Broadcast on Manawatu People's Radio, 28th June 2022. Beth Page and Elizabeth. Living alone in a Covid lockdown. Supplies, food, books. Less warning for the second lockdown. Beth’s husband (70) chose to retire. Lockdown enjoyable for retirees. ...

Creator:      Stuart Birks
Place:          Palmerston North
Date:          June 28, 2022

This image was taken for a story that ran in The Manawatu Evening Standard on 14 August 1961 "The hive of activity at Massey College in the tournament control centre. Telephones connected this department with other venues throughout the city. Thos...

Creator:      Manawatu Evening Standard
Place:          Massey University, Palmerston North
Date:          August 14, 1961

This group photograph shows the men and women who worked in the Post Office in Palmerston North in 1912. They are standing outside the Main Post Office on the corner of Main Street East and The Square. Though the building still stands, it ceased t...

Creator:      Unknown
Place:          Palmerston North
Date:          1912

This photograph ran in the Manawatu Evening Standard, 6 September 1963 with the caption: "During the week, Cubs from Feilding visited the "Manawatu Standard" office. Here they are seen watching Mr R Hardman as he operates a linotype machine."

Creator:      Manawatu Evening Standard
Place:          Church Street, Palmerston North
Date:          September 6, 1963

This former Post Office telephone booth is thought to have been installed about 1920 or 1921 on the corner of Waldegrave Street and Featherston Street. At the time, it was a one-penny slot machine. After considerable vandalism, it was saved from d...

Creator:      E Creamer
Place:          109 Featherston Street, Palmerston North
Date:          1981

Audrey was born in Newcastle in 1928 and came to New Zealand in 1956. She started in broadcasting with 2ZE in Blenheim in 1967 and announced for Radio Changi in Singapore for two years. She started at 2ZA in 1971, for the first two years as a sho...

Creator:      Manawatu Evening Standard
Place:          George Street, Palmerston North
Date:          1975

This Post Office was built in 1911.

Creator:      Manawatu Evening Standard
Place:          Shannon, Manawatu
Date:          1981

Cyril Carle holds a facsimile copy of Pahiatua’s first newspaper at the time of the Pahiatua centennial celebrations from February 28 – March 7, 1981. The Pahiatua Star and Eketahuna Advertiser was published twice weekly from 1886 to 1893.He is ho...

Creator:      Manawatu Evening Standard
Place:          Pahiatua
Date:          1981

This former Post Office telephone booth is thought to have been installed about 1920 or 1921 on the corner of Waldegrave Street and Featherston Street. At the time, it was a one-penny slot machine. After considerable vandalism, it was saved from d...

Creator:      Manawatu Evening Standard
Place:          109 Fitzherbert Avenue, Palmerston North
Date:          September 1979

The Honourable F. Jones, Postmaster General, cuts the ribbon at the inauguration of the first commercial air service between Palmerston North and Dunedin, watched by a large crowd. The ceremony took place at Milson Aerodrome, Palmerston North. The...

Creator:      Snapshots Unlimited
Place:          Palmerston North
Date:          January 15, 1936

This photograph shows the Rongotea Post Office. It opened in 1906.

Creator:      Unknown
Place:          Rongotea
Date:          circa 1910

"Ud" Class train leaving the Main Street Station in the Square of Palmerston North. See also 2007N_R5_Rai_0655.

Creator:      Unknown
Place:          Palmerston North
Date:          1906 to 1914

Mr Norman Henry Nash was a son of Norman Nash, a ropemaker of Foxton. He entered the Newspaper business and in 1903 became a part-owner of the "Manawatu Evening Standard". He eventually purchased the interest of his partner, Mr John Coombe and bec...

Creator:      Unknown
Place:          Palmerston North
Date:          circa 1920 to circa 1930

Three rows of transmission lines are shown here on a wooden telegraph pole complete with ceramic insulators. The Mangahao Power Station provides hydroelectric power and is situated near the town of Shannon. It serves Wellington, Horowhenua, Tarana...

Creator:      Unknown
Place:          Horowhenua Region
Date:          circa 1922 to circa 1926

The Manawatu Evening Standard began publishing in Palmerston North in 1880, the first daily newspaper in the Manawatu and Wanganui area. At the time this photo was taken it claimed to have the "largest circulation in the district" (see letters on ...

Creator:      Unknown
Place:          Palmerston North
Date:          circa 1885

Alexander McMinn was the founder of the "Manawatu Daily Standard" which produced its first issue on 29 November 1880. The first copy was presented to a well-known pioneer and former Borough Councillor, Sylvester Coleman. The introductory leader wa...

Creator:      Unknown
Place:          Palmerston North
Date:          circa 1900

The township of Bunnythorpe lies within the original Manchester Block, purchased from the New Zealand Government by the Colonist's' Land and Loan Corporation Ltd in 1869. A Bunnythorpe railway station was first built in 1875. It was replaced by th...

Creator:      R E Clevely
Place:          Manawatu
Date:          1959

W H Smith (1854-1929) was born in Kettering, Shropshire, England. In 1877 he married Sarah Navara. They had two sons (H K G Smith who was killed at Passchendaele, and G Smith who died in an epidemic in NZ) and four daughters. After arriving in New...

Creator:      Whalley and Co., Crown Studios,
Place:          Palmerston North
Date:          circa 1910

Shown here is the last of the newspaper sellers in The Square. He is stationed outside the Kosy Theatre next to the Post Office on the corner of Main Street and The Square. The photograph was taken by Dr HJC Durward. He worked at Palmerston North ...

Creator:      Dr H J C Durward
Place:          Palmerston North
Date:          circa 1960

This photograph shows the collapsed railway bridge at Longburn.

Creator:      Unknown
Place:          Palmerston North
Date:          1953

This photograph shows a man loading newspapers at what is thought to be the Main Street Railway Station in Palmerston North.

Creator:      Unknown
Place:          Palmerston North
Date:          circa 1960

J. P. Leary was the pioneer printer and newspaper proprietor of Palmerston North. In partnership with Mr George Bond, he founded the "Manawatu Times" in 1875 and although he soon sold his interest in the newspaper he continued in business as a pri...

Creator:      Wrigglesworth and Binns, Wellington
Place:          Palmerston North
Date:          circa 1890

This photograph says the inside of a newspaper printing floor.

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

Group photograph of the uniformed youths employed by the Post Office. Messenger boys mainly delivered telegrams around town, including press news for newspapers. From left. Back row: Ben Halpin; Charlie Newth; Bergeson; Tasker. Middle Row: Tom Shi...

Creator:      G W Kerr
Place:          Palmerston North
Date:          1910