View of the Tararua Ranges, from the 3rd floor of the Palmerston North City Library. looking across The Square, with the clock tower in the foreground.

Creator:      Lesley Courtney - Palmerston North City Council
Date:          August 16, 2011

This image was taken (but not used) for a story that ran in The Manawatu Evening Standard on the 1st of May 1971.

"Two thousand people sat and stood in front of the Palmerston North Clock Tower last night and sang “We Shall Live in Peace” as th...

Creator:      Manawatu Evening Standard
Place:          Palmerston North
Date:          May 1, 1971

This image was taken (but not used) for a story that ran in The Manawatu Evening Standard on the 1st of May 1971.

"Two thousand people sat and stood in front of the Palmerston North Clock Tower last night and sang “We Shall Live in Peace” as th...

Creator:      Manawatu Evening Standard
Place:          Palmerston North
Date:          May 1, 1971

A group of women in traditional Māori dress, performing a Haka Pōwhiri, in the Square near the clock tower as part of the Centenary celebrations.

Creator:      Jack Cottam
Place:          The Square, Palmerston North
Date:          March 13, 1971

Women in traditional Māori dress, performing a Haka Pōwhiri, in the Square near the clock tower as part of the Centenary celebrations.

Creator:      Jack Cottam
Place:          The Square, Palmerston North
Date:          March 13, 1971

Argosy Studio (Argos Industrial Photos) was a photography business owned and operated between 1950 and 1980 by Joe Greening (formerly employed by Elmar Studios). Originally located in Broadway, Argosy later moved to Cuba Street on the corner with ...

Creator:      Joe Greening (Argosy Studios/Argosy Industrial Photos)
Place:          Te Marae o Hine; The Square, Palmerston North
Date:          1971

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?

Argosy Studio (Argos Industrial Photos) was a photography business owned and operated between 1950 and 1980 by Joe Greening (formerly employed by Elmar Studios). Originally located in Broadway, Argosy later moved to Cuba Street on the corner with ...

Creator:      Joe Greening (Argosy Studios/Argosy Industrial Photos)
Place:          Te Marae o Hine; The Square, Palmerston North
Date:          1971

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?

Image likely taken from the C. M. Ross Building, looking across The Square to Church Street.

This slide was likely created by David Evans of the City Council's Planning Office. M D (David) Evans was a planning assistant from 1955 to 1968, Deputy ...

Creator:      D. Evans
Place:          The Square, Palmerston North
Date:          196X/197X

This slide was likely created by David Evans of the City Council's Planning Office. M D (David) Evans was a planning assistant from 1955 to 1968, Deputy City Planner from 1968 to 1978 and Senior Planning Officer (Design and Development) from 1978-...

Creator:      D. Evans
Place:          Rangitikei Street, Palmerston North
Date:          196X/197X

Film created by David Evans of the City Council's Planning Office on 16mm Cine-Kodak Super-X filmstock.

Created to demonstrate inner city traffic flow problems in the mid 1950s, this film shows a unique slice of Palmerston North daily life with a...

Creator:      David Evans - Planning Office
Place:          Palmerston North
Date:          1956

In 1953 Arthur Hopwood gifted the city of Palmerston North £10,000 for the construction of a clock tower, to house the clock and chimes removed from the Post Office after the 1942 earthquake. It was completed in 1957. Originally it included a soun...

Creator:      New Zealand Post Office
Place:          Palmerston North
Date:          circa 1967

A cross was first affixed to the top of the Clock Tower in The Square, Palmerston North, in December 1960. Although intended to be temporary it became permanant. In 1981 local Christians paid for a new, permanant cross, with the Palmerston North C...

Creator:      Manawatu Evening Standard
Place:          The Square, Palmerston North
Date:          June 2, 1981

At 6.30am, 26 March 2006, a gust of wind felled the controversial cross on the top of Palmerston North's clock tower. In 1981 a permanant cross was erected by the Palmerston North City Council, relacing the temporary cross erected each Christmas. ...

Creator:      Manawatu Evening Standard
Place:          The Square, Palmerston North
Date:          March 27, 2006

A call by the Palmerston North City Council for suggestions for Clock Tower enhancements, resulted in six 'comic' ideas from cartoonist Fin, for the Manawatu Evening Standard.

Creator:      Manawatu Evening Standard
Place:          Palmerston North
Date:          March 22, 2001

The article discusses the Palmerston North City Council's proposal to create a 'civic courtyard' doubling as a marae outside the Civic Administration Building in The Square. This would involve the removal of the sound shell from the base of the Cl...

Creator:      Manawatu Evening Standard
Place:          Palmerston North
Date:          August 17, 1989

This image was taken (but not used) by Frank Goldingham for Photorama pictorial magazine's August 1963 edition.

"A scene overlooking the Square in Palmerston North..."

Creator:      Frank Goldingham
Place:          Palmerston North
Date:          August 1963

This image was taken (but not used) by Frank Goldingham for Photorama pictorial magazine's August 1963 edition.

"A scene overlooking the Square in Palmerston North..."

Creator:      Frank Goldingham
Place:          Palmerston North
Date:          August 1963

This image was taken by Frank Goldingham for Photorama pictorial magazine, and was published in the August 1963 edition.

"A scene overlooking the Square in Palmerston North. In the cnetre is the Municipal Clock Tower with the War Memorial to the ...

Creator:      Frank Goldingham
Place:          Palmerston North
Date:          August 1963

This image was taken (but not used) by Frank Goldingham for Photorama pictorial magazine's August 1963 edition.

"After a steady downpour for several hours during a dinner break early this month stormwater drains were blocked in many parts of the ...

Creator:      Frank Goldingham
Place:          Palmerston North
Date:          August 1963

This image was taken for Photorama pictorial magazine and was published in the July 1960 edition.

Caption: “Photorama recently had a look behind the scenes at the Transportation department and now shows you some of the things a Traffic Officer do...

Creator:      Frank Goldingham
Place:          Palmerston North
Date:          July 1960

ANZAC Day parade through the Square, lead by the Mayor (Mr. G.M. Rennie) and senior military officers. Return Services Members line the road behind.

Creator:      Jack Cottam
Place:          The Square, Palmerston North
Date:          circa 1965

The Manawatū Scottish Society Pipe Band marching through The Square, as part of the ANZAC Day commemorative service.

Creator:      Jack Cottam
Place:          The Square, Palmerston North
Date:          circa 1965

The lakelet was constructed in The Square, Palmerston North, in 1909 by the Beautifying Society. In 1953 Arthur Hopwood gifted the city of Palmerston North £10,000 to build a new tower in The Square to hold the clock and chimes removed from the Po...

Creator:      Palmerston North City Council
Place:          The Square, Palmerston North
Date:          circa 1971

As part of the event celebrating NZ Fire Services, children are seen riding on one of the older fire engines around the Square. The clock tower can be seen in the background

Creator:      Jack Cottam
Place:          The Square, Palmerston North
Date:          1970s