Broadcast on Manawatu People's Radio 2 October 2018.

Owen Dolan, Part 1 of 2. Summary: To Hawera after mother died. Thought grandmother was his mother. Catholic community. School experience, at primary all the teachers were nuns. Protestant-Cath...

Creator:      Stuart Birks
Date:          October 2, 2018

Jean McCready in her white first communion dress. Jean was the daughter of Frank (Francis Henry) McCready Sr (1908-1988), founder of Elmar Studios and his wife Pearl Mary McCready (1907-1995). She was the second youngest of their five children, Pe...

Creator:      Elmar Studios, 459 Main Street, Palmerston North
Place:          Palmerston North
Date:          circa 1946 to circa 1947

This image was taken for a story that ran in The Manawatu Evening Standard on 20 June 1958, page 12: "Perfect timing and balance were demonstrated here as 43 debutantes, at the 12th annual Charity Ball, curtsied to Archbishop McKeefry."

Creator:      Manawatu Evening Standard
Place:          Palmerston North
Date:          June 20, 1958

This photograph was taken from the T&G Building tower - below this building can be seen the statues on the top of the AMP Building next door. Visible from this height are also the tops of Garners Department Store and the Manawatu Daily Times offic...

Creator:      F A Tier
Place:          Broadway Avenue, Palmerston North
Date:          1950

This convent building was formerly the home of the Brigidine nuns who taught at St Mary’s Convent School. The Foxton Retreat Trust took over the building in 1982, to run it as a sanctuary for people living in stressful situations. From left: Mr an...

Creator:      Manawatu Evening Standard
Place:          Cook Street, Foxton, Manawatu
Date:          May 3, 1982

The chapel of the St Mary’s Convent School in Foxton was built in 1917, on the first floor of the School building built in 1911. The Convent School was closed at the end of 1980. The building was taken over by the Foxton Retreat Trust, to run a sa...

Creator:      Manawatu Evening Standard
Place:          Manawatu
Date:          May 3, 1982

The chapel of the St Mary’s Convent School in Foxton was built in 1917, on the first floor of the School building built in 1911. The Convent School was closed at the end of 1980. The building was taken over by the Foxton Retreat Trust, to run a sa...

Creator:      Manawatu Evening Standard
Place:          Manawatu
Date:          May 3, 1982

Saint Patricks School was built in 1916 in Pirie Street and was Palmerston North's Convent School. The brick building contained three classrooms and a hall. St Patrick's closed at the end of 1969 and this building has since been demolished.

Creator:      Unknown
Place:          Palmerston North
Date:          circa 1920

The Reverend Father Bernard O’Donnell was ordained as a priest at St Brigid’s Church, Feilding. He was ordained by the Bishop of Honiara, Solomon Islands and was the first priest to be ordained in Feilding.

Creator:      Paul Legg - Manawatu Guardian
Place:          Palmerston North
Date:          September 10, 1975

The Marist Brothers High School was opened in Palmerston North in 1939.

Creator:      Elmar Studios, 459 Main Street, Palmerston North
Place:          Palmerston North
Date:          1947

The Marist Boys Choir has assembled for a photograph session on land behind St Patrick's Cathedral.

Creator:      Elmar Studios, 459 Main Street, Palmerston North
Place:          Palmerston North
Date:          1940s