Journalist Tina White's weekly "Memory Lane" article in the Manawatū Standard. A review of articles from the Manawatū Journal of History, Volume 16 (2020). The journal, published annually, contains articles on the history of the wider Manawatū are...

Creator:      Tina White
Place:          Palmerston North
Date:          August 22, 2020

The Paiaka Mill was owned by A Seifert and Co. Ltd, located on the Manawatu River, near Foxton. The mill was constructed in 1889 by Robert Gardner and sold to A Seifert & Co in 1901. Demolition of the mill took place in 1910 and a second Paiaka Mi...

Creator:      R Wallis
Place:          Koputaroa
Date:          1901 to 1917

The dairy in this photograph is located on the corner of Fitzherbert Avenue and Ferguson Street, where there is now a Burger King [2015]. The Manawatū Evening Standard published an image of building being demolished in 1970 [see: 2017N_2017-20_0...

Creator:      Unknown
Place:          100 Fitzherbert Avenue, Palmerston North
Date:          1970

This photograph came from a small photograph album that belonged to Mrs R Andrews of Rangitikei House. This photograph bears the caption, "Car and Friends at Mangahao Dam.". The Mangahao Dam is inland from Shannon, and still provides electricity t...

Creator:      Unknown
Place:          Shannon, Manawatu
Date:          circa 1927

Oliver Huett Dudson (1897-1977), seated, is shown with the staff of Poplar Mill in Foxton. The other men are unidentified. The postcard in inscribed with the words "Popplar Mill", but this spelling is not correct.

Creator:      Unknown
Place:          Foxton
Date:          1920s

George Andersen (1881-) was born to Nils and Anne Anderson, who emigrated to New Zealand in 1872. He was a freelance, itinerant photographer, travelling around the central area of the North Island. He also worked in the United States of America an...

Creator:      George W Anderson [?]
Place:          Palmerston North
Date:          circa 1910

This photograph shows a group of people, including Mr and Mrs Nash, playing bowls, presumably at the Palmerston North Bowling Club where JA Nash was an active member. This image may be of one of their annual socials.

Creator:      Unknown
Place:          Palmerston North
Date:          1900s

This photograph shows a crowd of people watching the swimmers at the Lido Pool in Park Road, Palmerston North. The Lido swimming pool is situated on 10 acres of land previously owned by the old Awatapu Golf Club. The pool was planned in 1964, buil...

Creator:      Manawatu Evening Standard
Place:          Park Road, Palmerston North
Date:          December 1971

The name of this mill is though to have been Tasma Mill at Takapau, owned by Alfred Seifert and then his brother Walter. This photograph is taken in the yard of the mill,where the bundles of lax are stored for 2-3 days before being stripped.

Creator:      W Golder Photo, Waipawa
Date:          circa 1904

This photograph was created by William James Young in the early 20th century. A large variety of subjects are depicted in the collection, but family, rural life and travel are the most prominent themes. The exact location of the photographs in the...

Creator:      William James Young
Date:          1900 to 1932

This photograph a crowd of adults and children watching swimmers at Lido Pool in Park Road, Palmerston North. The Lido swimming pool is situated on 10 acres of land previously owned by the old Awatapu Golf Club. The pool was planned in 1964, build...

Creator:      Manawatu Evening Standard
Place:          Park Road, Palmerston North
Date:          December 1971

This photograph ran in the Manawatu Evening Standard, 11 December 1962 with the caption: "Twenty-six more parking meters were installed yesterday by private contract in Cuba Street. The picture shows workmen lining up the standards."

Creator:      
Place:          Cuba Street, Palmerston North
Date:          December 1962

Shown here is the Mauriceville West Dairy Factory, with several groups of farmers waiting to unload their deliveries.

Creator:      Unknown
Place:          Wairarapa Region
Date:          1901

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:          1955

This image comes from a collection of unidentified negatives taken by H M Griffiths in the early 1900s, probably 1910-1920. Many of these negatives are labelled as having been taken in Tokomaru, but many have no information with them. They were do...

Creator:      H M Griffiths
Date:          1910 to 1920

Refer Fitzherbert East Aokautere School and District 1889-1989, p 90.

Creator:      Unknown
Place:          Aokautere, Palmerston North
Date:          1920s

This is a standing chop, with four men standing on the planks wedged into the tree trunk. This photograph was possibly taken on C M Miller's farm at Apiti. The men are unidentified.

Creator:      Unknown
Place:          Apiti
Date:          1900 to 1910

A photograph of an unidentified group of men, seated at banquet tables, probably for a lunch meeting.

Creator:      Elmar Studios, 459 Main Street, Palmerston North
Place:          Palmerston North
Date:          circa 1940 to circa 1949

A group of unidentified men thought to be bush or farm workers.

Creator:      Unknown
Date:          1920s