The clock in the Clock Tower, named Kerei Te Panau after a local Rangitane chieftain, was originally housed in the Chief Post Office of Palmerston North. Due to safety concerns both the tower and clock were removed from the Post Office after the 1...
Creator: Joe Greening (Argosy Studios/Argosy Industrial Photos)
Place: Te Marae o Hine; The Square, Palmerston North
Date: 1957?
The clock in the Clock Tower, named Kerei Te Panau after a local Rangitane chieftain, was originally housed in the Chief Post Office of Palmerston North. Due to safety concerns both the tower and clock were removed from the Post Office after the 1...
Creator: Joe Greening (Argosy Studios/Argosy Industrial Photos)
Place: Te Marae o Hine; The Square, Palmerston North
Date: 1957?
The clock in the Clock Tower, named Kerei Te Panau after a local Rangitane chieftain, was originally housed in the Chief Post Office of Palmerston North. Due to safety concerns both the tower and clock were removed from the Post Office after the 1...
Creator: Joe Greening (Argosy Studios/Argosy Industrial Photos)
Place: Te Marae o Hine; The Square, Palmerston North
Date: 1957?
The clock in the Clock Tower, named Kerei Te Panau after a local Rangitane chieftain, was originally housed in the Chief Post Office of Palmerston North. Due to safety concerns both the tower and clock were removed from the Post Office after the 1...
Creator: Joe Greening (Argosy Studios/Argosy Industrial Photos)
Place: Te Marae o Hine; The Square, Palmerston North
Date: 1957?
The clock in the Clock Tower, named Kerei Te Panau after a local Rangitane chieftain, was originally housed in the Chief Post Office of Palmerston North. Due to safety concerns both the tower and clock were removed from the Post Office after the 1...
Creator: Joe Greening (Argosy Studios/Argosy Industrial Photos)
Place: Te Marae o Hine; The Square, Palmerston North
Date: 1957?
The clock in the Clock Tower, named Kerei Te Panau after a local Rangitane chieftain, was originally housed in the Chief Post Office of Palmerston North. Due to safety concerns both the tower and clock were removed from the Post Office after the 1...
Creator: Joe Greening (Argosy Studios/Argosy Industrial Photos)
Place: Te Marae o Hine; The Square, Palmerston North
Date: 1957?
On the corner of The Square, looking down Broadway, the VJ (Victory over Japan) Day parade, marking the end of World War 2, draws a large crowd. Also see 2010P_IMCA-DigitalLibrary_004501
Creator: Unknown
Place: Corner of the Square and Broadway Avenue, Palmerston North
Date: August 16, 1945
The house in this photograph was located next to the Tokomaru Public Hall. It served as the town's first Post Office and first school house. Tom Morgan lived in this house from 1925 to 1935. The house was demolished in 1992 and the land used for c...
Creator: H M Griffiths
Date: 1910 to 1920
The horse-drawn vehicles are standing outside the second All Saints Anglican Church, in use 1982-1914. Alongside the wooden church can be seen the former Borough Council building and in the distance is the distinctive wooden clock tower of the Oc...
Creator: Unknown
Place: Church Street, Palmerston North
Date: 1901
A new Post Office for Palmerston North was completed and opened in 1906, on the site of previous one, on the corner of Main Street and The Square. The building was later extended along Main Street, and the tower was removed after the 1942 Wairarap...
Creator: Unknown
Place: Palmerston North
Date: circa 1920
This postcard shows the corner of Fitzherbert Avenue and The Square, looking towards Church Street East. In the foreground is the Occidental Hotel. It was originally built in 1881 and burnt down in 1891. After being rebuilt, it was again destroyed...
Creator: Tanner Bros
Place: Palmerston North
Date: circa 1925
A new Post Office for Palmerston North was completed and opened in 1906, on the corner of Main Street and The Square. The building was later extended along Main Street, and the tower was removed after the 1942 Wairarapa earthquake, as it was consi...
Creator: Unknown
Place: The Square, Palmerston North
Date: 1906
This photograph of a granite fireplace may have been taken for an advertisement for an unidentified company.
Creator: Elmar Studios, 459 Main Street, Palmerston North
Place: Unknown
Date: circa 1940 to circa 1949
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
Date: 1910 to 1920
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
Date: 1910 to 1920
A postcard of the newly built Chief Post Office on the corner of The Square and Main Street East. Built in 1906, the Post Office on the corner of The Square and Main Street was Palmerston North’s fourth, and replaced a small wooden building on the...
Creator: A Millar
Place: Palmerston North
Date: circa 1906 to circa 1908
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
Date: 1910 to 1920
The new Palmerston North City Council Municipal Chambers were officially opened by the Mayor, Mr. A E Mansford, 13 June 1945. They were designed by Reginald Thorrold Jaggard and built on the site of the former civic administration building. Today ...
Creator: W B
Place: Church Street, Palmerston North
Date: 1950