A school float leaving Railway Lands down Church Street towards The Square.

Creator:      
Date:          December 4, 2016

This image was taken for Photorama pictorial magazine’s July 1960 edition, but was not published.

Mockery of traditional cultural practices by 'dressing-up' in grass skirts was once a common form of entertainment. The practice slowly died out acr...

Creator:      Frank Goldingham
Place:          Palmerston North
Date:          July 1960

This image was taken for Photorama pictorial magazine’s July 1960 edition, but was not published.

Mockery of traditional cultural practices by 'dressing-up' in grass skirts was once a common form of entertainment. The practice slowly died out acr...

Creator:      Frank Goldingham
Place:          Palmerston North
Date:          July 1960

This image was taken for Photorama pictorial magazine and was published in the July 1960 edition.

Caption: “Orphans’ Club [of Te Kuiti] president is baked into a cake by the Manawatu Bakers.”

Mockery of traditional cultural practices by 'dressin...

Creator:      Frank Goldingham
Place:          Palmerston North
Date:          July 1960

This image was taken for Photorama pictorial magazine’s July 1960 edition, but was not published.

Mockery of traditional cultural practices by 'dressing-up' in grass skirts was once a common form of entertainment. The practice slowly died out acr...

Creator:      Frank Goldingham
Place:          Palmerston North
Date:          July 1960

This image was taken for Photorama pictorial magazine’s July 1960 edition, but was not published.

Mockery of traditional cultural practices by 'dressing-up' in grass skirts was once a common form of entertainment. The practice slowly died out acr...

Creator:      Frank Goldingham
Place:          Palmerston North
Date:          July 1960

Ninety-two floats took part at the Palmerston North City Centennial celebrations of 1971. Approx. 10,000 people were present at the event to celebrate 100 years of Palmerston North. Keith Roland Hamblyn was a photographer with the Palmerston North...

Creator:      Keith Hamblyn
Place:          Palmerston North
Date:          March 13, 1971

Ninety-two floats took part at the Palmerston North City Centennial celebrations of 1971. Approx. 10,000 people were present at the event to celebrate 100 years of Palmerston North. Keith Roland Hamblyn was a photographer with the Palmerston North...

Creator:      Keith Hamblyn
Place:          Palmerston North
Date:          March 13, 1971

This image was taken for a story that ran in The Manawatu Evening Standard on 24 February 1958, page 12: "The Plunket Queen, Miss D. Sunley, of Palmerston North, received an overwhelming ovation as she was driven past the judges' stand during the ...

Creator:      Manawatu Evening Standard
Place:          Palmerston North Show Grounds, Pascal Street, Palmerston North
Date:          February 24, 1958

This image was taken for a story that ran in The Manawatu Evening Standard on 24 February 1958, page 6: "This entry to the floral procession was the work of the combined retail stores in the city and well deserved its placing of first in its secti...

Creator:      Manawatu Evening Standard
Place:          Pascal Street, Palmerston North
Date:          February 24, 1958

This image was taken for a story that ran in The Manawatu Evening Standard on 22 February 1958, page 8: "The float of the reserves department of the Palmerston North City Council, which was part of the Floral festival this afternoon. It was built ...

Creator:      Manawatu Evening Standard
Place:          Palmerston North
Date:          February 22, 1958

The Floral Festival was a weeklong series of events organised by the Palmerston North Public Relations Organisation between the 17th and 22nd of February 1958. The events were well attended, and many businesses got into the spirit of the occasion ...

Creator:      Keith Roland Hamblyn
Place:          Palmerston North
Date:          February 22, 1958

The Floral Festival was a weeklong series of events organised by the Palmerston North Public Relations Organisation between the 17th and 22nd of February 1958. The events were well attended, and many businesses got into the spirit of the occasion ...

Creator:      Keith Roland Hamblyn
Place:          Palmerston North
Date:          February 22, 1958

The Floral Festival was a weeklong series of events organised by the Palmerston North Public Relations Organisation between the 17th and 22nd of February 1958. The events were well attended, and many businesses got into the spirit of the occasion ...

Creator:      Keith Roland Hamblyn
Place:          Palmerston North
Date:          February 22, 1958

The Floral Festival was a weeklong series of events organised by the Palmerston North Public Relations Organisation between the 17th and 22nd of February 1958. The events were well attended, and many businesses got into the spirit of the occasion ...

Creator:      Keith Roland Hamblyn
Place:          Palmerston North
Date:          February 22, 1958

The Floral Festival was a weeklong series of events organised by the Palmerston North Public Relations Organisation between the 17th and 22nd of February 1958. The events were well attended, and many businesses got into the spirit of the occasion ...

Creator:      Keith Roland Hamblyn
Place:          Palmerston North
Date:          February 22, 1958

The Floral Festival was a weeklong series of events organised by the Palmerston North Public Relations Organisation between the 17th and 22nd of February 1958. The events were well attended, and many businesses got into the spirit of the occasion ...

Creator:      Keith Roland Hamblyn
Place:          Palmerston North
Date:          February 22, 1958

The Floral Festival was a weeklong series of events organised by the Palmerston North Public Relations Organisation between the 17th and 22nd of February 1958. The events were well attended, and many businesses got into the spirit of the occasion ...

Creator:      Keith Roland Hamblyn
Place:          Palmerston North
Date:          February 22, 1958

The Floral Festival was a weeklong series of events organised by the Palmerston North Public Relations Organisation between the 17th and 22nd of February 1958. The events were well attended, and many businesses got into the spirit of the occasion ...

Creator:      Keith Roland Hamblyn
Place:          Palmerston North
Date:          February 22, 1958

The Floral Festival was a weeklong series of events organised by the Palmerston North Public Relations Organisation between the 17th and 22nd of February 1958. The events were well attended, and many businesses got into the spirit of the occasion ...

Creator:      Keith Roland Hamblyn
Place:          Palmerston North
Date:          February 22, 1958

The Floral Festival was a weeklong series of events organised by the Palmerston North Public Relations Organisation between the 17th and 22nd of February 1958. The events were well attended, and many businesses got into the spirit of the occasion ...

Creator:      Keith Roland Hamblyn
Place:          Palmerston North
Date:          February 22, 1958

Japan surrendered to the allies of World War II on 15 August. Immediately schools and businesses in Palmerston North were closed and celebrations, many informal, began. A thanksgiving service was held that afternoon, followed by a victory parade ...

Creator:      Unknown
Place:          Broadway Avenue, Palmerston North
Date:          August 16, 1945

Japan surrendered to the allies of World War II on 15 August. Immediately schools and businesses in Palmerston North were closed and celebrations, many informal, began. A thanksgiving service was held that afternoon, followed by a victory parade ...

Creator:      Unknown
Place:          Palmerston North
Date:          August 16, 1945

Ko Mortlock & Co he karāti motukā ki Hawera i te tiriti o Princes. The garage pictured in the background is listed in the New Zealand Post Office directories as being in Princes Street, Hawera.To access image please contact us.

Creator:      Unknown
Place:          Hawera, Taranaki
Date:          circa 1940 to circa 1949

A parade was held as part of the celebrations of Palmerston North achieving city status. It was declared the eighth city in New Zealand on 1 August 1930, but celebrations were delayed until better weather in November and combined with the New Zeal...

Creator:      W W Stewart
Place:          The Square, Palmerston North
Date:          November 19, 1930

C M Ross Co Ltd (Rosco) float in the parade celebrations to commemorate 50 years of Palmerston North, in 1927. The women on the float are modelling fashions of the previous 25 years, although the store operated from the 1880s. Situated on The Squ...

Creator:      Unknown
Place:          The Square, Palmerston North
Date:          1927

A Capping Day procession, 'Procesh', first took place through the central streets of Palmerston North in 1935. Massey Agricultural College developed into Massey University in the 1960s.

Creator:      Unknown
Place:          Palmerston North
Date:          1940

This image comes from a series of slides taken around Palmerston North in the late 1950s. Many show scenes in The Victoria Esplanade Gardens, but other areas and events around the city are also represented.

Creator:      S. A. Free
Place:          The Square, Palmerston North
Date:          1958

A float created from paper flowers, depicting a women in a large dress, in a parade at an unknown location (perhaps the A & P showgrounds). It was created by the Newbury Country Women's Institute.

Creator:      Gordon Koberstein
Place:          The Showgrounds. Palmerston North
Date:          1971

The Roller Skating Club float featured a large roller skate on a decorated vehicle, at the Palmerston North Showgrounds in Pascal Street.

Creator:      Unknown
Place:          61 Pascal Street, Palmerston North
Date:          1958