Joan Klee is dressed in an outfit she created for the Palmerston North Diamond Jubilee Parade. It caused quite the stir at the time because of its transparent bottom half. She was a window-dresser for the department store Collinson and Cunninghame...

Creator:      Unknown
Place:          Palmerston North
Date:          1937

Joan Klee (middle) is dressed in an outfit she created for a Palmerston North Diamond Jubilee Parade. It caused quite the stir at the time because of its transparent bottom half. She was a window-dresser for the department store Collinson and Cunn...

Creator:      
Place:          Palmerston North
Date:          1937

Emily Thompson was the daughter of Mr and Mrs William Thompson. John's brother Arthur married Emily's sister, Hilda. The Thompson family lived at "Willowbank" in Rongotea. See Campbelltown Rongotea (2011, Vera Hunt) p 231-232 for more information ...

Creator:      Unknown
Place:          Rongotea
Date:          circa 1910 to circa 1919

Joan Klee (middle) is dressed in an outfit she created for a Palmerston North Diamond Jubilee Parade. It caused quite the stir at the time because of its transparent bottom half. She was a window-dresser for the department store Collinson and Cunn...

Creator:      Unknown
Place:          Palmerston North
Date:          1937

Phoebe was the only daughter of J. P. Leary, a pioneer printer of Palmerston North. Her mother was Joseph's first wife, Miss Austin of Foxton. Phoebe died undergoing an operation.

Creator:      R Herrman, Wellington.
Place:          Palmerston North
Date:          circa 1885

Mr Stan Hunt was the eldest son of Herbert Hill Hunt (Manawatu County Councillor for 22 years, from 1910). The woman in the photograph is Marion Tennant (nee Smith). They married in Whanganui in August 1912. They farmed on the north-west corner of...

Creator:      Unknown
Place:          Rongotea
Date:          unknown

William Davis Junior and May Jarvis (nee Jarvis) on their wedding day. From "Campbelltown Rongotea" (Vera Hunt, 2011), "They purchased Percy Lasenby's farm on Kaimatarau Road (Block 8, section 63 and 64) where they brought up 4 daughters. They bot...

Creator:      Unknown
Place:          Rongotea
Date:          1907