This image was taken for a story that ran in The Manawatu Evening Standard on 11 October 1960 "Workmen began yesterday emptying the pond in the Square in preparation for the removal of the mud which has accumulated. Goldfish were caught by hand an...
Creator: Manawatu Evening Standard
Place: The Square, Palmerston North
Date: October 11, 1960
Palmerston North experienced a period of severe water shortage in the summer of 1943-1944, when the level of the lake a Turitea fell 3.5m below the bywash of the dam. This photograph shows five year's accumulation of leaf mould.
Date: February 1944
Palmerston North experienced a period of severe water shortage in the summer of 1943-1944, when the level of the lake a Turitea fell 3.5m below the bywash of the dam. This photograph is similiar to an image published in the Manawatu Times on 29 Fe...
Date: February 1944
Palmerston North experienced a period of severe water shortage in the summer of 1943-1944, when the level of the lake a Turitea fell 3.5m below the bywash of the dam. The city's diminishing water supply was reported in the Manawatu Times, 29 Febru...
Date: February 1944
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
Date: 1960
This image was not published in The Manawatu Evening Standard, taken on 9 June, 1959. "Jockeys covered in mud at race meeting."
Creator: Manawatū Evening Standard
Place: Palmerston North
Date: 1959-06-09T00:00:00+00:00
Margaret Street is situated in Roslyn, off Main Street East. This part of the city was still very much a rural enclave in the 1920s.
Creator: R P Moore, Wellington
Place: Margaret Street, Palmerston North
Date: circa 1920
This photograph looks south-westward towards Foxton beach and shows the reconstruction of a swampy area. The Barber-Green bucket excavator can be seen excavating peat and flax from the side of the old roadway. the contractor is V. Lumbye of Foxton.
Creator: L C Eggers
Place: Horowhenua Region
Date: 1938
Looking south-west towards Foxton Beach, showing the reconstruction of a swampy area. Peat and flax have been filled with sand.
Creator: L C Eggers
Place: Horowhenua Region
Date: 1938
The Main Science Building of Massey Agricultural College was designed by Lippencott and built by the Fletcher Construction Company in time for the beginning of the 1931 academic year. Excavations were dug out by hand and carted away in drays and t...
Creator: J H Daroux
Place: Palmerston North
Date: 1929
The men are digging out the bank with shovels and carting the dirt away by horse and cart along the constructed part of the tramline. The tramline was being built at Broadbelt's Mill at Coal Creek, near Apiti. Men identified as Dick Sixtus and Joh...
Creator: Unknown
Place: Palmerston North
Date: circa 1900 to circa 1910
The Mangahao Electric Power Scheme is near Shannon. From left: Charlie Storey; Alex Grady; Len Devereau; Bill Whelan
Creator: Unknown
Place: Palmerston North
Date: 1919 to 1924
This photograph looks south-westward towards Foxton beach and shows the reconstruction of a swampy area. The Barber-Green bucket excavator can be seen excavating peat and flax from the side of the old roadway.
Creator: L C Eggers
Place: Horowhenua Region
Date: 1938
This photograph is taken at the entrance to Foxton Reserve and shows the Pohangina Valley East Road in the days when it was little more than a muddy track through the bush. The man on horseback is Mr Ned Enright, who carried mail from Raumai to Pi...
Creator: Charles E Wildbore [?]
Place: Manawatu
Date: circa 1908
In this photograph, Percy Vallender is grading and Bill Hurst is driving. The two teams of horses belonged to Percy Vallender and Bill Hurst.
Creator: Unknown
Place: Rongotea
Date: 1920s