Broadcast on Manawatu People's Radio, 1st August 2023. Part 2 of 2. Building a new life in New Zealand. Wife a house surgeon. Mixed race school. Few Maori students at Massey in the 1970s. Been on two protest marches, one in Jo...
Creator: Stuart Birks
Place: Palmerston North
Date: August 1, 2023
Saturday 12 September. 1.30 March and Rally. Stop The '81 Tour. Fight apartheid. Assemble Amesbury St.' Part of a collection of posters that were displayed in the Public Library in the 1970s - 1980s.
Creator: Unknown
Date: September 1981
Local historians weekly "Back Issues" article in the Manawatū Standard. Stephen Berg recalls the tensions in Palmerston North between rugby supporters and anti- Springbok tour protesters, July and August 1981.
Creator: Stephen Berg
Place: Palmerston North
Date: August 13, 2022
On the eve of the Springbok vs Manawatū Rugby match at the Showgrounds, army engineers from Linton moved into the grounds under the cover of darkness to ring the Oval with rolls of barbed wire.
Creator: Manawatu Evening Standard
Place: The Showgrounds. Palmerston North
Date: 1981
[Photograph of Mr. T.H. Pearce holding the taxidermy head of a springbok.]
Creator: Manawatu Evening Standard
Place: Palmerston North
Date: September 16, 1960
This is a photograph of the Klee brothers in uniform, taken sometime during the Boer War (1899-1902). From left: Louis, George and Victor Klee. They all survived the war and took up farming in the South Island of New Zealand. Victor later turned t...
Creator: Unknown
Place: Unknown
Date: circa 1901