Broadcast on Manawatu People's Radio, 30th September 2025. Mike Lawrence shares photos of Wellington from 1910–1915, showing Oriental Parade with trams, carts, and the tea kiosk.
He recalls living there in 1959 when the kiosk w...
Creator: Stuart Birks
Place: Palmerston North
Date: September 30, 2025
Broadcast on Manawatu People's Radio, 12th December 2023, Part 1 of 2. Work as radio sports broadcaster 1976–2016. Rugby, football (soccer), cricket, tennis. Not much women’s sport in the early days. Promoted local sport. Work...
Creator: Stuart Birks
Place: Palmerston North
Date: December 12, 2023
Broadcast on Manawatu People's Radio, 19th December 2023, Part 2 of 2. Interest in sports as a youngster in Christchurch in the early 1940s. Rugby league first then hockey. Sport has been a massive part of his life. Wasn’t involved ...
Creator: Stuart Birks
Place: Palmerston North
Date: December 19, 2023
Broadcast on Manawatu People’s Radio, 26th September 2023. Part 1 of 3. Early interest in radio (about 1950), especially the technical side. Crystal sets, then battery operated valve radios. Career options, chose radio broadcasting. To Wellington ...
Creator: Stuart Birks
Date: September 26, 2023
Broadcast on Manawatu People’s Radio, 3rd October 2023. Part 2 of 3. Radio advertising, recording on vinyl. Cartridges and cassettes. Working in Taumarunui (mini-stations). AM and FM stations. Outside broadcasts. Transistors, technical staff redun...
Creator: Stuart Birks
Date: October 3, 2023
Broadcast on Manawatu People's Radio 4th August 2020. John Ward. Built a gramophone in 1946. Polio restrictions in 1947-8, no school, other restrictions with comparisons to Covid-19. Correspondence school, a few friends. Restrictions for ...
Creator: Stuart Birks
Place: Palmerston North
Date: August 4, 2020
Broadcast on Manawatu People's Radio, 3rd March 2020. Part 1 of 3. 1969-1990 work at NZBC. To Manawatu in 1977, radio station 2ZA. Changes to local broadcasting. Getting news stories. Comparison with TV. Journalism training in 1970s...
Creator: Stuart Birks
Place: Palmerston North
Date: March 3, 2020
Broadcast on Manawatu People's Radio, 24th March 2020. Arnie Evans, life as a regional radio and TV reporter part 3 of 3. Broadcasting in the 80s. Freezing works and other closures, maternity hospitals, factories (caravans). Other stories, jetb...
Creator: Stuart Birks
Place: Palmerston North
Date: March 24, 2020
Broadcast on Manawatu People's Radio, 17th March 2020. Arnie Evans, life as a regional radio and TV reporter, part 2 of 3. Broadcasting facilities, 1970s and 1980s. Use of phones. Comparison with TV. TV more costly and more prescribed. Mistake ...
Creator: Stuart Birks
Place: Palmerston North
Date: March 17, 2020
Letter about a faulty recording at the 2ZA station.
Creator: Anne Stewart
Place: Palmerston North
Date: 1944
Local historians weekly "Back Issues" article in the Manawatū Standard. The history of radio listening since 1924. By the 1930's, it is estimated that more than half of New Zealand homes had a radio. Tuning in to the 'wireless' became a communal a...
Creator: Margaret Tennant
Place: Manawatū
Date: July 30, 2022
Palmerston North City Councillor Lorna Johnson hosts "Making Palmy Home", a Manawatū People's Radio series interviewing migrants about their journeys to Palmerston North. This episode features Frank Boulton. Frank is a life-long human rights activ...
Creator: Manawatū People's Radio
Date: October 6, 2021
Palmerston North City Councillor Lorna Johnson hosts "Making Palmy Home", a Manawatū People's Radio series interviewing migrants about their journeys to Palmerston North. This episode features fellow City Councillor Renee Dingwall. Born in Samoa, ...
Creator: Manawatū People's Radio
Date: October 20, 2021
Palmerston North City Councillor Lorna Johnson hosts "Making Palmy Home", a Manawatū People's Radio series interviewing migrants about their journeys to Palmerston North. This episode features Raza Nayeel and covers his life in Afghanistan, role a...
Creator: Manawatū People's Radio
Date: April 14, 2021
This image was taken for Photorama pictorial magazine and was published in the July 1960 edition.
Caption: “Photorama recently had a look behind the scenes at the Transportation department and now shows you some of the things a Traffic Officer do...
Creator: Frank Goldingham
Place: Palmerston North
Date: July 1960
This image was taken for Photorama pictorial magazine and was published in the July 1960 edition.
Caption: “Photorama recently had a look behind the scenes at the Transportation department and now shows you some of the things a Traffic Officer do...
Creator: Frank Goldingham
Place: Palmerston North
Date: July 1960
Creator: New Zealand Broadcasting Service
Date: August 27, 1958
Palmerston North City Councillor Lorna Johnson hosts "Making Palmy Home", a Manawatū People's Radio series interviewing migrants about their journeys to Palmerston North. This episode features Haifa.
Creator: Manawatū People's Radio
Date: April 7, 2021
Palmerston North City Councillor Lorna Johnson hosts "Making Palmy Home", a Manawatū People's Radio series interviewing migrants about their journeys to Palmerston North. This episode features fellow City Councillor Dr. Zulfiqar Butt.
Creator: Manawatū People's Radio
Date: March 31, 2021
Palmerston North City Councillor Lorna Johnson hosts "Making Palmy Home", a Manawatū People's Radio series interviewing migrants about their journeys to Palmerston North. This episode features Wajeha.
Creator: Manawatū People's Radio
Date: March 24, 2021
Palmerston North City Councillor Lorna Johnson hosts "Making Palmy Home", a Manawatū People's Radio series interviewing migrants about their journeys to Palmerston North. This episode features Shabbir.
Creator: Manawatū People's Radio
Date: March 17, 2021
Palmerston North City Councillor Lorna Johnson hosts "Making Palmy Home", a Manawatū People's Radio series interviewing migrants about their journeys to Palmerston North. This episode features Kanchana Seneviratne. Kanchana is the friendly face gr...
Creator: Manawatū People's Radio
Date: November 3, 2021
Palmerston North City Councillor Lorna Johnson hosts "Making Palmy Home", a Manawatū People's Radio series interviewing migrants about their journeys to Palmerston North. This episode features Ahmed Obaid. He talks about his experiences of startin...
Creator: Manawatū People's Radio
Date: November 17, 2021
The McLeod and Svendsen truck with a mobile radio speaker system on the rear. One of the firm's employees, Faulding, later went on to found Faulding's Sound Service in Feilding.
Creator: Unknown
Place: Feilding
Date: circa 1930
The McLeod and Svendsen truck with a mobile radio speaker system on the rear. One of the firm's employees, Faulding, later went on to found Faulding's Sound Service in Feilding.
Creator: Unknown
Place: Feilding
Date: circa 1930
The McLeod and Svendsen truck with a mobile radio speaker system on the rear. One of the firm's employees, Faulding, later went on to found Faulding's Sound Service in Feilding.
Creator: Unknown
Place: Feilding
Date: circa 1930
From May 1923, Albert Svendsen (far right), was co-owner of McLeod and Svendsen, an electrical appliances store on the Square in Feilding. The building was sold to Leader and Watt in 1977. The other individuals are unidentified.
Creator: Unknown
Place: Feilding
Date: circa 1930
Broadcast on Manawatu People's Radio, 21 September 2021. Part 4 of 4. Moving up to a .22 rifle. Shooting in the cadets at school. Cadets week. Cadet activities. NZ national service. In Freyberg High School shooting team. Using .303 rifles...
Creator: Stuart Birks
Place: Feilding
Date: September 21, 2021
This image was not published in The Manawatu Evening Standard, taken on 21 February, 1964. [Image of some of the inner workings of the transmitter hall at Himatangi.]
Creator: Manawatū Evening Standard
This image was not published in The Manawatu Evening Standard, taken on 21 February, 1964. [Image of valves outside of the transmitter hall at Himatangi.]
Creator: Manawatū Evening Standard