Local historians weekly "Back Issues" article in the Manawatū Standard. The 158th anniversary of the 250,000 acre block of land sale that Rangitanē agreed to sell to the Crown is on July 23 1864. The deed of sale is held in Archives New Zealand, W...

Creator:      Warren and Virginia Warbrick
Place:          Palmerston North
Date:          July 23, 2022

Local historians weekly "Back Issues" article in the Manawatū Standard. In July 1864, Rangitāne paramount chief Te Hirawanui Kaimokopuna of Ngāti Mutuahi was the lead signatory in the sale of 250,000 acres of Rangitāne ki Manawatū whenua, known as...

Creator:      Virginia and Warren Warbrick
Place:          Manawatū
Date:          July 22, 2023

Local historians weekly "Back Issues" article in the Manawatū Standard. On 3 August 1993, four Rangitanē pouwhenua (carved stockade posts) were returned home to the region after an absence of 60 years, from the Museum of New Zealand, Te Papa Tonga...

Creator:      Virginia and Warren Warbrick
Place:          Palmerston North
Date:          July 29, 2023

Journalist Tina White's weekly "Memory Lane" article in the Manawatū Standard. Warren and Virginia Warbrick share their love and understanding of Palmerston North, its present and its past with a wider audience. Their work includes city council cu...

Creator:      Tina White
Place:          Manawatū
Date:          July 31, 2021

Local historians weekly "Back Issues" article in the Manawatū Standard. The story of "The Birth of Palmerston North", a publication that celebrated the city's past 100 years in 1971. I.R. (Ian) Matheson, Palmerston North's first city archivist, wa...

Creator:      Margaret Tennant
Place:          Palmerston North
Date:          November 6, 2021