Journalist Tina White's weekly "Memory Lane" article in the Manawatū Standard. When local author Private Jack Gallichan was thrown into a German prisoner-of-war camp during World War II, he started a weekly newspaper called The Tiki Times. Galli...

Creator:      Tina White
Date:          April 24, 2010

Local historians weekly "Back Issues" article in the Manawatū Standard. When local author Private Jack Gallichan (1908-1984) was imprisoned in a German prisoner-of-war coal mining labour camp in Poland during World War II, he started a weekly news...

Creator:      Murray Brown
Date:          August 31, 2024

Local historians weekly "Back Issues" article in the Manawatū Standard. Cricket at Palmerston North Boys' High School 1902-1934.

Creator:      Alec Astle
Place:          Palmerston North
Date:          January 25, 2025

Local historians weekly "Back Issues" article in the Manawatū Standard. From 1948 to 1968, the visits of the Fiji cricket team were widely anticipated in New Zealand. The team played on four occasions in Palmerston North. The Fiji style of cricket...

Creator:      Murray Brown
Place:          Palmerston North
Date:          November 26, 2022

Local historians weekly "Back Issues" article in the Manawatū Standard. The Manawatū Cricket Association (MCA) took advantage of the introduction of daylight saving in 1974 and established a midweek "Twilight Competition" for clubs and business ho...

Creator:      Murray Brown and Alec Astle
Place:          Palmerston North
Date:          September 23, 2023

Local historians weekly "Back Issues" article in the Manawatū Standard. A detailed account and description of a cricket game in Palmerston North, 1930. The Manawatū team played the touring Marylebone Cricket Club from England. The local team inclu...

Creator:      Murray Brown
Place:          Palmerston North
Date:          June 25, 2022