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

Emma Belk migrated to Feilding but lived in Palmerston North when she signed the suffrage petition in 1893

Creator:      Margaret Tennant
Place:          Palmerston North
Date:          September 23, 2018

Mrs Mary Mowlem was wife to Fred Mowlem a commission and estate land agent, in partnership with James Linton in about 1892 and later with James Mowlem. In 1920, Fred was a JP and had retired from Mowlem & Mowlem.

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Mary Mowlem was one of approxi...

Creator:      Unknown
Place:          Manawatū
Date:          circa 1900

Louisa Snelson was born in 1844 and married George Snelson in 1865. George Snelson was a pioneer storekeeper (he opened the first shop on the Square) and was the first Mayor of he newly created Borough of Palmerston North in 1877, making Louisa th...

Creator:      Unknown
Place:          Palmerston North
Date:          circa 1890 to circa 1899

Margaret Tennant at the Esplande Gardens, helping to plant a "Kate Sheppard" camellia to mark Suffrage 125 in Palmerston North. Margaret is an Emeritus Professor at Massey University and is a noted New Zealand historian. 

Creator:      Ian Matheson City Archives
Date:          September 19, 2018

A flower garden in The Square planted to celebrate the Women’s Suffrage centennial.

Creator:      Patrica Keiller
Place:          The Square, Palmerston North
Date:          September 1993

Wednesday 19th September, 2018 marked 125 years since New Zealand women achieved voting parity. As part of the celebrations, three Kate Sheppard camellia plants were planted at the Victoria Esplanade. This photo shows three women who were invited ...

Creator:      Lesley Courtney for Palmerston North City Library
Date:          September 18, 2018

A flower garden in The Square planted to celebrate the Women’s Suffrage centennial.

Creator:      Patrica Keiller
Place:          Palmerston North
Date:          1993

Emma Belk was one of the working class signatories to the 1893 women's suffrage petition. Aged 73 at the time,  she was living in Main Street Palmerston North. She and her husband James Duncan Belk were among the first group of settlers in...

Creator:      Unknown
Place:          Palmerston North
Date:          1880s

The Belk family of 16 persons and three generations was among the first group to settle in Feilding. Emma and James were living in Taonui Street, Palmerston North by the mid-1880s, and after her husband died in 1889, Emma appears as a 'grocer' in ...

Creator:      Unknown
Place:          Feilding
Date:          1880s

To mark the Suffrage 125 celebration in Palmerston North

Creator:      Lesley Courtney
Place:          Victoria Esplanade Gardens, Palmerston North
Date:          September 19, 2018