Mrs Playford (nee Lorna Monckton) was a pupil of Craven School from 1898 until 1906 (see The Colonial One: Loran Monckton of Newstead, 1975). Mrs Playford supplied the following identifications of the girls in this photograph: Back Row (L to R) Et...

Creator:      Unknown
Place:          Palmerston North
Date:          circa 1899

William Henry Revans Flyger (1845-1908) a surveyor in the Manawatu District from the 1870's to around 1901. Flygers Line is named after him. After 1901, W. H. R. Flyger worked for the Wellington Provincial Government, the Central Government and th...

Creator:      Unknown
Place:          Palmerston North
Date:          circa 1910

This building was situated at 11 Rangitikei Street. The National Bank first began business in Palmerston North in 1910 in a two-storeyed wooden building on this site managed by Mr Norman Blackmore. Mr Alex Grigor became manager in 1920 and this co...

Creator:      Unknown
Place:          Palmerston North
Date:          circa 1950

Standing, from left: David (d. 5/04/1910 at age 35); Frederick; John (?); Isaac; Unknown. Sitting, from left: Barbara (Mrs Cowan of Apiti, later Mrs Anderston); John Sr; Matilda; Elizabeth (Mrs W Mills). Front row, from left to right: Jesse (Mrs L...

Creator:      Unknown
Place:          Palmerston North
Date:          circa 1905

Back Row: L to R; J Wilson; W Cornford; A W Trass, Secretary; W Dellow; T Grammer. Front Row: J Wilson; J Craven, Vice-President; P Hanlon, President; J Paton, Treasurer; J Gardiner, Clerk of Scales.

Creator:      Charles E Wildbore
Place:          Palmerston North
Date:          1903

George Shailer (c1846-1918) and his wife Septuagesima (c1849-1921) arrived in New Zealand from England 1874, with their four eldest daughters. They subsequently raised 12 children. They first settled in Feilding, moved to farm at Makino and finall...

Creator:      Whalley and Co., Crown Studios
Place:          Palmerston North
Date:          circa 1900

The Neilsens were early Scandinavian settlers in the Seventy Mile Bush area of Wairarapa. The Nielsen home was the first pit sawn timber building to be constructed in the Mauriceville settlement.

Creator:      Charles Mariboe
Place:          Wairarapa
Date:          circa 1900