This image was taken for a story that ran in The Manawatu Evening Standard on 6 August 1958, page 8: "Engineer instructors of the Regular Force who are undergoing a star classification course at Linton, at the School of Military Engineering, are s...
Creator: Manawatu Evening Standard
Place: Linton
Date: August 6, 1958
This image was taken for a story that ran in The Manawatu Evening Standard on 6 August 1958, page 8: "Engineer instructors of the Regular Force who are undergoing a star classification course at Linton, at the School of Military Engineering, are s...
Creator: Manawatu Evening Standard
Place: Linton
Date: August 6, 1958
A midsummer festival named “Carnival of the Lake” was held on the Hokowhitu Lagoon at Centennial Drive, Palmerston North, January 17 – 20 1964. A variety of activities ensured the public were well entertained during the four-day festival. The Mana...
Creator: Unknown
Place: Hokowhitu Lagoon, Hokowhitu, Palmerston North
Date: 1964
A midsummer festival named “Carnival of the Lake” was held on the Centennial Lagoon (Hokowhitu Lagoon), Palmerston North, January 17 – 20, 1964. A variety of activities ensured the public were well entertained during the four-day festival. In the ...
Creator: Unknown
Place: Hokowhitu Lagoon, Palmerston North
Date: 1964
A midsummer festival named “Carnival of the Lake” was held on the Hokowhitu Lagoon at Centennial Drive, Palmerston North, January 17th – 20th 1964. A variety of activities ensured the public were well entertained during the four day festival. Here...
Creator: Unknown
Place: Hokowhitu Lagoon, Hokowhitu, Palmerston North
Date: 1964
A midsummer festival named “Carnival of the Lake”, was held on the Hokowhitu Lagoon, Palmerston North, January 17 – 20, 1964. A variety of activities ensured the public were well entertained during the four day festival. Carnival of the Lake was o...
Creator: Unknown
Place: Hokowhitu Lagoon, Hokowhitu, Palmerston North
Date: 1964
This photograph was created by William James Young in the early 20th century. A large variety of subjects are depicted in the collection, but family, rural life and travel are the most prominent themes. The exact location of the photographs in the...
Creator: William James Young
Place: Unknown
Date: 1900 to 1932
Hokowhitu Lagoon is also known as Centennial Lagoon. Includes information on the area of Hokowhitu in Palmerston North. Ian Matheson, City Archivist, created a series of manuscripts on the local history of Palmerston North in the course of his wor...
Creator: Ian Matheson
Place: Palmerston North
Date: 1992
Part of the Butterfly Lakelet can be seen in the foreground. Square Edge, All Saints' Church and The Grand Hotel feature in the background, on the corner of The Square and Church Street.
Creator: Unknown
Place: Corner of Church Street and The Square, Palmerston North
Date: 1990s
Looking across Butterfly Lakelet and its bridge, to the corner of The Square and Church Street West.
From the left of the picture, in the background can be seen the Manawatū Standard building, Square Edge, All Saints' Church and the NZ Post offic...
Creator: Unknown
Place: The Square, Palmerston North
Date: 1990s
In 1888 the Honorable Walter Woods Johnston, a Member of Parliament for the Manawatu for 13 years, bought 1000 acres of land in Manawatu. The estate was named after the Sussex estate of Johnston’s wife's father, Sir Charles Forster Goring, 7th Bar...
Creator: Lesley Courtney - Palmerston North City Council
Place: Green Road, Awahuri, Manawatu
Date: November 3, 2011
The lake at the Victoria Esplanade was thought to have been constructed around 1939.
Creator: G F Framjee
Place: Victoria Esplanade, Palmerston North
Date: circa 1939
Hokowhitu Lagoon is the only one of the original 5 lagoons, present when Europeans first settled Palmerston North, remaining . As part of the Hokowhitu Reserve the lagoon remained in Maori ownership until 1892-1893, becoming part of what is now k...
Creator: Manawatu Evening Standard
Place: Hokowhitu Lagoon, Palmerston North
Date: 1980
The lake and administration building at the Institute of the Pacific United (IPU), a private tertiary educational institution.
Creator: Colin Rush
Place: 57 Aokautere Drive, Palmerston North
Date: 2004
Commercially sponsored gondolas on Hokowhitu Lagoon during the “Carnival of the Lake’ festival. The Carnival of The Lake, centred around Hokowhitu Lagoon, was an annual event organised by the Public Relations Office for a few years in the early 1...
Creator: Colin Rush
Place: Centennial Drive, Palmerston North
Date: January 1963
The lagoon at Hokowhitu was one of 5 lagoons in Palmerston North.
Creator: Whalley and Co., Crown Studios
Place: Palmerston North
Date: circa 1895 to circa 1905
This postcard shows the lakelet and cannon in one quadrant of the Square. Two cannons, surplus to Defence Department requirements, were acquired by the City Council and displayed in the Square from 1909-1939. The Lakelet was built in 1909 by the B...
Creator: Unknown
Place: The Square, Palmerston North
Date: circa 1915
Three of the children of Viggo and Olga Monrad taken near their home at Karere. The property was established by Bishop Monrad and family, early settlers from Denmark, in the 1860s.
Creator: George W Shailer
Place: Palmerston North
Date: 1880 to 1899