Broadcast on Manawatu People's Radio, 24th December 2019. Part 2 of 4. Childhood, moving near Pahiatua, smaller homestead. Then on to sheep farm. WWII, family activities on the farm, schooling. Jack Salt and other teachers led her into te...
Creator: Stuart Birks
Place: Palmerston North
Date: December 24, 2019
Broadcast on 31 August 2021, part 1 of 4. Great-grandfather and family (6 children) came to a farm at Kairanga in 1894. 3rd owner, but still much work needed. Had been a teacher in the UK. Good farming land, but many stumps and swam...
Creator: Stuart Birks
Place: Feilding
Date: August 31, 2021
Broadcast on Manawatu People's Radio, 18th October 2022. First memories (1937), 4 years old walking about 2k for a bus. On a dairy farm, working when about 10 years old. Father left, mother repartnered. Relationship with separated father. Becam...
Creator: Stuart Birks
Place: Palmerston North
Date: October 18, 2022
Broadcast on Manawatu People's Radio 18th February 2020. Part 2 of 2. Don’s early childhood, lost 2 mothers in childbirth, then father died, raised by step-mother. Siblings, family relationships. Moved from Ashburton to a farm in the far ...
Creator: Stuart Birks
Place: Palmerston North
Date: February 18, 2020
Broadcast on Manawatu People's Radio 31st May 2022. Part 1 of 3. Ivan growing up in Woodville, 1940s. Cold, draughty house, gas cooking, wash house. Father manpowered during the war. Returned servicemen welcomed back. Recollections of the...
Creator: Stuart Birks
Place: Palmerston North
Date: May 31, 2022
Broadcast on Manawatu People's Radio, 21st June 2022. Growing up in Palmerston North in the 1950s. Benefits of being youngest child. Father Christmas. Enjoyment of sport. Flatting in Wellington and working for an accountant at 17, social ...
Creator: Stuart Birks
Place: Linton
Date: June 21, 2022
Broadcast on Manawatu People's Radio, 21st February 2023. Part 1 of 3. Grandfather’s house in Featherston. Father on leave during WWII. To Greytown. Father doing Maori cooking, wine making. Danish maternal grandfather came as child in 186...
Creator: Stuart Birks
Place: Feilding
Date: February 21, 2023
Broadcast on Manawatu People's Radio 4 December 2018.
Alison Mildon. Summary: Family cars. Restrictions on overseas currency. Primary school. Localised communities. World War Two and ages of children. Getting to secondary school (Freyberg). Drivi...
Creator: Stuart Birks
Date: December 4, 2018
Contents:
p. 3 Editorial / Cushla Scrivens
p. 4 A farmhouse becomes famous / Margaret Tate
p. 9 I learnt from the nuns a study of music teaching offered by the Sisters of Mercy in Palmerston North / Graham Parsons
p. 25 The Alwyn Physical ...
Creator: Manawatū Historic Journal Associates
Place: Manawatū
Date: 2006
Contents:
p. 3 Editorial / Cushla Scrivens
p. 4 Pete the Pedler: remembered by many / Dorothy Pilkington
p. 8 'A desire for the beautiful' the Manawatū Arts and Crafts Club 1911-1932 / Margaret Tate
p. 16 Local identities organised the fir...
Creator: Manawatū Historic Journal Associates
Place: Manawatū
Date: 2005
Broadcast on Manawatu People's Radio, 30 October 2018. Margaret Beere. Summary: 1951 to State House in Ross Block (now Roslyn), could buy. “Ross Block kids”. Primary schools, zoning. Then Intermediate, long way to go. Get meat from butcher first t...
Creator: Stuart Birks
Date: October 30, 2018
Broadcast on Access Manawatu, 8 May 2018, with Paul McRae (b. 1932).
Part 1 of 2. Summary: Great grandmother in NZ in mid-1850s, brought a still to Hokonui and made whisky. ([https://www.nzgeo.com/stories/hokonui-moonshine/](https://www.nzgeo.co...
Creator: Stuart Birks
Date: May 8, 2018
Broadast on Manawatu People's Radio 25 September 2018.
Summary: Gwen Brown attending 12 schools, father a farmer so moved a lot. Intermediate school in Palmerston North, used as hospital in WWII, so classes in various locations around town. Coun...
Creator: Stuart Birks
Date: September 25, 2018
This image was taken for a story that ran in The Manawatu Evening Standard on 04 August 1961 "A visit to a city kindergarten dispels any doubt of the value and fascination of this work -- blocks, painting, music, clay-modelling, junk play, water ...
Creator: Manawatu Evening Standard
Place: Palmerston North
Date: August 4, 1961
This image was taken for a story that ran in The Manawatu Evening Standard on 31 July 1961 "Mrs. P. Middlemiss, of City Kindergarten, and Miss Elaine Brian, of the Teachers' College, look with interest at the painting efforts of little Doreen Coen...
Creator: Manawatu Evening Standard
Place: Palmerston North
Date: July 31, 1961
Grant Smith was elected mayor of Palmerston North in 2015. This interview covers his early years living in Palmerston North and Masterton.
Interview of Grant Smith, Mayor of Palmerston North, conducted by Maria Shiva on 28 February 2018. Intervi...
Creator: Grant Smith
Date: February 28, 2018