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

Name: Te Hirawanui

Suburb, Whakarongo

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

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

Pictured is the campus' auditorium building (left) and the Tower Block (right) with the campus' courtyard in front of it. 

These buildings will be torn down and replaced by a housing development before 2030.

~ Timeline of the...

Creator:      Ben Foster
Place:          40°22'12.4"S 175°37'51.7"E
Date:          December 2021

Pictured is the Ruahine building at the former Hokowhitu Campus. Note the mural on the wall next to the entrance. A closer photo of this can be found on this website. 

The building will be torn down and replaced by a housing develop...

Creator:      Ben Foster
Place:          40°22'13.0"S 175°37'51.1"E
Date:          December 2021

These concrete benches were removed to make-way for the redevelopment of the former Teaching College / Massey Hokowhitu Campus' playing fields. Many of the felled trees were piled together and burned.

The plaque on the top bench reads:</...

Creator:      Benjamin Foster
Place:          Centennial Drive, Hokowhitu
Date:          December 4, 2020