The Square and the Coronation Fountain are in the foreground, with the newly built CML building which housed the Inland Revenue Department, next to the MLC building, and the BNZ Bank at the top of Rangitikei Street. The Commercial Union building c...

Creator:      Jack Cottam
Place:          The Square, Palmerston North
Date:          1970s

People observe the remians of the Clarendon Hotel, burned down by fire 28 January 1904. The Clarendon Hotel was built in 1873 on the corner of Rangitikei Street and The Square. The original two-storey wooden building was replaced by a three-storey...

Creator:      Unknown
Place:          Palmerston North
Date:          January 29, 1904