A resource created by Palmerston North Branch NZ Society of Genealogists ++What is the Palmerston North Settlers Collection?
++ It consists of files of documents, photographs and stories contributed by families about their relatives who lived...
Creator: Palmerston North Branch of New Zealand Genealogy Society
Place: Palmerston North
Date: 1875 to 1900
Len Argyle (1894-1915) was one of the sons of Henry and Alice Argyle of Bunnythorpe. He and his brother Pat (Percival) enlisted in the NZ Expeditionary Forces together and served in World War One. This letter from Len to his parents, is presumed t...
Creator: Len Argyle
Place: Gallipoli
Date: July 1, 1915
Len Argyle (1894-1915) was one of the sons of Henry and Alice Argyle of Bunnythorpe. He and his brother Pat (Percival) enlisted in the NZ Expeditionary Forces together and served in World War One. This letter from Len to his parents, was sent from...
Creator: Len Argyle
Place: Egypt
Date: April 30, 1915
Journalist Tina White's weekly "Memory Lane" article in the Manawatū Standard. Two World War 1 soldiers from Bunnythorpe, Len and Pat Argyle, wrote letters home to their parents from the war front.
Creator: Tina White
Place: Manawatū
Date: April 24, 2021
This album documents hotel buildings in the lower North Island (excluding the Wellington region), listing them alphabetically by the name of the business.
The hotels shown include the: Albion Hotel, Patea; Albion Hotel, Shannon; Albion Hotel, Wha...
Date: circa 1955 to circa 1960
James Burtton lived for many years in this whare on his property by the Tokomaru Stream. Burtton's Track in the Kahuterawa Reserve is named after him and forms part of the Te Araroa Tail network through New Zealand.
Creator: Unknown
Place: Manawatu
Date: 1941
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: Regent theatre; Convention centre; Bonny Glen landfill; Fitzh...
Creator: Palmerston North City Council
Place: Palmerston North
Drum Point was a pickup point for goods going to Linton station. Other goods were also reportedly spread all over the hillside.
Creator: Unknown
Place: Kahuterawa, Manawatu
Date: circa 1920
The original Black Bridge, built in 1927, was destroyed in a flash flood in 1964. Here, builders are bringing in new girders for the construction of the new Black Bridge.
Creator: Stewart Oxenham
Place: Kahuterawa, Manawatu
Date: 1965
This piece of 4 inch, cast iron pipe was found lying in the kahuterawa Stream. The Fitzherbert West Water Race Scheme was built in 1917 to supply farms in the area with water. Pipes were installed in the stream to take water down to a settlement b...
Creator: Ian Argyle
Place: Fitzherbert, Manawatu
Date: unknown
A piece of 4 inch cast iron pipe lying in the Kahuterawa Stream, part of the Fitzherbert West Water Race Scheme which was built in 1917 to supply farms with water in the Fitzherbert West area. Pipes were installed in the stream to transport water ...
Creator: Ian Argyle
Place: Fitzherbert, Manawatu
Date: circa 1970 to circa 1979
A water intake for the old Fitzherbert West Water Race Scheme, which was built in 1917 to supply farms with water in the Fitzherbert West area. Pipes were installed in the stream to take water down to a settlement box, which removed the silt and ...
Creator: Ian Argyle
Place: Fitzherbert, Manawatu
Date: circa 2000
Trucks tranport the second girder into place in the construction of the new Black Bridge. The original Black Bridge, built 1927, was damaged in a flash flood in 1964.
Creator: Unknown
Place: Kahuterawa, Manawatu
Date: circa 1965
The original Black Bridge was built by Poole and Klein in 1927. Mat Wolfsbauer is shown here leading his horses home from Top Farm. It is now owned by the Palmerston North City Council and the area is known as the Woodpecker Block.
Creator: Unknown
Place: Kahuterawa, Manawatu
Date: circa 1930 to circa 1939
The original Black Bridge was built by Poole and Klein in 1927, due to the tragic drowning of William F Brown, who tried to cross the river in flood after possum trapping. It is now owned by the Palmerston North City Council and the area is known ...
Place: Kahuterawa, Manawatu
Date: circa 1930 to circa 1939
Black Bridge was damaged by a flash flood 8 January 1964. Black Bridge was built in July 1926, due to the drowning of William Brown.
Place: Kahuterawa, Manawatu
Date: 1964
A flash flood damaged Black Bridge in 1964. Lyall Pickering (Kairanga County Council engineer), Albert Lyall (Kairanga County council foreman) and Mr & Mr Stewart Oxenham inspect the damaged Black Bridge.
Creator: Unknown
Place: Kahuterawa, Manawatu
Date: 1964
Matt Wolfsbauer standing on top of Black Bridge Arch on his way home from Top Farm. Top Farm was sold to the Palmerston North City Council and renamed Woodpecker Block.
Creator: Unknown
Place: Kahuterawa, Manawatu
Date: circa 1920 to circa 1929
James Burtton built this bridge over the Tokomaru Stream to improve his farm access. It later collapsed and dropped him into the stream resulting in his death 15 March 1941.
Creator: Unknown
Place: Kahuterawa, Manawatu
Date: 1941
The Brown, Shaw, Milner, Shere and Wolfsbauer families picnicking over the river from the Brown House property, opposite Arnold Chamoves property.
Creator: Charlie Shere
Place: Kahutarawa Stream, Manawatu
Date: circa 1915
The men vying for the 'ugliest' were employees of the McGregor Bros Mill. The picnic was held at the Motorimu Hall, which was a popular local venue for concerts and other entertainment for people in the Linton area. The McGregor Brothers' ran a mi...
Creator: Unknown
Place: Linton, Manawatū
Date: circa 1902
The Kahuterawa Church was originally built by the Schaw, Milner, Shere and Wolfsbauer families, on Kahuterawa Valley Road.
Creator: Unknown
Place: Kahuterawa Valley Raod, Manawatu
Date: unknown
The Sledge Track is located at the end of Kahuterawa Road, 17 km from the Palmerston North. It was opened in 2003. Ian Argyle proposed the development of the track to Palmerston North City Council in 1999, as part of the walkway network. Over the ...
Creator: Ian Argyle
Place: Manawatu
Date: circa 2003
Henry Dittmer transports a kitchen table in his cart, to his new house in Kahuterawa. Henry and sons, Herman, John, Henry and William, farmed cattle and sheep off Scotts Road, Kahuterawa c1904-1920. When the land was bought in 1904 it had to be cl...
Creator: Unknown
Place: Manawatu
Date: circa 1910
Rock blast, set off by Dittmer Bros when constructing Scotts Road from the top of Kahuterawa Road to the top of Scotts Road. A Government grant enabled the road to be improved, and it was hoped to join Kahuterawa and Scotts Road. When the original...
Creator: Unknown
Place: Manawatu
Date: circa 1920 to circa 1929
Letter from Len Argyle, who served in World War One, to his young brother Leslie. At this time he was in training at Trentham Military Camp, near Wellington.
Len Argyle (1894-1915), the son of Henry and Alice Argyle, was born in Carterton, Wairar...
Creator: Len Argyle
Place: Trentham Military Camp, Upper Hutt
Date: 1915
Pat (Percival) Argyle (1890-1915) was the son of Henry and Alice Argyle of Bunnythorpe. This letter is from Pat to his younger brother, Hector, from the Trentham Military Training Camp, where they are training before departure overseas. The letter...
Creator: Pat Argyle
Place: Trentham
Date: January 9, 1915
Certificate that certifies that Leslie Argyle fulfilled the requirements of a Certificate of Proficiency in October 1922. He was then 14 and half years old and attended Hiwinui School in the Manawatū.
Leslie was the son of Alice and Henry Argyle...
Creator: New Zealand Education Department
Place: Hiwinui, Manawatū
Date: October 17, 1922
Construction of Scotts Road, from the top of Kahuterawa Road and Scotts Road was carried out by the Dittmer brothers. Here they are fitting markers, to indicate the gradient for this particular section of road. A Government grant enabled the road ...
Creator: Unknown
Place: Manawatu
Date: circa 1920
This photograph was taken when the this area of land (now Gordon Kear Forest) was bought from the Argyle family. It was a sheep farm before trees were planted. Note the Tokomaru Gorge in the = center back of the image leading to Mangahao, part of ...
Creator: Ian Argyle
Place: Manawatu
Date: unknown