This aerial is set in Palmerston North. Several Hokowhitu streets are shown. The street on the left from the bottom to near the top is part Victoria Avenue. It intersects with part Te Awe Awe Street near the top. Anderson Street runs parallel to V...
Creator: Joe Greening (Argosy Studios/Argosy Industrial Photos)
Place: Palmerston North
Date: 1955
This aerial is set in Palmerston North. It is believed to be predominantly part Hokowhitu suburb and part Terrace End suburb. The street which runs from the bottom right corner is Albert Street. Hokowhitu School can be seen on the far left of this...
Creator: Joe Greening (Argosy Studios/Argosy Industrial Photos)
Place: Palmerston North
Date: 1960s
This aerial shows part of Hokowhitu. The street running from left to right through the centre of the photograph is Victoria Avenue. Albert Street runs parallel to Victoria Ave near the top of the image. Te Awe Awe Street, which connects Victoria a...
Creator: Joe Greening (Argosy Studios/Argosy Industrial Photos)
Place: Palmerston North
Date: October 1967
Pat and Jan playing in the garden of the Hayes family home at 11 Anderson Street, Palmerston North.
Creator: Thomas Hayes [?]
Place: 11 Anderson Street, Hokowhitu, Palmerston North
Date: 1953
The house on the righthand side of this image is 47 Crewe Crescent. Numbers 14, 19 and 22 Buxton Place are visible behind.
This slide was likely created by David Evans of the City Council's Planning Office. M D (David) Evans was a planning assist...
Creator: D. Evans
Place: Palmerston North
Date: 1960s
The house on the righhand side of this image is 47 Crewe Crescent. Numbers 14, 19 and 22 Buxton Place are visible behind.
This slide was likely created by David Evans of the City Council's Planning Office. M D (David) Evans was a planning assista...
Creator: D. Evans
Place: Palmerston North
Date: 1960s
This slide was likely created by David Evans of the City Council's Planning Office. M D (David) Evans was a planning assistant from 1955 to 1968, Deputy City Planner from 1968 to 1978 and Senior Planning Officer (Design and Development) from 1978-...
Creator: D. Evans
Place: Palmerston North
Date: 1960s
This slide was likely created by David Evans of the City Council's Planning Office. M D (David) Evans was a planning assistant from 1955 to 1968, Deputy City Planner from 1968 to 1978 and Senior Planning Officer (Design and Development) from 1978-...
Creator: D. Evans
Place: Palmerston North
Date: 1960s
House plans for units that were built at the Transit Camp in Hokowhitu.
Post WWII there was a shortage of housing in New Zealand, and this camp provided temporary accommodation for families in need. Bathrooms were not a feature of the units and ...
Creator: New Zealand Government (probable)
Place: Centennial Drive, Palmerston North
Date: March 25, 1948
This image was taken for Photorama pictorial magazine’s September 1960 edition but was not published.
It depicts a building which was later named the Mataamua building. It was the first building constructed for the Teacher's Training College, and ...
Creator: Frank Goldingham
Place: Hokowhitu, Palmerston North
Date: June 1960
The drive is named in honour of Te Hirawanui Kaimokopuna (c. 1808-1883). Te Hirawanui Kaimokopuna was ariki (hereditary high chief) of the hapū (kinship group) Ngāti Mutuahi, Te Rangiaranaki and Ngāti...
Creator: Heritage Team, Palmerston North City Library
Date: 2025
Contents:
p. 3 Editorial / Russell Poole
p. 4 ‘Simple everyday dishes’ from the Town & Country Patriotic Women Workers’ Cookery Book ...
Creator: Manawatū Historic Journal Associates
Place: Manawatū
Date: 2022
The three houses shown here today have the street numbers (left to right) 71, 73 and 75b Jickell Street. They are viewed from the corner with Hardie Street.
This photograph comes from a set of images donated to the Ian Matheson City Archives duri...
Creator: Unknown
Date: 1950s
Local historians weekly "Back Issues" article in the Manawatū Standard. The Ruahine Reserve was the site of Ruahine Kāinga (village) before 1864, a community of 150 to 200 people. It is recalled by Rangitāne as being where the old College of Educ...
Creator: Karla Karaitiana
Place: Palmerston North
Date: June 1, 2024
This image was taken for Photorama pictorial magazine and was published in the June 1960 edition.
The Teacher’s Training College was located in Hokowhitu but was sold by Massey University to property developers. This building no longer exists.
Creator: Frank Goldingham
Place: Hokowhitu, Palmerston North
Date: June 1960
This image was taken for Photorama pictorial magazine’s June 1960 edition but was not published.
The Teacher’s Training College was located in Hokowhitu but was sold by Massey University to property developers. This building no longer exists.
Creator: Frank Goldingham
Place: Hokowhitu, Palmerston North
Date: June 1960
This image was taken for Photorama pictorial magazine’s June 1960 edition but was not published.
The Teacher’s Training College was located in Hokowhitu but was sold by Massey University to property developers. This building no longer exists.
Creator: Frank Goldingham
Place: Hokowhitu, Palmerston North
Date: June 1960
Palmerston North Plunket rooms 1994. There were several Plunket Society sub-branches located throughout the city. The Hokowhitu Plunket rooms premises were in Franklin Avenue, with the suburb's kindergarten next door.
Creator: Unknown
Place: Palmerston North
Date: 1994
Local historians weekly "Back Issues" article in the Manawatū Standard. When members of Rangitāne sold land at Hokowhitu to the Crown in 1892-93, it was surveyed into sections. Low lying and flood prone section 262 extended from what is now the ri...
Creator: Russell Poole
Place: Hokowhitu
Date: May 14, 2022
Local historians weekly "Back Issues" article in the Manawatū Standard. The Hokowhitu Transit camp was a temporary housing initiative by council and government 1945-1959. Post World World 2, the government was challenged with a housing crises nati...
Creator: Russell Poole
Place: Palmerston North
Date: January 8, 2022
College Street School was established in Palmerston North in 1893, on the west side of College Street opposite the present buildings.
Creator: F A Tier (?)
Date: 1950
This image was taken for a story that ran in The Manawatu Evening Standard on 15 April, 1959. "C. Harris (Manawatu) centre and S. McDowall (Feilding) look on as G. E. Cutfield (Manawatu) putts during the first round of the Manawatu veterans' annua...
Creator: Manawatu Evening Standard
Place: Palmerston North
Date: 1959-04-15T00:00:00+00:00
This image was taken for a story that ran in The Manawatu Evening Standard on 10 October 1958: "A study in concentration at the Hokowhitu golf links this morning as M. P. O'Keefe prepares to tee-off during the annual accountants' golf tournament. ...
Creator: Manawatu Evening Standard
Place: 19 Centennial Drive, Hokowhitu, Palmerston North
Date: October 10, 1958
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This image was not taken published in The Manawatu Evening Standard, taken on 18 January, 1964. [Royal New Zealand divers test equipment at Centennial Lake for the Palmerston North Carnival of the Lake." See also: 2017N_2017-20_018311, 2017N_2017-...
Creator: Manawatū Evening Standard
Place: Hokowhitu, Palmerston North
Date: 1964-01-17T00:00:00+00:00
This image was taken for a story that ran in The Manawatu Evening Standard on 25 October 1958: "The main interest of golfers in the city this weekend is at the Manawatu Club's tournament at Hokowhitu. J. Sims (Palmerston North) is seen driving off...
Creator: Manawatu Evening Standard
Place: 19 Centennial Drive, Hokowhitu, Palmerston North
Date: October 25, 1958
The Carnival of the Lake took place at Hokowhitu Lagoon during Anniversary Weekend 1963. Events included a pet parade, children's competitions, Highland dancing, and a boating and canoeing regatta. Some other highlights were decorated gondolas, an...
Creator: Merlyn Drew
Date: 1963
Photo taken by Terry Finnerty, photographer. Aerial view shows intersection Broadway Avenue and The Square. Opposite The Square is Australia and New Zealand Bank Limited, Gerrands and Sons, watchmakers, jewellers and optical services. Behind the t...
Creator: Terry Finnerty
Place: Palmerston North
Date: circa 1958
Pictured is the demolition of the gymnasium and playing courts at the former Massey Hokowhitu Campus / Teachers College. They are being replaced by a housing subdivision.
The gym was noted to be state of the art during its ti...
Creator: Ben Foster
Place: Hokowhitu
Date: March 2021
Pictured is the demolition of Kura Awa / Manukura School (foreground) and the gymnasium (background) at the former Massey Hokowhitu Campus / Teachers College. They are being replaced by a housing subdivision.
The gym was noted to b...
Creator: Ben Foster
Place: Hokowhitu
Date: March 2021
Pictured is the campus' auditorium building (left) and the KA North Lecture Theatre building (right) which form the entrance to the campus' courtyard area. They are unique examples of modernist brutalism in the city; note the different concrete...
Creator: Ben Foster
Place: 40°22'14.3"S 175°37'51.1"E
Date: December 2021