Broadcast on Manawatu People's Radio, 9th May 2023. Part 1 of 4. Interested in printing and publishing from childhood, and started printing in 1950s. Feilding Herald, Photorama. Joe Sing. Hand-fed printing. Buying a printing press. Being a comp...

Creator:      Stuart Birks
Place:          Palmerston North
Date:          May 9, 2023

This image was taken for a story that ran in The Manawatu Evening Standard on 24 October 1958: "Teachers' College students visited a printing establishment in the city and watched how the printing world functioned. Here are a number of students wa...

Creator:      Manawatu Evening Standard
Place:          Palmerston North
Date:          October 24, 1958

This image was not published in The Manawatu Evening Standard, taken on unknown date. Unidentified man using copy machine could be at the Manawatu Standard.

Creator:      Manawatū Evening Standard
Place:          Palmerston North
Date:          December 3, 1959

This photograph ran in the Manawatu Evening Standard, 6 September 1963 with the caption: "During the week, Cubs from Feilding visited the "Manawatu Standard" office. Here they are seen watching Mr R Hardman as he operates a linotype machine."

Creator:      Manawatu Evening Standard
Place:          Church Street, Palmerston North
Date:          September 6, 1963

Ray Hardmen setting display advertisments at the Evening Standard. The Manawatu Evening Standard, launched in 1880, was the first daily newspaper in Palmerston North.

Creator:      Manawatu Evening Standard
Place:          Corner of Church Street and the Square, Palmerston North
Date:          circa 1965

The Manawatu Evening Standard began publishing in Palmerston North in 1880, the first daily newspaper in the Manawatu and Wanganui area. At the time this photo was taken it claimed to have the "largest circulation in the district" (see letters on ...

Creator:      Unknown
Place:          Palmerston North
Date:          circa 1885

J. P. Leary was the pioneer printer and newspaper proprietor of Palmerston North. In partnership with Mr George Bond, he founded the "Manawatu Times" in 1875 and although he soon sold his interest in the newspaper he continued in business as a pri...

Creator:      Wrigglesworth and Binns, Wellington
Place:          Palmerston North
Date:          circa 1890