Te Roopu o te Matakite hīkoi welcomed by a large crowd at Te Rau Aroha Māori Battalion Hall after marching along Rangitikei Street and through Te Marae o Hine - The Square in Palmerston North.
Te Roopu o te Matakite hīkoi was a movement created b...
Creator: Jack Cottam
Place: Cnr. Cuba and Pitt Street, Palmerston North
Date: October 6, 1975
Broadcast on Manawatu People's Radio, 1st August 2023. Part 2 of 2. Building a new life in New Zealand. Wife a house surgeon. Mixed race school. Few Maori students at Massey in the 1970s. Been on two protest marches, one in Jo...
Creator: Stuart Birks
Place: Palmerston North
Date: August 1, 2023
Local historians weekly "Back Issues" article in the Manawatū Standard. A coalition of groups and individuals joined together in 1985 to protest against a proposed rugby tour to South Africa. Locally, Coalition Against the Tour (CAT) was formed in...
Creator: Lesley Courtney
Place: Palmerston North
Date: November 23, 2024
The image is a derivative of this City of Palmerston North District Planning Map from 19...
Creator: Heritage Team, Palmerston North City Library
Date: 2025
Local historians weekly "Back Issues" article in the Manawatū Standard. A photo exhibition at Square Edge includes thirty photographs from the Manawatū Standard archives, showing local protests and demonstrations. The exhibition reflects on severa...
Creator: Linda Burgess
Place: Palmerston North
Date: April 27, 2024
Broadcast on Manawatu People's Radio, 3rd September 2024. Part 5 of 5. On returning from overseas was probably suffering chronic depression and lost all her confidence. Worked in library at Victoria University, Wellington. Struck up a friendshi...
Creator: Vicki-Marie Buchanan
Place: Linton
Date: September 3, 2024
Local historians weekly "Back Issues" article in the Manawatū Standard. In 1980, Judge Joe Watts sentenced Peter John Howse to six months periodic detention for domestic assault. His comment "The only reason I will not send you to jail this time i...
Creator: Margaret Tennant
Place: Palmerston North
Date: August 10, 2024
Local historians weekly "Back Issues" article in the Manawatū Standard. On 16 June 1980, 15 people with signage worded "Remember Soweto" held a silent vigil in Te Marae o Hine/The Square to protest violent events in South Africa. Whilst the anti-a...
Creator: Elizabeth Ward
Place: Palmerston North
Date: June 17, 2023
Local historians weekly "Back Issues" article in the Manawatū Standard. On 22 May 1934, the unemployed and their supporters gathered in Te Marae o Hine/The Square for what became a significant episode in Palmerston North's working-class history. L...
Creator: Margaret Tennant
Place: Palmerston North
Date: May 20, 2023
Local historians weekly "Back Issues" article in the Manawatū Standard. Early 1970s nationwide protest against New Zealand's participation in the Vietnam War; Palmerston North played its part. The reported silent majority who demonstrated and prot...
Creator: Lesley Courtney
Place: Palmerston North
Date: July 13, 2024
Stop the 81' Tour. Q.E.C. Hall. 4th November. 8 p.m. Principal Speaker Mr. Sam Ramsamy, Chairman, South African Non-Racial Olympic Committee'. This poster relates to the 1981 Springboks rugby tour of New Zealand. There was considerable protest aga...
Creator: Unknown
Date: November 4, 1981
Manawatū Standard article about the 1981 Springboks tour and the role protesters played in the anti-our movement. The Springboks vs All Blacks game on 1 August 1981 in Palmerston North was marred by protest, conflict between rugby supporters, anti...
Creator: Jimmy Ellingham
Place: Palmerston North
Date: July 31, 2021
Rally Against the Tour. You are invited to join a peaceful rally of all residents of the Manawatu oposed to the Springbok tour. It is your responsibility to ensure that the Government acts to prevent the tour taking place. Post your letter at Lion...
Creator: Unknown
Date: 1980s
Local historians weekly "Back Issues" article in the Manawatū Standard. Stephen Berg recalls the tensions in Palmerston North between rugby supporters and anti- Springbok tour protesters, July and August 1981.
Creator: Stephen Berg
Place: Palmerston North
Date: August 13, 2022
Graffiti protesting the South African rugby team (The Springboks) tour of New Zealand in 1981.
Creator: Colin Rush
Place: Palmerston North
Date: 1981
Protesters march around The Square in demonstration againist the South African rugby team (The Springboks) tour of New Zealand in 1981.
Creator: Colin Rush
Place: The Square, Palmerston North
Date: 1981
Graffiti protesting the South African rugby team (The Springboks) tour of New Zealand in 1981.
Creator: Colin Rush
Place: Palmerston North
Date: 1981
On the eve of the Springbok vs Manawatū Rugby match at the Showgrounds, army engineers from Linton moved into the grounds under the cover of darkness to ring the Oval with rolls of barbed wire.
Creator: Manawatu Evening Standard
Place: The Showgrounds. Palmerston North
Date: 1981
Local historians weekly "Back Issues" article in the Manawatū Standard. In January 1997, members of the 'Save the Avenue' protest group, led by Mark Bell-Booth, occupied the green tunnel of large plane trees which lined Fitzherbert Avenue. The act...
Creator: Elizabeth Ward
Place: Palmerston North
Date: January 15, 2022
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This series of images was taken for a story that ran in on the front page of The Manawatu Evening Standard on 10 February, 1987. The story pertains to the mortgagee auction of a farm owned by Paul Geurtjens of Bulls. Up to 700 protesters attended ...
Creator: Manawatu Evening Standard
Place: 109 Fitzherbert Avenue, Palmerston North
Date: 1987-02-10T00:00:00+00:00
The Coalition Against The Tour group came out of the Community Volunteer group. The group was formed 15 March 1985, to protest against the proposed tour of the All Blacks rugby team to South Africa.
Series 1: Minutes
Series 2: Organisational Inf...
Creator: Ian Matheson City Archives
Place: Palmerston North
Date: 1985
The police presence during protests on Fitzherbert Avenue. Avenue Action was formed in protest against the Palmerston North City Council removal of trees in Fitzherbert Avenue. This was to allow for four lanes of traffic as an engineering solution...
Creator: Unknown (possibly Christine McAlpine)
Place: Fitzherbert Avenue, Palmerston North
Date: January 1997 to circa March 1997
Two protestors sitting in a tree. Avenue Action was formed in protest against the Palmerston North City Council removal of trees in Fitzherbert Avenue. This was to allow for four lanes of traffic as an engineering solution to cross-river transport...
Creator: Unknown (possibly Christine McAlpine)
Place: Fitzherbert Avenue, Palmerston North
Date: January 1997 to circa March 1997
Avenue Action was formed in protest against the Palmerston North City Council removal of trees in Fitzherbert Avenue. This was to allow for four lanes of traffic as an engineering solution to cross-river transportation problems in 1997.
Creator: Graeme Liggins
Place: Fitzherbert Avenue, Palmerston North
Date: January 1997 to circa March 1997
Avenue Action was formed in protest against the Palmerston North City Council removal of trees in Fitzherbert Avenue. This was to allow for four lanes of traffic as an engineering solution to cross-river transportation problems in 1997.
Creator: Christine McAlpine
Place: Fitzherbert Avenue, Palmerston North
Date: January 1997 to circa March 1997
A plachard from the Avenue Action protests. Avenue Action was formed in protest against the Palmerston North City Council removal of trees in Fitzherbert Avenue. This was to allow for four lanes of traffic as an engineering solution to cross-river...
Creator: Colin Rush
Place: Fitzherbert Avenue, Palmerston North
Date: January 1997 to March 1997
Protestors and plachards on Fitzherbert Avenue. Avenue Action was formed in protest against the Palmerston North City Council removal of trees in Fitzherbert Avenue. This was to allow for four lanes of traffic as an engineering solution to cross-r...
Creator: Unknown (possibly Christine McAlpine)
Place: Fitzherbert Avenue, Palmerston North
Date: January 1997 to circa March 1997
Protestors in costume. Avenue Action was formed in protest against the Palmerston North City Council removal of trees in Fitzherbert Avenue. This was to allow for four lanes of traffic as an engineering solution to cross-river transportation probl...
Creator: Unknown (possibly Christine McAlpine)
Place: Fitzherbert Avenue, Palmerston North
Date: January 1997 to circa March 1997
Avenue Action was formed in protest against the Palmerston North City Council removal of trees in Fitzherbert Avenue. This was to allow for four lanes of traffic as an engineering solution to cross-river transportation problems in 1997.
Creator: Christine McAlpine
Place: Fitzherbert Avenue, Palmerston North
Date: January 1997 to circa March 1997
Avenue Action was formed in protest against the Palmerston North City Council removal of trees in Fitzherbert Avenue. This was to allow for four lanes of traffic as an engineering solution to cross-river transportation problems in 1997.
Creator: Christine McAlpine
Place: Fitzherbert Avenue, Palmerston North
Date: January 1997 to circa March 1997