After work, this group of women went haymaking at the Fitzherbert property in Ihaka Street, Palmerston North, as part of the war effort. From left: Unknown; Eileen Redwood, worked at the Bank of New Zealand (later Mrs Kingston); Rona Fenwick(?), w...
Creator: Unknown
Place: Ihaka Street, Palmerston North
Date: January 1941
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Argosy Studio (Argosy Industrial Photos) was a photography ...
Creator: Joe Greening (Argosy Studios/Argosy Industrial Photos)
Place: Palmerston North
Date: December 1967
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Argosy Studio (Argosy Industrial Photos) was a photography ...
Creator: Joe Greening (Argosy Studios/Argosy Industrial Photos)
Place: Palmerston North
Date: December 1967
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Creator: Joe Greening (Argosy Studios/Argosy Industrial Photos)
Place: Palmerston North
Date: December 1967
Broadcast on Manawatu People's Radio, 24th September 2024. Part 1 of 6. Marise was born in Palmerston North and lived oEn rural properties in Manawatu near Alison Mildon’s family Marise’s father was a farm worker not a farm owner an...
Creator: Vicki-Marie Buchanan
Place: Palmerston North
Date: September 24, 2024
Carnarvon School pupils watch sheep dipping on visit to Burne's Farm, 1956.
Stan Holmes was Headmaster of Carnarvon School from 1955-1961. He was a keen photographer and these are his photos taken during those years.
Creator: Stan Holmes
Place: Carnarvon
Date: 1956
This image was taken for a story that ran in The Manawatu Evening Standard on 28 May 1958, page 10: "Young and old attend the meeting today of the Mangatinoka Farm School. Some of the younger farmers are seen here, before the meeting began, taking...
Creator: Manawatu Evening Standard
Place: Mangatinoka
Date: May 28, 1958
This image was taken for a story that ran in The Manawatu Evening Standard on 30th November 1965 "Brother Joachim at work in the modern piggery which he and his staff built"
Creator: Manawatū Evening Standard
Place: Highden, Manawatu
Date: November 27, 1965
A pamphlet explaining, and encouraging women to join, the Land Service in World War Two
Creator: Unknown
Date: circa 1940 to circa 1945
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
Unidentified worker stooking sheaves of oats. The oats are tied with stalks of the plant. Location unknown.
Creator: Unknown
This building was one of the first European houses in inland Manawatu, erected 1867 by European carpenters employed by Ditlev Gothard Monrad, the Lutheran Bishop and ex-Premier of Denmark who settled at Karere in 1866. The house was occupied by th...
Creator: T Bloch, Nelson
Place: Karere, Longburn, Palmerston North
Date: circa 1868
Mr and Mrs George Dunn moved to New Zealand from Australia and farmed at Mangatainoka, Waiwaka, and Whakaronga. This photograph is taken on their farm at Waiwaka. They built their first home in Warrnabol, Australia where they were the first to cul...
Creator: Unknown
Place: Palmerston North
Date: circa 1890
The historic eighteen-roomed Siberia homestead built by Arthur and Isabella Harding in 1906. It burnt down in 1961 due to an electrical fault.
Creator: Unknown
Place: Fitzherbert East Road, Ashhurst, Manawatu
Date: circa 1906
The Ashhurst Bridge spanning the Manawatu River, was officially opened on the 9 June 1909, replacing the original bridge that was swept away in the 1895 flood. Until a new bridge was built a punt was used to ferry people and vehicles across the Ma...
Creator: Unknown
Place: Ashhurst, Manawatu
Date: circa 1909
Mr Arthur Harding initially leased the property, then in 1906 his wife Isabella bought the land and together they build the 18 roomed 'Siberia' homestead. Also built on the property were stables, garages, sheds, stores for livestock and agricultur...
Creator: Unknown
Place: Fitzherbert East Road, Ashhurst, Manawatu
Date: circa 1909 to circa 1915
After work, this group of women went haymaking at the Fitzherbert property in Ihaka Street, Palmerston North, as part of the war effort. From left: Unknown; Eileen Redwood, worked at the Bank of New Zealand (later Mrs Kingston); Edna Spillman, wor...
Creator: Unknown
Place: Ihaka Street, Palmerston North
Date: January 1941
Snapshot of William Chapman next to the frame where he grew some of his beloved chrysanthemums. He was a lifetime member and one-time president of the Palmerston North Horticultural Society and a frequent exhibitor at shows.
Creator: Unknown
Place: Palmerston North
Date: 1916
One of NZR's six Wairarapa class railcars heading for Roberts Line, crossing from Whakarongo in about 1942. The railcars operated on the routh between Palmerston North and Wellington, via Woodville, between 1936 and 1955.
Creator: Unknown
Place: Roberts Line, Palmerston North
Date: circa 1942
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
The Vautier Homestead and outbuildings in the late 1950s with Stoney Creek (Matai Stream) in the background. Compare the sprawling layout of the house with original portion shown in 2014N_Wh31_009198. The barn is original, dating from the lat...
Creator: Argosy Industrial Photos
Place: Palmerston North
Date: 1950s
Mr. Samuel Watkin Luxford (1856 – 1925) established a pedigree herd of Ayrshire cattle on his farm at Awapuni. Mr. Luxford was a well know cattle breeder in Manawatu and was a President of the Agricultural and Pastoral Association. He sold the A...
Creator: Unknown
Place: Palmerston North
Date: circa 1900 to circa 1903
An aerial view of Aokautere School and settlement, near Palmerston North.
Creator: Unknown
Place: Aokautere, Palmerston North
Date: 1970s
This photograph was taken from the second terrace above the river looking in an south-westerly direction. It is said that Wildbore, the photographer, wished to photograph a bush fire and was notified by Mr Roberts of Mount Richards of a burn takin...
Creator: Charles E Wildbore
Place: Palmerston North
Date: circa 1904
A traction engine pulling four two-furrow ploughs, in tandem, being guided by a worker. It is thought to be in the Feilding District.
Creator: Unknown
Place: Palmerston North
Date: circa 1910 to circa 1920
John Hobbs drives a wagon loaded with boxes of clover honey, across a field. John Hobbs was in partnership with his brother, Arthur, in an apiary business in the Kairanga district. He lived on Aorangi Road and this photograph is probably taken on ...
Creator: Arthur E Hobbs [?]
Place: Manawatu
Date: 1914
This photograph shows two champion Hereford cows on E Short's Parorangi Stud, Feilding.
Creator: Unknown
Place: Manawatu
Date: circa 1908
Harry Hart(left), who owned the two wagons, worked as a carter between Feilding and Apiti. He lived at Kimbolton.
Creator: Unknown
Place: Palmerston North
Date: circa 1910
Clydesdales put to work ploughing-up grassland apparently at an exhibition or rural fair.
Creator: R W Orr, Hastings
Place: Palmerston North
Date: circa 1950
G.W. Shailer's cherry orchard in Skandia Street, covered in netting. After working as a photographer in Palmerston North, George Shailer retired to land in Hokowhitu, where he developed an orchard and became interested in inventions, patenting sev...
Creator: George W Shailer
Place: Palmerston North
Date: 1900 to 1910