Broadcast on Manawatu People's Radio 16 July, 2019. Jim Esson, part 1 of 2.

Entomologist in the Department of Scientific and Industrial Research (DSIR), 1950s. Structure of DSIR, relationship with Massey Agricultural College. Nationality of staf...

Creator:      Stuart Birks
Place:          Palmerston North
Date:          July 16, 2019

Broadcast on Manawatu People's Radio, 20th June 2023. Not a dietician. Not university, unlike classmates in late 1950s. At DSIR Nuclear Science Institute carbon-14 dating, ending as head of the lab aged 23. Many women in DSIR. Living in hostels...

Creator:      Stuart Birks
Place:          Palmerston North
Date:          June 20, 2023

This image was taken for a story that ran in The Manawatu Evening Standard on 21st March 1970 "Dr. A.O. Taylor, in a research laboratory at the DSIR's climate control complex, explains to the Queen the effects of low temperature on tropical grasse...

Creator:      Manawatū Evening Standard
Place:          Department of Scientific and Industrial Research, Tennent Drive, Palmerston North
Date:          March 21, 1970

This image was taken (but not used) for a story that ran in The Manawatu Evening Standard on 21st March 1970 "Dr. A.O. Taylor, in a research laboratory at the DSIR's climate control complex, explains to the Queen the effects of low temperature on ...

Creator:      Manawatū Evening Standard
Place:          Department of Scientific and Industrial Research, Tennent Drive, Palmerston North
Date:          March 21, 1970

This image was taken for a story that ran in The Manawatu Evening Standard on 21st March 1970 "In one of the 24 climate control rooms at the DSIR's plant physiology division the Queen talks to the division's director, Dr. K.J. Mitchell (right) and...

Creator:      Manawatū Evening Standard
Place:          Department of Scientific and Industrial Research, Tennent Drive, Palmerston North
Date:          March 21, 1970

This image was taken (but not used) for a story that ran in The Manawatu Evening Standard on 21st March 1970 "Dr. A.O. Taylor, in a research laboratory at the DSIR's climate control complex, explains to the Queen the effects of low temperature on ...

Creator:      Manawatū Evening Standard
Place:          Department of Scientific and Industrial Research, Tennent Drive, Palmerston North
Date:          March 21, 1970

This image was taken (but not used) for a story that ran in The Manawatu Evening Standard on 21st March 1970 "Dr. A.O. Taylor, in a research laboratory at the DSIR's climate control complex, explains to the Queen the effects of low temperature on ...

Creator:      Manawatū Evening Standard
Place:          Department of Scientific and Industrial Research, Tennent Drive, Palmerston North
Date:          March 21, 1970

This image was taken (but not used) for a story that ran in The Manawatu Evening Standard on 21st March 1970 "Dr. A.O. Taylor, in a research laboratory at the DSIR's climate control complex, explains to the Queen the effects of low temperature on ...

Creator:      Manawatū Evening Standard
Place:          Department of Scientific and Industrial Research, Tennent Drive, Palmerston North
Date:          March 21, 1970

This image was taken (but not used) for a story that ran in The Manawatu Evening Standard on 21st March 1970 "Dr. A.O. Taylor, in a research laboratory at the DSIR's climate control complex, explains to the Queen the effects of low temperature on ...

Creator:      Manawatū Evening Standard
Place:          Department of Scientific and Industrial Research, Tennent Drive, Palmerston North
Date:          March 21, 1970

This image was taken (but not used) for a story that ran in The Manawatu Evening Standard on 21st March 1970 "Dr. A.O. Taylor, in a research laboratory at the DSIR's climate control complex, explains to the Queen the effects of low temperature on ...

Creator:      Manawatū Evening Standard
Place:          Department of Scientific and Industrial Research, Tennent Drive, Palmerston North
Date:          March 21, 1970

This image was taken (but not used) for a story that ran in The Manawatu Evening Standard on 21st March 1970 "Dr. A.O. Taylor, in a research laboratory at the DSIR's climate control complex, explains to the Queen the effects of low temperature on ...

Creator:      Manawatū Evening Standard
Place:          Department of Scientific and Industrial Research, Tennent Drive, Palmerston North
Date:          March 21, 1970

This image was taken (but not used) for a story that ran in The Manawatu Evening Standard on 21st March 1970 "Dr. A.O. Taylor, in a research laboratory at the DSIR's climate control complex, explains to the Queen the effects of low temperature on ...

Creator:      Manawatū Evening Standard
Place:          Department of Scientific and Industrial Research, Tennent Drive, Palmerston North
Date:          March 21, 1970

This image was taken (but not used) for a story that ran in The Manawatu Evening Standard on 21st March 1970 "Dr. A.O. Taylor, in a research laboratory at the DSIR's climate control complex, explains to the Queen the effects of low temperature on ...

Creator:      Manawatū Evening Standard
Place:          Department of Scientific and Industrial Research, Tennent Drive, Palmerston North
Date:          March 21, 1970

This image was taken (but not used) for a story that ran in The Manawatu Evening Standard on 21st March 1970 "Dr. A.O. Taylor, in a research laboratory at the DSIR's climate control complex, explains to the Queen the effects of low temperature on ...

Creator:      Manawatū Evening Standard
Place:          Department of Scientific and Industrial Research, Tennent Drive, Palmerston North
Date:          March 21, 1970

This image was taken (but not used) for a story that ran in The Manawatu Evening Standard on 21st March 1970 "Dr. A.O. Taylor, in a research laboratory at the DSIR's climate control complex, explains to the Queen the effects of low temperature on ...

Creator:      Manawatū Evening Standard
Place:          Department of Scientific and Industrial Research, Tennent Drive, Palmerston North
Date:          March 21, 1970

This image was taken (but not used) for a story that ran in The Manawatu Evening Standard on 21st March 1970 "Dr. A.O. Taylor, in a research laboratory at the DSIR's climate control complex, explains to the Queen the effects of low temperature on ...

Creator:      Manawatū Evening Standard
Place:          Department of Scientific and Industrial Research, Tennent Drive, Palmerston North
Date:          March 21, 1970

This image was taken for a story that ran in The Manawatu Evening Standard on 24 November 1960 "The United States Secretary for Agriculture (Mr. Ezra T. Benson) paid a brief visit visit the Massey Agricultural College today. Here he is seen examin...

Creator:      Manawatu Evening Standard
Place:          Massey College, Palmerston North
Date:          1960-11-24T00:00:00+00:00

This image was taken for a story that ran in The Manawatu Evening Standard on 15 May 1958, page 10: "The twenty-seven members of the Morton Mains branch of the Southland Federated Farmers who are at present making a tour of the central portion of ...

Creator:      Manawatu Evening Standard
Place:          DSIR, Tennent Drive, Palmerston North
Date:          May 15, 1958

This image was taken for a story that ran in The Manawatu Evening Standard on 26 August 1960 "Inspectors of the Agriculture Department finished yesterday at Grasslands, a three-day course in farm advisory. Many of them came from various parts of N...

Creator:      Manawatu Evening Standard
Place:          Massey University, Palmerston North
Date:          1960-08-26T00:00:00+00:00

This image was taken for a story that ran in The Manawatu Evening Standard on 8th February 1963. "Members of D.S.I.R. are seen obtaining seed samples from experimental plots of lotus at the D.S.I.R. station today. From the left are Messrs D. Smith...

Creator:      Manawatu Evening Standard
Place:          Palmerston North
Date:          1963-02-08T00:00:00+00:00

Flooding of the Department of Scientific and Industrial Research land, close to the Manawatu River, opposite Massey University. The small bridge to the left of the car is over the Tiritea Stream.

Creator:      Unknown
Place:          Tennent Drive, Palmerston North
Date:          circa 1965

Grasslands, a division of DSIR and the Dairy Research Institute, was established in 1935, in Palmerston North because of the excellent growing conditions and the easy access to Massey University. The Dairy Research Institute was established in 192...

Creator:      Unknown
Place:          Tennent Drive, Palmerton North
Date:          circa 1950

Grasslands, a division of DSIR and the Dairy Research Institute, was established in 1935, in Palmerston North because of the excellent growing conditions and the easy access to Massey University. The Dairy Research Institute was established in 192...

Creator:      Unknown
Place:          Tennent Drive, Palmerston North
Date:          1964

Shown here is flooding from the Tiritea Stream on State Highway 57 near the entrance to Massey University and the Department of Scientific and Industrial Research.

Creator:      Unknown
Place:          Palmerston North
Date:          circa 1965

A Plant Chemistry Laboratory was formed as part of DSIR in 1938. It became part of the Grasslands Division in Palmerston North in 1951 and the Plant Chemistry Division in 1956. The DSIR was situated on the flats beside the Manawatu River, at Masse...

Creator:      Fraser
Place:          Palmerston North
Date:          1950