The origin is unknown. It is assumed to be named after Cuba Street in Wellington, which was named after the ship, "Cuba."
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Creator: Heritage Team, Palmerston North City Library
Date: 2024
Mina McKenzie, Museum Director, with cases and drawers of letterpress type, on display at the Manawatu Museum Printery. The printery is no longer in operation.
Creator: Manawatu Evening Standard
Place: Palmerston North
Date: September 1979
Mina McKenzie, Museum Director, is demonstrating an Albion Flatbed printing press used at the printery. The printery is no longer in operation.
Creator: Manawatu Evening Standard
Place: Church Street, Palmerston North
Date: September 1979
This image was taken for a story that ran in the Manawatu Evening Standard on April 30, 1993, with the caption, "Mina McKenzie... world interest in New Zealand's museums." The Manawatū Museum Director and Massey University Museum Studies Associate...
Creator: Manawatu Evening Standard
Place: Palmerston North
Date: April 30, 1993
Mina McKenzie was the first director of the Manawatū Museum and the first Māori museum director in Aotearoa New Zealand. This article focuses on her outstanding contribution to the Manawatū Museum. It was originally published in issue 18 of the *M...
Creator: Margaret Tennant
Place: Manawatū
Date: 2022
Local historians weekly "Back Issues" article in the Manawatū Standard. On 3 August 1993, four Rangitanē pouwhenua (carved stockade posts) were returned home to the region after an absence of 60 years, from the Museum of New Zealand, Te Papa Tonga...
Creator: Virginia and Warren Warbrick
Place: Palmerston North
Date: July 29, 2023
Journalist Tina White's weekly "Memory Lane" article in the Manawatū Standard. History of the A-MU-C-UM (pronounded "A Musuem" or "Amuse-um"), a collection of mechanical and static museum displays. When publicly displayed, it attracted large crowd...
Creator: Tina White
Place: Manawatū
Date: April 10, 2021
The Whanganui Riverboat Centre is housed in the former Wanganui Rowing Club building, constructed in 1898.
Creator: John Wheeler
Place: 1A Taupo Quay, Whanganui
Date: March 2000
Peter Thomson with Steve McQueen's leather motorcycle trousers.
Peter Thomson developed his own museum from his collection of motorcycles, at 1154 Rongotea Road Kairanga. It has over 100 motorcycles on display, dating from 1904 to present day, as...
Creator: Leith Haarhoff
Place: 11
Date: July 6, 2019
Peter Thomson with an Excelsior 999cc Big Twin motorcycle.
Peter Thomson developed his own museum from his collection of motorcycles, at 1154 Rongotea Road Kairanga. It has over 100 motorcycles on display, dating from 1904 to present day, as wel...
Creator: Leith Haarhoff
Place: 1154 Rongotea Road Kairanga.
Date: July 6, 2019
Peter Thomson developed his own museum from his collection of motorcycles, at 1154 Rongotea Road Kairanga. It has over 100 motorcycles on display, dating from 1904 to present day, as well as motorcycling memorabilia, brochures, motor cycle magazi...
Creator: Leith Haarhoff
Place: 1154 Rongotea Road Kairanga
Date: July 6, 2019