Image depicts the end of Hodgens place as it enters Savage Crescent.
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 t...
Creator: D. Evans
Place: Hodgens Place, Palmerston North
Date: 196X/197X
Highbury Shops, on the intersection of Highbury Avenue and Pembroke 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 City Planner from ...
Creator: D. Evans
Place: Corner of Highbury Avenue and Pembroke Street
Date: 196X/197X
Taken from Highbury Avenue, this image shows a tree-less Pembroke Street Reserve. The highbury shops are to the left.
This slide was likely created by David Evans of the City Council's Planning Office. M D (David) Evans was a planning assistant f...
Creator: D. Evans
Place: Corner of Highbury Avenue and Pembroke Street
Date: 196X/197X
This image was taken for Photorama pictorial magazine’s July 1960 edition, but was not published.
Mockery of traditional cultural practices by 'dressing-up' in grass skirts was once a common form of entertainment. The practice slowly died out acr...
Creator: Frank Goldingham
Place: Palmerston North
Date: July 1960
This image was taken for Photorama pictorial magazine’s July 1960 edition, but was not published.
Mockery of traditional cultural practices by 'dressing-up' in grass skirts was once a common form of entertainment. The practice slowly died out acr...
Creator: Frank Goldingham
Place: Palmerston North
Date: July 1960
This image was taken for Photorama pictorial magazine and was published in the July 1960 edition.
Caption: “Members of the procession lining up before the arrival of the Te Kuiti Orphans’ Club who ‘raided’ the Manawatu Savage Club.”
Mockery of t...
Creator: Frank Goldingham
Place: Palmerston North
Date: July 1960
This Co-op dairy was situated on the corner of Hayden and Vogel Street (8 Hayden Street). As can be seen in the images, the shop fronted onto Vogel Street, with a house attached at the back, fronting onto Hayden Street. At the time there were a la...
Creator: H Easterbrook-Smith, Karori, Wellington
Place: New Zealand
Date: 1960s
Journalist Tina White's weekly "Memory Lane" article in the Manawatū Standard. The collection of shops and houses between St Mary's Church and number 89 Ruahine Street holds special memories for many citizens. In the 1950s and 1960s, there has bee...
Creator: Tina White
Place: Palmerston North
Date: February 20, 2021
This negative comes from the Elmar Collection - a large series of semi-identified and unidentified images from the 1930s-1970s.
Creator: Elmar Studios, 459 Main Street, Palmerston North
Date: January 1968
This negative comes from the Elmar Collection - a large series of semi-identified and unidentified images from the 1930s-1970s.
Creator: Elmar Studios, 459 Main Street, Palmerston North
Date: January 1968
Cnr. Pahiatua and Albert Streets, picture taken from Albert Street looking at the corner of Pahiatua Street. There is a bus stop just back from the corner and a dairy on the corner. The sign pointing to Shannon takes you up Te Awe Awe Street to Fi...
Creator: Stan Key - Motorcycle Training School
Place: Corner of Pahiatua and Albert Street, Palmerston North
Date: 1968
This image was taken for a story that ran in The Manawatu Evening Standard on 29 August 1961 "Taking no interest in the photographer, these calves on the Massey College dairy farm were making every effort to obtain at least one good meal. Mr. L. B...
Creator: Manawatu Evening Standard
Place: Massey University, Palmerston North
Date: August 29, 1961
This image was taken for a story that ran in The Manawatu Evening Standard on 3 February, 1959. "Studying butter in the middle of process are some members of the group of dairy company directors who were conducted on a tour of the Dairy Research I...
Creator: Manawatu Evening Standard
Place: Palmerston North
Date: 1959-02-03T00:00:00+00:00
This image was taken for a story that ran in The Manawatu Evening Standard on 09 October 1958: "The stud and dairy bull sale at the Showgrounds today attracted a full attendance of buyers. The bidding was keen and the standard was high. This anima...
Creator: Manawatu Evening Standard
Place: 61 Pascal Street, Palmerston North
Date: October 9, 1958
This image was taken for a story that ran in The Manawatu Evening Standard on 30th December 1965 "The Foxton Beach waterfront was almost obscured by swirling sand whipped off the beach by yesterday's gale, as this photograph of a store shows."
Creator: Manawatū Evening Standard
Place: Foxton
Date: December 30, 1965
Palmerston North bus route 10, at 236 Albert Street.
Creator: Unknown
Place: Palmerston North
Date: October 25, 1996
The left image shows a small herd of short horn Ayrshire cross dairy cows on Scholes' farm at Awahou in the Pohangina Valley. The image on the right is not captioned, but is presumably Mr and Mrs Schole.
Creator: Charles E Wildbore
Date: 1900 to 1910
Women dressed as milkmaids, including one pretending to milk a model cow, ride through The Square for the 1971 Palmerston North Jubilee. 92 floats took part in the Palmerston North City Centennial celebrations of 1971. Approx. 10,000 people were...
Creator: Clarice Parlane
Place: The Square, Palmerston North
Date: March 1971
The Quality Corner Stores was located at 610 Main Street.
Creator: Unknown
Place: 610 Main Street, Palmerston North
Date: 1950
The Rongotea Dairy factory was established in 1895. The battery driven electric trucks were operated by the Rongotea Co-op Diary Co Ltd 1918-1925, when it began the collection of home separated cream for butter making, instead of receiving whole m...
Creator: Unknown
Place: Rongotea
Date: circa 1918 to circa 1925
Sledging milk from the cowshed, Pohangina.
Creator: Charles E Wildbore
Place: Pohangina Valley
Date: circa 1910
The Quality Corner Stores Dairy on the corner of Victoria Avenue and Main Street. Note on the right corner of the photo is a railway sign. This photo must have been taken from the railway line. These buildings were erected during the 1880s as the ...
Creator: Bruce Watt
Place: Corner of Victoria Avenue and Main Streets, Palmerston North
Date: 1955
Massey Agricultural College was opened in 1928. This postcard shows milk bottles being loaded into crates for delivery.
Creator: Unknown
Place: Massey College, Palmerston North
Date: circa 1945
Burrell's ice cream shop and grocery, the Central Book Club and the Bank of New Zealand on the corner of Rangitikei and Featherston Streets.
Creator: Bruce Watt
Place: Corner of Rangitikei and Featherston Streets, Palmerston North
Date: 1955
Two industrial-sized butter churns, built by Anderson and Co. of Christchurch, at Rongotea Butter Factory, part of the Rongotea Co-operative Dairy Company Ltd.
Creator: G F Framjee
Place: Rongotea
Date: circa 1944
Manawatu Evening Standard, 14 June 1975: "A large cream setting pan stands next to a cream billy, and in the corner a butter churn for home use. In the front there is a cream skimmer (left) and a butter crock. These items are in the teaching galle...
Creator: Manawatu Evening Standard
Place: 321 Church Street, Palmerston North
Date: 1975
The Rangitikei Dairy Company’s first factory at Bulls was built in 1901 and replaced in 1925.
Creator: Rembrandt Studios, Marton
Place: Rangitikei Region
Date: 1901
This image was published in the Manawatu Evening Standard on 31 July 1971 and identified as "Corpe's Creamery ... About 1900", however a letter to the edior on 5 Ausgust 1971 states that it is a branch of the Co-Operative Butter Factory at Rewa an...
Creator: Unknown
Date: circa 1901
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
L C Driver ran a milk round, delivering milk, from c1906 to 1948 when his son, Dudley, took it over.
Creator: Unknown
Place: Palmerston North
Date: circa 1926