The sewerage treatment plant beside the Manawatu River opened in 1968, replacing the septic tank and filter beds which had been in use since 1905. Some images from this collection have been digitised from prints housed in other archival collection...
Creator: Joe Greening (Argosy Studios/Argosy Industrial Photos)
Place: Awapuni, Palmerston North
Date: June 2, 1966
This image was taken (but not used) by Frank Goldingham for Photorama pictorial magazine's August 1963 edition.
"The Bainesse School reecntly [sic] celebrated their jubilee with a cabaret, roll call, church service and parade of floats. Three hun...
Creator: Frank Goldingham
Place: Bainesse
Date: August 1963
Mr Bill Coombes retired in December 1973 after more than fifty years as a trade unionist. In 1917, he organised Hawke's Bay grocers in to a Branch of the Wellington Grocer's Union. In 1935, he went to Wellington as general secretary of the Welling...
Creator: Manawatu Evening Standard
Place: The Square, Palmerston North
Date: 1973
This photograph is one of a series made by Mr Wildbore between about 1922 and 1924 showing the construction of the Mangahao hydro-electric power scheme in the Tararua range, east of Shannon. This view shows the foundations being laid for the power...
Creator: Unknown
Place: Charles Wildbore
The crop being harvested appears to be wheat. “Bill Read, Farmer” is written on the back of photograph
Creator: Joseph Francis Macedo, Feilding
Place: Palmerston North
Date: circa 1900
Samuel Jickell was the Palmerston North Borough Engineer from 1904-1919. This photograph shows a sewer pipe being lain in a swamp. The 24" sewer is being laid at a depth of 15' to the inlet.
Creator: Samuel Jickell
Place: Palmerston North
Date: 1905
This photograph shows an exterior view of a tunnel created for the Mangahao Line. This tunnel is just above the river level and has a bridge with rail tracks servicing the tunnel. The Mangahao Power Station provides hydroelectric power and is si...
Creator: Unknown
Place: Horowhenua Region
Date: circa 1920 to circa 1924
Samuel Jickell was the Palmerston North Borough Engineer from 1904-1919. This photograph shows a sewer pipe being lain in a swamp.
Creator: Samuel Jickell
Place: Palmerston North
Date: 1905
The winners of the Commercial Travellers' Trophy in the North Island Bowling Association Tournament held in Wellington. From left: J Nash (Mayor of Palmerston North 1908-1923); N McPhee; F Mowlem (Skip); W F Bunting (of Bunting Studio)
Creator: Berry and Co., Wellington
Place: Palmerston North
Date: 1902
Samuel Jickell was the Palmerston North Borough Engineer from 1904-1919. This photograph shows a sewer pipe being lain in a swamp. The 24" sewer is being laid at a depth of 15' to the inlet.
Creator: Samuel Jickell
Place: Palmerston North
Date: 1905
This photograph shows the inside of a tunnel created for the Mangahao Line, complete with tracks and a cart for carting rubble.The Mangahao Power Station provides hydroelectric power and is situated near the town of Shannon. It serves Wellington, ...
Creator: Unknown
Place: Mangahao Road, Shannon
Date: circa 1920 to circa 1924
The Puketotara Estate, as identified by the name on the bales, was located on the western bank of the Oroua River in the vicinity of its junction with the Manawatu River. During the 1890s, it was owned by the Pascal Brothers, three well-known Fren...
Creator: George W Shailer
Place: Manawatu
Date: circa 1890
The Mangahao Electric Power Scheme is near Shannon. From left: Charlie Storey; Alex Grady; Len Devereau; Bill Whelan
Creator: Unknown
Place: Palmerston North
Date: 1919 to 1924
Samuel Jickell was the Palmerston North Borough Engineer from 1904-1919. This photograph shows a sewer pipe being lain in a swamp. The 24" sewer is being laid at a depth of 15' to the inlet.
Creator: Samuel Jickell
Place: Palmerston North
Date: 1905
Oliver Huett Dudson (1897-1977), seated, is shown with the staff of Poplar Mill in Foxton. The other men are unidentified. The postcard in inscribed with the words "Popplar Mill", but this spelling is not correct.
Creator: Unknown
Place: Foxton
Date: 1920s
Laying gas mains in Russell Street, approximately opposite the then Willard Home (Children's Home) are C A (Charlie) Dawick, son of Samuel Dawick, and, standing far right, Bill Smith. Others unknown.
Creator: Unknown
Place: Palmerston North
Date: circa 1910
The name of this mill is though to have been Tasma Mill at Takapau, owned by Alfred Seifert and then his brother Walter. This photograph is taken in the yard of the mill,where the bundles of lax are stored for 2-3 days before being stripped.
Creator: W Golder Photo, Waipawa
Date: circa 1904
Samuel Jickell was the Palmerston North Borough Engineer from 1904-1919. This photograph shows a sewer pipe being lain in a swamp. The 18" sewer is being laid on a ferro-concrete support as the swamp was over 14 foot deep.
Creator: Samuel Jickell
Place: Manawatū
Date: 1905
Samuel Jickell was the Palmerston North Borough Engineer from 1904-1919. This photograph shows a sewer pipe being lain in a swamp. The 24" sewer is being laid at a depth of 15' to the inlet.
Creator: Samuel Jickell
Place: Palmerston North
Date: 1905
This negative comes from the Elmar Collection - a large series of semi-identified and unidentified images from the 1930s-1970s.
Creator: Elmar Studios, 459 Main Street, Palmerston North
Date: 1955
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
Refer Fitzherbert East Aokautere School and District 1889-1989, p 90.
Creator: Unknown
Place: Aokautere, Palmerston North
Date: 1920s
This is a standing chop, with four men standing on the planks wedged into the tree trunk. This photograph was possibly taken on C M Miller's farm at Apiti. The men are unidentified.
Creator: Unknown
Place: Apiti
Date: 1900 to 1910
A group of unidentified men thought to be bush or farm workers.
Creator: Unknown
Date: 1920s