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

Looking down Main Street West towards Coleman Place (now Coleman Mall). Walkley's Commercial and Family Hotel was built in 1881. It was previously occupied by the Commercial Hotel. The Standard building alongside the hotel is the first home of the...

Creator:      Unknown
Place:          The Square, Palmerston North
Date:          January 1882 to March 1882

This photograph shows the third incarnation of the Commercial Hotel, built 1935. It was demolished in 1986. Down the street, towards Coleman Mall, is the C M Ross Building, or Roscos. The four storey C M Ross Co Ltd building, built 1927-1928, hous...

Creator:      Snapshots Unlimited
Place:          The Square, Palmerston North
Date:          1937

This 'Real Photograph' postcard shows the bridge over the lakelet in the Square with the with the Occidental Hotel in the background. The Occidental Hotel was originally built in 1881 and burnt down in 1891. After being rebuilt, it was again destr...

Creator:      F G R
Place:          The Square, Palmerston North
Date:          circa 1920

Emma Belk was one of the working class signatories to the 1893 women's suffrage petition. Aged 73 at the time,  she was living in Main Street Palmerston North. She and her husband James Duncan Belk were among the first group of settlers in...

Creator:      Unknown
Place:          Palmerston North
Date:          1880s

The Belk family of 16 persons and three generations was among the first group to settle in Feilding. Emma and James were living in Taonui Street, Palmerston North by the mid-1880s, and after her husband died in 1889, Emma appears as a 'grocer' in ...

Creator:      Unknown
Place:          Feilding
Date:          1880s