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 7 November, 1959. “Bo-Peep the only entry in mare or gelding 13 hands and under owned by Mr C. Flip is held in readiness for its circuit of the Oval during the grand par...
Creator: Manawatu Evening Standard
Place: Palmerston North
Date: November 7, 1959
H I Christensen with a team of horses ready to make a delivery from his Pohangina Store. See 2007n_poh8_rtl_0854 for an earlier view of the store.
Creator: Unknown
Place: Pohangina, Manawatu
Date: circa 1913
George Shailer (1848-1918) was a well known local photographer in Palmerston North at the end of the 19th century. He later established an orchard in Scandia Street (now Albert Street). George Shailer is at right spraying the fruit trees, helped b...
Creator: Unknown
Place: Palmerston North
Date: circa 1910 to circa 1919
This is possibly Awa Mill as there is no proper jetty.
Creator: George W Anderson
Place: Foxton, Horowhenua
Date: circa 1912
The 'Maitai' mill, on Akers' Riverdale estate, was established in 1899 by Styles and Coley and sold to the Green Flaxdressing Co Ltd., in 1907. It was situated about 2 1/2 miles upriver from the site of the present Moutoa flood gates (2007).
Creator: Unknown
Date: circa 1909
Phillip Doughty, a farmer of “Willowglen' near Bulls, is crossing the ford at the end of Johnson Street. This was known as 'Trickers’s Ford', because the Tricker family owned land in the locality. A bridge now crosses the stream at this point.
Creator: Jachim (Jack) Taylor, Bulls
Place: Palmerston North
Date: circa 1913
This photograph was created by William James Young in the early 20th century. A large variety of subjects are depicted in the collection, but family, rural life and travel are the most prominent themes. The exact location of the photographs in the...
Creator: William James Young
Date: 1900 to 1932
A horse and cart in the Centennial Parade. 92 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.
Creator: Unknown
Place: The Square, Palmerston North
Date: March 1971
An unidentified man with a horse and cart in front of St Stephen's Presbyterian Church in Ponsonby, Auckland.
Creator: Unknown
Place: 65 Jervois Road, Ponsonby, Auckland
Date: 1900s
Mr Sargisson with horses and cart in front of F. Tomlinson's blacksmith and farrier business.
Creator: Unknown
Place: Eketahuna
Date: circa 1910
Darrach’s Store at Apiti was also the local Post Office. The shop was purchased by Stephens in 1902. From left: L Bagnell; - James, Manager; N. Gill; Roy Hooper; D. Paterson; D. Prince; Charlie Jacobsen on cart.
Creator: Unknown
Place: Apiti, Manawatu
Date: 1896 to 1900
Stephen Thomas Hunt operated a butcher's shop in Ashhurst before moving to Palmerston North and setting up a carrier's business. The building was later used as a bakery.
Creator: P P De Loree, Tourist Photographer
Place: Winchester Street, Ashhurst, Manawatu
Date: circa 1895
World War One Medical Corps soldiers with a horse and cart, outside 'Dustin's home cookery shop.
Creator: Unknown
Place: Main Street, Palmerston North
Date: circa 1914 to circa 1918
Businesses seen, from right: Jubal Fleming's hairdressing and tobacco shop stood on the corner of Church Street; W Nixon, paperhanging warehouse; Manawatu Farmers Association; A A Lissaman's Chemist Shop, across Main Street; Dick Lee's Fruiterers ...
Creator: George W Shailer
Place: The Square, Palmerston North
Date: circa 1893
Hunt's carrying depot, was situated between the Club Hotel at right and St Andrews Presbyterian Church, on Church Street. Stephen Thomas Hunt operated a butcher's shop in Ashhurst before moving to Palmerston North
Creator: Crown Studios
Place: Church Street, Palmerston North
Date: circa 1910
The fishpond in The Square had a rockery, with fountain spurting from it. Behind The Square extends from the corner of Rangitikei Street along Broadway.
Creator: Unknown
Place: The Square, Palmerston North
Date: circa 1905 to circa 1906
This view shows the Town Hall,a large wodden building constructed in 1903. The building housed the local cinema and Moore and Kerse, General Agents. Beyond can be seen a land agent and church.
Creator: Muir and Moodie
Place: Marton, Rangitikei Region
Date: circa 1905
After use as a church hall, the building was used as Watson Bros’ warehouse and then by a car wrecker. In 1991 the building stood at 548 Main Street, but with a central roller door.
Creator: Unknown
Place: Palmerston North
Date: unknown
Photograph shows workers outside the Rangitikei Co-op Dairy Co. Possible identification of figures from back of photograph read: On step Howard, D; J.C. Button; Mylan[?],S ; Dury, S or J.
Creator: Unknown
Place: Palmerston North
Date: circa 1900
The Rongotea Co-operative Dairy Co. Ltd was founded 1895. Farmers line up to unload milk at the new Dairy Factory, built 1911, the third in Rongotea. The photograph was published 20 September 1911.
Creator: New Zealand Dairyman
Place: Palmerston North
Date: 1911
A group of men stacking oats into two large piles on a farm in the Feilding area.
Creator: Unknown
Place: Manawatu
Date: 1900 to 1910
The Rongotea Co-operative Dairy Co. Ltd was founded 1895. This building is the second factory built, which served 1900-1911. Farmers delivered their own milk to the factory.
Creator: Unknown
Place: Palmerston North
Date: circa 1910
The road through the Manawatu Gorge, linking Manawatu with Wairarapa and Hawkes Bay, was constructed in 1871-1872, and the railway line opened in 1891. This photograph, at the Woodville end of the Gorge, was taken prior to the construction of the ...
Creator: Unknown
Place: Tararua District
Date: circa 1895
The factory, established in 1900 by McMillan and Frederick, was taken over by Dalgety and Co. Ltd. who then sold to the newly formed Shannon Co-operative Dairy Co. Ltd in 1909. The Shannon Co-op ran the factory until 1929, when a new building was ...
Creator: Unknown
Place: Horowhenua Region
Date: circa 1900 to circa 1910
A road extends from Fitzherbert Street (Avenue) to the railway tracks in the centre of The Square, from where the photograph has been taken. The building on the right hand corner of Fitzherbert Street is the Bank of New Zealand (BNZ), recently reb...
Creator: Unknown
Place: Palmerston North
Date: 1902 to 1905
A brewery float is towed by clydesdale horses during the Centennial Parade. 92 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.
Creator: Unknown
Place: The Square, Palmerston North
Date: March 1971
A horse and gig in Rongotea. The woman may be Lorna Parker. Her parents, John and Sarah had a dairy farm on Banks Line, Rongotea.
Creator: Unknown
Place: Rongotea, Manawatū
Date: 1930s
2014P_Sq75_008861 shows a more easterly view, although some of the details are identical. Alterations to the Bank of New Zealand (corner of Square and Fitzherbert Avenue) took place in 1909. The scaffolding appears to still be in tact. This image ...
Creator: Andrew Millar's Series
Place: The Square, Palmerston North
Date: 1909 to 1910
John Prentice established a brick works in Boundary Road in 1891. Later these works were sold and merged and became Brick and Pipes Ltd.
Creator: Unknown
Place: Palmerston North
Date: circa 1905