Broadcast on Manawatu People's Radio, 9th February 2021. Part 2 of 2.  With K-force in Korea, coping with the extreme cold. No electricity for lighting. Dental procedures. Treating a Korean. The RSA. Reaction to returned servicemen. ...

Creator:      Stuart Birks
Place:          Palmerston North
Date:          February 9, 2021

Broadcast on Manawatu People's Radio, 2nd February 2021.  Part 1 of 2. Volunteered to be in the dental unit for K-force to Korea in 1950. 1 dentist for 1000 troops. With the artillery, moving up north to Imjin River. Very cold in winter, p...

Creator:      Stuart Birks
Place:          Palmerston North
Date:          February 2, 2021

This image was taken for a story that ran in The Manawatu Evening Standard on 25 March 1958, page 6: "A city dentist acquired this machine, the first in Palmerston North, and capable of high-speed drilling of up to 300,000 revolutions a minute. Th...

Creator:      Manawatu Evening Standard
Place:          Palmerston North
Date:          March 24, 1958

This photograph must have been taken between 1896 and 1900, as the Evening Standard building (Daily Times) was destroyed by a fire in that year.

Creator:      Unknown
Place:          The Square, Palmerston North
Date:          circa 1898

Military parade in connection with the Boer War. Photograph taken near the corner of Main Street and The Square, looking towards Church Street.

Creator:      Unknown
Place:          Palmerston North
Date:          1900 to 1901

The large building in the background is Coles Building, on the corner of Main Street West and the Square. This site is now occupied by the Council Administration Building (CAB), which is the PNCC headquarters. On the opposite side of the Street is...

Creator:      Duncan and Co., Auckland [?]
Place:          The Square, Palmerston North
Date:          circa 1920

This postcard of The Square shows the businesses that ran from the corner of Coleman Place (now Coleman Mall) to near the corner of Rangitikei Street.

Creator:      Unknown
Place:          Coleman Place, Palmerston North
Date:          circa 1912

This bank was constructed in 1910 – 1911, as the “Bank of Australasia”, after a smaller wooden building on the site burnt down in 1910. It later became the “The Union Bank of Australia”, then the ANZ bank. In 1981 the ANZ moved and Coombe, Hughes ...

Creator:      Snapshots Unlimited
Place:          Palmerston North
Date:          circa 1937