This negative comes from the Elmar Collection - a large series of semi-identified and unidentified images from the 1930s-1970s. 

Creator:      Elmar Studios, 459 Main Street, Palmerston North

Date:          1954

He rangatira a Tukumaru no Ngāti Raukawa. Ihakara Tukumaru was a Ngāti Raukawa chief. To access image please contact us.

Creator:      Unknown
Place:          Manawatu
Date:          circa 1870

I muri i te tangi tuatahi o nga pere i runga i te karaka i te Whare Poutaopeta i haere nga tangata ki to te W.T. Wood whare. Ko Kerei Te Panau e noho ana ki te taha maui tuarima. He korowai, he potae ona. Ko tona hoa ranatira, ko Ereni Te Awe A...

Creator:      Unknown
Place:          Corner of Cook and Ferguson Street, Palmerston North
Date:          1906

This image was taken for a story that ran in The Manawatu Evening Standard on 05 November 1958: "The Maori girls recently won the competition at Wellington consisting of long pois, action songs and the aggregate points section. They are members of...

Creator:      Manawatu Evening Standard
Place:          Palmerston North
Date:          November 5, 1958

The Māori Battalion Hall, named 'Te Rau Aroha' (emblem of gratitude), was erected in Palmerston North as a national memorial to the men of the 28th (Māori) Battalion who lost their lives in the Second World War. It was designed by John Scott, arch...

Creator:      R H Abraham
Place:          Corner of Cuba and Pitt Street, Palmerston North
Date:          June 27, 1964

The 1992 Māori Club at Freyberg High School.

Creator:      Freyberg Highschool
Place:          Freyberg Street, Palmerston North
Date:          1992

This image was not published in the Manawatu Evening Standard, taken on 12 May, 1963. [A Māori woman in traditional garments and a Thai man hold poi.]"

Creator:      Manawatū Evening Standard

Date:          May 8, 1963

This image was taken for a story that ran in The Manawatu Evening Standard on 05 April 1961 "The photograph shows a scale model of the new Maori Battalion Memorial Community Centre to be built near the south-eastern corner of Cuba and David Street...

Creator:      Manawatu Evening Standard
Place:          Palmerston North
Date:          April 5, 1961

This image was taken for a story that ran in The Manawatu Evening Standard on 27 February 1961 "Princess Kahu, representing the Maori community in the queen carnival, had her float decorated with Maori motifs in the procession on Saturday night. S...

Creator:      Manawatu Evening Standard
Place:          Palmerston North
Date:          February 27, 1961

This negative comes from the Elmar Collection - a large series of semi-identified and unidentified images from the 1930s-1970s. 

Creator:      Elmar Studios, 459 Main Street, Palmerston North

Date:          1954

A float made to look like a waka makes its way through The Square. People in traditional Māori dress ride on the float. 92 floats took part in the Palmerston North City Centennial celebrations of 1971. Approx. 10,000 people were present at the eve...

Creator:      Clarice Parlane

Date:          March 1971

This photograph shows Mrs Anereta Poananga and holding her eldest daughter.

Creator:      Unknown
Place:          Manawatu
Date:          circa 1918

Ko Mortlock & Co he karāti motukā ki Hawera i te tiriti o Princes. The garage pictured in the background is listed in the New Zealand Post Office directories as being in Princes Street, Hawera.To access image please contact us.

Creator:      Unknown
Place:          Hawera, Taranaki
Date:          circa 1940 to circa 1949

He kapa haka hei pōwhiri e pā ana ki te maumaharatanga o te taenga mai mā runga waka o ngā tāngata ko Mrs George Snelson rāua ko Matilda Montgomery i te tau 1871. Ko Manawatu te awa. A kapa haka performed by children during the re-enactment of the...

Creator:      Manawatu Evening Standard
Place:          Manawatu River at Albert Street, Palmerston North
Date:          March 13, 1971

The welcoming party during the re-enactment of the 1871 river landing of Mrs George Snelson and her 16 year-old ward Matilda Montgomery. The women travelled to Te Papaiōea (Palmerston North) by Māori waka on the Manawatu River. The re-enactment to...

Creator:      Manawatu Evening Standard
Place:          Albert Street, Palmerston North
Date:          March 13, 1971