During level 4 of the 2020 Covid-19 pandemic all playgrounds throughout the country were closed to avoid the virus being transmitted through touching potentially contaminated surfaces. Pictured is Rimu Park, Feilding. Though the playground was ...

Creator:      Laura Clifford
Place:          Rimu Park, Feilding
Date:          April 3, 2020

An unusual sight, no traffic along Makino Road, Feilding. Taken during alert level 4, where the only vehicle travel permitted was to access or provide essential services. The photographer was able to walk several kilometers beyond this point along...

Creator:      Laura Clifford
Place:          259 Makino Road, Feilding
Date:          March 28, 2020

Broadcast on Manawatu People's Radio, 5th August 2025. Part 1 of 3.   Emma came to New Zealand as a registered alien from Holland in February 1960 at age 19. Her sister had been in New Zealand since 1952 and married a Dutchman who cam...

Creator:      Stuart Birks
Place:          Palmerston North
Date:          August 5, 2025

These images were taken for the July 23rd 1978 edition of the Tribune weekly newspaper – the first of which was published.

The caption read: “The former Anne Lucinsky meets her namesake Anne Lucinsky. Mrs Christensen pictured talking to her grea...

Creator:      The Tribune
Place:          Feilding
Date:          July 23, 1978

The first of these images was published in the July 9th, 1978 edition of the Tribune weekly newspaper.

The caption read: “Don and his wife Judy planning for their Canadian adventure, with literature about the race and its Canadian venue spread ou...

Creator:      The Tribune
Place:          Feilding
Date:          July 9, 1978

These images were taken for the August 20th 1978 edition of the Tribune weekly newspaper – the first of which was published.

An excerpt from the article read: “Negotiations about the sale of old fire stations in Palmerston North and Feilding have...

Creator:      The Tribune
Place:          Feilding
Date:          August 20, 1978

Local historians weekly "Back Issues" article in the Manawatū Standard. The significance of the Kowhai tree and the history of Feilding. Before World War 1, Feilding botanist and plant man Lewis Thomas Brown was passionate about adopting kōwhai as...

Creator:      Marilyn Wightman
Place:          Feilding
Date:          October 25, 2025

The 10th Annual New Zealand Scouting Jamboree was held in Feilding in January 1984. Held between the 2nd and 10th, Scout groups from across the country were able to take part in events that taught skills (farming tasks, accident response training ...

Creator:      Keith Malcolm
Place:          Feilding
Date:          January 1984

Local historians weekly "Back Issues" article in the Manawatū Standard. From 1890, Arbor Day in New Zealand was celebrated in the first week of August. Trees would be planted, usually in schools, public places, official parks and gardens. In 1965,...

Creator:      Marilyn Wightman
Place:          Feilding
Date:          August 2, 2025

Local historians weekly "Back Issues" article in the Manawatū Standard. Between 1879 and 1909, a unit of New Zealand's volunteer defence force practised drills in Stafford Street, Feilding. This group of volunteers was a respected and important p...

Creator:      Simon Johnson
Place:          Feilding
Date:          November 16, 2024

Local historians weekly "Back Issues" article in the Manawatū Standard. The stories about the lives of service personnel named on war memorials have often been lost in time. Their stories lived in the memories of their relatives, who are often no ...

Creator:      Dorothy Pilkington
Place:          Manawatū
Date:          November 9, 2024

Manawatu Photorama was published between 1959 and 1964 by Frank Goldingham. It featured social occasions, sports events and city events and perfomances photographed both by Mr. Goldingham and contributing photographers.

Creator:      Frank Goldingham
Date:          September 1960

This plan depicts a single-storey, three bedroom villa, that was designed by L. G. West for W. H. Duncan of Feilding. The Danish-born architect Ludolph Georg West (1846-1919) established an architectural practice in Palmerston North in about 1880....

Creator:      L G West

This plan for a horse emporium was designed by L. G. West for Messrs Gorton & Son. The Danish-born architect Ludolph Georg West (1846-1919) established an architectural practice in Palmerston North in about 1880. In 1912 he formed a partnership ...

Creator:      L G West
Date:          1903

Contents:

p. 3 Editorial / Cushla Scrivens

p. 5 Peanuts or beef? A walking challenge / Dorothy Pilkington

p. 11 Manawatū's First World War camps, 1914-1919 / Tim Shoebridge

p. 22 Heirs of Rochdale: the Manawatū Co-operative Society and its fou...

Creator:      Manawatū Historic Journal Associates
Place:          Manawatū
Date:          2013

Contents:

p. 3 Editorial / Russell Poole

p. 5 Mrs (Dr) Martin tracing Margery Martin, the wife of Dr Arthur Anderson Martin / Leanne Croon Hickman

p. 14 Fragments of a year in the life of a Palmerston North business /Jill White

p. 22 A growing...

Creator:      Manawatū Historic Journal Associates
Place:          Manawatū
Date:          2018

Contents:

p. 3 Editorial / Russell Poole

p. 5 'Whose river is it anyway? Recreation on the Manawatū.' / Jill White

p. 15 'The story of a schoolbag: going to school in the First World War.' / Kerry Bethell & Cushla Scrivens

p. 23 'A new lease o...

Creator:      Manawatū Historic Journal Associates
Place:          Manawatū
Date:          2017

Contents:

p. 3 Guest editorial / Margaret Tennant

p. 5 'Taonui School' joins in the Queen Victoria diamond jubilee celebrations / Jill White

p. 8 Smut, satire and hairy fairies: Massey University student capping revues / Lucy Marsden

p. 20...

Creator:      Manawatū Historic Journal Associates
Place:          Manawatū
Date:          2012

Local historians weekly "Back Issues" article in the Manawatū Standard. Life story of John Tiffin Stewart (1827-1913) town planner and government surveyor. He was responsible for the planning of Manawatū's towns in the 19th century, including the ...

Creator:      Tim Upperton
Place:          Manawatu-Whanganui
Date:          November 19, 2022

Manawatu Photorama was published between 1959 and 1964 by Frank Goldingham. It featured social occasions, sports events and city events and perfomances photographed both by Mr. Goldingham and contributing photographers.

Creator:      Frank Goldingham
Date:          November 1960

This image come from the papers of John Tiffin Stewart (1827-1913) a surveyor and engineer. It is reproduced from a copy negative, made from photographs that Stewart's granddaughter lent to the Palmerston North Public Library in 1982 for copying.

Date:          1907

The I A and P building housed the Feilding branch of the Evening Standard newspaper on its ground floor from July 1980. The ground floor premises had previously been a gift and souvenir shop.

Creator:      Manawatu Evening Standard
Place:          59 Manchester Street, Feilding, Manawatu
Date:          July 17, 1980

Local historians weekly "Back Issues" article in the Manawatū Standard. Article about Friday night shopping in Palmerston North and Feilding before weekend trading.

Creator:      Dorothy Pilkington
Place:          Manawatū
Date:          July 16, 2022

Local historians weekly "Back Issues" article in the Manawatū Standard. The Magic Cave at John Cobbe's Department store was a popular Christmas attraction for Feilding children.

Creator:      Dorothy Pilkington
Place:          Feilding
Date:          June 11, 2022

Mr Henry Worsfold was born in Sussex, England, in 1838. He and his wife Margaret Maria (née Dudley) were passengers on the ship 'Ocean Mail' which left England on 12 November 1873 and arrived in Wellington on 2 February 1874. They were selected by...

Creator:      George W Shailer
Place:          Manawatu
Date:          unknown

Emma Belk migrated to Feilding but lived in Palmerston North when she signed the suffrage petition in 1893

Creator:      Margaret Tennant
Place:          Palmerston North
Date:          September 23, 2018

Local historians weekly "Back Issues" article in the Manawatū Standard. Manchester Square clock tower controversial history from 1904. Many of its opponents over the years believed motorists would drive into it. The correct author of this article ...

Creator:      Simon Johnson
Place:          Manawatū
Date:          April 16, 2022

This image was taken for a story that ran in The Manawatu Evening Standard on 24th December 1965 "Seasons Greetings." [Image of a Feilding Street with parked cars lining Manchester Street.]

Creator:      Manawatū Evening Standard
Place:          Feilding
Date:          December 22, 1965

This image was taken for a story that ran in The Manawatu Evening Standard on 24th December 1965 "Seasons Greetings." [A Mother with children playing on a bench in Kimbolton Road in Feilding.]

Creator:      Manawatū Evening Standard
Place:          Feilding
Date:          December 22, 1965

This image was taken for a story that ran in The Manawatu Evening Standard on 10 April 1961 "The model at the bottom of the photograph shows what the new St. Mark's Methodist Church in Grey Street, Feilding, will look like when completed. The cons...

Creator:      Manawatu Evening Standard
Place:          11 Grey Street, Palmerston North
Date:          April 10, 1961