taranaki, Hawkes Bay, and the Wairarapa. As of 2012, it is jointly owned and operated by Todd Energy and King Country Energy.

Shown here is the Acclimatisation Society’s fish hatchery pond at the eastern end of the Victoria Esplanade. Joe Monkensen, second from right, was from Hillrod, Denmark. The Palmerston North City Council moved that the hatchery be filled in, in 1927 (PNCC Minute Book, 1 August 1927). The band rotunda in the background was originally located in the Square but was shifted to the Esplanade in 1907. It was demolished in 1966. The Victoria Esplanade, named during Queen Victoria’s 60th year on the throne, was opened in 1897

This postcard comes from a series depicting various holds from the art of ju-jitsu. This card is labelled, "'Ju-jitsu' defence".

Alexander Reginald George Radford (1890-1972) in his back garden at 5 Marne Street, Palmerston North, working on his home-built aeroplane. He worked on the aeroplane from 1929-1934, but, when it was almost completed, Radford suffered an accident. In 1940 he sold a share in the aircraft to Louis Findlay and it was completed and flown.

The Fitchett Street Convent was the third built for the Sisters of Mercy in Palmerston North. It was designed by Clere and Clere and built by Trevor Bros in 1925 -1926. It was orginally part of a complex of buildings, with two primary schools and a girls high school adjacent to it. The sisters moved out of the building to live in the community after the schools were closed, in 1982. The three storied, brick building was demolished by the Catholic Church in 1984. The decision to destroy the old convent provoked lengthy controversy. The photograph was taken just before demoliton in May - June, 1984.

Richard Leary's chemist shop is on the near left (on the site of the old Grand Hotel, now Grand Cafe and bar [2014]), Foresters Hall is the building with the large doorway in the middle distance and the Clarendon Hotel is on the far-right in the distance.

This school was opened on 18 June, 1928 with a roll of 19 pupils. Mr E Farrant was the teacher. The land on which the school was built was donated by Mr Hugh Akers. The original one room was added to in 1930, 1953 and 1961. The school is still in existence today [2015].