Journalist Tina White's weekly "Memory Lane" article in the Manawatū Standard. Three handwritten letters, written by Tokomaru farmer Edward Griffiths to friends in England, have been donated to the Ian Matheson city archives. The letters describe ...

Creator:      Tina White
Place:          Manawatū
Date:          June 5, 2021

This image was taken for a story that ran in The Manawatu Evening Standard on 21 June 1961 "A visitng young farmer from Burekup (Western Australia), at present on an exchange tour, is staying with Mr. E. Coup at Sanson. He is Mr. Dick Offer, who a...

Creator:      Manawatu Evening Standard
Place:          Palmerston North
Date:          June 21, 1961

Sheep dipping on the 'Siberia' Station, near Ashhurst. The Station was owned by the Harding family from 1906 to 1915, although they had leased the land for some years prior to these dates.

Creator:      Unknown
Place:          Fitzherbert East Road, Ashhurst
Date:          circa 1900

Massey Agricultural College was opened in 1928. This image shows men making hay silage.

Creator:      National Publicity Studios
Place:          Massey College, Palmerston North
Date:          circa 1950

Rear view of the 8-roomed family home, ‘corner of Boundary Road and Kairanga Road’ (present-day Tremaine Avenue and Botanical Road), on the 71-acre farm then occupying the north-western corner of Palmerston North. William Chapman and his family, p...

Creator:      Unknown
Place:          Corner of Tremaine Avenue and Botanical Road
Date:          circa 1902

The crop being harvested appears to be wheat. “Bill Read, Farmer” is written on the back of photograph

Creator:      Joseph Francis Macedo, Feilding
Place:          Palmerston North
Date:          circa 1900

Messrs Wilfred and Leroy Henson state that these reapers and binders were owned by their father “John Henson” and were photographed on his farm on Penny’s Line, Mount Stewart. The driver of the machine on the far right appears to be Wilfred Henson.

Creator:      Unknown
Place:          Palmerston North
Date:          1905 to 1910

Mr Lawrence Bourke (-1946) began his farming career at Hamua, Wairarapa, and became part-owner of a property at “Hilltop”, at the end of Scott’s Road, Fitzherbert West. In 1900 he purchased land at the sale of Sir James Prendergast’s Fitzherbert ...

Creator:      Unknown
Place:          Palmerston North
Date:          1890s

This photograph shows two champion Hereford cows on E Short's Parorangi Stud, Feilding.

Creator:      Unknown
Place:          Manawatu
Date:          circa 1908

Stan Armatage of Rongotea with dog, alongside two draught horses hitched to equipment.

Creator:      Morris Shailer
Place:          Manawatu
Date:          circa 1960

This photograph is of Jack Slack and what appears to be a prize-winning cow at 'Waitoitoi', Awapuni.

Creator:      Unknown
Place:          Palmerston North
Date:          circa 1905

William Chowen stands beside a horse (Blossom) and cart beside a maize field. Refer Fitzherbert East Aokautere School and District 1889-1989, p 23

Creator:      Unknown
Place:          Aokautere, Palmerston North
Date:          1922

John Roots an early settler, is known to have a farm at Upper Kawhatau, ten miles from Rangiwahia in the Ruahine Ranges. It was an isolated area with few services. It is unknown if this is John Roots senior or junior.

Creator:      Unknown
Date:          1890s