Te Peeti Te Awe Awe (c1820-1884), a chief of the Rangitāne tribe, was involved with negotiations and the sale of Māori Land for the opening up of the Manawatu for pakeha settlement. A marble statue of Te Peeti was installed in The Square, Palmerst...

Creator:      Unknown
Place:          The Square, Palmerston North
Date:          circa 1907

Clothes collected locally are being readied to be sent to troops overseas in World War One. amongst those packing the parcels in the Palmerston North Borough Council Chambers is Mrs J.A. Nash (Mayoress), second from left.

Creator:      Whalley and Co., Crown Studios,
Place:          Palmerston North
Date:          September 1914

This photograph shows officers from the New Zealand Medical Corps. It is thought to have been taken at Awapuni around the time of World War One. Awapuni Racecourse was the home of the NZ Medical Corp during the First World War years.

Creator:      Charles Allen
Place:          Racecourse Road, Palmerston North
Date:          circa 1914 to circa 1919

Back row, from left: Jessie Bauckham (m. Herb Tong), child of Will and Elsie Bauckham; Cousin Fred Bauckham (later killed in World War One); Ernest Hayward (m. Annie Hayward); Hettie Bauckham (m. Jack Petersen), child of Will and Elsie Bauckham; K...

Creator:      Unknown
Place:          Ashhurst
Date:          circa 1910

These men are thought to be Councillors and Council employees at a Council picnic at Turitea, photographed around 1910.

Date:          circa 1910

The Griffith family Buick car decorated as a "Dove of Peace" for the peace procession held to celebrate the end of World War One. These celebrations were held on July 19-21 1919 in Palmerston North. On Saturday the 19th of July at 9.30 am a 21 Gun...

Creator:      Unknown
Place:          Palmerston North
Date:          1919

This wooden bridge replaced the original swept away by flood waters in 1896. A punt was used for crossing until it was constructed in 1909. It was replaced in 1969. The Ashhurst Domain is on the lower left hand side of the photograph.

Creator:      George W Anderson [?]
Place:          Manawatu River, Ashhurst, Manawatu
Date:          1913

Kate Watchorn was the wife of John Samuel Watchorn, draper of Palmerston North. She died on the 23rd of April 1915 and was buried in Plot 33, Block 17 at Terrace End Cemetery. Her obituary in the Manawatu Times for 4 April 1915 read, "OBITUARY. M...

Creator:      Unknown
Place:          Main Street, Palmerston North
Date:          1915

Mrs. Fergusson, known to the children as 'Old Nurse' with Walter Taylor-Young (probably), second from right,cousin of the Strangs, and either Graham, Brian or Colin Strang. Taken at the gates of Mr J Strang's residence, 'Woodhey' (now Caccia Birch...

Creator:      Unknown
Place:          130 Te Awe Awe Street, Hokowhitu, Palmerston North
Date:          circa 1910

A portrait of Salvation Army Band Master, Harry Jackson in uniform. Harry operated a number of grocery stores in Palmerston North, including Jackson and Carven in The Square and Jackson and Sons on the corner of College and Fitzherbert Streets.

Creator:      Unknown
Place:          Palmerston North
Date:          1917

This image comes from a collection of unidentified negatives taken by H M Griffiths in the early 1900s, probably 1910-1920. Many of these negatives are labelled as having been taken in Tokomaru, but many have no information with them. They were do...

Creator:      H M Griffiths
Place:          Manawatu
Date:          1910 to 1920

This grader was owned by the Kairanga County Council and used on their roads. The exact locality of this photograph is unknown. Mr Jack Findlay is standing on the grader.

Creator:      Unknown
Place:          Unknown - Manawatu
Date:          circa 1914 to circa 1918

An annual picnic, known as the Mayoral picnic, was organised by the Palmerston North Borough Council. James Nash, Mayor 1908 - 1923, is seated with his wife in the second row, fourth and fifth from right. Nash has a child on his knee.

Creator:      Whalley and Co., Crown Studios
Place:          Manawatu
Date:          March 1914

Borough Council from 1915-1917. From left. Mike O’Reilly (proprietor of Princess Hotel); L R Bryant (retired farmer); E L Broad(flaxmiller and land agent); George Kendall (retired farmer); W H Collingwood - Town Clerk; J A Nash - Mayor; M J Kenned...

Creator:      Billens and Co.
Place:          Palmerston North
Date:          circa 1916

The Bandstand was originally located in The Square but was shifted to the Esplanade in 1907. It was demolished in 1966.

Creator:      George W Anderson
Place:          Victoria Esplanade, Palmerston North
Date:          1918

This photograph is part of a composite panorama of the Square, photographed from the Commercial Hotel, on the corner of Main Street and The Square, on a rainy day. In the foreground is the fountain garden and the gentleman's toilet. On the far lef...

Creator:      L Martin
Place:          The Square, Palmerston North
Date:          circa 1910

This store was situated at Raumai in the Pohangina Valley. See also 2014N_Poh15_007781 for a view of the store in the 1960s.

Creator:      Charles E Wildbore
Place:          Pohangina Valley
Date:          circa 1910 to circa 1915

The fountain in the foreground of this postcard once stood is in western quadrant of The Square, in front of where the Central Library now sits [2017]. It is shown here before the Coronation monument for Edward VII was added on top (1925). The bui...

Creator:      Aldersley Series
Date:          1912

This postcard shows The Square as it was around 1915. Note the spire of the old St Patricks Church, Palmerston North to the right of of General Post Office.

Creator:      Frank Duncan & Co, Ltd
Date:          circa 1915

"Looking across The Square to the Grand Hotel and corner of Church Street. From the corner of Fitzherbert Street, on the left are: Bank of New Zealand; Mellsop Elliot and Co; Rankin Butchers; Furnishing Co. Ltd; Evening Standard; A A Pratt; E Olse...

Creator:      Unknown
Place:          The Square, Palmerston North
Date:          circa 1910

"Cars and a horse-drawn carriage parked on the road that ran into The Square. Photo taken from the corner of Rangitikei Street (probably from the Clarendon Hotel).

Frank Duncan and Co. tourist Series, postcard no. 1324."

Creator:      Frank Duncan and Co.
Place:          The Square, Palmerston North
Date:          circa 1910

This photograph was taken from the corner of Rangitikei Street. For many years The Square was divided into 5 sections - four quadrants and a central strip that the railway line ran through. This quadrant is nearest the Broadway corner, and one of ...

Creator:      Unknown
Place:          The Square, Palmerston North
Date:          circa 1907 to circa 1908

A boy stands by the first Band Rotunda, with the newly constructed Post Office, on the corner of Main Street, behind. This Band Rotunda was built in The Square in 1899. It was shifted to The Esplanade in 1907, and replaced by another.

Creator:      Unknown
Place:          The Square, Palmerston North
Date:          circa 1906 to circa 1907

Te Awe Awe Street, Hokowhitu, Palmerston North was named for Peeti Te Awe Awe, a noted Rangitāne Maori Chief of the area.

Creator:      George W Anderson
Place:          Te Awe Awe Street, Hokowhitu, Palmerston North
Date:          1912

This building was constructed for C M Ross in 1915. The building on the left was also owned by C M Ross and connected the Coleman Place building to The Square buildings. The building remains today as retail and business premises.

Creator:      Whalley and Co., Crown Studios
Place:          Corner of George Street and Coleman Place, Palmerston North
Date:          circa 1915 to circa 1916

The building at centre, built as the Colonial Bank of New Zealand, became the Palmerston North Borough Council offices. In 1944-1945, a new building was built (now Square Edge). to the right of this building can be seen the All Saints Church,const...

Creator:      Unknown
Place:          Corner of The Square and Church Street, Palmerston North
Date:          circa 1910

Development began on the Victoria Esplanade in Palmerston North, named to mark Queen Victoria's 60th jubilee, in 1897. The pergola was constructed in the Victoria Esplanade gardens, Palmerston North, c 1919 and was said to be demolished c 1940s.

Creator:      Unknown
Place:          Victoria Esplanade, Palmerston North
Date:          1916 to 1918

Development began on the Victoria Esplanade in Palmerston North, named to mark Queen Victoria's 60th jubilee, in 1897.

Creator:      George W Anderson
Place:          Victoria Esplanade, Palmerston North
Date:          1910s

C M Ross Co Ltd decorated their department store in The Square to celebrate the end of the First World War. Roscos, as it became known was one of the foremost department stores in Palmerston North. Today the site is occupied by the Palmerston Nort...

Creator:      Unknown
Place:          The Square, Palmerston North
Date:          1919

The Upper Manawatu Gorge Bridge, built during 1874 – 1875, leads out of the Gorge towards Woodville. By 1930 – 1932 it had been replaced by a concrete structure.

Creator:      Unknown
Place:          State Highway 3, Woodville
Date:          circa 1910