To mark the Diamond Jubilee of Palmerston North, a programme of events was held from 20 to 27 November. This included a Historical Māori Pageant held at the Showgrounds on Thursday 25 November 1937.

Creator:      Vera L McLennan-Boman, attributed to
Date:          circa 1937

Broadcast on Manawatū People's Radio on 15th October 2019. Born in Foxton, on dairy farm, 1950s, 212 cows. Transformed from gorse and lupin. Aorangi Marae, Feilding. Māori roots. Holidays with grandparents. Mother worked in administration at Mass...

Creator:      Stuart Birks
Place:          Foxton
Date:          October 15, 2019

Broadcast on Manawatu People's Radio, 28 May 2019. Rosaline Putu, part 1 of 2.

Scandinavian origins, born in Palmerston North 1938, married a Maori in 1960. How they met. Speaking English. Acceptance into the family. Speaking Maori, evolution of...

Creator:      Stuart Birks
Place:          Palmerston North
Date:          May 28, 2019

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

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

"Te Wa O Te Reo Maori. 31 July - 7 August. Maori Language Week". Part of a collection of posters that were displayed in the Public Library in the 1970s - 1980s.

Creator:      Unknown
Date:          1980s

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

This image is a black and white photograph of a watercolour drawing by John Tiffin Stewart (1827-1913), a civil engineer, surveyor and amateur artist. The original drawing is part of the J. T. Stewart papers donated to the Whanganui Museum by W. T...

Creator:      John Tiffin Stewart
Date:          circa 1860 to circa 1885

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

Wiremu Kingi Te Awe Awe with the flag, a taonga of the Rangitane people, presented to them by the New Zealand Government in recognition of their military service in Taranaki during the years 1866 to 1869. Emblazoned on to the flag is the Union Jac...

Creator:      Unknown
Place:          Palmerston North
Date:          1970

Broadcast on Manawatu People's Radio, 17th December 2019. Part 1 of 4.  Born on a sheep station in Tokomaru Bay, 1927. Small school on the station. Slate pencils. Musical father, ballroom in the house. Maori mother, European father. Exciti...

Creator:      Stuart Birks
Place:          Palmerston North
Date:          December 17, 2019

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

This image was taken for a story that ran in The Manawatu Evening Standard on 01 October 1958: "Members of the Auckland P.R.O. show "Maori" were given a tribal welcome on their arrival in Palmerston North today. Here their leader replies to the we...

Creator:      Manawatu Evening Standard
Place:          Palmerston North
Date:          October 1, 1958

Memorial alcove within the Māori Battalion Hall on the corner of Cuba and Pitt Streets. Inscribed on brass plates are the names of soldiers from the 28th Māori Battalion who died while serving overseas, with photographs of members surrounding the ...

Creator:      Maori Battalion Hall
Place:          Corner Pitt and Cuba Streets, Palmerston North
Date:          May 9, 2018

Members of the Palmerston North Business Girls' Association met on Monday nights to make knit, write letters and pack parcels to send to soldiers of the Māori Battalion, serving overseas in World War Two. From left: Rene Elliott, Eath Englefield, ...

Creator:      K H Shea
Place:          Palmerston North
Date:          1940

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 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 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 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, arc...

Creator:      Maurice Thompson
Place:          Corner of Cuba and Pitt Street, Palmerston North
Date:          August 21, 1966

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:          1963-05-08T00:00:00+00:00

This image was taken for a story that ran in The Manawatu Evening Standard on 28 April 1958, page 6: "Seen at the opening of the Dominion conference of the Maori Welfare League in Palmerston North today are a section of the delegates who were list...

Creator:      Manawatu Evening Standard
Place:          Palmerston North
Date:          April 28, 1958

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:          1961-02-27T00:00:00+00:00

This image was not published in the Manawatu Evening Standard, taken on 12 May, 1963. [A large group of people in a room with international flags hung from the ceiling. Some are wearing traditional Maori and Thai garments.]"

Creator:      Manawatū Evening Standard
Date:          1963-05-12T00:00:00+00:00

Crowds gather on the banks of the Manawatu River to watch the re-enacting of the arrival of settlers to Papaioea. Newspaper articles of the day were distressed by poor communication between City Council parking wardens, who had set up parking clos...

Creator:      Jack Cottam
Place:          Manawatu River, Palmerston North
Date:          March 13, 1971

Diorama of pākehā settlers being greeted by a Māori family, on the Hopwood Hardware Company store front. The three dimensional display includes a marae and pātaka, assorted totara trees and colonisers in canoes. The sign reads "100 years... Togeth...

Creator:      Jack Cottam
Place:          Broadway Avenue, Palmerston North
Date:          March 13, 1971

Tamihana Te Awe Awe and two of his daughters with Rakiwhata Te Awe Awe.

Creator:      Unknown
Place:          Palmerston North
Date:          circa 1914

Te Peeti Te Awe Awe, rangatira o te iwi o Rangitāne, c.1820-1884. Peeti Te Awe Awe (c 1820 - 1884) was a chief of Rangitāne and was instrumental in the pakeha settlement of Manawatu.

Creator:      Unknown
Place:          Palmerston North
Date:          circa 1870

Ko te kaiārahi kaiwhakakairo ko Mātahi Avauli Whakataka-Brightwell e tautokona ana e te runanga o te marae of Pahiatua. I tīmata te mahi i te tau 1979. I te tau 1981 i neke atu te waka ki tētahi Kura Whakakairo ki Porirua kia oti ai. I te tau 1985...

Creator:      Manawatu Evening Standard
Place:          Pahiatua
Date:          August 5, 1981

A flyer about stopping the subdivision of Bastion Point, and requesting support for a planned march and picket in Palmerston North. It also contains information about the land historically and the issues. Bastion Point has come to symbolise Māori ...

Creator:      Bastion Point Support Committee
Place:          Bastion Point, Auckland
Date:          May 1982