Manawatū Heritage

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Back Issues: Sailing into a 'mysterious future'

Local historians weekly "Back Issues" article in the Manawatū Standard. European refugees, displaced persons after World War 2, started arriving at a camp in Pahīatua in 1949. This article describes the journey and October 1950 Wellington arrival ...

Creator:      Dr Tania Kopytko
Place:          Wellington Palmerston North Pahīatua
Date:          November 1, 2025

Back Issues: Recreating a little bit of Latvia

Local historians weekly "Back Issues" article in the Manawatū Standard. European refugees, displaced persons after World War 2, started arriving at a camp in Pahiatua in 1949. This article describes the story of Lucija (Lucy) Ozolins née Upenajs w...

Creator:      Dr Tania Kopytko
Place:          Pahiatua
Date:          June 8, 2024

Pahiatua Rugby Club - unidentified man

This player wears a blazer that identifies him as a Bush Rugby Representative from 1959 until 196x

Creator:      John Cleland
Date:          1970s

First day of the Mangatainoka School 50th Jubilee Celebrations

Mangatainoka School celebrated its Golden Jubilee in June 1939. This photograph was reproduced in the Manawatū Times on 10 June 1939, with the caption: "Mr. C. H. Brown, chairman of the School Committee, welcoming the ex-pupils on the first day...

Creator:      J Milne Allen, Pahiatua
Date:          June 1939

Back Issues: Stories to shine light on Pahīatua Camp's displaced persons

Local historians weekly "Back Issues" article in the Manawatū Standard. European refugees displaced during World War 2 started arriving at a camp in Pahiatua in 1949. They stayed for 6 weeks to prepare for life elsewhere in New Zealand. The succes...

Creator:      Dr Tania Kopytko
Place:          Pahīatua
Date:          February 17, 2024

Memory Lane - "Children of Little Poland"

Journalist Tina White's weekly "Memory Lane" article in the Manawatū Standard. Over seven hundred Polish children came to New Zealand at the invitation of the Prime Minister in 1944. They were housed in a camp in Pahiatua.

Creator:      Tina White
Place:          Pahiatua
Date:          November 2, 2019

[Pahiatua cenotaph.]

This image was taken for a story that ran in The Manawatu Evening Standard on 24th December 1965 "Seasons Greetings." [Image of cenotaph in Pahiatua.]

Creator:      Manawatū Evening Standard
Place:          Pahiatua
Date:          December 22, 1965

[Pahiatua sign]

This image was taken for a story that ran in The Manawatu Evening Standard on 24th December 1965 "Seasons Greetings." [The sign at the entry to Pahiatua, which includes the JCI meeting information, a picture of trout fishing and a direction to the...

Creator:      Manawatū Evening Standard
Place:          Pahiatua
Date:          December 22, 1965

[Pahiatua Harvard aeroplane]

This image was taken for a story that ran in The Manawatu Evening Standard on 24th December 1965 "Seasons Greetings." [Image of a Harvard airplane transformed into a slide, with children playing, in Main Street, Pahiatua.]

Creator:      Manawatū Evening Standard
Place:          Pahiatua
Date:          December 22, 1965

"Police Station Officially Opened"

This image was taken for a story that ran in The Manawatu Evening Standard on 2 April, 1959. "The Leader of the Opposition (Mr Holyoake) officially opened the new police station at Pahiatua yesterday afternoon. The photograph shows Mr Holyoake op...

Creator:      Manawatu Evening Standard
Place:          Pahiatua
Date:          1959-04-02T00:00:00+00:00

Mangamaire School - Class of 1937-1947

Class of 1937 -1947 attending the Mangamaire School Reunion. The 50th jubilee celebration was an occasion to include the official opening of the new school, on 21 June 1947. The old school which had been vacated was given a new lease of life in 19...

Creator:      Elmar Studios, 459 Main Street, Palmerston North
Place:          Palmerston North
Date:          1947

View of Makomako & Pahiatua from Tararua Ranges

View of Makomako and Pahiatua region from the Tararua Ranges. Area accessed via South Range Road and DoC bait track. An abandoned Army munitions depot and bunkers are visible at Makomako.

Creator:      Evan Greensides
Place:          South Range Road, Turitea
Date:          May 5, 2018

AA Manawatu District Map, 1976

This map details the major driving routes in and around the Manawatu District as in the 1970s. The reverse gives a potted history of Palmerston North and lists some of of the regions most popular features, including parks, beaches and other amenit...

Creator:      Automobile Association
Place:          Manawatu
Date:          1976

Panorama from The Nipple, Otangane Loop Track

Panorama photograph from the high point of the Otangane Loop Track, The Nipple, at 650m above sea level. The view takes in the area around Pahiatua to the northeast and Mangahao river. Kopikopiko and Naenae roads lie directly beneath this area....

Creator:      Evan Greensides
Place:          Pahiatua
Date:          January 15, 2018

Man Playing Tennis

This image comes from a collection of unidentified negatives taken by H M Griffiths in the early 1900s, probably 1910-1920. Many of these negatives are labelled as having been taken in Tokomaru, but many have no information with them. They were do...

Creator:      H M Griffiths
Date:          1910 to 1920

Wind Damage on unidentifed farm

Wind damage on an unidentified farm two miles up the Pahiatua track.

Place:          Pahiatua
Date:          1929
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