The Felixstowe was a barque trading into Ōtaki. She was wrecked on 13 October 1878 when - like the Hydrabad in June of the same year - she mistook the northern end of Kāpiti, on which there was no lighthouse, for Stephens Island in Cook Straight. ...
Creator: John Tiffin Stewart
Date: 1878
The Hydrabad, 1350 tons, ran aground on the beach a mile south of Waitarere on the night of 24 June 1878. She was bound for Adelaide to Lyttleton, loaded with iron for the New Zealand railways and had few passengers. No lives were lost in the wrec...
Creator: John Tiffin Stewart
Date: 1878
This circumstances of this photograph are unknown, but it shows a schooner rigged scow named 'Advance' at a jetty alongside what appears to be a steam train or traction engine. This may have been the boat built by Brown & Sons at Kaipara in 1903....
Creator: Unknown
Place: Unknown
Date: circa 1900 to circa 1910
This image was taken for a story that ran in The Manawatu Evening Standard on 25 February 1958, page 7: "Novel means of transport were used to negotiate the flooded road into Tangimoana today. This picture shows an enterprising resident who came o...
Creator: Manawatu Evening Standard
Place: Tangimoana
Date: February 25, 1958
The Carnival of the Lake took place at Hokowhitu Lagoon during Anniversary Weekend 1963. Events included a pet parade, children's competitions, Highland dancing, and a boating and canoeing regatta. Some other highlights were decorated gondolas, an...
Creator: Merlyn Drew
Date: 1963
21 army personnel pose with a boat and oars at the Linton Army Camp. This negative comes from the Elmar Collection - a large series of semi-identified and unidentified images from the 1930s-1970s.
Creator: Elmar Studios, 459 Main Street, Palmerston North
Place: Linton Camp
Date: June 1954
A steam launch is towing a punt load of flax from the Moutoa Swamp to a flaxmill in the borough of Foxton.
Creator: Unknown
Date: 1910 to 1912
This photograph was taken from the slopes of Ferry Hill (now Seaview Gardens), at the corner of Union and Harbour Streets. Includes Leven & Co’s “Hemp Grading and Wool Stores” (large multi-gabled building in the distance) and NZ shipping Company’...
Creator: George W Anderson
Date: 1912
I hangaia ai te whakamaru waka ki te totara me te kahikatea. Nā te ope Tūtāngata o Te Papaiōea ngā whakairo. I puta te waka i te one o Santoft i te tau 1965. E noho ana te waka i te Ngahere o Santoft. A canoe shelter, made of totara and kahikatea,...
Creator: Manawatu Evening Standard
Place: Santoft, Rangitikei
Date: July 26, 1982
Stores being unloaded from the frigate by Iroquois helicopter. This exercise on Great Barrier Island in the Hauraki Gulf, was conducted by the Logistic Support Group of Palmerston North. Those taking were mainly from Linton Army Camp, with some pe...
Creator: H E Chamberlain
Place: Great Barrier Island, Hauraki Gulf
Date: September 1977
Attendees of military exercise disembarking from a naval frigate at Great Barrier Island. This exercise on Great Barrier Island in the Hauraki Gulf, was conducted by the Logistic Support Group of Palmerston North. Those taking were mainly from Li...
Creator: H E Chamberlain
Place: Great Barrier Island, Hauraki Gulf
Date: September 1977
Attendees of the military exercise wait aboard the naval frigate for their 'tot of rum'. This exercise on Great Barrier Island in the Hauraki Gulf, was conducted by the Logistic Support Group of Palmerston North. Those taking were mainly from Lint...
Creator: H E Chamberlain
Place: Great Barrier Island, Hauraki Gulf
Date: 1977
Attendees of the exercise 'dressing the ship' as it sails past the signalling station. This exercise on Great Barrier Island in the Hauraki Gulf, was conducted by the Logistic Support Group of Palmerston North. Those taking were mainly from Linton...
Creator: H E Chamberlain
Place: Great Barrier Island, Hauraki Gulf
Date: September 1977
Ingram and Wheatley's book "New Zealand Shipwrecks" relates the story of the "Fusilier", an iron barque of 404 tons net register. She went ashore, between Turakina and Rangitikei Rivers at midday on the 16th January 1884, but no lives were lost. S...
Creator: Unknown
Place: Between the Turakina and Rangitikei Rivers, Rangitikei Region
Date: circa 1963
This steamer went ashore a few miles north of the mouth of the Rangitikei River in May 1913. It was refloated two months later.
Creator: Whalley and Co., Crown Studios
Place: Rangitikei River Mouth
Date: 1913
A view of the Wharf and railway line with several vessels including a costal steamer tied up at the wharf.
Creator: Unknown
Place: Foxton, Manawatu
Date: 1910
The Jones property, on the Karere Road was formerly owned by Ditlev Monrad.
Creator: Jack Anderson
Place: Karere Lagoon, Tiakitahuna, Palmerston North
Date: circa 1905
People being evacuated by boat from the Morrison’s house on Albert Street, near the corner of St Albans Avenue, Palmerston North. The man with his back to the camera is Mr Killiman.
Creator: Arthur J Shailer
Place: Albert Street, Palmerston North
Date: May 1941
Near the Gasworks on Napier Road. The Manawatu River in flood, 1953, attained a peak level of 21 feet, 3 inches.
Creator: Unknown
Place: Main Street, Palmerston North
Date: 1953
This punt was in operation from 1895 until 1909. It was the second punt to operate on the Manawatu River at Ashhurst, the first being in use from 1871 until the construction of the first bridge in 1886. The bridge (in the background) was damaged i...
Creator: Unknown
Place: Ashhurst, Manawatu
Date: circa 1900
The people in the dugout canoe are probably Mr and Mrs W L Luxford and their daughter, while the people on the bank are Septuagesima Shailer (wife of G W Shailer, photographer) and probably two of the Shailer children, of Palmerston North. Awapuni...
Creator: George W Shailer
Place: Palmerston North
Date: circa 1890
The Carnival of the Lake, centred around Centennial Lagoon, was an annual event organised by the Public Relations Office for a few years during the early 1960s.
Creator: Unknown
Place: Centennial Drive, Palmerston North
Date: 1963
The 47 ft 5 inch, $180,000 steel trawler was launched from the Manawatu Boating Club's Foxton Beach slipway at 12.06pm on Friday November 4 1978. The builder, owner and skipper is Jim Williams. Coral V joins his 32ft trawler (Regent), to fish out ...
Creator: Manawatu Evening Standard
Place: Foxton, Horowhenua
Date: 1978
The Carnival of the Lake, centred around Centennial Lagoon, was an annual event organised by the Public Relations Office for a few years during the early 1960s.
Creator: Unknown
Place: Centennial Drive, Hokowhitu, Palmerston North
Date: 1963
This steamer went ashore a few miles north of the mouth of the Rangitikei River, May 1913, and was refloated two months later. She was later renamed the “Port Elliot” and was wrecked near East Cape in 1924.
Creator: Jachim (Jack) Taylor, Bulls
Place: Palmerston North
Date: May 1913
The Carnival of the Lake took place at Hokowhitu Lagoon in 1964. Events included a pet parade, Highland dancing, a demonstration from the Manawatu Kayak Club and a jousting contest. Some other highlights were the final of the Miss Manawatu Competi...
Creator: Ian Matheson
Place: Hokowhitu Lagoon, Palmerston North
Date: January 18, 1964 to January 21, 1964
The Carnival of the Lake, centred around Centennial Lagoon, was an annual event organised by the Public Relations Office for a few years during the early 1960s.
Creator: Unknown
Place: Hokowhitu Lagoon, Palmerston North
Date: 1963
The Carnival of the Lake, centred around Centennial Lagoon, was an annual event organised by the Public Relations Office for a few years during the early 1960s.
Creator: Unknown
Place: Hokowhitu Lagoon, Hokowhtiu, Palmerston North
Date: 1963
Unidentified people visit the "Hydrabad" wreck. The "Hydrabad" went ashore on Waiterere Beach on 25th June 1878 in gale force winds while on voyage from Lyttleton to Adelaide. It was a full-rigged iron ship of 1250 tons net register, built in Scot...
Creator: Unknown
Place: Waiterere Beach
Date: 1966
The "Hydrabad" went ashore on Waiterere Beach on 25th June 1878 in gale force winds while on voyage from Lyttleton to Adelaide. It was a full-rigged iron ship of 1250 tons net register, built in Scotland in 1865. Length 229.5 ft, beam 32.2 ft, dep...
Creator: Unknown
Place: Manawatu
Date: 1966