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Betsy Bruere Part 2, Scotland in the 1960s - Manawatu Conversations

Broadcast on Manawatu People's Radio, 23rd September 2025. Part 2 of 2.  Husband Neil had established a veterinary practice in New Zealand. He was awarded a scholarship from the new veterinary faculty at Massey University. They went to Gla...

Creator:      Vicki-Marie Buchanan
Place:          Palmerston North
Date:          September 23, 2025

Peter MacGillivray part 2, World travels - Manawatu Conversations

Broadcast on Manawatu People's Radio, 14th April 2020. Part 2 of 6. Travel to Scotland via America. Oregon sheep farming. 6 months in US, travelling in a 1942 Plymouth car. Delivering cars, mail. Canada, various jobs, powder packer, poultry far...

Creator:      Stuart Birks
Place:          Palmerston North
Date:          April 14, 2020

Must See the Lions, and Jim Clark Race

This image was taken for a story that ran in The Manawatu Evening Standard on 24th December 1965 "A Scottish visitor, Miss Margery Stewart, of Kelso, 50 miles south of Edinburgh, was most emphatic that she must see the Lions play in New Zealand an...

Creator:      Manawatū Evening Standard
Place:          Palmerston North
Date:          December 24, 1965

Mr Harry Littlejohn, of Palmerston North

Harry Littlejohn was a Scotsman who came to New Zealand from Lochgelly, Fifeshire, during the 1880s. He worked as a watchmaker and jeweller in Wellington with his Uncle, William Littlejohn. Sometime after that point, he started a business in Palme...

Creator:      Unknown
Place:          Palmerston North
Date:          circa 1890 to circa 1909

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