An unpublished paper by Dr Jim Coull (Geography Department of the University of Aberdeen0 who was a sabbatical visitor to Massey University in the early 1980s.

The paper explores the settlement of the Manchester Block, an area around the Feildin...

Creator:      Dr Jim Coull
Place:          Manchester Block, Manawatū
Date:          1980s

The Terrace End area was settled in the early days of Palmerston North. The book was published by the Palmerston North Historical Society.

Creator:      Garry O'Neill
Place:          Palmerston North
Date:          2009

The Reverend James Duncan, played by Nevil Hunt, the bearded figure on the right, speaks to the chief during the re-enactment.

Creator:      The Times
Place:          Foxton
Date:          October 22, 1955

A camp of slab huts with canvas roofs and tents is the bush home of these workmen.

Creator:      Charles E Wildbore [?]
Place:          Pohangina East, Manawatū
Date:          circa 1900 to circa 1910

Here are some details on the earliest days of European settlement in the Palmerston North area. Palmerston North was initially known as Palmerston. The name change was to avoid confusion with a settlement of the same name established in the South ...

Creator:      Stuart Birks
Place:          Palmerston North
Date:          1870

Shown here is the settlement near the bridge on the Woodville side of the Manawatu Gorge, looking back towards Woodville. The photograph is taken after the construction of the telegraph line in 1879-1880. A coach and team of horses are travelling...

Creator:      Unknown
Place:          Palmerston North
Date:          1880s

This portrait shows Mary Ann Oakley, an earlier settler to New Zealand. Born Mary Ann Lee in Cheshire, England, 1819, she married her first husband Edmund Perrin in 1838 and had five children. They came to New Zealand on the "Martha Ridgeway" in 1...

Creator:      George W Shailer
Place:          Manawatu
Date:          circa 1890