Edwin 'Ted' Aker was the brother of William Akers and uncle of Arthur Akers. He farmed the property ‘Hellingly’ near Raumai.
Creator: Unknown
Place: Ruamai
Date: circa 1915 to circa 1920
The laying of five chains of concrete road on Rangitikei Line, near the corner of Boundary Road (now Tremaine Avenue). This view looks east with Boundary Road in the background. Members of the Kairanga County Council inspect the newly laid concret...
Creator: Charles Allen
Place: Rangitikei Line, Palmerston North
Date: circa 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
The building under construction on the far-left of the picture is probably the Public Library (opened 1965); Watson Brothers (opened 1908); the Meteor Picture Theatre (opened in 1937); Millar and Giorgi (built 1902, burnt down in 1910 and the pres...
Creator: Unknown
Place: The Square, Palmerston North
Date: 1964
Vintage cars being driven in the parade to mark the occasion of the Ashhurst (former) Post Office building's centenary. The building is now used at the town library. In this photograph
Creator: Unknown
Place: Ashhurst
Date: April 5, 1998
On the occasion of the Ashhurst (former) Post Office building's centenary. The building is now used at the town library. In this photograph a vintage car is being driven in the parade.
Creator: Unknown
Place: Ashhurst
Date: April 5, 1998
A man standing beside his car at the Woodville end of the Manawatū Gorge. One of the "twin tunnels" can be seen as well as the Ballance Bridge.
Creator: Unknown
Place: Palmerston North
Date: circa 1920
A view of the entrace to the Palmerston North Railway Station.
Creator: Maurice Thompson
Place: Mathews Avenue, Palmerston North
Date: November 24, 1965
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...
Creator: Unknown
Place: Corner of Cook and Ferguson Street, Palmerston North
Date: 1910
The business of Adam Burges, situated on the corner of Queen and Rangitikei Streets, was established in 1892 and carried on by him until his death in 1918. His sons Duncan and Alan then ran the business until 1942 when they closed down and sold th...
Creator: R P Moore, Wellington
Place: Corner of Rangitikei and Queen Strret,Palmerston North
Date: 1920
Refer Fitzherbert East Aokautere School and District 1889-1989, p 87.
Creator: Unknown
Place: Aokautere, Palmerston North
Date: unknown
On Christmas morning in 1918, 50 Father Christmases distributed 5,000 presents to the children of Palmerston North. This was a large-scale charity venture sponsored by the citizens of Palmerston North. The presents were packed for distribution in ...
Creator: Whalley and Co., Crown Studios,
Place: Rangitikei Street, Palmerston North
Date: December 25, 1918
The Municipal Library on the corner of Fitzherbert Avenue and the Square, was purpose built in 1929, with shops on the street frontage and the library on the first floor. It remained there until 1965, when a new library was built on the corner of ...
Creator: Unknown
Place: Fitzherbert Avenue, Palmerston North
Date: circa 1950
Shown here is Niven Engineering at 35 Church Street (later renumbered 278) occupying land where the Salvation Army shop now trades [2015]. Niven's many assets/branches were sold off around the late 1970s by Brierley Investments Ltd. Niven Engineer...
Creator: Unknown
Place: 278 Church Street, Palmerston North
Date: circa 1924
This photograph shows a rainy view of Church Street West in the 1930s. The three-storey building to the left of the photograph is the Grand Hotel, built 1906.
Creator: Evening Post, Wellington
Place: Corner of Church Street and the Square, Palmerston North
Date: circa 1937
This Anglican church is the third All Saints to stand on this site. This Anglican church was completed in 1914, dedicated May of that year and consecrated 29 October 1916. The first vicar of the new church was the Reverend H G Rosher, 1911 – 1915....
Creator: Unknown
Place: Church Street, Palmerston North
Date: 1939
The Bank of Australasia, now the ANZ Bank, can be seen at the corner of the Square and Broad Street (now Broadway Avenue). The jewellers Gerrand is next to it, occupying part of the ground floor of the same building. J B Gerrand and Sons Ltd moved...
Creator: Unknown
Place: The Square, Palmerston North
Date: 1920s
This photograph shows the corner of Broadway and The Square. The buildings on Broadway, the right are: The Bank of Australia; Temperance and General Mutual Life Society (T&G) Building; Australian Mutual Provident Society (AMP) Building, with the s...
Creator: Bruce Watt
Place: Broadway Avenue, Palmerston North
Date: 1950
This 1929 Austin Seven, owned by Mr Les Albon, was put on display at the Rangitāne area cub day held at the Awapuni racecourse. The cub day was to commemorate the birth of Lord Baden-Powell and 72 years of scouting. The boy climbing into the drive...
Creator: Manawatu Evening Standard
Place: 67 Racecourse Road, Awapuni, Palmerston North
Date: March 8, 1982
L C Driver ran a milk round, delivering milk, from c1906 to 1948 when his son, Dudley, took it over.
Creator: Unknown
Place: Palmerston North
Date: circa 1926
Walter Turner's business was situated at 3 Queen Street in the 1920s. It later became Magnus Motors and then H Clapham Service Station in the later 1930s. From left: Vine; J Wasley; J Anderson; Harold Clapham; Walter Turner; D McLean; R Packer; W ...
Creator: Unknown
Place: Palmerston North
Date: circa 1920 to circa 1929
This photograph came from a small photograph album that belonged to Mrs R Andrews of Rangitikei House. This photograph bears the caption, "Car and Friends at Mangahao Dam.". The Mangahao Dam is inland from Shannon, and still provides electricity t...
Creator: Unknown
Place: Shannon, Manawatu
Date: circa 1927
Mr Maden's truck is seen here parked outside the Puke Coal Depot in Palmerston North. Arthur owned A Maden's Grocer Co-Op Store, situated on the corner of Douglas Square and Mersey Street from 1927-1931. His truck was also used to ferry children f...
Creator: Unknown
Place: Rongotea
Date: 1930 to 1931
See also F310
This negative comes from the Elmar Collection - a large series of semi-identified and unidentified imag...
Creator: Elmar Studios, 459 Main Street, Palmerston North
Place: Palmerston North
The 1953 flooding of the Manawatu and Oroua River was one of the worst on record for the area. This photograph shows a car on a flooded road near Bourke's Drain during the Rangiotu Flood. The photograph was taken from the Main Road looking towards...
Creator: J Moore
Place: Manawatu
Date: February 1953
This photograph shows the portion of the Square from the corner of Main Street West to Coleman Place. It includes the Commercial Hotel; a building that possibly houses a carpentry shop; Hendersons (chemist); the Commercial Building with several re...
Creator: Charlie Trollope
Place: Palmerston North
Date: 1927
This photograph shows the length of the Square between Church Street East (background) and Broadway Avenue/Coleman Place (foreground). The Grand Hotel is on the left. Main Street West is in the centre of the photograph with the King Edward Commemo...
Creator: Unknown
Place: The Square, Palmerston North
Date: 1950
The white building on the corner of Main Street East and The Square is the Post Office (the clock tower was removed after an earthquake in 1941). Directly in front is the PDC (Premiere Drapery Company, now the Plaza).
Creator: Unknown
Place: The Square, Palmerston North
Date: circa 1950
Taken before 1927, as the tower of the Occidental Hotel is still visible next to the All Saints Church spire. The Grand Hotel is visible on the right of the photograph.
Creator: Unknown
Place: The Square, Palmerston North
Date: 1920s
This image shows the portion of the Square from the corner of Rangitikei Street to Coleman Place. It includes the Clarendon Hotel; Duncalf's Boot Store (below) and GC Petersen Solictor (above); C G Swallows; Edwards Open Warehouse (hardware mercha...
Creator: Charlie Trollope
Place: The Square, Palmerston North
Date: 1927