The first in this set of unpublished images was taken for a story in The Manawatū Evening Standard on 3rd December 1973.

Crew captains raced to their rafts... "after the starting gun had been fired by Manawatu's Miss Commonwealth Games Hostess, T...

Creator:      Manawatū Evening Standard Negative Collection
Place:          Palmerston North
Date:          December 3, 1973

This image was not published in the Manawatu Evening Standard, taken on 09 July, 1963. [Four young men in uniform stand guard at a portrait of Lieutenant-General Sir Bernard Freyberg, which has been draped in black. He died on 4th July 1963. The c...

Creator:      Manawatū Evening Standard
Place:          Palmerston North
Date:          1963-07-09T00:00:00+00:00

This image was taken for a story that ran in The Manawatu Evening Standard on 05 September 1960 "High winds last Saturday at Ashhurst did not deter members of the local rifle club from holding a shoot. In fact, the conditions increased the enthusi...

Creator:      Manawatu Evening Standard
Place:          Ashhurst
Date:          1960-09-05T00:00:00+00:00

This image was taken for a story that ran in The Manawatu Evening Standard on 10 April 1958, page 8: "Seen during a training period at Linton Camp today are four pupils of the Wanganui Collegiate School, which is spending its barracks week at the ...

Creator:      Manawatu Evening Standard
Place:          Linton Military Camp, Linton, Palmerston North
Date:          April 10, 1958

This image was taken for a story that ran in The Manawatu Evening Standard on 18 May 1961 "It is not often that schoolmasters are taught, but one has to be taught to be able to teacher [sic]. Shown above is a small portion of the 70 schoolmasters ...

Creator:      Manawatu Evening Standard
Place:          Linton Camp, Linton
Date:          May 18, 1961

This image was taken for a story that ran in The Manawatu Evening Standard on 18th March, 1963. "Ten members of the Manawatu Deerstalkers' Association are seen before setting off on a two week shooting expedition for red deer in South Westland. Th...

Creator:      Manawatū Evening Standard
Place:          Palmerston North
Date:          1963-03-16T00:00:00+00:00

This image was taken for a story that ran in The Manawatu Evening Standard on 5 February, 1959. "Making sure that their shooting is legal are these two Marist Brothers from the Marist Mission at Highden who visited the arms office at the Palmersto...

Creator:      Manawatu Evening Standard
Place:          Palmerston North
Date:          1959-02-05T00:00:00+00:00

This image was taken for a story that ran in The Manawatu Evening Standard on 07 March 1961 "Getting the feel of the .22 rifles they will later shoot with in the Imperial Challenge Shield competition are pupils from the Palmerston North Boys' High...

Creator:      Manawatu Evening Standard
Place:          Palmerston North
Date:          1961-03-07T00:00:00+00:00

This image was taken for a story that ran in The Manawatu Evening Standard on 10 February 1958, page 6: "With the Legion of Frontiersmen guards stiffly at the present arms position, Messrs. C.T. Flyger, the newly-elected Dominion president, and W....

Creator:      Manawatu Evening Standard
Place:          The Square, Palmerston North
Date:          February 10, 1958

This image was taken for a story that ran in The Manawatu Evening Standard on 13 May, 1963. "With more than 100 contestents at the small-bore rifle tournament held at the R.S.A. range on Satuday, competition was keen. Making sure that all rifles w...

Creator:      Manawatū Evening Standard
Date:          1963-05-13T00:00:00+00:00

This image was taken for a story that ran in The Manawatu Evening Standard on May 31 1958, page 10: "This weekend smallbore rifle clubs have gathered at Palmerston North for the North vs. South Island championship shoot. This photograph shows som...

Creator:      Manawatu Evening Standard
Place:          Palmerston North
Date:          May 31, 1958

This image was taken for a story that ran in The Manawatu Evening Standard on 26 August 1960 "Some of the competitors participating in the annual inter-association postal shoot, held at the R.S.A. smallbore rifle range last night, are seen about t...

Creator:      Manawatu Evening Standard
Place:          Palmerston North
Date:          1960-08-26T00:00:00+00:00

This image was taken for a story that ran in The Manawatu Evening Standard on 09 April 1958, page 9: "Five of the 10 instructors who are being coached and advised by the Australian Mr. J.N. Thomas, pictured at the Palmerston North Gun Club's range...

Creator:      Manawatu Evening Standard
Place:          Kopane
Date:          April 9, 1958

This image was taken for a story that ran in The Manawatu Evening Standard on 13th February 1963. "As part of barrack week at the Palmerston North Boys' High School, A Company were taken to the Army rifle range on No. 4 Line yesterday. For the fir...

Creator:      Manawatu Evening Standard
Place:          Palmerston North
Date:          1963-02-12T00:00:00+00:00

This image was taken for a story that ran in The Manawatu Evening Standard on 30 November, 1959. “Boys from Palmerston North secondary schools took part in the inter-school rifle shooting competition on the Ashhurst range on Saturday. The standar...

Creator:      Manawatu Evening Standard
Place:          Palmerston North
Date:          1959-11-30T00:00:00+00:00

This image was taken for a story that ran in The Manawatu Evening Standard on11 February 1961: "Teams from the four secondary schools for boys in Palmerston North today participated in the annual Manawatu Rifle Association's shoot for the Benoni S...

Creator:      Manawatu Evening Standard
Place:          Ashhurst
Date:          1961-02-11T00:00:00+00:00

This image was taken for a story that ran in The Manawatu Evening Standard on 11 October 1958: "All ready to have their shoot are these four boys who competed in a Palmerston North secondary school rifle shooting competition for the N.Sandllands m...

Creator:      Manawatu Evening Standard
Place:          Ashhurst
Date:          October 11, 1958

[This photograph shows a group of spectators watching as a rifle is prepared for competition shooting.]

Creator:      Manawatu Evening Standard
Place:          Palmerston North
Date:          1960-09-10T00:00:00+00:00

These volunteers from the Palmerston North Guars were encamped at the Showgrounds under Captain McMurray. E S Baker is fourth from right in the back row.

Creator:      Unknown
Place:          Showgrounds, Palmerston North
Date:          circa 1909

This photograph was taken on Empire Day in 1902. It shows the Foxton Militia vs the Shannon Riflemen (who are in mufti because their uniforms could not be distinguished from the Foxton group, as they were all volunteers). They are thought to be pa...

Creator:      James Hallam, Shannon
Place:          Unknown
Date:          1902