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Palmerston North early settlers' picnic

Palmerston North early settlers' picnic

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 right, in flat cap, holding up hand: Identified as George Richardson Woman, second row from front, fifth from left, in black hat with white decoration: Identified as Catherine Richardson nee Lynch Girl, middle of front row with no adult directly behind her, wearing white dress and white hat with adornment: Identified as Margaret Bickerton, daughter of Frank Bickerton and Lucy Richardson.

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Palmerston North
 
Victory in Europe parade, The Square

Victory in Europe parade, The Square

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

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Palmerston North
 
Locomotive hauling flax to Miranui Flaxmill, near Shannon

Locomotive hauling flax to Miranui Flaxmill, near Shannon

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 photograph and the swamp to the right. The locomotive did not prove successful on swamp ground and was replaced by horses.

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Tokomaru Stream, Horowhenua Region
 
Early View of The Square

Early View of The Square

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.

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The Square, Palmerston North
 
Everybody's Theatre, Coleman Place

Everybody's Theatre, Coleman Place

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, who leased the land. It had seating for about 700 people and ran as a picture theatre for almost 16 years. All-day shows were the rule, commencing at 1pm and ending at 10pm with the picture programmes being repeated several times. With little other public entertainment, the theatre was generally well patronised. A 25 hp gas engine was installed to provide power to the projector, though the theatre itself was lit with electricity. The projecter was operated by Mr E G Child. It was remodelled as the “Hotel Midland” in 1928, which operated under the license from the Occidental Hotel which burnt down in 1927. Much of the Hotel was demolished in 1965-1966.

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Coleman Place Palmerston North
 
Clarendon Hotel, western corner of Rangitikei Street and The Square

Clarendon Hotel, western corner of Rangitikei Street and The Square

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.

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Corner of Rangitikei Street and the Square, Palmerston North
 
'The Gorge', hotel and home of Thomas Lowes, Ashhurst

'The Gorge', hotel and home of Thomas Lowes, Ashhurst

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.

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Ashhurst, Manawatu
 
Manawatu Racing Club's Centennial Celebration

Manawatu Racing Club's Centennial Celebration

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 Awapuni Racecourse. On the right is Mr Alec MacDonald, president of the Manawatu Racing Club.

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Racecourse Road, Awapuni, Palmerston North
 
Damage to road after Napier Earthquake

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

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Napier, Hawkes Bay
 
Friendly Society parade, Palmerston North

Friendly Society parade, Palmerston North

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 railway line of the corner of Main Street East, led by a brass band. Beyond, to the right, can be seen the corner of Rangitikei Street.

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The Square, Palmerston North
 
Arthur Hopwood and family in early car

Arthur Hopwood and family in early car

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 Una (closest to Arthur); others unknown

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Corner of Cook and Ferguson Street, Palmerston North
 
Court House, Main Street

Court House, Main Street

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 building was short lived as it burnt down in 1897. This (fourth)Court House remained in use, with additions and alterations, until it was demolished and replaced by a new one, completed in 1988.

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Main Street, Palmerston North
 
Palmerston North District Court and Police Staff

Palmerston North District Court and Police Staff

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), Sidney Hercock (Marton), Hugh Blaikie (Shannon), Arthur Ede (Eketahuna), Eric Compton (Palmerston North). Middle Row (left to right): ? Miller (Court), Richard Patterson, ? Ross (Court), Joseph Colbourne (Cuba Street, Palmerston North), Gardner Beadle (Palmerston North), James Beaton (Palmerston North) , Geurt Thomassen (Palmerston North), Harry Cole (Palmerston North), Marshall Blaxland, Robert Barrett (Palmerston North), Joseph Larmer (Bulls), John Watt (Ashhurst), Allan Satherly (Otaki), John Grant (Terrace End), Charles Matthew (Palmerston North), Raynor Busch (Palmerston North), Walter Evans (Palmerston North) , William Miller (Palmerston North). Front Row (left to right): ? Fraser (Court), ? Osborne (Court), ? Paine (Court), ? Reid (Court), Robert Owen (Foxton), Frederick Burrell (Pahiatua, Lewis Skinner (Woodville), Edwin Whitehouse (Palmerston North), James Simpson (Superintendent, Palmerston North), James Cahill (Feilding), Miller Hill (Palmerston North), Harry Thompson (Marton), Herbert Russell (Palmerston North).

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Church Street East, Palmerston North
 
Fireman fighting fire at Television Installation and Service Company Ltd, Grey Street

Fireman fighting fire at Television Installation and Service Company Ltd, Grey Street

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

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Grey Street, Palmerston North
 
W. E. Bullard

W. E. Bullard

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.

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Foxton
 
Parade of stock and horse-drawn vechicles at A & P show

Parade of stock and horse-drawn vechicles at A & P show

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

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The Showgrounds. Palmerston North
 
Forest reconstruction at Manawatu Museum, Church Street

Forest reconstruction at Manawatu Museum, Church Street

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.

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Church Street, Palmerston North
 
Cessna Plane on Ohakea Base Runway

Cessna Plane on Ohakea Base Runway

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 200 knots. It was also intended for use with search and rescue work.

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Ohakea, Rangitikei Region
 
Wagonloads of grass seed

Wagonloads of grass seed

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 of dressed seed arriving at the warehouse of a well-known firm of seed merchants in Palmerston North, from whence it will be distributed all over the world”. Barraud & Abraham’s wooden premises stood in Rangitikei Street.

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Palmerston North
 
Right Side of Broad Street from The Square

Right Side of Broad Street from The Square

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 1929. The photograph must have been taken after 1925, as the Catholic Church cannot be seen on the site once occupied by Garners. In 1925, St Patricks was completed further down Broad Street where it stands now. The one storey brick building in the middle of the photograph is the residence of the Bank of Australasia's manager - now the site of the Australasian Temperance and General Mutual Life Assurance Society Ltd (T&G) building. The building next door was the Bank of Australasia - it has since been demolished and is now ANZ bank.

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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
 
Grasslands Division and Plant Chemistry Laboratory, Department of Scientific and Industrial Research, Palmerston North

Grasslands Division and Plant Chemistry Laboratory, Department of Scientific and Industrial Research, Palmerston North

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 reorganisation in 1936, and the Plant Research Station was transferred entirely to the DSIR. The DSIR became a scientific research department, doing its own research rather than simply coordinating work in other institutions. Five separate research divisions were created, of which one was Grasslands in Palmerston North.

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Palmerston North
 
Workmen pumping trenches

Workmen pumping trenches

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 1904-1919.

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Palmerston North
 
W.T. Penny and Major C. Dunk with prize-winning vegetables

W.T. Penny and Major C. Dunk with prize-winning vegetables

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 River Board, organised the Manawatu Rifles (1891). He was the Mayor of Palmerston North in 1903-1904.

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Palmerston North
 
Mangaore village, during construction of Mangahao hydro electric power scheme

Mangaore village, during construction of Mangahao hydro electric power scheme

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 its office. 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.

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Horowhenua Region
 
Northern Schleswig Liberation Celebration

Northern Schleswig Liberation Celebration

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 1920 edition of the Evening Standard for more information (available online at paperspast.natlib.govt.nz)

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Palmerston North
 
King Edward VII Memorial Fountain, The Square

King Edward VII Memorial Fountain, The Square

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 placed in the centre of The Square but was moved in 1925 to make way for the War Memorial. The photograph shows it in on its second site, in the middle of the pond near the Coleman Mall corner of The Square. It remained here until it was again relocated close to the corner of The Square and Broadway in 2005.

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Palmerston North
 
Longburn Abattoir - Staff Photograph

Longburn Abattoir - Staff Photograph

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

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Manawatu
 
Manawatu Gorge road

Manawatu Gorge road

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

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Manawatu
 
Family group, Wairarapa

Family group, Wairarapa

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.

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Tararua District
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