Three workers, with horses hauling a log along a bush tramway. The background shows evidence of bush clearance by burning off.

Date:          circa 1890

This historic photograph was reproduced in the Evening Standard, 18 December 1971, with the caption: "Slab Hut at Waituna West, is situated on Messrs Hare Bro's farm."

Date:          circa 1900

A team of at least six bullocks (with a seventh in reserve), hawl a log along wooden tracks.

Date:          1895 to 1905

Two axemen stand at at the base of a large tree trunk in an area of partially cleared bush.

Date:          1895 to 1905

Three young "Bush-whackers" of Tiriraukawa, near Taihape. From left: Bill, Jack and Peter Munro, the three sons of Mr Alex Munro, who was a builder in Palmerston North during the 1880s – 1890s.

The three Munro brothers were the children of Alexan...

Creator:      G E Archer, Tiriraukawa
Place:          Palmerston North
Date:          circa 1905

Unknown building site, with large number of employees posed as a group.

Huia Mackrell is seated in the front row centre, with cloth cap and white shirt sleeves, directly behind shovel.

Creator:      Unknown
Place:          Hawkes Bay
Date:          circa 1920 to circa 1930

Three workers posing in front of a flax bale.

Creator:      Unknown
Place:          Manawatu
Date:          1903 to 1907

Mr W Egglington’s threshing mill at work on Mr Peter Scheidt’s farm, Dixons Line, Bunnythorpe.

Creator:      Unknown
Place:          Palmerston North
Date:          1912

Workmen stop for a break from sawing up logs into timber. It is believed to be in the Feilding/Halcombe area.

Creator:      Unknown
Place:          Manawatu
Date:          circa 1900

Henry (right)and Herman Dittmer, local farmers, had a contract for the formation of 1 and quarter miles of Scotts Road. The contract was let for £1100.

Creator:      Unknown
Place:          Palmerston North
Date:          circa 1910

The two men in the centre, including Thomas Harrison, rhythmically beat the grass using wooden flails. As one flail is in the air the other is beats the grass. Other men carry the cut grass to the threshers in sacking which has wooden sticks sewn ...

Creator:      Charles E Wildbore
Place:          Palmerston North
Date:          circa 1904

These bales of wool are being transported from A W Akers' "Broadlands" Estate to the Ashhurst Railway Station. The wagon was owned by the Akers' Estate and was driven by the late Mr Clarrie Ralph. W G S Romley was manager of the estate at this tim...

Creator:      R A Jones, Ashhurst
Place:          Ashhurst
Date:          circa 1931

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

Workmen clearing a slip in the Manawatu Gorge.

From left: Unknown; H Lyons; W Weston; Unknown

Creator:      Unknown
Place:          Manawatu Gorge
Date:          1895

A new sign was created by the Palmerston North City Council, for the workers's memorial at Memorial Park on Napier Road, Palmerston North. It was installed on 6 April 2018, and is to be launched on Workers' Memorial Day on 28 April. The sign discu...

Creator:      Paul Staddon, for Capture Signs
Place:          Main Street, Palmerston North
Date:          April 6, 2018

the Miranui Flaxmill was owned by A & L Seifert flaxmilling Company Ltd and opened in 1907. This group of Mill employees stand in front of the stripping sheds, which consisted of seven gables each holding a stripping plant.

Creator:      Unknown
Place:          Horowhenua Region
Date:          circa 1907

These bales of wool are being transported from A W Akers' "Broadlands" Estate to the Ashhurst Railway Station. The wagon was owned by the Akers' Estate and was driven by the late Mr Clarrie Ralph. W G S Romley was manager of the estate at this tim...

Creator:      R A Jones, Ashhurst
Place:          Ashhurst
Date:          1930

A group of men scything wheat by hand in a paddock said to be in the Foxton area. George W Hughes is second from the right.

Creator:      Unknown
Place:          Manawatu
Date:          circa 1900

This photograph was commissioned by the bank to document the construction of the new building. The first branch of the Bank of New South Wales opened in the Royal Hotel (1901-1905). On January 1 1906, the branch moved into a leased building on Mai...

Creator:      Unknown
Place:          18 Rangitikei Street, Palmerston North
Date:          1967

The men are digging out the bank with shovels and carting the dirt away by horse and cart along the constructed part of the tramline. The tramline was being built at Broadbelt's Mill at Coal Creek, near Apiti. Men identified as Dick Sixtus and Joh...

Creator:      Unknown
Place:          Palmerston North
Date:          circa 1900 to circa 1910

This Aveling and Porter Traction engine and the Clayton and Shuttleworth threshing mill were owned by John Henson and his contracting partner Tom Gifford. The man driving the engine is Wilfred Henson, son of John Henson. The photograph was taken o...

Creator:      Unknown
Place:          Manawatu
Date:          1903

Martins were engineers, grinders and gear cutters. They also erected and repaired machinery, made concrete posts and manufactured 'Martins Concrete Mixers' and woodworking machinery (Wises Directory 1953). Also see 2011N_ELMAR-1-B2_005082

Creator:      Elmar Studios, 459 Main Street, Palmerston North
Place:          Palmerston North
Date:          1947

Bushfellers at their tent site in the forest. The photographs in this collection are thought to have been taken in the Forty Mile Bush area of Wairarapa, at Kaiparoro near Mount Bruce. The area was largely settled by Scandinavians who came to Wair...

Creator:      Unknown
Place:          Tararua District
Date:          circa 1900 to circa 1910

Three unidentified young men chopping down a Kahikatea tree thought to be in the Longburn area.

Creator:      Jack Anderson
Place:          Manawatu
Date:          circa 1905

This white pine felled in the Levin district was of an unusual size. (A copy of the photograph in the Journal of the House of Representatives (C-1 facing page 30) shows the wording on the sign which was obliterated in this reproduction.)

Creator:      Unknown
Place:          Palmerston North
Date:          circa 1904

This photograph was commissioned by the bank to document the construction of the new building. The first branch of the Bank of New South Wales opened in the Royal Hotel (1901-1905). On January 1 1906, the branch moved into a leased building on Mai...

Creator:      Unknown
Place:          18 Rangitikei Street, Palmerston North
Date:          1967

Four men with pick and hammers said to be on the construction of the road through the Manawatū Gorge.

Creator:      Unknown
Place:          Manawatū Gorge
Date:          1970s

Flax workers at an unidentified Foxton flaxmill.

Creator:      Unknown
Place:          Wellington
Date:          circa 1905

Martins were engineers, grinders and gear cutters. They also erected and repaired machinery, made concrete posts and manufactured 'Martins Concrete Mixers' and woodworking machinery (Wises Directory 1953). Also see 2011N_ELMAR-1-B2_005081

Creator:      Elmar Studios, 459 Main Street, Palmerston North
Place:          Palmerston North
Date:          1947

The Aveling and Porter Traction engine and chaff cutter were owned by Mr Gifford and John Henson until they were sold, with their mill, to a Mr Jensen.

Creator:      Unknown
Place:          Rangitikei Region
Date:          circa 1910