This image was taken for a story that ran in The Manawatu Evening Standard on 28 April 1958, page 8: "Seen opening the Dominion conference of the Maori Welfare League in Palmerston North today is the Prime Minister and Minister of Maori Affairs (M...

Creator:      Manawatu Evening Standard
Place:          Palmerston North
Date:          April 28, 1958

This image was not published in The Manawatu Evening Standard, taken on 7 February, 1959. "Reproduction of unpublished photo from 1902 during peace celebrations in Nelson, following the South African War. Richard Seddon (King Dick) was premier of...

Creator:      Manawatu Evening Standard
Place:          Nelson
Date:          1959-02-07T00:00:00+00:00

Bishop Ditlev Gothard Monrad, his wife, and sons Viggo and Johannes and families came to the Palmerston North area from Denmark in October of 1866 and settled at Karere, 3 miles from Longburn. The Bishop was the Premier of Denmark during the war w...

Creator:      Unknown
Place:          Karere, Longburn, Palmerston North
Date:          circa 1880

This building was one of the first European houses in inland Manawatu, erected 1867 by European carpenters employed by Ditlev Gothard Monrad, the Lutheran Bishop and ex-Premier of Denmark who settled at Karere in 1866. To the right of the house c...

Creator:      Unknown
Place:          Karere, near Longburn, Palmerston North
Date:          circa 1867

This major engineering project took nine years to complete at a cost of $17,000,000. Pictured from left: Engine Driver Des Manaton, the PM Mr Muldoon, locomotive assistant Bryce Cameron (above) and guar Mat Pita.

Creator:      Manawatu Evening Standard
Place:          Palmerston North
Date:          1981

This building was one of the first European houses in inland Manawatu, erected 1867 by European carpenters employed by Ditlev Gothard Monrad, the Lutheran Bishop and ex-Premier of Denmark who settled at Karere in 1866. The house was occupied by th...

Creator:      Unknown
Place:          Palmerston North
Date:          circa 1882 to circa 1883

The Monrad farm was established by Bishop Ditlev Monrad, former Premier of Denmark. He lived there with his family 1866-1869. The farm was continued on by his son Viggo and family.

Creator:      T Block, Nelson
Place:          Palmerston North
Date:          circa 1868

Sir William Fox was Premier of New Zealand four times. He was born in 1812 in England. In 1843 he was appointed Resident Agent of the New Zealand Company in Nelson. He lived in the Rangitikei from 1849 to the mid 1880s, having build his home 'West...

Creator:      Unknown
Place:          Manawatu
Date:          circa 1880

Jacinda Ardern made a campaign stop to The Plaza in Palmerston North on August 23 2017. Palmerston North MP Iain Lees-Galloway is shown on her right.

Creator:      Heather Glasgow
Place:          Palmerston North
Date:          August 23, 2017

the Prime Minister of New Zealand, Peter Fraser with two of the children, dressed in national costume, at the Polish Children's Camp in Pahiatua. Seven hundred Polish children came to New Zealand at the invitation of the Prime Minister in 1944, du...

Creator:      Unknown
Place:          Pahiatua
Date:          1944?

Bishop Ditlev Gothard Monrad, his wife, and sons Viggo and Johannes and families came to the Palmerston North area from Denmark in October of 1866 and settled at Karere, 3 miles from Longburn. The Bishop was the Premier of Denmark during the war w...

Creator:      Unknown
Place:          Palmerston North
Date:          circa 1880

Michael Joseph Savage, Prime Minister of New Zealand, died in office and his body was transported by train to Auckland for burial. It stopped in Palmerston North for 50 minutes on March 30th 1940. At the station the mortuary van was opened on both...

Creator:      Manawatū Evening Standard
Place:          487 Main Street, Palmerston North
Date:          1940