These images were taken for the August 6th 1978 edition of the Tribune weekly newspaper – the first of which was published.
The caption read: “A feature of Palmerston North since the turn of the century the avenue of trees in Napier Road- subside...
Creator: The Tribune
Place: Napier Road, Palmerston North
Date: August 6, 1978
Journalist Tina White's weekly "Memory Lane" article in the Manawatū Standard. When Darren Trask started renovating his country cottage, he found historic newspapers dated 1887 in the wall linings. The cottage, address 1033B Napier Road, is class...
Creator: Tina White
Place: Palmerston North
Date: September 11, 2010
This plan is titled, "PLAN OF LANDTO BE TAKEN FOR MUNICIPAL PURPOSES BY PALMERSTON NORTH BOROUGH COUNCIL Being part of Rural Section 419, Block XI, Kairanga Survey District."
Visible roads include Main Street, Railway Road, Vogel Street, Napier R...
Creator: H. J. Wylde [Surveyor]
Place: Main Street; Railway Road; Vogel Street; Napier Road;
Date: August 1922
This plan is titled, "Plan of PART OF RAILWAY RESERVE. BEING ALSO PARTS OF SUBURBAN SECTION 420 TOWN OF PALMERSTON NORTH,
RURAL SECTION 419 & SECTION 1537 TOWN OF PALMERSTON NORTH & KAIRANGA COUNTY (PLANS 50/20 & 106/15) Block XI KAIRANGA SURVEY D...
Creator: H. J. Wylde [Surveyor]
Place: Main Street; Napier Road; Vogel Street; Railway Road;
Date: December 1922
This plan is titled, "Plan of Part of Sec. 419, Block XI, Kairanga S.D."
Visible roads include Napier Road.
Creator: Wylde & Dolan [Surveyor]
Place: Napier Road;
Date: November 1923
This plan is titled, "Plan of PART OF RAILWAY RESERVE, BEING ALSO PART OF SUBURBAN SECTION 420 (PLAN 105/15), AND LEASE 6214. TOWN OF PALMERSTON NORTH. BLOCK XI, KAIRANGA SURVEY DISTRICT."
Visible roads include Main Street, Napier Road, Limbrick ...
Creator: Wylde & Dolan [Surveyor]
Place: Main Street; Napier Road; Limbrick Street; Vogel Street; Millar Street; James Street; Brightwater Terrace;
Date: November 1923
This plan is titled, "Plan of Subdivision of Parts Suburban Sections 175 & 176 Town of Palmerston North Block XI Kajranga S.D."
Visible roads include Karina Terrace, Vogel Street, Main Street, Napier Road.
Creator: H. R. Farquhar [Surveyor]
Place: Karina Terrace; Vogel Street; Main Street; Napier Road;
Date: March 1925
Local historians weekly "Back Issues" article in the Manawatū Standard. Hundred year history of the city's second gasworks, on Napier Road Terrace End. The gasworks was officially opened 21 December 1923 and went out of full operation in 1970, whe...
Creator: Ralph Body
Place: Palmerston North
Date: December 23, 2023
Journalist Tina White's weekly "Memory Lane" article in the Manawatū Standard. Background stories of some of the graves at the historic Terrace End cemetery on Napier Road. One of the oldest remaining headstones is that of Meritini Te Panau, who d...
Creator: Tina White
Place: Palmerston North
Date: November 11, 2017
This image was taken for a story that ran in The Manawatu Evening Standard on 2 April 1956: "Palmerston North played Paraparaumu Beach and Hastings in the Central Districts amateur roller hockey tournament at Memorial Park last Saturday (March 31)...
Creator: Manawatu Evening Standard
Place: Main Street, Palmerston North
Date: March 31, 1956
The house at 104 Napier Road, opposite Keith Street, no longer stands at this address (2010).
Creator: E Creamer
Place: 104 Napier Road, Terrace End, Palmerston North
Date: 1981
The house at 104 Napier Road, opposite Keith Street, no longer stands at this address (2010).
Creator: E Creamer
Place: 104 Napier Road, Palmerston North
Date: 1981
The house at 104 Napier Road, opposite Keith Street, no longer stands at this address (2010)
Creator: E Creamer
Place: 104 Napier Road, Terrace End, Palmerston North
Date: 1981
The house at 104 Napier Road, opposite Keith Street, no longer stands at this address (2010).
Creator: E Creamer
Place: 104 Napier Road, Palmerston North
Date: 1981
Start of wheelbarrow race outside Ramsay's Dairy Napier Road Ashhurst
Creator: Max Youle
Date: August 12, 1961
The house at 104 Napier Road, opposite Keith Street, no longer stands at this address (2010).
Creator: E Creamer
Place: 104 Napier Road, Palmerston North
Date: 1981
Wheelbarrow repairs near Raukawa Road
Creator: Max Youle
Date: August 12, 1961
The house at 104 Napier Road, opposite Keith Street, no longer stands at this address (2010)
Creator: E Creamer
Place: 104 Napier Road, Palmerston North
Date: 1981
The house at 104 Napier Road, opposite Keith Street, no longer stands at this address (2010).
Creator: E Creamer
Date: 1981
The house at 104 Napier Road, opposite Keith Street, no longer stands at this address (2010).
Creator: E Creamer
Place: 104 Napier Road, Palmerston North
Date: 1981
Start of wheelbarrow race Napier Road Ashhurst
Creator: Max Youle
Date: August 12, 1961
The 1953 flooding of the Manawatu and Oroua River was one of the worst on record for the area.
Creator: Unknown
Date: 1953