Contents:

p. 3 Editorial / Russell Poole

p. 5 Serving the people: work and life at Palmerston North's premier department store / Simon Johnson

p. 17 Awapuni Medical Corps camp and 'the scourge' of 1918 / Leanne Croon Hickman

p. 29 The Methodi...

Creator:      Manawatū Historic Journal Associates
Place:          Manawatū
Date:          2019

Journalist Tina White's weekly "Memory Lane" article in the Manawatū Standard. Carol Davidson (née Jefferies) was adopted when she was a baby. Around 1995, Carol started making contact with her birth family. A 1939 picture of people sitting outsid...

Creator:      Tina White
Place:          Manawatū
Date:          April 10, 2010

Peace with Germany was announced 8 May 1945 and official celebrations took place in Palmerston North the following day. Church services were held at 10am, followed by general celebrations. The procession marched round The Square to the Band Rotunda

Creator:      Unknown
Place:          Palmerston North
Date:          May 9, 1945

The bus station was attached to the rear of the Ladies Rest room (opened December 1936). Beyond The Square can be seen the corner of Coleman Place.

Creator:      Unknown
Place:          The Square, Palmerston North
Date:          circa 1940

This photograph was taken from the tower of the Australasian Temperance and General Mutual Life Assurance Society Ltd (T&G) building, near the corner of Broadway Avenue and The Square. This partial view of the Square shows a number of its most rec...

Creator:      A Kelt
Place:          Palmerston North
Date:          circa 1952

Aerial photograph of The Square, clearly showing the 4 quadrants and the railway section in the middle. The corner of Broadway and The Square is at the bottom of the photograph.

Creator:      Unknown
Place:          The Square, Palmerston North
Date:          1947

The Ladies Rest Rooms were built in the art deco style in 1936 and stand on the site of the original ladies’ toilets which had opened in 1918. Built in the wake of the Napier earthquake, the rest rooms followed strict building regulations includin...

Creator:      Lesley Courtney for Ian Matheson City Archives
Place:          The Square, Palmerston North
Date:          October 19, 2018

The Ladies Rest Rooms were built in The Square in 1936, on the site of the previous women's toilets opened in 1918. They are designed in the art deco style and are still in use today (2009)

Creator:      K H Shea
Place:          The Square, Palmerston North
Date:          circa 1939