The correct spelling of the stream's name is Turitea (turi = water, tea = bright or clear). However, during the 1880s the Palmerston North Borough Council misspelled the name and the incorrect version (Tititea) passed into common useage. In 1991, ...
Date: circa 1909
A team of at least six bullocks (with a seventh in reserve), hawl a log along wooden tracks.
Date: 1895 to 1905
The photograph was taken a few chains south-west of Opawe Road and shows the squared sleepers being sledged out of the bush to the road. The owner and driver of the horses and sledge was Mr. Sam Lane. The men in the photo are, from left to right: ...
Creator: C. E. Wildbore
Date: circa 1904
This photograph shows two unidentified men transporting provisions by horseback, across the ford before "Black Ridge". Kahuterawa Valley is located near Palmerston North in the foot of the Tararua Ranges. One of the earliest European owners of the...
Creator: Unknown
Place: Kahuterawa Valley, Manawatu
Date: circa 1896
A colourised photograph of the Ormondville Railway Viaduct.
Creator: Unknown
Place: Ormondville, Hawkes Bay
Date: 1880s
View looking downstream of College Creek, Tararua Forest Park. College Creek forms part of the Mangahao #2 Dam to College Creek loop track, with Burn Hut lying on top of the ridgeline at the halfway point along the track..
Creator: Evan Greensides
Place: Tararua Forest Park
Date: January 22, 2018
This photograph from the early 20th century shows a shot of the bush walk in Victoria Esplanade.
Creator: George W Anderson
Place: Victoria Esplanade, Palmerston North
Date: circa 1910
Photograph from viewpoint along the Otangane Loop with the high point of the track, "The Nipple", in the centre background. This track is accessible via the Sledge Track in the Kahuterawa Forest Park.
Creator: Evan Greensides
Place: Tararua Forest Park
Date: January 15, 2018
A panoramic view of Palmerston North from Aokautere Hill across the Manawatu River. The Manawatu River runs in the foreground of the picture.
Creator: C M Thompson
Place: Palmerston North
Date: 1970s
Burn Hut is a basic six-bunk hut which lies within the middle of the northern end of the Tararua Forest Park as part of the Mangahao #2 Dam to College Creek loop track. The hut lies at 750 meters above sea level and has expansive views from Eke...
Creator: Evan Greensides
Place: Burn hut, Tararua Forest Park
Date: January 22, 2018
The men are digging out the bank with shovels and carting the dirt away by horse and cart along the constructed part of the tramline. The tramline was being built at Broadbelt's Mill at Coal Creek, near Apiti. Men identified as Dick Sixtus and Joh...
Creator: Unknown
Place: Palmerston North
Date: circa 1900 to circa 1910
Photograph of the fork in the Otangane Loop Track. This track is accessible via the Sledge Track and lies in the Kahauterawa and Tararua Forest Park area.
Creator: Evan Greensides
Place: Tararua Forest Park
Date: January 15, 2018
This photograph shows a bush-feller's hut in an unknown location. The note at bottom left probably reads "1876".
Creator: Unknown
Place: Manawatu
Date: circa 1876
This hand-tinted postcard shows three men hiking through the Turitea Stream.
Creator: Unknown
Panorama photograph from the high point of the Otangane Loop Track, The Nipple, at 650m above sea level. The view takes in the area around Pahiatua to the northeast and Mangahao river. Kopikopiko and Naenae roads lie directly beneath this area....
Creator: Evan Greensides
Place: Pahiatua
Date: January 15, 2018
View from the top of Wharite Peak, Ruahine Forest Park, looking down to a track which runs to the end of Number 4 Line, Ashhurst.
Creator: Evan Greensides
Place: Wharite Peak
Date: March 13, 2016
Photograph of Te Apiti Wind Farm sitting along the Tararua Ranges at sunrise. Photograph was taken looking southwest from the carpark at the top of Valley Road, Pohnagina.
Creator: Evan Greensides
Place: North Range Road, Manawatu
Date: March 6, 2016
This white pine felled in the Levin district was of an unusual size. (A copy of the photograph in the Journal of the House of Representatives (C-1 facing page 30) shows the wording on the sign which was obliterated in this reproduction.)
Creator: Unknown
Place: Palmerston North
Date: circa 1904
The original dam at Turitea was constructed in 1888-1889. It was submerged when the second dam, built 1906-1907, was raised in height to 50 feet in 1912.
Creator: G J Stout, Palmerston North
Place: Turitea, Palmerston North
Date: circa 1905
"Totara Reserve" is the popular name for the Pohangina Valley Domain situated on the east bank of the Pohangina River.
Creator: Charles E Wildbore
Place: Manawatu
Date: 1915 to 1920
"Totara Reserve" is the popular name of the 740 acre public reserve situated on the east bank of the Pohangina River and officially known as Pohangina Valley Domain. Since 1947, this reserve has been owned by the Palmerston North City Council. Thi...
Creator: Charles E Wildbore
Place: Pohangina Valley
Date: 1915 to 1920
Photograph of the small Otangane Stream which crosses the Otangane Loop Track in the Tararua Forest Park. The Otangane Loop Track is accessible via the Sledge Track.
Creator: Evan Greensides
Place: Tararua Forest Park
Date: January 15, 2018
The Bandstand, built 1898, was originally located in The Square but was shifted to the Esplanade in 1907. It was demolished in 1960.
Creator: Unknown
Place: Palmerston North
Date: circa 1915
A bush scene that is identified as 'Tiratu, Dannevirke'.
Two identical images pasted onto card.
Creator: Unknown
Place: Tiratu, Dannevirke
Date: circa 1900
A portable steam driven winch known as a log-hauler, hauled logs from the bush to the tramline, from where horses then hauled the logs along the tramline to the sawmill. From the left: men tentatively identified as Jack O’Hagan, who worked at Umu...
Creator: Unknown
Place: Palmerston North
Date: circa 1910 to circa 1920
Logs being hauled on a temporary tramway by a traction (steam) engine modified to work on tram rails, at an unknown location. “Manson & Co. Tram” are written on the side of the engine canopy.
Creator: Unknown
Place: Palmerston North
Date: circa 1910 to circa 1920
Panoramic view of the terrain around Burn Hut with "Peak", the largets feature nearby, lying in the middle of the picture. Burn Hut is accessible via the loop track of Mangahao # 2 Dam to College Creek and lies in the middle of the northern end...
Creator: Evan Greensides
Place: Burn hut, Tararua Forest Park
Date: January 22, 2018