Name: The origin is unknown. It is assumed to be named after Cuba Street in Wellington. The Wellington Street was named after the ship, "Cuba," which landed immigrants on Petone Beach in January 1840.

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

History: Cuba Street was one of the city's original streets. It first ended at Short Street (now known as Cook Street) and was extended out to Burns Avenue at a much later date.

For a comprehensive history of Cuba Street, take a look at this Back Issues article by Lesley Courtney.

In 1871, Palmerston’s first public cemetery was established on the site of the present Palmerston North Showgrounds. By 1875, a decision was made to move the cemetery to Napier Road, due to the Cuba Street site being too wet. The bodies were exhumed and reinterred at Terrace End Cemetery.

In 1886 the Borough Council determined that the old cemetery plot in Cuba Street would become a Showground. Established by the Manawatū and West Coast Agricultural and Pastoral Association, it has hosted: A&P Shows, sports clubs and events, military troops, celebrations, relief and transit camps, parades and more. For a brief history, read Palmerston North Showgrounds History, by Leanne Croon Hickman.

In 1940, the 28th Māori Battalion trained at the Palmerston North Showgrounds. In 1964, Te Rau O Te Aroha Māori Battalion Hall was opened at 138 Cuba Street, as a national memorial to the men of the 28th Māori Battalion who lost their lives in the Second World War. The hall became a Poppy Place in 2018.

In 1981, Cuba Street was the scene of barbed wire, police lines and protesters; when anti-Apartheid activists opposed the Springbok Tour. Take a look at this Back Issues article by Stephen Berg to find out more.

Renumbering: The addresses on Cuba Street were renumbered between 1936 and 1939. See p.149 to p.153 of the Rates Register of Street Numbers - Old and New.

Built Heritage Inventory:

• Bryant Building, 201-207 Cuba Street, 1905, 1911, 1915.
• Carlton Hotel, 169-199 Cuba Street, 1927.
• The Palmerston North Working Men's Club, 233 Cuba Street, 1928. The main entry was on Cuba Street with the lounge bar and some other spaces on Taonui Street.
• Returned Soldiers Club, 236 Cuba Street, 1917. The former Soldiers' Club became a Poppy Place in 2018.
• Mowlem Building, 268-270 Cuba Street, 1925.
• The Arcade, 256-258 Cuba Street, 1906.
• Ward Bros. Building, 213-215 Cuba Street, 1935.

The Square Circular was Palmerston North City Council's monthly community publication, informing Palmerstonians of PNCC initiatives, activities, and events. This month's issue includes: lagoon bore, draft 10 year plan, the defence community, cemetery and cremation charges, Manawatu Supporting Families in Mental Illness, Russell Bates, Tremaine Avenue roading, Pioneer Highway roading, Destination Manawatu, community gardens, graffiti removal kits, Ashhurst Domain, Performing Arts Trust Scholarships, Globe Theatre awards, The Regent, Summer in the Park concerts.

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: urban development, welcome packs, suburbs brochures, district plan, civil defence and emergency planning, resealing roads programme, recycling bins at events, bus shelters, Memorial Park, Kahuterawa outdoor recreation plan, The Stomach, Christmas in The Square, New year's eve in The Square, Te Manawa exhibition, librarian Jay Robinson, Lesley Courtney.

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: wastewater treatment plant, easy pay rates, recycling roading, E waste, community consultation meetings, Manawatu Zonta exhibition, Memorial Park play equipment, interpreters, 10 year plan, council nursery, Plain English awards, Merv Hancock lecture, signage, Matheson Reserve, library summer reading programme, Te Manawa, New year's eve in the Square, Arena entrance.

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: parking meters, Square Edge, street lights, Caccia Birch, Dr Bernard Forde, access way by Aokautere Shopping Centre, community consultation, The Regent, Business Friendly Strategy, Elaine Reilly, gambling venues policy review, parking team Heads Up cards, call centre, Youth Council, Pit Park, Jaycee Trust Scholarships, community events programme, Christmas parade, Centrepoint theatre, heritage buildings.

Name: The origin of the name, Lombard, is unknown.

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

History: As one of the city’s oldest, Lombard Street was constructed in two parts. The southern Cuba Street end, D.P.35, section 300, was surveyed in 1875. The northern Featherston Street end, D.P.206, section 303, was surveyed in in 1881. The latter section was owned by Joseph Edward Nathan, of Joseph Nathan and Co., the agricultural supply firm that evolved into Glaxo. Each section was of equal length and the Borough Council commenced subdivision in 1883.

On January 22, 1881, the first official horse race meeting was held. The course ran from Lombard Street, along Featherston Street, through the Showgrounds, and then Cuba Street. At that stage it was all open ground. Boxing Day race meetings had been occurring in the general area since 1871, on barely cleared land.

In 1930, pioneer WM Anderson, wrote a letter to the editor of Manawatū Standard including past reflections of his time as a tenant on Lombard Street, circa. 1883-5. With the street belonging to two parties there was some tension between the subdivisions. A high fence was built, blocking those with houses at the northern end from entering town. As a result, delivery services from butchers, bakers and milkmen, also had to forgo the more direct southern route (from Cuba Street) and access their northern customers via Featherston Street. When a hole was struck through the fence, yet another barrier was raised, a padlocked gate. The padlock was leased to a man who asked sixpence a week from each householder for the privilege of its use. Eventually the fence was cut down on the condition that northern end owners buy a quarter acre section on the southern end as well.

Orange Lodge Trustees (a Protestant organisation) purchased property in Lombard Street in 1883-4. The Orange Hall was constructed and became a meeting hub for many groups, organisations, and clubs thereafter. Here is an image of the Promoters and First Officers of Loyal Orange Lodge No. 65, Star of Freedom. The hall was gutted by a fire in 1915 and rebuilt as the Orange Lodge Hall. In 1931 Orange Lodge temporarily housed 54 students from Central School.

A bowling club was established in Palmerston North in 1890. The Lombard Street site was purchased in 1890 by Mr J Walkley and the green established. Play began the following year and Mr Walkley reigned as club president for 12 years. With the club owning property in Lombard and Taonui Streets. The Taonui Street side was developed into a bowling green from 1907. Combined with Lombard Street it amounted to two full sized greens. Mr JA Nash (here bowling with his wife, Elizabeth), was president of the club from 1910 to 1912. By 1925, due to financial restraints, the Lombard Street frontage was sold and a new pavilion built on the Taonui Street side.

For a comprehensive history of the street's development, businesses, and who lived there, take a look at the lecture notes of Brian Mather and supplementary material from the Palmerston North Historical Society, circa. 2006.

Renumbering: The addresses on Lombard Street were renumbered between 1936 and 1939. See p.85 and p.86 of the Rates Register of Street Numbers - Old and New.

Built Heritage Inventory:

• 32 Lombard Street, 1889-1890.

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 roll 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.

Tangimoana School Golden Jubilee reunion

Annual performance by the City Kindergarten Mothers' Club (club name may need correction)

Annual performance by the City Kindergarten Mothers' Club (name of club may need correction)

A performance by the Godfrey Phillips factory social club in Feilding (1955)

Godfrey Phillips factory social club following a performance 

Back Row: D. Armstrong, D. Biss, W. Cherrie, R. Brownlee
Middle Row: A. Biss (Club Captain), C. Rautahi, G. Brougham, G. Page, L. Middlemiss,
P. Thompson, H. Harkness (Captain)
Front Row: W. Hautapa, K. Gray, J. Cantlon (Vice Captain), J. James (Captain), D. Gawn, R. Lewis,
J. Young
Absent: I. Cousins, R. Barber, G. Northcott

Winners Polson Banner      Runners-up M.R.F.U. Junior Competition

Back Row: P. Perry, E. Cowley, L. Mummery, D. McLeod
Middle Row: D. Gray, M. Dick, S. Bartlett, D. McDowell, F. Bailey, G, Page, B. Plimmer
Front Row: R. Kelly, G. Brougham, M. Penman, K. Coombes (Vice Captain), A. Kells (Captain), S. Saili, E. Signal, R. Mitchell, Mr Wilson

Waldegrave Cup Winners 1952
Back Row: N. Goodwin, R. Eglinton, I. Steverson, P. Sears
Middle Row: R. Lucinsky, R. Eyre, N. Plimmer, J. Spencer, B. Hume, J. Salter
Front Row: B. Burton, W. Moulton, R. Mitchell, R. Kelly, G. Brougham (Captain), M. Penman,
B. Plimmer, D. Bliss, Mr R. D. Salter

From left: Mr Pollitt, G. Brougham, K. Patel, P. Arlidge, R. Eyre, M. Penman (Captain), D. Biss,
D. Gray, D. Tarrant, G. Eden, L. Mummery (Vice Captain), R. Aird, P. Cloake
Absent: R. Kelly

Basketball team at Tangimoana School in the mid to late 1940s

Tangimoana School's basketball team 1948

School play - all students

The Coming of the Daffodil

Tangimoana School students in 1946

Preparing soldiers for WWII (1939)

The Lucas family outside their cottage in Taipo Road, Rongotea

Students and headmaster/teacher at Tangimoana School in 1949

Tangimoana School reunion

Foxton New World erect a gazebo to shelter waiting customers during the COVID-19 pandemic.

During the nationwide alert level 4, starting 11.59pm 25 March 2000, all the population was required to stay at home. There were severe travel restrictions, with all educational facilities and non-essential businenesses closed. People were permitted to shop for food at a local supermarket, with social distancing required. A lot of people switched to online shopping. There was a limited number of people permitted in the supermarket at any time and people were required to maintain a distance of at least 2 metres, both inside and outside the supermarket.

The alert level was lowered to level 3 on 27 April, partially lifting some lockdown restrictions and down to level 2 on 13 May 2000.

This ten-page report was prepared for the Town Planning Office of the PNCC. The purpose of the report was "to examine the residential site building coverage requirements as laid down in the Palmerston North CIty Council Code of Ordinance. The main consideration in this report is the relationship between acceptable standards of privacy and standards nominated under the regulations." Statistical analysis includes the "Floor Space of Houses and Miscellaneous Buildings in a Sample of 200 Palmerston North Households" and "Percentage Site Coverage Frequency Distribution of Sample Palmerston North Residential Sections".

The report concluded that: the average Palmerston North home had a total floor space of about 1,550 square feet; about 22.3% of the area of most residential sites in the city are occupied by buildings; between 70% and 80% of the area of most residential sites were open space in the form of lawns and gardens. "However, it is likely that as urban land becomes an increasingly greater scarce resource ... residential sites will continue the current pattern of decreases in area."