He hui mō te whakamaumaharatanga o te taenga mai o ngā tauiwi i te tau 1871. I tū te hui i muri i te whakaritenga karakia ki YMCA Stadium. Ko Meihana Durie ko te kaumātua o te iwi Rangitāne me Ngāti Kauwhata. Ko ia hoki e whaikōrero ana. I noh...
Creator: John Cleland Photo Studio Ltd
Place: Palmerston North
Date: 1971
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, 7th February 2023. Part 1 of 2. Came to PN in 1978, School principal at Sanson. To Pukekohe, 80% of pupils were Maori. White flight. Community support. Experience with Maori. Maori content...
Creator: Stuart Birks
Place: Palmerston North
Date: February 7, 2023
A drawing by J T Stewart who was the District Engineer of the Public Works Department. Drawing shows two carved palisade posts in old pa, in bush at Wairarapa. Entitled "Figure in old Pa Wairarapa 1862". The drawing is in pencil and water colour. ...
Creator: J T Stewart
Place: Wairarapa
Date: 1862
Mina McKenzie was born in Palmerston North and attended Whanganui Girls College. She studied zoology, geology and chemistry at Otago University 1948 - 1950 and Massey University in 1963. Mrs McKenzie joined the Museum Council in 1972 and worked fu...
Creator: Manawatu Guardian
Place: Palmerston North
Date: 1975
Local historians weekly "Back Issues" article in the Manawatū Standard. The teaching and learning of te reo and te ao Māori in schools from late 19th century to early 20th century.
Creator: Dorothy Pilkington
Place: Manawatū
Date: June 23, 2023
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
![Bainesse 50th Jubilee on bed" [Three young women in Kapa Haka uniforms] - Resource cover image](https://d28dhd8eubcyz4.cloudfront.net/iiif/2/curtis-production2-cache%2F1%2F1%2F2%2F6339cc-d8be-4204-b334-6628dd8017f6%2Fresize_master_34ee60bb0bbfccb33c8afa61bdd18c10.jpg/full/!440,512/0/default.jpg?sig=1cca23bf251aa24f10a184760623597141bdeaa4&ver=1659526907)
[Three young women in Kapa Haka uniforms wait for their cue.]
Creator: Manawatū Evening Standard
Place: Rangiotu
Date: June 1963
This image was taken for a story that ran in The Manawatū Evening Standard on 16 May 1958, page 6: "Photographed with her pencil drawing of a young man is Mrs. E.J. Magee, of Palmerston North, whose interest encourages other Māori people to study ...
Creator: Manawatu Evening Standard
Place: Palmerston North
Date: May 16, 1958
Interview of John Bevan Ford about the logo and artwork encorporated into the new Palmerston North City Library. Interviewer: Jacqueline Aust, community Relations Officer, Palmerston North City Council
Length: 1 hr 3 minutes
John Bevan Ford (c...
Creator: Ian Matheson City Archives
Place: 4 Te Marae o Hine/ The Square, Palmerston North
Date: April 1996
In 2017, Massey University celebrated the twentieth anniversary of the opening of Te Pūtahi-ā-Toi, the home of the School of Māori Art, Knowledge and Education.
Te Pūtahi-ā-Toi is the first permanent kāinga (home) for the School of Māori Studies,...
Creator: Ian Matheson City Archives
Place: Massey University, Manawatū Campus
Date: October 14, 2021
The Māori in Focus exhibition took place at Palmerston North Art Gallery in March 1970. It showcased photographs taken by Alfred H Burton, James McDonald, L Hinge, W H Davis showing a variety of Māori scenes from the 1880s through to the 1920s.
Creator: Palmerston North Art Gallery
Date: March 1970
Kei Rangiotu ia ki te taha o te haki ‘Tane-nui-a-rangi’. E pupuri ana ia i te mere o Tane-nui-a-rangi. Wiremu Kingi Te Awe Awe is standing next to the Tane-nui-a-rangi flag at Rangiotu Marae. He is holding a mere, also named Tane-nui-a-rangi. To ...
Creator: John Cleland Photo Studio Ltd
Date: November 26, 1970
I noho a Putiki i te taha o te awa o Whanganui, e tata ana ki te tāone, ko Petre. Kua ngaro te mea mahi toi a Gilfillan. Ko tētahi atu whakaahua o tēnei mahi toi ki roto i te whare taonga, ko Alexander Turnbull Library, nama C-029-001. On the W...
Creator: William James Harding
Place: Whanganui
Date: 1850
Ko ngā tangata i te Tapawhā, ko te Marae o Hine ki Te Papaiōea i te wā nui mō te Kōti ture whenua. Kei te whakaatu tēnei whakaahua i ngā peke kai mō ngā rā roa. People gathered in The Square at the time of the sittings of the ‘Native Land Court’.
Creator: George W Shailer
Place: Palmerston North
Date: circa 1881
He ope whakangahau i te wā o te whakahirahira o ngā tau tekau mā rima o te whakatūranga o te tāone ko Te Papaiōea. Nō te marae a Kai Iwi tēnei ope, nō Ngāti Kauwhata me Rangitāne hoki. E ai kī ngā nupepa ko Matene Maketa te kaiārahi. I tū te ope i...
Creator: Unknown
Date: March 2, 1927 to March 4, 1927
This marae was built in 1979. It was opened a year later. This marae will be removed in way for the new housing development.
The Auditorium is directly behind the photographer, and the main tower behind that. The carpark is behind the trees on th...
Creator: Benjamin Foster
Place: Hokowhitu, Palmerston North
Date: March 19, 2020
He mahi toi mō ngā tīpuna e mātakitaki ana i ngā mahi whakairo o te waka Hawaiki-nui kei Pahiatua. Ancestor paintings on the Pahiatua shed’s structural posts, where the waka Hawaiki-nui was being carved.
Creator: Manawatu Evening Standard
Place: Pahiatua
Date: July 3, 1980
I hangaia ai te whakamaru waka ki te totara me te kahikatea. Nā te ope Tūtāngata o Te Papaiōea ngā whakairo. I puta te waka i te one o Santoft i te tau 1965. E noho ana te waka i te Ngahere o Santoft. A canoe shelter, made of totara and kahikatea,...
Creator: Manawatu Evening Standard
Place: Santoft, Rangitikei
Date: July 26, 1982
I tukua ngā karakia e te kaumātua hei whakapainga. The Minister of Lands & Forests viewing a shelter built to house a 150 year old canoe that was washed up on Santoft Beach in 1965.Two Photographs. To access these images, please contact us.
Creator: Manawatu Evening Standard
Place: Santoft, Rangitikei
Date: July 2, 1982
Waitohi King is a daughter of the Chief Te Awe Awe. The Te Awe Awe family strongly opposed the proposed sporting complex at Rangiotu. Mrs King said that the area had special meaning to her family. Chief Te Awe Awe is buried in the burial ground (h...
Creator: Manawatu Evening Standard
Place: Manawatu
Date: 1975
Ko te Kaiwhakiro akonga ko Mark Russell e mahi ana i runga i te pare. Student Mark Russell is working on the pare, the carving traditionally placed above the doorway of the Meeting House, which was due to open in 1980. Behind him, is Art Lecture...
Creator: Manawatu Evening Standard
Place: Centennial Drive, Palmerston North
Date: November 28, 1979
Ko te Kaiwhakakairo i roto i te whakaahua ko Fred Clamp. ko te kaiarahi kaiwhakakairo ko Matahi Avauli Whakataka-Brightwell e tautokona ana e te runanga o te marae o Pahiatua. I timata te mahi i te tau 1979. I te tau 1981 i neke atu te waka ki tet...
Creator: Manawatu Evening Standard
Place: Pahiatua
Date: June 10, 1980
Ko te marae tuatahi ki te tū i runga i tētahi wāhi akonga. Ko te tūwheratanga o te marae ‘Te Kupenga o Te Mātauranga’ i te rā e ono o te marama o Māhuru i te tau 1980. I tae mai te tāngata tokorua ngā rau. The first Marae to be built on a campus...
Creator: Manawatu Evening Standard
Place: Centennial Drive, Hokowhitu, Palmerston North
Date: September 6, 1980
He mahi toi mō ngā tīpuna e mātakitaki ana i ngā mahi whakairo o te waka Hawaiki-nui kei Pahiatua. Ancestor paintings on the Pahiatua shed’s structural posts, where the waka Hawaiki-nui was being carved.
Creator: Manawatu Evening Standard
Place: Pahiatua
Date: July 3, 1980
Ko te kaiwhakakairo i roto i te whakaahua ko Fred Clamp. 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 k...
Creator: Manawatu Evening Standard
Place: Pahiatua
Date: June 10, 1980
I whānau ai a Te Rauparaha i te tau 1768 rānei i te tau 1769 rānei. He rangatira ia nō Ngāti Toa. I mate ia i te tau 1849.
Creator: Unknown
Place: Palmerston North
Date: circa 1830
A group of people sitting and standing outside at, what might be, Kauwhata (Kai Iwi Marae). The same people are in 2018P_2018-30_025219.
Creator: Unknown
Place: Unknown
Date: 1920s
The Reverend James Duncan, played by Nevil Hunt, the bearded figure on the right, speaks to the chief during the re-enactment.
Creator: The Times
Place: Foxton
Date: October 22, 1955