This unpublished image was taken for a story that ran in The Manawatū Standard on 19th November 1973.

Sanson's Centenary Procession took place on Saturday 17th November. More than thirty floats and other vehicles participated, travelling from Sa...

Creator:      Manawatū Evening Standard Negative Collection
Place:          Sanson
Date:          November 19, 1973

This image was taken for a story that ran in The Manawatu Evening Standard on 02 July 1958, page 10: "Some of the delegates from a wide area who are attending the sheep farmers' conference which is being held in the Opera House."

Creator:      Manawatu Evening Standard
Place:          382 Church Street, Palmerston North
Date:          July 2, 1958

Map that shows ownership of farm land, covering the area from approximately Mangaweka to Himatangi Beach in the North Island. The index lists the farms according to the owner's name.

Produced by John Read Agricultural Consultancy Ltd, Palmerston ...

Creator:      John Read Agricultural Consultancy Ltd
Place:          Manawatu and neighbouring areas
Date:          1994

Maps that show ownership of farm land, covering the area from approximately Mangaweka to Levin in the North Island. The index lists the farms according to the owner's name.

Produced by Centrepoint Theatre

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Creator:      Centrepoint Theatre
Place:          Manawatū and surrounding area
Date:          1979

Name: Lyndhurst

Suburb, Takaro

Lyndhurst Street was a Mr Frederick Bryant subdivision. His wife, Mrs Mary Ann Bryant, was born near Tunbridge Wells, Kent, England, and the Bryant family moved there in 1899. This road is named after the st...

Creator:      Heritage Team, Palmerston North City Library
Date:          2025

Name: Waldegrave

Suburb, Palmerston North Central

This street is named for Mr John James Waldegrave, who owned the land. Mr JJ Waldegrave put through nine chains (chain = 66 feet/20.12 metres) from the Cuba Street end in 1875, D.P. 22, se...

Creator:      Heritage Team, Palmerston North City Library
Place:          Palmerston North
Date:          2025

Name: Three Paddock

Suburb, Fitzherbert

From 1871, Sir James Prendergast owned a large holding directly across the Manawatū River from Palmerston North. The lane is named for the three paddocks, that comprised the homestead block of this ...

Creator:      Heritage Team, Palmerston North City Library
Date:          2024

Sir James Prendergast (1826-1921) was a Judge and Administrator, Attorney General and Chief of Justice of New Zealand (1875-1899). From 1871, he farmed in the Manawatū region, owning the extensive Tiritea Estate at Fitzherbert and also land at Bun...

Creator:      Unknown
Place:          Palmerston North
Date:          circa 1880

Plan of Sir James Prendergast's Fitzherbert property, comprising 3743 acres of land in close proximity to the Borough of Palmerston North, to be sold by public auction by Abraham and Williams 31 January 1900. Prendergast owned a large holding dire...

Creator:      G L R Scott
Place:          Palmerston North
Date:          January 1900

This image was taken for a story that ran in The Manawatu Evening Standard on 29 April 1961 "Diamond Wedding: Long association with farming in the Manawatu. Mr. and Mrs. G.I. Lowe, of Linton Street, Palmerston North have enjoyed sixty years of mar...

Creator:      Manawatu Evening Standard
Place:          Linton Street, Palmerston North
Date:          April 29, 1961

Journalist Tina White's weekly "Memory Lane" article in the Manawatū Standard. Author Beth Mooney retains her grandmother's scrapbooks and creates new scrapbooks about the history of the Gledhill family, who have farmed in the Manawatū district fo...

Creator:      Tina White
Place:          Manawatū
Date:          November 23, 2019

This image was taken for a story that ran in The Manawatu Evening Standard on 12 February, 1964. "... A Kairanga farmer, Mr D. R. Print, is busy reaping a 10-acre stand and is pleased with the growth results of the Australian Gemina wheat]. ... A ...

Creator:      Manawatū Evening Standard

This image was taken for a story that ran in The Manawatu Evening Standard on 13 May 1961 "Here are six of the 90 members of Young Farmers' Clubs attending a fortnight's course at Massey Agricultural College. A large map of New Zealand in the coll...

Creator:      Manawatu Evening Standard
Place:          Massey University, Palmerston North
Date:          May 13, 1961

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 07 March 1958, page 8: "The annual autumn sale yesterday of pedigree pigs, comprising Tamworths, Berkshires and Large Whites, created much interest and bidding was keen ...

Creator:      Manawatu Evening Standard
Place:          Pascal Street, Palmerston North
Date:          March 6, 1958

This image was taken for a story that ran in The Manawatu Evening Standard on 28 January 1961: "Rising before 5.30 a.m. every day is not every girl's ideal way of starting the day, but for Miss Kathy Haig, of Ihakara, it is common practice and she...

Creator:      Manawatu Evening Standard
Date:          January 28, 1961

This image was taken for a story that ran in The Manawatu Evening Standard on 22nd January 1966 "Mr. F. Wilshire, of Pahiatua, and his bitch, Maid, delighted a large crowd with a near perfect run during the sheep-dog trials. Earlier in the day he ...

Creator:      Manawatū Evening Standard
Place:          Feilding
Date:          January 22, 1966

[Image of farmers seated on the rail of stock yards (probably at the Feilding Show)

Creator:      Manawatū Evening Standard
Place:          Feilding
Date:          January 21, 1966

This image was taken for a story that ran in The Manawatu Evening Standard on 1st February 1966 "Members of the board of management for the Wellington West Coast farm cadet scheme, who met in the City today for the first time. From left, front row...

Creator:      Manawatū Evening Standard
Place:          Palmerston North
Date:          January 31, 1966

This image was taken for a story that ran in The Manawatu Evening Standard on 1st December 1965 "This smiling group of young men advise thousands of progressive farmers on how to get the best from their land. Farm advisers from all parts of New Ze...

Creator:      Manawatū Evening Standard
Place:          Massey University, Palmerston North
Date:          November 30, 1965

This image was taken for a story that ran in The Manawatu Evening Standard on 04 February 1958, page 12: "Situated high above the corral at the Moutoa Young Farmers' rodeo was a vantage point from which the judges marked their points on activities...

Creator:      Manawatu Evening Standard
Place:          Moutoa
Date:          February 4, 1958

George Dear and Sarah Elizabeth (nee Oliver) Dear. Sarah Dear’s family came from the Manchester block, NZ. Mr & Mrs Dear began farming in November 1872, later building a house in Taipo Road.

Creator:      Unknown
Place:          Palmerston North
Date:          circa 1870 to circa 1879

Maps that show farm ownership of land, covering the area from approximately Mangaweka to Paekaikariki in the North Island. the index lists the farms according to the owner's name.

Produced by Combined Manawatu Lions Clubs and Oroua Young Farmers ...

Creator:      Combined Manawatu Lions clubs and Oroua Young Farmers Clubs
Place:          Manawatu and surrounding area
Date:          1968

Shown here are the Wellington Provincial District Farmers Union Delegates to conference held in Masterton on the 24th and 25th of May 1904.

Creator:      Winzenbert, Masterton
Place:          Wairarapa Region
Date:          1904

Feilding sale yards, 1902, are the largest saleyards in New Zealand with 330 sheep pens, located in the heart of Feilding town centre. Feilding held the record at 40,000 sheep yarded in one day from 1902 until 1937.

John McCaw appears in this 19...

Creator:      Unknown
Place:          Palmerston North
Date:          1902

John McCaw states that in 1902, Feilding claimed a North Island record for the number of sheep yarded at sale - 42,000. This was not eclipsed until the 1937 sale of over 50,000. This photo was probably taken during the record sale. The Feilding cl...

Creator:      Unknown
Place:          Manawatu
Date:          1902

John McCaw states that in 1902 Feilding claimed a North Island record for the number of sheep yarded at a sale - 42,000. This was not eclipsed until the 1937 sale of over 50,000 sheep.

John McCaw appears in this 1974 Spectrum radio documentary ab...

Creator:      Unknown
Place:          Feilding
Date:          1902

Richard Abraham established himself as a stock and station agent, wool broker and auctioneer in Rangitikei Street, Palmerston North, with partner Alec Williams of Hawkes Bay. The business built several saleyards were built around the Manawatu Regi...

Creator:      Unknown
Place:          Levin
Date:          1917

One of the floats to grace the streets of Palmerston North for the 60th anniversary of the Palmerston North. The float is pictured just turning the corner of The Square and Coleman Mall.

Creator:      Unknown
Place:          Palmerston North
Date:          circa 1937

Mr W Egglington’s threshing mill at work on Mr Peter Scheidt’s farm, Dixons Line, Bunnythorpe.

Creator:      Unknown
Place:          Palmerston North
Date:          1912