Broadcast on Manawatu People's Radio, 6th June 2023. Lin Pratt part 1 of 2. First memories, about 3. Father was a share milker. Bare feet, warming in cow droppings. At school in WWII, end of the war. Electric milking parlours, 80-100 cows. Milk...

Creator:      Stuart Birks
Place:          Palmerston North
Date:          June 6, 2023

This image was taken for a story that ran in The Manawatu Evening Standard on 29 May 1958, page 10: "Veterinarians attending a conference at Massey College yesterday found time in a heavy programme of lectures to inspect the College experimental f...

Creator:      Manawatu Evening Standard
Place:          Massey University, Palmerston North
Date:          May 29, 1958

Sledging milk from the cowshed, Pohangina.

Creator:      Charles E Wildbore
Place:          Pohangina Valley
Date:          circa 1910

This image comes from a collection of unidentified negatives taken by H M Griffiths in the early 1900s, probably 1910-1920. Many of these negatives are labelled as having been taken in Tokomaru, but many have no information with them. They were do...

Creator:      H M Griffiths
Date:          1910 to 1920

Milking cows at Arthur and William Gloyn’s milking shed. The farm was still operated by descendants of Mr L Gloyn in 1980.

Creator:      Unknown
Place:          Palmerston North
Date:          circa 1911

Lorna Parker was the youngest child of John and Sarah Parker who had a dairy farm on Banks Line, Rongotea. Lorna went nursing and later married Jack McLennan.

Creator:      Unknown
Place:          Rongotea, Manawatū
Date:          1930s

This truck owned by Munt, Cottrell & Co Ltd – Customs, Shipping & Forwarding Agents of Wellington, Licensed by H.M. Customs – is in the process of delivering a large wooden sided shipping container full of dairy machinery produced by W.D. Engineer...

Creator:      Elmar Studios, 459 Main Street, Palmerston North
Place:          Palmerston North
Date:          circa 1940 to circa 1949

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
Date:          1900 to 1932

Information on the back of the photograph reads, "Cowshed on W.J. Crowther's farm, Kingston Road, Shannon, about 1908. Female left of small girl, Em? Female right of small girl, Mary? Donation information provides that the small girl, Doris, was b...

Creator:      James Hallam, Shannon
Place:          Shannon, Manawatu
Date:          circa 1908

Four of these machines were set up in the Rongotea area by Mr Holben. The first four farmers were Samuel Knight, Fred Richmond, Carl Anderson and A Broadbelt. These four Rongotea farmers were the first in New Zealand to install milking machines. T...

Creator:      Unknown
Place:          Rongotea
Date:          1897