This image was taken for Photorama pictorial magazine and was published in the November 1960 edition.

“Sgt. P. E. T. Pidgeon of the Palmerston North Police receives nursing sympathies while convalescing in hospital after being shot in the arm and...

Creator:      Frank Goldingham
Place:          Ruahine Street, Palmerston North
Date:          November 1960

This image was taken for Photorama pictorial magazine’s November 1960 edition but was not published.

“Sgt. P. E. T. Pidgeon of the Palmerston North Police receives nursing sympathies while convalescing in hospital after being shot in the arm and ...

Creator:      Frank Goldingham
Place:          Ruahine Street, Palmerston North
Date:          November 1960

This image was taken for Photorama pictorial magazine and was published in the November 1960 edition.

Caption: “Mr. D. Sutherland Vice-President of the Air Force Association (Manawatu Branch) is seen presenting Mrs. T. W. Loveridge with an aquari...

Creator:      Frank Goldingham
Place:          Ruahine Street, Palmerston North
Date:          November 1960

Madge Allsop - the fictional character created as the 'straight-woman' to Barry Humphries' outrageous female impersonation act Dame Edna Everage - was embodied by English Actress Patricia 'Emily' Perry.

In 1994 while on tour with Humphries, Perr...

Creator:      Manawatu Evening Standard
Place:          Hospital, Palmerston North
Date:          June 20, 1994

A photographic series prepared by the Prime Minister’s Department in 1947 to attract British migrants. The Evans family of 5 Mansford Place, Palmerston North were selected to show the living conditions of a typical New Zealand family. Michael Evan...

Creator:      New Zealand Government
Place:          Palmerston North
Date:          1947

This image of nurses is from a series of slides that shows life at Rostrata Maternity Home in the late 1950s. Situated on the corner of Ruahine and Ferguson Streets, Rostrata was owned by E B Watson who ran it as a private maternity hospital for m...

Creator:      Joyce Una Baker
Place:          Corner of Ruahine and Ferguson Streets, Palmerston North
Date:          1957

A newly acquired image intensifier, purchased by the Palmerston North Hospital. It could be shifted into position over a patient during surgery, giving the surgeon instant x-rays of his progress. The image taken was sent onto two monitors, one wh...

Creator:      Manawatu Evening Standard
Place:          Ruahine Street, Palmerston North
Date:          1979

This photograph was taken for the Manawatu Evening Standard around April 5 1962. It shows the matron of Rostrata Maternity Home in Ferguson Street standing on the private hospital's verandah prior to its demolition. Her name is unknown.

Creator:      Manawatu Evening Standard
Place:          Corner of Ferguson and Ruahine Street, Palmerston North
Date:          May 1962

Senior theatre supervisor, Anne Johnstone, demonstrates a new $8000 Urogen surgical table in one of the new theatres at the hospital. The table had extra attachments for specialist surgery.

Creator:      Manawatu Evening Standard
Place:          Ruahine Street, Palmerston North
Date:          1979

Back row: Edna Crowe, Eleanor Field, Dorothy Durden, Gussie Brill, Eva Tate. Middle row: Mrs Meyrick, Enid Orr, Doris Harrison, Ester Price, Mary Hutchinson, Kath McFarlane, Phoebe Pinfold. Front row: Thelma Dickins, Irene Anderson, Zillah Orr, Mr...

Creator:      Unknown
Place:          Aokautere, Palmerston North
Date:          1944