This building, on Cambridge Avenue, Ashhurst, served as the town's police station from 1896 until 1921. The police constables stationed in Ashhurst during that time were: James Franklin (April 1896 to January 1906); Lott Edward O'Halloran (Februar...
Date: circa 1986
The current Ashhurst Police Station on Guildford Street opened in 1980.
This image is derived from a copy negative made from a photograph that was loaned for copying. The original photographic print is not held by the Ian Matheson City Archives.
Creator: Peter Knight
Date: circa 1986
This building, on the corner of Mulgrave and Stanford streets, served as the Ashhurst Police Station during the time that Alfred Pennefather was police constable in the town (April 1895 until 31 March 1896). He rented the six room cottage from Tho...
Creator: Peter Knight
Date: circa 1986
Gordon Vincent Wood was police constable in Ashhurst from July 1965 to October 1967. He arrived in Ashhurst from Taranaki and returned to that regions when he was transferred to Stratford.
This image is derived from a copy negative made from a pho...
Date: 1960s
Winston Francis Cutts (known as Win) was police constable in Ashhurst from December 1985 to May 1987.
This image is derived from a copy negative made from a photograph that was loaned for copying. The original photographic print is not held by th...
Date: 1980s
This one room cell was an outbuilding at the third Ashhurst Police Station, which located on Guildford Street from 1922 until 1944. The cell was removed to the back yard of Constable Jock Watt's property in Storford Street in 1960 and used as a sh...
Creator: Ray Carter
Date: circa 1986
This one room cell was an outbuilding to the third Ashhurst Police Station, which was on Guildford Street from 1922 until 1944. The cell was removed to the back yard of Constable Jock Watt's property in Storford Street in 1960 and used as a shed.
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Date: circa 1941
Keith Rowe was police constable in Ashhurst from March 1968 until May 1985. He completed training at Trentham Training School and was posted first to Gisborne before transferring to Ruatoria. Following his retirement, he was voted onto the town co...
Date: circa 1980
Alexander Ward was police constable in Ashhurst from May 1962 to June 1965. He had previously lived in Palmerston North between 1932 and 1940 and played as lock forward for Manawatū.
This image is derived from a copy negative made from a photogra...
Date: 1962 to 1965
John (known as Jock) Watt was the police constable in Ashhurst from 10 October 1948 until his retirement on 10 May 1962. He was born in Keith, Scotland, and migrated to New Zealand in 1924. Two years later he joined the police in Dunedin and was t...
Date: 1948 to 1962
Alfred Pennefather was police constable in Ashhurst from April 1895 until 31 March 1896. He was born in County Tipperary, Ireland, in 1840 and married Margaret Charlotte Bateman. Pennefather served in the Otago Provincial Police and the New Zealan...
Date: circa 1896
The first image in this set was taken by staff photographer Phil Green and published in The Manawatū Evening Standard on 5th September 1974.
"A police party, flanked by cabinet ministers, carries the casket" ... to a waiting hearse to travel ......
Creator: Manawatū Evening Standard Negative Collection
Place: Wellington
Date: September 5, 1974
The first image in this set was taken by staff photographer Phil Green, for a story that ran in The Manawatū Evening Standard on 4th September 1974.
"Hundreds wept in the rain, and thousands more bowed their heads as Mr Kirk's casket was borne f...
Creator: Manawatū Evening Standard Negative Collection
Place: Wellington
Date: September 4, 1974
This image was taken (but not used) for a story that ran in The Manawatu Evening Standard on 01 August 1981. Barbed wire was erected around the Showgrounds and barricades blocked parts of Cuba Street in anticipation of anti-Apartheid and anti-Spri...
Creator: Manawatū Evening Standard
Place: Palmerston North
Date: August 1, 1981
This image was taken (but not used) for a story that ran in The Manawatu Evening Standard on 01 August 1981. The Standard reported that the protesters stood ‘eyeball to eyeball’ with Police in riot gear for 24 minutes during an unplanned standoff ...
Creator: Manawatū Evening Standard
Place: Palmerston North
Date: August 1, 1981
This image was taken (but not used) for a story that ran in The Manawatu Evening Standard on 01 August 1981. Extra police personnel were flown into Palmerston North in anticipation of game-day anti-Springbok Tour and anti-Apartheid protests. The S...
Creator: Manawatū Evening Standard
Place: Palmerston North
Date: August 1, 1981
This image was taken for a story that ran in The Manawatu Evening Standard on 01 August 1981, with the caption: "Police with Long batons and riot helmets block Cuba Street near the Showgrounds.” This image likely depicts the police line formed in ...
Creator: Manawatū Evening Standard
Place: Palmerston North
Date: August 1, 1981
This image was taken for a story that ran in The Manawatu Evening Standard on 1 August 1981, with the caption: "Ground in state of siege." Barbed wire was erected around the Showgrounds and barricades blocked parts of Cuba Street in anticipation o...
Creator: Manawatū Evening Standard
Place: Palmerston North
Date: August 1, 1981
This image was taken for a story that ran in The Manawatu Evening Standard on 01 August 1981, with the caption: "A section of the large crowd which gathered outside the Boks’ hotel the DB Fitzherbert this morning.” Anti-Apartheid and anti-Springbo...
Creator: Manawatū Evening Standard
Place: Palmerston North
Date: August 1, 1981
This image was taken for a story that ran in The Manawatu Evening Standard on 03 August 1981, with the caption: "On the verge of the unknown…the thin blue line faces the protesters.” The Standard reported that protesters against the Springbok Rugb...
Creator: Manawatū Evening Standard
Place: Palmerston North
Date: August 1, 1981
This image was taken (but not used) for a story that ran in The Manawatu Evening Standard on 01 August 1981. The Standard reported that as many as 1000 police were involved in planning for protests on game day, including the specially formed ‘Red ...
Creator: Manawatū Evening Standard
Place: Palmerston North
Date: August 1, 1981
This image was taken (but not used) for a story that ran in The Manawatu Evening Standard on 01 August 1981. Anti-Apartheid and anti-Springbok tour protestors picketed the touring Springbok rugby team’s hotel – The Fitzherbert Motor Inn – but the ...
Creator: Manawatū Evening Standard
Place: Palmerston North
Date: August 1, 1981
This image was taken for a story that ran in The Manawatu Evening Standard on 01 August 1981, with the caption: "Marchers in the vanguard of today’s protest were well protected with hard helmets and heavy clothing.” COST (Citizen's Opposed to the ...
Creator: Manawatū Evening Standard
Place: Palmerston North
Date: August 1, 1981
This image was taken (but not used) for a story that ran in The Manawatu Evening Standard on 01 August 1981, depicting the march in protest of the rugby match played between the South African Springboks and the Manawatū provincial team. The march ...
Creator: Manawatū Evening Standard
Place: Palmerston North
Date: August 1, 1981
This image was taken for a story that ran in The Manawatu Evening Standard on 01 August 1981, with the caption: “Protesters march down Church Street in a demonstration of solidarity against the tour.”
Creator: Manawatū Evening Standard
Place: Palmerston North
Date: August 1, 1981
This image was taken for a story that ran in The Manawatu Evening Standard on 01 August 1981, with the caption: "Police march alongside the Protesters.”
Creator: Manawatū Evening Standard
Place: Palmerston North
Date: August 1, 1981
This image was taken (but not used) for a story that ran in The Manawatu Evening Standard on 01 August 1981, depicting the march in protest of the rugby match played between the South African Springboks and the Manawatū provincial team. The march ...
Creator: Manawatū Evening Standard
Place: Palmerston North
Date: August 1, 1981
This image was taken for a story that ran in The Manawatu Evening Standard on 14 February 1958, page 6: "Two salesmen at the police auction, Messrs. A. West and W. Watts, are shown inspecting a pile of tires which sold for £2."
Creator: Manawatu Evening Standard
Place: Palmerston North
Date: February 14, 1958
This image was taken for a story that ran in The Manawatu Evening Standard on 28 February 1958, page 6: "Chief Inspector F.W. Edwards at the Palmerston North Police Force, is shown making a farewell presentation of a silver tea set to Senior-Detec...
Creator: Manawatu Evening Standard
Place: Church Street, Palmerston North
Date: February 28, 1958
This image was taken for a story that ran in The Manawatu Evening Standard on 11 June, 1963. "At a farewell ceremony held at the Palmerston North police station yesterday, a presentation was made to Dective-Inspector F. A. Gordon, who left for his...
Creator: Manawatū Evening Standard
Place: Palmerston North
Date: 1963-06-11T00:00:00+00:00