This image was taken for a story that ran in The Manawatu Evening Standard on 26 December 1958: "The nurses of the Palmerston North Hospital entertained the patients by singing carols through the wards on Christmas Eve. Here is a scene of the nurs...

Creator:      Manawatu Evening Standard
Place:          Ruahine Street, Palmerston North
Date:          December 26, 1958

This image was taken for a story that ran in The Manawatu Evening Standard on the 1st of May 1970. "Two thousand people sat and stood in front of the Palmerston North Clock Tower last night and sang “We Shall Live in Peace” as the climax to probab...

Creator:      Manawatu Evening Standard
Place:          Palmerston North
Date:          May 1, 1971

This is the programme for the Twenty-Fourth Annual Festival of the Manawatū Competitions Society, which was held in the Opera House, Municipal Hall and St. Andrew's Hall between 12 May and 17 May 1947. The competition categories included elocution...

Creator:      Manawatū Competitions Society
Date:          May 1947

This is the programme for the Twenty-Seventh Annual Festival of the Manawatū Competitions Society, which was held in the Opera House, Municipal Hall and St. Andrew's Hall between 8 and 13 May 1950. The competition categories included elocution (sp...

Creator:      Manawatū Competitions Society
Date:          May 1950

This is the programme for the Thirty-Second Annual Festival of the Manawatū Competitions Society, which was held in the Opera House, Repertory and All Saints' Halls between 9 and 14 May 1955. The competition categories included elocution (speech a...

Creator:      Manawatū Competitions Society
Date:          May 1955

This is the programme for the Twenty-Eighth Annual Festival of the Manawatū Competitions Society, which was held in the Opera House, Municipal Hall and St. Andrew's Hall between 7 and 12 May 1951. The competition categories included speech and dra...

Creator:      Manawatū Competitions Society
Date:          May 1951

This is the programme for the Thirty-Third Annual Festival of the Manawatū Competitions Society, which was held in the Opera House, Concert Chamber and All Saints' Hall between 7 and 12 May 1956. The competition categories included speech and dram...

Creator:      Manawatū Competitions Society
Date:          May 1956

Palmy Unleashed, Pineapple Studios and One Night Only organised for performers from Palmerston North to play for passersby in this street festival.

Creator:      PNCC
Place:          Cuba Street, Palmerston North
Date:          April 14, 2018

This image was taken for Photorama pictorial magazine and was published in the July 1960 edition.

Caption: “While they were in Palmerston North the cast of ‘Showtime Spectacular’ gave a lunchtime performance to a large crowd at Warren Motors prem...

Creator:      Frank Goldingham
Place:          Palmerston North
Date:          July 1960

This image was taken for Photorama pictorial magazine and was published in the July 1960 edition.

Caption: “While they were in Palmerston North the cast of ‘Showtime Spectacular’ gave a lunchtime performance to a large crowd at Warren Motors prem...

Creator:      Frank Goldingham
Place:          Palmerston North
Date:          July 1960

This image was taken for Photorama pictorial magazine and was published in the July 1960 edition.

Caption: “While they were in Palmerston North the cast of ‘Showtime Spectacular’ gave a lunchtime performance to a large crowd at Warren Motors prem...

Creator:      Frank Goldingham
Place:          Palmerston North
Date:          July 1960

This image was taken for Photorama pictorial magazine and was published in the July 1960 edition.

Caption: “While they were in Palmerston North the cast of ‘Showtime Spectacular’ gave a lunchtime performance to a large crowd at Warren Motors prem...

Creator:      Frank Goldingham
Place:          Palmerston North
Date:          July 1960

This image was taken for Photorama pictorial magazine and was published in the July 1960 edition.

Caption: “While they were in Palmerston North the cast of ‘Showtime Spectacular’ gave a lunchtime performance to a large crowd at Warren Motors prem...

Creator:      Frank Goldingham
Place:          Palmerston North
Date:          July 1960

This is the programme for the Forty-Ninth Annual Festival of the Manawatū Competitions Society, which was held at the Opera House, Baptist Hall, Y.W.C.A. Hall and St Andrew's Hall between 6 May and 11 May 1972. The competition categories included ...

Creator:      Manawatū Competitions Society
Date:          May 1972

This is the programme for the Fourth Annual Festival of the Manawatū Competitions Society, which was held in the Opera House and Municipal Hall between 30 July and 5 August 1925. The competition categories included elocution (speech and drama), da...

Creator:      Manawatū Competitions Society
Date:          July 1925

This is the programme for the Fifty-First Annual Festival of the Manawatū Competitions Society, which was held at the Opera House, Concert Chamber and St Andrew's Hall between 20 May and 23 May 1974. The competition categories included speech and ...

Creator:      Manawatū Competitions Society
Date:          May 1974

This is the programme for the Forty-Fifth Annual Festival of the Manawatū Competitions Society, which was held at the Opera House, Concert Chamber, Baptist Church Hall and St Andrew's Hall between 4 May and 10 May 1968. The competition categories ...

Creator:      Manawatū Competitions Society
Date:          May 1968

[Children standing and singing to a group of older people, at the 39th birthday of Willard Home.]

Willard Home was established by the Women’s Christian Temperance Union. It was a home for orphaned babies and children and also children whose famil...

Creator:      Manawatu Evening Standard
Place:          Russell Street, Palmerston North

This image was taken for a story that ran in The Manawatu Evening Standard on 05 May 1958, page 9: "The children of Willard Home seen entertaining the many guests who attended the home's 37th birthday on Saturday."

Willard Home was established by...

Creator:      Manawatu Evening Standard
Place:          Russell Street, Palmerston North
Date:          May 5, 1958

This image was not published in the Manawatu Evening Standard. It depicts carollers Leisa (aged 10) and Shaun (aged 11) Crooks.

Creator:      Manawatu Evening Standard
Place:          The Square, Palmerston North
Date:          December 1979

This is the programme for the Twenty-Ninth Annual Festival of the Manawatū Competitions Society, which was held in the Opera House and Municipal Hall between 12 May and 17 May 1952. The competition categories included elocution (speech and drama),...

Creator:      Manawatū Competitions Society
Date:          May 1952

This is the programme for the Twenty-Sixth Annual Festival of the Manawatū Competitions Society, which was held in the Opera House, Municipal Hall, St. Andrew's Hall and Orient Hall between 29 August and 3 September 1949. The competition categorie...

Creator:      Manawatū Competitions Society
Date:          1949

This is the programme for the Seventeenth Annual Festival of the Manawatū Competitions Society, which was held in the Opera House and Empire Hall between 6 May and 11 May 1940. The competition categories included elocution (speech and drama), danc...

Creator:      Manawatū Competitions Society
Date:          May 1940

This is the programme for the Fourteenth Annual Festival of the Manawatū Competitions Society, which was held in the Opera House between 23 and 28 August 1937. The competition categories included elocution (speech and drama), dance and music (both...

Creator:      Manawatū Competitions Society
Date:          August 1937

This is the programme for the Twenty-First Annual Festival of the Manawatū Competitions Society, which was held in the Opera House and Municipal Hall between 8 May and 13 May 1944. The competition categories included elocution (speech and drama), ...

Creator:      Manawatū Competitions Society
Date:          May 1944

This is the programme for the Twenty-Second Annual Festival of the Manawatū Competitions Society, which was held in the Opera House, Municipal Hall and St. Andrew's Hall between 7 May and 12 May 1945. The competition categories included elocution ...

Creator:      Manawatū Competitions Society
Date:          May 1945

This is the programme for the Fiftieth Annual Festival of the Manawatū Competitions Society, which was held at the Opera House, Concert Chamber, Baptist Hall and St Andrew's Hall between 5 May and 9 May 1973. The competition categories included sp...

Creator:      Manawatū Competitions Society
Date:          May 1973

This is the programme for the Thirty-First Annual Festival of the Manawatū Competitions Society, which was held in the Intermediate School Hall and All Saints' Hall between 10 and 15 May 1954. The competition categories included elocution (speech ...

Creator:      Manawatū Competitions Society
Date:          May 1954

This is the programme for the Thirty-Sixth Annual Festival of the Manawatū Competitions Society, which was held in the Opera House, Concert Chamber and St. Andrew's Hall between 11 and 16 May 1959. The competition categories included speech and dr...

Creator:      Manawatū Competitions Society
Date:          May 1959

This is the programme for the Thirty-Fifth Annual Festival of the Manawatū Competitions Society, which was held in the Opera House, Concert Chamber and St. Andrew's Hall between 12 and 17 May 1958. The competition categories included speech and dr...

Creator:      Manawatū Competitions Society
Date:          May 1958