Contents:
p. 3 Editorial / Cushla Scrivens
p. 5 "Cleared to Land," early days of aviation in Palmerston North / Graham Parsons
p. 15 Design for living: the Savage Crescent conservation area / Margaret Tate
p. 25 Atawhai / Patricia Keiller ...
Creator: Manawatū Historic Journal Associates
Place: Manawatū
Date: 2010
This copy of John Tiffin Stewart's handwritten manuscript was typed in 1967 by Ian Matheson, who has annotated each paragraph with the page numbers of T. Lindsay Buick's Old Manawatu (1903) containing information derived from Stewart's manuscript.
Date: 1902 to 1967
Contents:
p. 3 Editorial / Russell Poole
p. 5 Mrs (Dr) Martin tracing Margery Martin, the wife of Dr Arthur Anderson Martin / Leanne Croon Hickman
p. 14 Fragments of a year in the life of a Palmerston North business /Jill White
p. 22 A growing...
Creator: Manawatū Historic Journal Associates
Place: Manawatū
Date: 2018
Contents:
p. 3 Editorial / Cushla Scrivens
p. 5 A story of music, rumour, and war in Feilding / Dorothy Pilkington
p. 11 Anders Hansen Ihle Palmerston North pioneer / Joan Barnes
p. 20 A journalist in World War One: the man who created 'ANZAC'...
Creator: Manawatū Historic Journal Associates
Place: Manawatū
Date: 2015
Contents:
p. 3 Editorial / Cushla Scrivens
p. 4 A farmhouse becomes famous / Margaret Tate
p. 9 I learnt from the nuns a study of music teaching offered by the Sisters of Mercy in Palmerston North / Graham Parsons
p. 25 The Alwyn Physical ...
Creator: Manawatū Historic Journal Associates
Place: Manawatū
Date: 2006
Contents:
p. 3 Editorial / Cushla Scrivens
p. 5 Spending a penny public rest rooms for women in Palmerston North and Feilding / Dorothy Pilkington
p. 17 Veteran curator: Charles Hirtzel and the Manawatu Philosophical Society museum / Fiona M...
Creator: Manawatū Historic Journal Associates
Place: Manawatū
Date: 2009
Local historians weekly "Back Issues" article in the Manawatū Standard. The history of Wellington anniversary day and a case for celebrating Palmerston North anniversary separately.
Creator: Toi Warbrick
Place: Manawatū
Date: January 29, 2022
Local historians weekly "Back Issues" article in the Manawatū Standard. The earliest that Pākehā women arrived in Palmerston North was believed to be in 1866, when some travelled through totara forest from Foxton. Although Louisa Snelson has been ...
Creator: Val Burr
Place: Palmerston North and Horowhenua
Date: February 12, 2022
Mr Henry Worsfold was born in Sussex, England, in 1838. He and his wife Margaret Maria (née Dudley) were passengers on the ship 'Ocean Mail' which left England on 12 November 1873 and arrived in Wellington on 2 February 1874. They were selected by...
Creator: George W Shailer
Place: Manawatu
Date: unknown
Crowds gather on the banks of the Manawatu River to watch the re-enacting of the arrival of settlers to Papaioea. Newspaper articles of the day were distressed by poor communication between City Council parking wardens, who had set up parking clos...
Creator: Jack Cottam
Place: Manawatu River, Palmerston North
Date: March 13, 1971
The history of the Manawatū outlined, followed by some newspaper cuttings and then images of Palmerston North from 1877 - 1927 and 1937.
Place: Palmerston North
Date: 1877 to 1943
The Norwegians in Mauriceville were organised by the Methodist minister Edward Nielson, and opened the first church in the Forty Mile Bush on July 9 1881. It cost the community £149 17s. 0d, could hold 120 people it was modeled on Norwegian archit...
Creator: Unknown
Place: Above North Road, Mauriceville North, Wairarapa Region
Date: circa 1920
Shown here is "Rimunui", the Philpott family whare at Komako, Pohangina Valley c 1900-1910. In 1975, this whare was on the Rutherford farm.
Creator: Edgar Cornwall
Place: Komako, Manawatū
Date: circa 1900 to circa 1910
This family is thought to be the Scandinavian family of Daniel Johansen, listed in the Post Office Directories for 1885-6 and 1901-2. Far right, with a horse is Bernt Johansen.
Creator: Unknown
Place: Manawatu
Date: circa 1900
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
The part on the right was the pay office for the man who worked on the original Gorge Road. The house was shifted to Raumai and still stands except for the Chimney (information from 1976).
Creator: Dr HJC Durward, 79 Jickell Street, Palmerston North
Place: Pohangina Valley
Date: unknown
A washbench and remains of a mirror at the back of an old house at Raumai.
Creator: Dr HJC Durward, 79 Jickell Street, Palmerston North
Place: Pohangina Valley
Date: unknown
The part on the right was the pay office for the man who worked on the original Gorge Road. The house was shifted to Raumai and still stands except for the chimney (1976). See also 2014N_Poh32_007790.
Creator: Dr HJC Durward, 79 Jickell Street, Palmerston North
Place: Pohangina Valley
Date: unknown
This unidentified family pose outside their home made from corrugated iron. Utuwai is situated in the Pohangina Valley. Early European settlement (from 1886) saw farmers buying land from the Pohangina Farm Homestead Association. An early gold rush...
Creator: Unknown
Place: Utuwai
Date: circa 1904
Two typewritten lists, with hand written annotations, containing the names and adddresses of sons and daughters of 'early pioneers' whose names appear in the Borough Council's rate books of 1879, 1886 and 1896. The lists appear to have been compil...
Creator: Palmerston North City Council
Place: Palmerston North
Date: 1952