Women in traditional Māori dress perform for the Governor General, Sir Arthur Porritt and Lady Porritt, at the re-enactment of the arrival of settlers at the Manawatu River. Large crowds line the river bank to watch the event.
Creator: Jack Cottam
Place: Manawatu River, Palmerston North
Date: March 13, 1971
He mea wero e Mac Whakamoe e pa ana ki te powhiri maumaharatanga o te taenga mai ma runga waka o nga tangata ko Mrs George Snelson raua ko Matilda Montgomery i te tau 1871. Ko Manawatu te awa. Ki to te Ian Matheson whakaaro no Tuhoe a Mac Whakamoe...
Creator: Jack Cottam
Place: Manawatu River, Palmerston North
Date: March 13, 1971
A Daimler car carrying the Governor General, Sir Arthur Porritt and Lady Porritt drive past the crowds of people at the enactment of the settler's landing as part of the Palmerston North Centenary events, down by the banks of the Manawatu River.
Creator: Jack Cottam
Place: Manawatu River, Palmerston North
Date: March 13, 1971
In 1912 four moa footprints were found close to the Fitzroy Street section of the river. Their discovery was one of the first of its kind in New Zealand.
They were found by Henry Cole after a flood had washed away the bank exposing the footprint...
Creator: E R Whalley
Place: Manawatū riverbank
Date: 1912
In 1912 four moa footprints were found close to the Fitzroy Street section of the river. Their discovery was one of the first of its kind in New Zealand.
They were found by Henry Cole (believed to be seated at left) after a flood had washed away ...
Creator: Gilbert Tremaine
Place: Manawatū riverbank
Date: 1912
This slide was likely created by David Evans of the City Council's Planning Office. M D (David) Evans was a planning assistant from 1955 to 1968, Deputy City Planner from 1968 to 1978 and Senior Planning Officer (Design and Development) from 1978-...
Creator: D. Evans
Place: Palmerston North
Date: 196X
This image is believed to depict land east of Ruahine Street associated with the Palmerston North Golf Club.
This slide was likely created by David Evans of the City Council's Planning Office. M D (David) Evans was a planning assistant from 1955 ...
Creator: D. Evans
Place: Palmerston North
Date: 196X
This image is believed to depict land associated with the Manawatu Golf Club.
This slide was likely created by David Evans of the City Council's Planning Office. M D (David) Evans was a planning assistant from 1955 to 1968, Deputy City Planner fr...
Creator: D. Evans
Place: Palmerston North
Date: 196X
Local historians weekly "Back Issues" article in the Manawatū Standard. The Ruahine Reserve was the site of Ruahine Kāinga (village) before 1864, a community of 150 to 200 people. It is recalled by Rangitāne as being where the old College of Educ...
Creator: Karla Karaitiana
Place: Palmerston North
Date: June 1, 2024
This image is part of the Frank Goldingham collection and was possibly taken for Photorama pictorial magazine in the second quarter of 1960. It may have been published in an edition not currently held by the Ian Matheson City Archives.
Creator: Frank Goldingham
Place: The Gorge, Manawatū
Date: June 1960
This image is part of the Frank Goldingham collection and was possibly taken for Photorama pictorial magazine in the second quarter of 1960. It may have been published in an edition not currently held by the Ian Matheson City Archives.
Creator: Frank Goldingham
Place: The Gorge, Manawatū
Date: June 1960
This image is part of the Frank Goldingham collection and was possibly taken for Photorama pictorial magazine in the second quarter of 1960. It may have been published in an edition not currently held by the Ian Matheson City Archives.
Creator: Frank Goldingham
Place: The Gorge, Manawatū
Date: June 1960
This image is part of the Frank Goldingham collection and was possibly taken for Photorama pictorial magazine in the second quarter of 1960. It may have been published in an edition not currently held by the Ian Matheson City Archives.
Creator: Frank Goldingham
Place: The Gorge, Manawatū
Date: June 1960
This image is part of the Frank Goldingham collection and was possibly taken for Photorama pictorial magazine in the second quarter of 1960. It may have been published in an edition not currently held by the Ian Matheson City Archives.
Creator: Frank Goldingham
Place: The Gorge, Manawatū
Date: June 1960
This image is part of the Frank Goldingham collection and was possibly taken for Photorama pictorial magazine in the second quarter of 1960. It may have been published in an edition not currently held by the Ian Matheson City Archives.
Creator: Frank Goldingham
Place: The Gorge, Manawatū
Date: June 1960
Looking from the river walk in the Esplanade gardens, to the Fitzherbert Bridge across the Manawatu River, built 1877. The original donated cards are postmarked 1906, with one sent to Miss Kathleen Thompson, Kaueka, Castlemain, Victoria [Australia...
Creator: A J Stockman
Place: Fitzherbert Bridge, Palmerston North
Date: circa 1906
Local historians weekly "Back Issues" article in the Manawatū Standard. The Manawatū Gorge has been a vital east -west access way since people first came to the region. For Māori, the river was the highway through the gorge they called Te Āpiti. R...
Creator: Dorothy Pilkington
Place: Manawatu
Date: August 27, 2022
Journalist Tina White's weekly "Memory Lane" article in the Manawatū Standard. The story of Henry Coles and the 1912 discovery of moa footprints on the banks of the Manawatū River.
Creator: Tina White
Place: Palmerston North
Date: May 25, 2019
This image was taken for a story that ran in The Manawatu Evening Standard on 06 March 1961 "An exact model of that portion of the Manawatu River near the Taonui basin, just above the confluence of the Oroua River, has been built at the rear of th...
Creator: Manawatu Evening Standard
Place: Ruahine Street, Palmerston North
Date: March 6, 1961
This image was taken for a story that ran in The Manawatu Evening Standard on 17 October 1960 "Photographed from a moving train, this view looked up-stream in the Manawatu Gorge to the highway bridge, shows the native bush which is quite dense in ...
Creator: Manawatu Evening Standard
Place: The Gorge, Palmerston North
Date: October 17, 1960
This image was taken for a story that ran in the Manawatu Evening Standard on 8 January, 1964. "What must be one of the most beautiful scenic attractions in the Manawatu is the Pohangina Valley. Fortunate enough to have a reasonably good day, a "M...
Creator: Manawatū Evening Standard
Place: Pohangina
Date: January 8, 1964
This image was taken for a story that ran in The Manawatu Evening Standard on 17 October 1960 "This view of the main highway bridge at the eastern end of the Manawatu Gorge was photographed from a railway carriage of the special train excursion to...
Creator: Manawatu Evening Standard
Place: The Gorge, Palmerston North
Date: October 17, 1960
This image was taken for a story that ran in The Manawatu Evening Standard on 11 February, 1958, page 6: "An unusual view of a landmark well known to Palmerstonians, the Fitzherbert Bridge as seen from the water's edge to the north of the bridge."
Creator: Manawatu Evening Standard
Place: Fitzherbert Bridge, Palmerston North
Date: February 11, 1958
This image was taken for a story that ran in The Manawatu Evening Standard on 21 May, 1959. "Yesterday, with the Manawatu River in flood, men were at work placing trees and barrels of sand along the banks at a point near the end of Ruahine Street ...
Creator: Manawatu Evening Standard
Place: Manawatū River, Palmerston North
Date: May 21, 1959
This image was taken for a story that ran in The Manawatu Evening Standard on 24 December 1962, "B. Fletcher prior to departing from the Fitzherbert Bridge on the first leg of the Palmerston North Canoe Club's race which ended at Foxton Beach yest...
Creator: Manawatu Evening Standard
Place: Fitzherbert Bridge, Palmerston North
Date: December 24, 1962
Flooding Near He Ara Kotahi Bridge, Palmerston North in Feb 2023 during Cyclone Gabrielle. Taken from He Ara Kotahi, looking towards Awapuni.
Creator:
Place: He Ara Kotahi Palmerston North
Date: February 14, 2023
This hand-tinted postcard shows the Manawatū Gorge around 1900.
Creator: Unknown
Date: circa 1900
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
A view of the Manawatu River in flood.
Creator: Unknown
Place: Palmerston North
Date: circa 1965
One of the concrete arches under construction during the building of the Fitzherbert Bridge, Palmerston North.
Creator: Unknown
Place: Fitzherbert Bridge, Palmerston North
Date: 1934