Broadcast on Manawatu People's Radio, 13th December 2022. Part 1 of 2.   Born in Palmerston North. Family farmed in Glen Oroua. Walked to school, 1945, no shoes. Conflict with lady teachers. The strap. Desks, inkwells. Biked to Rongot...

Creator:      Stuart Birks
Place:          Palmerston North
Date:          December 13, 2022

These plans for a four bedroom residence were designed by L. G. West and Son for Arthur Duke. The Danish-born architect Ludolph Georg West (1846-1919) established an architectural practice in Palmerston North in about 1880. In 1912 he formed a pa...

Creator:      L G West & Son
Date:          1916

This plan for a single-storey, two bedroom house was designed by L. G. West and Son for Mrs E. Sanders. The Danish-born architect Ludolph Georg West (1846-1919) established an architectural practice in Palmerston North in about 1880. In 1912 he f...

Creator:      L G West & Son
Date:          1915

Local historians weekly "Back Issues" article in the Manawatū Standard. Life story of John Tiffin Stewart (1827-1913) town planner and government surveyor. He was responsible for the planning of Manawatū's towns in the 19th century, including the ...

Creator:      Tim Upperton
Place:          Manawatu-Whanganui
Date:          November 19, 2022

This house in Rongotea, which was originally built for John Jarvis, suffered fire damange and was partially rebuilt. For an earlier image of the structure, see 2014P_Rng68_007666.

Creator:      Unknown
Place:          Rongotea
Date:          circa 1920

This image was taken for a story that ran in The Manawatu Evening Standard on 14 June 1961 "Mr. and Mrs. N.R. Pearson, who emigrated from Victoria, Australia 47 years ago, are celebrating their golden wedding anniversary today. On their arrival in...

Creator:      Manawatu Evening Standard
Place:          Longburn, Palmerston North
Date:          June 14, 1961

Exterior church building. Built in 1895.

Creator:      Unknown
Place:          Manawatū

Lex Thompson cleaning exterior church building.

Creator:      Unknown
Place:          Manawatū
Date:          1953

Exterior church building. Built in 1895.

Creator:      Unknown
Place:          Manawatū

The side of one truck reads, "W.Amey & Co. Merchants. Rongotea".

The company was also described as: W.Amey and Company. Seed, Grain and Hardware Merchant, Rongotea

Creator:      Unknown
Place:          Manawatū
Date:          1959

Leonard Roy Amey from Rongotea and George Wilson at Ancona, Italy.

Creator:      Unknown
Date:          September 21, 1945

Leonard Amey of Rongotea with his children Karen and Perry after a fishing trip to Turangi.

Creator:      Unknown
Date:          1960

Of Rongotea.

Creator:      Unknown
Place:          Manawatū
Date:          1933

Vera Amey from Rongotea with her children Leonard and Prudence. On a camping holiday.

Creator:      Unknown
Place:          Manawatū
Date:          1933

George Dear and Sarah Elizabeth (nee Oliver) Dear. Sarah Dear’s family came from the Manchester block, NZ. Mr & Mrs Dear began farming in November 1872, later building a house in Taipo Road.

Creator:      Unknown
Place:          Palmerston North
Date:          circa 1870 to circa 1879

This team of bullocks is stumping Mr C N Rowe's farm on Rowe's Line, Rongotea. The people in the photograph are, from left: Amey Rowe (daughter of William Rowe), Charlie Rowe (son of William Rowe), Charles Morrell Rowe (son of Thomas Rowe), Willia...

Creator:      Unknown
Place:          Rongotea
Date:          1900

This photograph shows Mr William Hurst's Federal Knight Truck stuck on the bed of the Oroua River. Mr Hurst used to fit his truck with seats and canopy and taken groups to picnics and to Palmerston North for special occasions.

Creator:      W Hurst
Place:          Oroua River, near Rongotea
Date:          1926

A short history of the pioneer cottage, "Totaranui," now located at Te Manawa.

Creator:      Mina McKenzie for Manawatu Museum
Date:          1975

John and Sarah Parker bought the land in 1920 and developed a dairy farm. After their deaths it was farmed by two of their children, John and Hannah Parker. Family worked the farm from 1920 - 1989.

Creator:      unknown
Place:          Rongotea, Manawatū

Win Reesby (nee Parker) and her daughter Pat, with Hannah Parker. Hannah and Win were the daughters of John and Sarah Parker who developed a dairy farm on Banks Line, Rongotea in 1920. When they died the farm was taken on by Hannah Parker and her ...

Creator:      Unknown
Place:          Rongotea, Manawatū
Date:          1954

These women are unidentified.

Creator:      Elmar Studios, 459 Main Street, Palmerston North
Place:          Palmerston North
Date:          1940s

Names unknown. Some of these men were picked for the 1905 England tour, but could not go because of financial difficulties and farming pressures.

Creator:      Unknown
Place:          Rongotea
Date:          1903

An aerial view of the Parker dairy farm on Banks Line, Rongotea, owned by John and Sarah Parker, and then farmed by their children, John and Hannah. It was farmed by the family 1920 - 1989. To the south was 'Farmer' Hobbs (adjoining Kaimatarau Roa...

Creator:      unknown
Place:          Rongotea, Manawatū

John and Sarah Parker had a dairy farm on Banks Line, Rongotea. They farmed it from 1920 until their deaths, and it continued to be farmed by two of their children, John Jnr and Hannah until 1989. Sarah and John (Snr) Parker are shown with two of ...

Creator:      unknown
Place:          Rongotea, Manawatū
Date:          1920s

A horse and gig in Rongotea. The woman may be Lorna Parker. Her parents, John and Sarah had a dairy farm on Banks Line, Rongotea.

Creator:      Unknown
Place:          Rongotea, Manawatū
Date:          1930s

Lorna Parker was the youngest child of John and Sarah Parker who had a dairy farm on Banks Line, Rongotea. Lorna went nursing and later married Jack McLennan.

Creator:      Unknown
Place:          Rongotea, Manawatū
Date:          1930s

Hannah Parker, was born in Bunnythorpe in 1911. In 1920 the family moved to Banks Line, Rongotea where they developed a dairy farm. Hannah never married and after her parents' deaths she continued to farm the land with her brother John until she ...

Creator:      Unknown
Place:          Rongotea, Manawatū
Date:          1980s

From left, Back Row: A. Anderson (Sec), J. Cameron, A. Sanson, B. Poneke, E. Gust, K. Marsh, W. Gust, M. Griffin, E. Arnott (Selector). Middle Row: H. Howell, R. Nichol, G. Goldfinch, L. Staite (Captain), K. Vile, D. Sanson. Front Row: L. Knight, ...

Creator:      Unknown
Place:          Rongotea
Date:          1926

Located behind Mrs George's house in West Thames Street. Thomas Bulls was the owner of the Bull's Brickworks.

Creator:      Unknown
Place:          Rongotea
Date:          1896

This may be Mr John Jarvis. According to his obituary, he was "one of the oldest settlers of the Manawatu" and "most prominently identified with the Manawatu and West Coast A&P Association and with pig and poultry breeding associations." He came t...

Creator:      Unknown
Place:          Rongotea
Date:          circa 1900 to circa 1909