The origin is unknown. It is assumed to be named after Cuba Street in Wellington, which was named after the ship, "Cuba."
The image is a derivative of this <a href="https://manawatuheritage....
Creator: Heritage Team, Palmerston North City Library
Date: 2024
Local historians weekly "Back Issues" article in the Manawatū Standard. European refugees, displaced persons after World War 2, started arriving at a camp in Pahīatua in 1949. This article describes the journey and October 1950 Wellington arrival ...
Creator: Dr Tania Kopytko
Place: Wellington Palmerston North Pahīatua
Date: November 1, 2025
Local historians weekly "Back Issues" article in the Manawatū Standard. European refugees, displaced persons after World War 2, started arriving at a camp in Pahiatua in 1949. This article describes the story of Lucija (Lucy) Ozolins née Upenajs w...
Creator: Dr Tania Kopytko
Place: Pahiatua
Date: June 8, 2024
This copy of John Tiffin Stewart's handwritten manuscript was typed in 1967 by Ian Matheson, who has annotated each paragraph with the page numbers of T. Lindsay Buick's Old Manawatu (1903) containing information derived from Stewart's manuscript.
Date: 1902 to 1967
Contents:
p. 3 Editorial / Cushla Scrivens
p. 5 A story of music, rumour, and war in Feilding / Dorothy Pilkington
p. 11 Anders Hansen Ihle Palmerston North pioneer / Joan Barnes
p. 20 A journalist in World War One: the man who created 'ANZAC'...
Creator: Manawatū Historic Journal Associates
Place: Manawatū
Date: 2015
Contents:
p. 3 Editorial / Cushla Scrivens
p. 4 A farmhouse becomes famous / Margaret Tate
p. 9 I learnt from the nuns a study of music teaching offered by the Sisters of Mercy in Palmerston North / Graham Parsons
p. 25 The Alwyn Physical ...
Creator: Manawatū Historic Journal Associates
Place: Manawatū
Date: 2006
Contents:
p. 3 Editorial / Cushla Scrivens
p. 4 Pete the Pedler: remembered by many / Dorothy Pilkington
p. 8 'A desire for the beautiful' the Manawatū Arts and Crafts Club 1911-1932 / Margaret Tate
p. 16 Local identities organised the fir...
Creator: Manawatū Historic Journal Associates
Place: Manawatū
Date: 2005
Broadcast on Manawatu People's Radio, 10th January 2023. Part 3 of 4. Engagement and subsequent events. Marriage and widowed, living in Glenfield, working with immigrants. To Afghanistan in pastoral care for staff of an agency...
Creator: Stuart Birks
Place: Palmerston North
Date: January 10, 2023
Local historians weekly "Back Issues" article in the Manawatū Standard. European refugees displaced during World War 2 started arriving at a camp in Pahiatua in 1949. They stayed for 6 weeks to prepare for life elsewhere in New Zealand. The succes...
Creator: Dr Tania Kopytko
Place: Pahīatua
Date: February 17, 2024
This image was taken for a story that ran in The Manawatu Evening Standard on 02 September 1960 "Recently arrived in New Zealand from England, Mr. and Mrs. J. Shaw and their son Peter will settle in Palmerston North. Mr. Shaw will commence teachin...
Creator: Manawatu Evening Standard
Place: Palmerston North
Date: 1960-09-02T00:00:00+00:00
This image was taken for a story that ran in The Manawatu Evening Standard on 10 September 1960 "The two English teachers who arrived in Palmerston North this week to take up appointments at the Palmerston North Girls' High School. They are (left)...
Creator: Manawatu Evening Standard
Place: Palmerston North
Date: 1960-09-10T00:00:00+00:00
This image was taken for a story that ran in The Manawatu Evening Standard on 23 November 1960 "Together with his wife and daughter, Solvelga Grinvadis (right), Mr. A. Zvaigzne receive their certificates during a naturalisation ceremony in the Cit...
Creator: Manawatu Evening Standard
Place: Church Street, Palmerston North
Date: 1960-11-23T00:00:00+00:00
This image was taken for a story that ran in The Manawatu Evening Standard on 06 September 1960 "Four trainee graduates in science and mathematics for the Freyberg High School and two permanent appointees, one for the Girls' High School and the ot...
Creator: Manawatu Evening Standard
Place: Main Street, Palmerston North
Date: 1960-09-06T00:00:00+00:00
Diary written by third class steerage passenger on the 'Ionic', sailing from Gravesend and Plymouth in England to Wellington and Port Chalmers in New Zealand. The writer departed from Plymouth on 6 December 1884, with his wife and children (Esther...
Creator: Mr Cole [?]
Date: 1884 to 1885
De Molen is a full-scale working flour windwill erected by Jan Langen and Cor Slobbe in 2003 as a monument to Dutch immigration to New Zealand.
As part of Local History Week, members of the public and City Library staff visited Te Awahou Nieuwe ...
Creator: Adam Melville
Place: Foxton
Date: October 30, 2018
Movie taken by Kurt Gabriel. Kurt and his wife Hildegard came from Berlin, Germany to Palmerston North in 1938. Hilde was a lawyer (Heidelberg & Zurich Universities) but unable to practise in New Zealand. In the early 1960s she became a teacher of...
Creator: Kurt Gabriel
Place: Manawatū
Date: circa 1938
Interview with Goff Ashwell and Alan Caddick about their experiences of being part of the Ten Pound Pom migrant scheme from the United Kingdom in the 1950s. 'Ten Pound Poms is a colloquial term used in New Zealand to describe the British subjects ...
Creator: Stuart Birks - interviewer
Date: February 11, 2012
PapersPast is a searchable online resource giving full-text access to New Zealand newspapers from 1839 to (currently) 1948, along with other documents such as letters, diaries and parliamentary papers.
Here are two local newspaper articles describ...
Creator: Stuart Birks
Place: Palmerston North
Date: September 27, 2016
This is Val Burr's B.A (Hons) History Research Exercise for Massey University. It discusses German emigration to this area, and explores the experience of Germans during and after World War One, in New Zealand and specifically the Manawatu-Rangiti...
Creator: Val Burr
Place: Manawatū - Rangitikei
Date: 1996