The first in this set of unpublished images was taken for a story in The Manawatū Evening Standard on 3rd December 1973.
"It was a Le Mans-type start at Te Matai Road, with the crew captains racing to their rafts after the starting gun had been f...
Creator: Manawatū Evening Standard Negative Collection
Place: Palmerston North
Date: December 3, 1973
This set of unpublished images was taken for a story published in The Manawatū Evening Standard on 3rd December 1973.
The race was "won by a six-man crew from the Valuation Department. It comprised John Clendin, Dave Roxburgh, Bob Mitchell, Dave ...
Creator: Manawatū Evening Standard Negative Collection
Place: Palmerston North
Date: December 3, 1973
The first in this set of unpublished images was taken for a story in The Manawatū Evening Standard on 3rd December 1973.
Crew captains raced to their rafts... "after the starting gun had been fired by Manawatu's Miss Commonwealth Games Hostess, T...
Creator: Manawatū Evening Standard Negative Collection
Place: Palmerston North
Date: December 3, 1973
The first in this set of images was taken for a story published in The Manawatū Evening Standard on 3rd December 1973.
"To the victors, certainly not the spoils, but heaps of flour. As the Valuation Department team drifted under the Fitzherbert B...
Creator: Manawatū Evening Standard Negative Collection
Place: Palmerston North
Date: December 3, 1973
The race took place on the Manawatū River from Tematai Road to Fitzherbert Bridge.
Creator: Manawatū Evening Standard
Place: Palmerston North
Date: 1970 to 1980
The first in this set of images was taken for a story published in The Manawatū Evening Standard on 3rd December 1973.
"An 88-strong armada of rafts makes its way down the Manawatu River yesterday during the Awapuni Jaycees' fourth annual raft ra...
Creator: Manawatū Evening Standard Negative Collection
Place: Palmerston North
Date: December 3, 1973
A directory of local businesses and public services for Palmerston North.
Date: 1983 to 1984
A local community newspaper. The content of the issue includes:
Heather Tanguay, 'On Being a City Councillor,' p.2.
John Bevan Ford, 'The Emblem,' p.2.
Rolf Panny, 'A Code of Social and Family Responsibility?' p.3.
'News from the Manawatū Ethn...
Creator: Community Journal Charitable Trust Board
Date: March 1998
Joan Cook (born 1923) was the daughter of Walter and Marjorie McEwen and the granddaughter of David McEwen. Michael Valentine Fitzsimons is the son from her first marriage and Sarah Cook is the daughter from her second marriage.
This image is deri...
Date: 1960s
The Gorge Hotel was built for Thomas and Mary Lowes as an accommodation house. It was situated on top of the terrace opposite Ashhurst Domain, on the southwest side of the road leading from Ashhurst to the bridge over the Manawatū River. The build...
Date: 1908 to 1910
Farm workers, feeding a threshing machine from a hay stack on Marx and Maren Voss' farm. They had emigrated from Denmark with Bishop Monrad’s scheme in 1874.
This image is derived from a copy negative, made from a photograph loaned by Michael Fit...
Creator: Unknown
Place: Palmerston North
Date: circa 1910
From a Voss family photograph album, but does not feature any members of the Voss family. Identified are Bertie Jacobs (first on left) and Olive Bett (fifth from right). The man to the left of Olive is possibly Jack Grant, who later became her hus...
Creator: Unknown
Place: Palmerston North
Date: circa 1910
Image likely taken from the C. M. Ross Building, looking across The Square to Broadway Avenue.
This slide was likely created by David Evans of the City Council's Planning Office. M D (David) Evans was a planning assistant from 1955 to 1968, Deput...
Creator: D. Evans
Place: Broadway, Palmerston North
Date: 1960s to 1970s
William Allwright (1852-1942) was a ferry operator in Bulls. He later moved to Pohangina Road, where he worked as a poultry farmer.
This image is derived from a copy negative made from a photograph that was loaned for copying. The original photogr...
Date: circa 1930
Ashhurst was named after Henry George Ashhurst (1820-1882), director of the Emigrant and Colonists' Aid Corporation. He was a London colonial merchant who died at Richmond, Surrey, without ever having visited New Zealand. His sister Lucy made a si...
Date: circa 1880
This house was built in 1879 by Charles Bauckham. This photograph shows Mrs Bauckham at the gate. It later became the home of Walter (Wattie) Brewer (1889-1977), a sadler and shoe retailer. Brewer was also actively involved with many groups and co...
Date: circa 1880
The vehicle in this photograph belong to Schnell, who lived at the corner of Harrison Line and Bunnythorpe Road.
This image is derived from a copy negative made from a photograph that was loaned for copying. The original photographic print is not ...
Date: 1925
This railway bridge near Ashhurst was completed in 1890. The railway line that runs through the Manawatū Gorge opened in 1891. This view is taken from the end of Mulgrave Street, Ashhurst.
This image is derived from a copy negative made from a pho...
Date: 1890
The shop on the right side of the image is Craven & Brewer's general store, Ashhurst.
This image is derived from a copy negative made from a postcard that was loaned for copying. The original photographic print is not held by the Ian Matheson City...
Date: circa 1900
William Allwright (1852-1942) was a ferry operator in Bulls. He later moved to Pohangina Road, where he worked as a poultry farmer.
This image is derived from a copy negative made from a photograph that was loaned for copying. The original photogr...
Creator: Mr Bauckham
Date: circa 1930
This image is derived from a copy negative made from a photograph that was loaned for copying. The original photographic print is not held by the Ian Matheson City Archives.
Date: circa 1910
This image is derived from a copy negative made from a photograph that was loaned for copying. The original photographic print is not held by the Ian Matheson City Archives.
Date: circa 1910
This building, on Cambridge Avenue, Ashhurst, served as the town's police station from 1896 until 1921. The police constables stationed in Ashhurst during that time were: James Franklin (April 1896 to January 1906); Lott Edward O'Halloran (Februar...
Date: circa 1986
The current Ashhurst Police Station on Guildford Street opened in 1980.
This image is derived from a copy negative made from a photograph that was loaned for copying. The original photographic print is not held by the Ian Matheson City Archives.
Creator: Peter Knight
Date: circa 1986
This building, on the corner of Mulgrave and Stanford streets, served as the Ashhurst Police Station during the time that Alfred Pennefather was police constable in the town (April 1895 until 31 March 1896). He rented the six room cottage from Tho...
Creator: Peter Knight
Date: circa 1986
Gordon Vincent Wood was police constable in Ashhurst from July 1965 to October 1967. He arrived in Ashhurst from Taranaki and returned to that regions when he was transferred to Stratford.
This image is derived from a copy negative made from a pho...
Date: 1960s
Winston Francis Cutts (known as Win) was police constable in Ashhurst from December 1985 to May 1987.
This image is derived from a copy negative made from a photograph that was loaned for copying. The original photographic print is not held by th...
Date: 1980s
This one room cell was an outbuilding at the third Ashhurst Police Station, which located on Guildford Street from 1922 until 1944. The cell was removed to the back yard of Constable Jock Watt's property in Storford Street in 1960 and used as a sh...
Creator: Ray Carter
Date: circa 1986
This one room cell was an outbuilding to the third Ashhurst Police Station, which was on Guildford Street from 1922 until 1944. The cell was removed to the back yard of Constable Jock Watt's property in Storford Street in 1960 and used as a shed.
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Date: circa 1941
Keith Rowe was police constable in Ashhurst from March 1968 until May 1985. He completed training at Trentham Training School and was posted first to Gisborne before transferring to Ruatoria. Following his retirement, he was voted onto the town co...
Date: circa 1980