This image was taken for a story that ran in The Manawatu Evening Standard on 14 March 1958, page 4: "Intent on her task of conducting a test for true type in white clover, Mrs. J. Reid, a technical assistant at the Seed Testing Station, fails to ...

Creator:      Manawatu Evening Standard
Place:          Church Street, Palmerston North
Date:          March 14, 1958

Students at Massey Agricultural College in a seminar on dairy chemistry. Both the students and the teacher are unidentified. Massey Agricultural College was opened in 1928.

Creator:      National Publicity Studios
Place:          Massey College, Palmerston North
Date:          circa 1950

Pictured is Massey's Vet Tower as viewed from what is perhaps the social sciences tower.

Creator:      David Foster
Place:          Massey University
Date:          1986

 Pictured is Massey's Sir Geoffery Peren Building (SGP) as viewed from what is perhaps the social sciences tower. 

Creator:      David Foster
Place:          Massey University
Date:          1986

Grasslands, a division of DSIR and the Dairy Research Institute, was established in 1935, in Palmerston North because of the excellent growing conditions and the easy access to Massey University. The Dairy Research Institute was established in 192...

Creator:      J Cleland
Place:          Dairy Farm Road, Palmerston North
Date:          1971

This $1 million complex in the Applied Biochemistry division has a complete surgical unit, laboratories, a cattle building; post-mortem area, shearing facilities and yards for stock.

Creator:      Manawatu Evening Standard
Place:          Massey University, Palmerston North
Date:          December 27, 1977

Shown here is the interior of the Plant Chemistry Laboratory, Grassland division of the DSIR, Palmerston North.

Creator:      Unknown
Place:          Palmerston North
Date:          1950

Steve Andrewes, deputy City Council chemist toasts Palmerston North's $5-50 a litre export quality water [1982].

Creator:      Manawatū Evening Standard

This negative comes from the Elmar Collection - a large series of semi-identified and unidentified images from the 1930s-1970s. 

Creator:      Elmar Studios, 459 Main Street, Palmerston North
Date:          October 1969

For a detailed account of early research carried out at the DRI on cheese starters refer to Massey: Its Early Years by T W K Brooking.

Creator:      Unknown
Date:          circa 1945

The Microbiology Laboratory at the Dairy Research Institute, Palmerston North

Creator:      Dairy Research Institute
Date:          1966 to 1967