This image was taken for a story that ran in The Manawatu Evening Standard on 16 September 1960 "By mid-morning home-made cakes and scones had sold like the proverbial "hot cakes" at the stall in aid of funds for the blind. However, there was a la...

Creator:      Manawatu Evening Standard
Place:          The Square, Palmerston North
Date:          1960-09-16T00:00:00+00:00

This image was taken for a story that ran in The Manawatu Evening Standard on 18 February 1961 "Over the past 55 years of trading, Garners have made every effort to bring to the people of Palmerston North a top rate service backed with prices uneq...

Creator:      Manawatu Evening Standard
Place:          Between Broadway Avenue and Main Street, Palmerston North
Date:          1961-02-18T00:00:00+00:00

Mayor Grant Smith asked that the traditional ANZAC Day poppy wreath be a community created object in 2016. Hundreds of knitted, felted and crocheted poppies were donated to the project and hand-stitched on to the wreath.

Creator:      Palmerston North City Council
Place:          The Square, Palmerston North
Date:          April 2016

The Libertyland factory in Grey Street was opened in 1934 by Mr F.F. Young, NZ representative of R & W H Symington & Co Ltd., Wellington. Originally an English company with an ahead office in Market Harborough, it was first established in 1856. Mr...

Creator:      Unknown
Place:          Corner of Roy Street and Tremaine Avenue, Palmerston North
Date:          circa 1948

Sarah Parker (2nd from left) with her daughters, (from left) Lorna, Hannah and Win, knitting on the verandah of the farmhouse on Banks Line, Rongotea. The Parker family farmed there from 1920 - 1989.

Creator:      Unknown
Place:          Rongotea, Manawatū
Date:          1930s

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:          November 1967

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

For more information on the Manawatū Knitting Mills, see White, Jill (2007). ["Women at Work in the Manawatū Knitting ...

Creator:      Elmar Studios, 459 Main Street, Palmerston North
Date:          1966