Broadcast on Manawatu People's Radio, 1st December 2020. Part 2 of 4.  Ballroom dancing – learn at school in 1940s, dances in the 1950s. Debutants. Formal dress. Athletics. Milk bars. Drinking age, pubs. Smoking. Neil getting a pipe. Young...

Creator:      Stuart Birks
Place:          Palmerston North
Date:          December 1, 2020

Broadcast on Manawatu People's Radio, 31st January 2023.   Part 2 of 2.   Dancing, primary school fancy dress balls, learning dances. Dances as teenagers, organizing in holidays at Taupo. Dances for adults. Types of music. S...

Creator:      Stuart Birks
Place:          Palmerston North
Date:          January 31, 2023

This image was taken for a story that ran in The Manawatu Evening Standard on 05 August 1961 "Three of the Royal Academy graduands from the Broadway School of Dancing in graceful pose at the rehearsal of "Les Sylphides" to be performed in the Palm...

Creator:      Manawatu Evening Standard
Place:          Palmerston North
Date:          August 5, 1961

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

Caption: “The 37 debutantes photographed after being presented to Monsignor Herlihy, who is now in Karori, was for many years in Palmerston North.”

Creator:      Frank Goldingham
Date:          July 1960

These images were taken for Photorama pictorial magazine’s July 1960 edition but were not published.

Monsignor Herlihy of Karori (former resident of Palmerston North) was presented with 37 debutantes as part of the Charity Ball.

Creator:      Frank Goldingham
Date:          July 1960

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

Caption: “The 37 debutantes photographed after being presented to Monsignor Herlihy, who is now in Karori, was for many years in Palmerston North.”

Creator:      Frank Goldingham
Date:          July 1960

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:          July 6, 1966

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:          May 21, 1967

This image was taken for a story that ran in The Manawatu Evening Standard on 04 July 1958, page 11: "Patricia Sheridan is seen here entertaining members and guests present at the Sunshine Club's 25th birthday celebrations which were held yesterda...

Creator:      Manawatu Evening Standard
Place:          Palmerston North
Date:          July 4, 1958

This image was taken for a story that ran in The Manawatu Evening Standard on 28 April 1958, page 13: "Miss Raima McDonald, of Rotorua partnered by Mr. R. Howe, is seen here dancing the charmaine during the gold old-time test, which took place in ...

Creator:      Manawatu Evening Standard
Place:          Grey Street, Palmerston North
Date:          April 28, 1958

This image was taken for a story that ran in The Manawatu Evening Standard on 09 December 1958: ""Life is too easy in New Zealand. Your ballerinas do not stretch," said the Royal Academy of Dancing examiner (Miss P. Whiteley) yesterday when conduc...

Creator:      Manawatu Evening Standard
Place:          Palmerston North
Date:          December 9, 1958

This image was taken for a story that ran in The Manawatu Evening Standard on 13 October, 1959. "Members of the Dutch community delighted the spectators at Roslyn Kindergarten School on Saturday afternoon with demonstrations of Dutch folk dance."

Creator:      Manawatū Evening Standard
Place:          Roslyn, Palmerston North
Date:          October 1959

This image was not published in The Manawatu Evening Standard, taken September, 1959. Unidentified group during a display of dance crazes through the ages.

Creator:      Manawatū Evening Standard
Place:          Palmerston North
Date:          September 1959

This image was taken for a story that ran in The Manawatu Evening Standard on 9 November, 1959. "Three children in the eight and under 10 years Highland Fling work hard to impress the judges in the Highland dancing competitions at the Royal Show."...

Creator:      Manawatu Evening Standard
Place:          Palmerston North
Date:          November 9, 1959

[Photograph of dancing school students and their teacher, who have received their certificates at the end of year event. They are members of the Gwen Gibbs School of Dancing.]

Creator:      Manawatu Evening Standard
Place:          Palmerston North
Date:          December 5, 1960

This image was taken for a story that ran in The Manawatu Evening Standard on 06 February 1958, page 12: "Lynne McDonald who is six years of age, has after only 14 months training in Highland dancing, won 12 cups and 40 medals see in this photogra...

Creator:      Manawatu Evening Standard
Place:          Palmerston North
Date:          February 6, 1958

This image was taken for a story that ran in The Manawatu Evening Standard on 08 November 1958: "These young Highland dancers await their turn to perform in the competition at the Showgrounds today."

Creator:      Manawatu Evening Standard
Place:          61 Pascal Street, Showgraounds, Palmerston North
Date:          November 8, 1958

This image was taken for a story that ran in the Manawatu Evening Standard on 31 May, 1963. "Members of the Manawatu Scottish Society are seen dancing a Double Triangle representing St. Andrew's Cross, at their weekly club night."

Creator:      Manawatū Evening Standard
Place:          Palmerston North
Date:          May 1963

This image was not published in The Manawatu Evening Standard, taken September, 1959. Unidentified woman during a display of dance crazes through the ages, here performing the Charleston.

Creator:      Manawatū Evening Standard
Place:          Palmerston North
Date:          September 1959

This image was not published in The Manawatu Evening Standard, taken September, 1959. Unidentified women during a display of dance crazes through the ages, here performing the Charleston.

Creator:      Manawatū Evening Standard
Place:          Palmerston North
Date:          September 1959

This image was taken for a story that ran in The Manawatu Evening Standard on 11 April 1961 "Encouraged by dancing successes in Palmerston North and Wanganui, Judith Mohekey, accompanied by her parents, attended the golden jubilee festival in Napi...

Creator:      Manawatu Evening Standard
Place:          Palmerston North
Date:          April 11, 1961

This image was taken (but not used) for a story that ran in The Manawatu Evening Standard on Monday 29th June 1981.

Members of the crowd are invited down to the set floor to dance along to Tom Sharplin and his Rock 'n' Roll Band. Other celebrity...

Creator:      Manawatu Evening Standard
Place:          Rainbow Stadium, Pascal Street, Palmerston North
Date:          June 27, 1981

This image was taken (but not used) for a story that ran in The Manawatu Evening Standard on Monday 29th June 1981.

Tom Sharplin is joined on stage by other telethon performers, including Mike Griffin, Tina Cross, Hayden Wood and Richard Eriwata...

Creator:      Manawatu Evening Standard
Place:          Rainbow Stadium, Pascal Street, Palmerston North
Date:          June 27, 1981

The group is unidentified.

Creator:      Mr Martin Alderson of Palmerston North, Contractor and keen amateur photographer
Place:          Ballance Bridge, State Highway, Woodville
Date:          1906 to 1910

Palmerston North dancers, Mark Glastonbury and Karen Ross, were placed first in the “Open to the World” fresher-novice event at the World Ballroom Dancing Championships in Perth, Australia, in 1980. They also gained fifth place in the “Open to the...

Creator:      Manawatu Evening Standard
Place:          Palmerston North
Date:          July 1980

This image was published in the Manawatu Evening Standard on 24 March 1975 with the caption, "Celeste Whitson and Warren Fuller of Palmerston North, in the final of the junior novice New Vogue section of the Ballroom and Latin American Dance Festi...

Creator:      Manawatu Evening Standard
Place:          Palmerston North
Date:          March 24, 1975

This image was taken for a series about the Ballroom and Latin American Dance Festival held in Palmerston North on 24 March 1975.

Creator:      Manawatu Evening Standard
Place:          Palmerston North
Date:          March 24, 1975

This image was taken for a series about the Ballroom and Latin American Dance Festival held in Palmerston North on 24 March 1975.

Creator:      Manawatu Evening Standard
Date:          March 24, 1975

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:          May 21, 1967

This image was taken for a series about the Ballroom and Latin American Dance Festival held in Palmerston North on 24 March 1975.

Creator:      Manawatu Evening Standard
Place:          Palmerston North
Date:          March 24, 1975