This image was taken for a story that ran in The Manawatu Evening Standard on 26 December 1958: "The nurses of the Palmerston North Hospital entertained the patients by singing carols through the wards on Christmas Eve. Here is a scene of the nurs...

Creator:      Manawatu Evening Standard
Place:          Ruahine Street, Palmerston North
Date:          December 26, 1958

Journalist Tina White's weekly "Memory Lane" article in the Manawatū Standard. Book review of "Early Medical Practitioners in Manawatū and Palmerston North" by Dr Richard Rawstron. The book describes a background of early medical services in Mana...

Creator:      Tina White
Place:          Manawatū
Date:          December 14, 2013

This image was taken for a story that ran in The Manawatu Evening Standard on 20 December 1960 "Located near the chapel at the Palmerton North Hospital is this crib which has been erected for the first time. Gordon Bond, and Stephen Henson, who is...

Creator:      Manawatu Evening Standard
Place:          Ruahine Street, Palmerston North
Date:          December 20, 1960

This plan is titled, "Plan of Rural Sections 356, 357, 360, 375 to 379 & Pt 358, 359 & 366, Town of Palmerston North & Accretions. Block XIV Kairanga S.D."

Visible roads include Foxton Line, Waldegraves Road.

Creator:      C. T. Salmon [Surveyor]
Place:          Foxton Line; Waldegraves Road;
Date:          July 1926

This image was taken for a story that ran in The Manawatu Evening Standard on 29th December 1965 "Staff-Nurse Willtshire watches while nine-month-old Karen McDonald (Feilding) tries what teeth she may have on a rubber carrot which was a gift from ...

Creator:      Manawatū Evening Standard
Place:          Hospital, Palmerston North
Date:          December 27, 1965

This booklet comes from the Berry Bird Papers, held in the Palmerston North Community Archives. Berenice (Berry) Joubert Bird (1934-2020) was a nurse and leading advocate of infection control inititatives in the New Zealand healthcare system. In N...

Creator:      Department of Health
Date:          November 1980

Seated in the front row, left from right: Gordon Scrimgeour, Medical Microbiologist, Palmerston North Hospital; Unknown; Marie Fergus, Infection Control Nurse, Dunedin; Berry Bird, Infection Control Nurse, Palmerston North Hospital.

This photogra...

Date:          1980

This photograph comes from the Berry Bird Papers, held in the Palmerston North Community Archives. Berenice (Berry) Joubert Bird (1934-2020) was a nurse and leading advocate of infection control inititatives in the New Zealand healthcare system. I...

Date:          circa 1979 to circa 1980

Standing from left to right: May Butler, Infection Control Nurse, Palmerston North Hospital; Margaret Duthie, Nursing Advisor, Department of Health; Joan Faogali, Lecturer and Medical Microbiologist, Christchurch Hospital; Berenice Bird, Infection...

Date:          1980

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

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

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

Local historians weekly "Back Issues" article in the Manawatū Standard. In January 1986, routine testing detected the presence of Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus in two patients in Palmerston North. It was the start of an outbreak that...

Creator:      Ralph Body
Place:          Palmerston North

This image was taken for a story that appeared in The Manawatū Evening Standard on 21 December 1994, published with the caption: "A bronze tablet to commemorate the first 100 years of the Palmerston North Hospital was unveiled last night. Hospit...

Creator:      Manawatū Evening Standard
Date:          December 21, 1994

Journalist Tina White's weekly "Memory Lane" article in the Manawatū Standard. The life story of Ellen Dougherty, first matron of Palmerston North Hospital.

Creator:      Tina White
Place:          Palmerston North
Date:          July 28, 2007

This image was taken for a story that ran in The Manawatu Evening Standard on 29th December 1965 "The nurses' choir at the Palmerston North Hospital sung carols in the children's ward on Christmas morning, for the children, parents and visitors."

Creator:      Manawatū Evening Standard
Place:          Hospital, Palmerston North
Date:          December 27, 1965

This image was taken for a story that ran in The Manawatu Evening Standard on 22nd December 1965 "Ward 12 at the Palmerston North Hospital, in the recess at the end life-sized figures paid homage to the Babe in His Crib."

Creator:      Manawatū Evening Standard
Place:          Ruahine Street, Palmerston North
Date:          December 22, 1965

This image was taken for a story that ran in The Manawatu Evening Standard on 22nd December 1965 "Ward one at the Palmerston North Hospital has been transformed into a really nautical scene with a wheel, sailors and portholes. Over the doorway is ...

Creator:      Manawatū Evening Standard
Place:          Ruahine Street, Palmerston North
Date:          December 22, 1965

This image was taken for a story that ran in The Manawatu Evening Standard on 20th December 1965 "As in past years, the nurses and staff at the Palmerston North Hospital have started the decorating of the windows and wards. This does much to raise...

Creator:      Manawatū Evening Standard
Place:          Hospital, Palmerston North
Date:          December 20, 1965

This image was taken for a story that ran in The Manawatu Evening Standard on 29 February, 1964. "This motor-cycle belongs to Mr. Kevin John Hill, now seriously ill with multiple head injuries at Palmerston North Hospital. Mr. Hill, a 24-year-old ...

Creator:      Manawatū Evening Standard

This image was taken for a story that ran in The Manawatu Evening Standard on 23 December, 1959. “Miss M. Bloxam, the senior dietitian at the Palmerston North Hospital, puts paper ruffles on the Christmas cakes which she had previously iced. The ...

Creator:      Manawatū Evening Standard
Place:          50 Ruahine Street, Palmerston North
Date:          1959-12-22T00:00:00+00:00

This image was taken for a story that ran in The Manawatu Evening Standard on 22nd December 1965 "At the Palmerston North Hospital ward 14 Staff Nurse S. Handley and others on the ward staff have dressed these lifelike figures to represent the arr...

Creator:      Manawatū Evening Standard
Place:          Maxwell's Line, Palmerston North
Date:          December 22, 1965

This image was taken for a story that ran in The Manawatu Evening Standard on 29 August 1961 "Twenty-nine nurses from the Palmerston North Hospital were presented with their medals at the graduation ceremony in the tutorial hall last evening. They...

Creator:      Manawatu Evening Standard
Place:          Ruahine Street, Palmerston North
Date:          August 29, 1961

This image was taken for a story that ran in The Manawatu Evening Standard on 29 August 1961 "Twenty-nine nurses from the Palmerston North Hospital were presented with their medals at the graduation ceremony in the tutorial hall last evening. They...

Creator:      Manawatu Evening Standard
Place:          Ruahine Street, Palmerston North
Date:          August 29, 1961

This image was taken for a story that ran in The Manawatu Evening Standard on 04 December 1958: "The torments of the examinations are over for these nurses of the Palmerston North Hospital, but the waiting for results now begins. The girls sat the...

Creator:      Manawatu Evening Standard
Place:          Ruahine Street, Palmerston North
Date:          December 4, 1958

This image was taken for a story that ran in The Manawatu Evening Standard on 19 January 1961: "Nurse N.M. Bergen, who gained top honours in New Zealand for the State final nursing examinations held in November-December last year, photographed at ...

Creator:      Manawatu Evening Standard
Place:          Ruahine Street, Palmerston North
Date:          1961-01-19T00:00:00+00:00

This image was taken for a story that ran in The Manawatu Evening Standard on 03 September 1958: "Nursing graduates of the Palmerston North Hospital who receives their medals last-night from the Supervising Matron (Miss W.S. Train) are seen before...

Creator:      Manawatu Evening Standard
Place:          Ruahine Street, Palmerston North
Date:          September 3, 1958

This image was not published in The Manawatu Evening Standard, taken on 12 November, 1959. “Miss New York, Miss Ariene Nesbitt talking to nurses at the Palmerston North Hospital yesterday.” Another photo associated with this article was published ...

Creator:      Manawatu Evening Standard
Place:          Palmerston North
Date:          1959-11-12T00:00:00+00:00

This image was taken for a story that ran in The Manawatu Evening Standard on 17 September, 1959. "One of the demonstrations at the new series of lectures in home nursing being conducted by the St. John Ambulance Brigade. Two of the tutors giving...

Creator:      Manawatū Evening Standard
Place:          Palmerston North
Date:          1959-09-17T00:00:00+00:00

This image was taken for a story that ran in The Manawatu Evening Standard on 20 August, 1959. "Mr and Mrs R. Hessell, the proud parents of twin girls born on August 17 at the District Maternity Home, are now faced with the all important problem o...

Creator:      Manawatu Evening Standard
Place:          Palmerston North
Date:          1959-08-20T00:00:00+00:00