Building Contractor Keith Malcolm (in partnership with brother Bruce) was responsible for many new builds in the Manawatū area between 1951 and 1999. The Malcolm brothers took over their father’s construction firm B. C. Malcolm and Sons in 1960. T...
Creator: Keith Malcolm
Date: 1970s
Building Contractor Keith Malcolm (in partnership with brother Bruce) was responsible for many new builds in the Manawatū area between 1951 and 1999. The Malcolm brothers took over their father’s construction firm B. C. Malcolm and Sons in 1960. T...
Creator: Keith Malcolm
Date: 1970s
Building Contractor Keith Malcolm (in partnership with brother Bruce) was responsible for many new builds in the Manawatū area between 1951 and 1999. The Malcolm brothers took over their father’s construction firm B. C. Malcolm and Sons in 1960. T...
Creator: Keith Malcolm
Date: 1970s
Building Contractor Keith Malcolm (in partnership with brother Bruce) was responsible for many new builds in the Manawatū area between 1951 and 1999. The Malcolm brothers took over their father’s construction firm B. C. Malcolm and Sons in 1960. T...
Creator: Keith Malcolm
Date: 1970s
Building Contractor Keith Malcolm (in partnership with brother Bruce) was responsible for many new builds in the Manawatū area between 1951 and 1999. The Malcolm brothers took over their father’s construction firm B. C. Malcolm and Sons in 1960. T...
Creator: Keith Malcolm
Date: 1970s
Building Contractor Keith Malcolm (in partnership with brother Bruce) was responsible for many new builds in the Manawatū area between 1951 and 1999. The Malcolm brothers took over their father’s construction firm B. C. Malcolm and Sons in 1960. T...
Creator: Keith Malcolm
Date: 1970s
Building Contractor Keith Malcolm (in partnership with brother Bruce) was responsible for many new builds in the Manawatū area between 1951 and 1999. The Malcolm brothers took over their father’s construction firm B. C. Malcolm and Sons in 1960. T...
Creator: Keith Malcolm
Date: 1970s
Building Contractor Keith Malcolm (in partnership with brother Bruce) was responsible for many new builds in the Manawatū area between 1951 and 1999. The Malcolm brothers took over their father’s construction firm B. C. Malcolm and Sons in 1960. T...
Creator: Keith Malcolm
Date: 1970s
Building Contractor Keith Malcolm (in partnership with brother Bruce) was responsible for many new builds in the Manawatū area between 1951 and 1999. The Malcolm brothers took over their father’s construction firm B. C. Malcolm and Sons in 1960. T...
Creator: Keith Malcolm
Date: 1970s
Building Contractor Keith Malcolm (in partnership with brother Bruce) was responsible for many new builds in the Manawatū area between 1951 and 1999. The Malcolm brothers took over their father’s construction firm B. C. Malcolm and Sons in 1960. T...
Creator: Keith Malcolm
Date: 1970s
Building Contractor Keith Malcolm (in partnership with brother Bruce) was responsible for many new builds in the Manawatū area between 1951 and 1999. The Malcolm brothers took over their father’s construction firm B. C. Malcolm and Sons in 1960. T...
Creator: Keith Malcolm
Date: 1970s
Building Contractor Keith Malcolm (in partnership with brother Bruce) was responsible for many new builds in the Manawatū area between 1951 and 1999. The Malcolm brothers took over their father’s construction firm B. C. Malcolm and Sons in 1960. T...
Creator: Keith Malcolm
Date: 1970s
Building Contractor Keith Malcolm (in partnership with brother Bruce) was responsible for many new builds in the Manawatū area between 1951 and 1999. The Malcolm brothers took over their father’s construction firm B. C. Malcolm and Sons in 1960. T...
Creator: Keith Malcolm
Date: 1970s
Building Contractor Keith Malcolm (in partnership with brother Bruce) was responsible for many new builds in the Manawatū area between 1951 and 1999. The Malcolm brothers took over their father’s construction firm B. C. Malcolm and Sons in 1960. T...
Creator: Keith Malcolm
Date: 1970s
Building Contractor Keith Malcolm (in partnership with brother Bruce) was responsible for many new builds in the Manawatū area between 1951 and 1999. The Malcolm brothers took over their father’s construction firm B. C. Malcolm and Sons in 1960. T...
Creator: Keith Malcolm
Date: 1970s
Broadcast on Manawatu People's Radio, 2nd November 2021. Part 2 of 2. Grey Power is a stand-alone separate lobby group for older people. Description of Age Concern, a government funded support group for older people. Lew involved with Age...
Creator: Stuart Birks
Place: Palmerston North
Date: November 2, 2021
Journalist Tina White's weekly "Memory Lane" article in the Manawatū Standard. In the 1950s and 1960s, building company Beazley Homes built homes to meet a housing shortage. The nationwide company made pre-cut affordable homes, with the house and...
Creator: Tina White
Place: Manawatū
Date: July 17, 2010
Layout of the Transit Camp in Hokowhitu, on what became the site of the Palmerston North Teachers College and later Massey University Hokowhitu campus. After WWII there was a shortage of housing in New Zealand, and this camp provided temporary acc...
Date: 1946 to 1947
Proposed layout for part of the Transit Camp in Hokowhitu, on what became the site of the Palmerston North Teachers College and later Massey University Hokowhitu campus. After WWII there was a shortage of housing in New Zealand, and this camp prov...
Date: 1947
Savage Crescent is in the West End area of Palmerston North, bounded by College Street, Cook Street and Park Road. Fifty acres was bought by the Government for the development, and between then and 1944, 245 state houses were built. For the time, ...
Creator:
A concept drawing of what housing might look like on the the railway land, bounded by Pitt Street, Church Street, Main Street and Cook Street.
Creator: Struction Group (Architects and Consulting Engineers)
Place: Railway Land, Palmerston North
Date: September 1973
Building plan for a two-storey block of flats with communal facilities. Post WWII there was a shortage of housing in New Zealand, and this building was part of the plan for temporary (transit) housing for people in need. A camp of transit housing ...
Creator: Palmerston North City Council
Place: South Street, Palmerston North
Date: May 1, 1946
Plans for houses and ablution blocks for the Transit Camp in Hokowhitu. Both the houses and the ablution blocks were planned to be constructed from re-purposed army huts. Units were also built for purpose.
Post WWII there was a shortage of housin...
Creator: Palmerston North City Council
Place: Centennial Drive, Palmerston North
Date: 1945 to 1946
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 ten-page report was prepared for the Town Planning Office of the PNCC. The purpose of the report was "to examine the residential site building coverage requirements as laid down in the Palmerston North CIty Council Code of Ordinance. The ma...
Creator: Peter Crawford, PNCC Town Planning Office
Date: December 1970
Broadcast on Access Manawatu on 29 May 2018, a group discussion of building styles and materials at various times in New Zealand. Topics include: ceiling heights, heating, ventilation, food safes, design errors, and threats (floods, earthquakes, l...
Creator: Stuart Birks
Date: May 29, 2018
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
Newly built townhouses at 63 Church Street, West End.
Creator: Colin Rush
Place: Palmerston North
Date: 1980s
This image was taken for a story that ran in The Manawatu Evening Standard on 22 May 1958, page 8: "the Minister of Housing (Mr. Fox) paid a visit to Palmerston North in company with Mr. P.O.S. Skoglund, M.P. today, to study the housing position i...
Creator: Manawatu Evening Standard
Place: Church Street, Palmerston North
Date: May 22, 1958