On 10 July 1967, New Zealand adopted decimal currency. Pounds, shillings and pence (£ s. d.) were replaced by dollars and cents. This letter anticipated the forthcoming change and gave customers a sense of the the new prices they would be paying f...

Creator:      Farm Products Co-op (Manawatu) Limited
Date:          June 21, 1967

This image was taken for a story that ran in The Manawatu Evening Standard on 15 June 1961 "The Parliamentary Under-Secretary to the Minister of Finance (Mr. Seath) was the guest-speaker at a luncheon held today by the Palmerston North branch of t...

Creator:      Manawatu Evening Standard
Place:          Palmerston North
Date:          June 15, 1961

This negative comes from the Elmar Collection - a large series of semi-identified and unidentified images from the 1930s-1970s. 

Creator:      Elmar Studios, 459 Main Street, Palmerston North
Date:          1966

This image was taken for a story that ran in The Manawatu Evening Standard on 11 December 1958: "After a slight accident, that resulted in a short spell in hospital, Anne MacKillop decided she would like to help in some way the crippled children. ...

Creator:      Manawatu Evening Standard
Place:          Palmerston North
Date:          December 11, 1958

Over 240,000 coins make up this nearly 2 meter tall penny pile- valued at over £1000 at the time. It was created to raise money to build a swimming pool at the occupation centre in Savage Crescent for the benefit of intellectually disabled childre...

Creator:      Manawatu Evening Standard
Place:          Palmerston North
Date:          1960s