Don Scott and Brian Bendall entered into a partnership and moved onto a block of Crown Lease land in the Tararua Ranges. They built a whare in 1920 and worked to clear, fence and farm the area. In 1932, Don Scott married Lillian Teague from Kairan...
Date: circa 1929
Local historians weekly "Back Issues" article in the Manawatū Standard. History of Parahaki Island. Approximately 10 hectares, it is located at the confluence of the Pohangina and Manawatū rivers. It is a significant site for mana whenua. It was h...
Creator: Virginia and Warren Warbrick
Place: Manawatū
Date: July 20, 2024
The drive is named to acknowledge and highlight the view of the Ruahine and Tararua Ranges from the development. February 2020.
The aerial image is a derivative of the Palmerston North City Council onli...
Creator: Heritage Team, Palmerston North City Library
Date: 2024
The drive is named in honour of Te Hirawanui Kaimokopuna (c. 1808-1883). Te Hirawanui Kaimokopuna was ariki (hereditary high chief) of the hapū (kinship group) Ngāti Mutuahi, Te Rangiaranaki and Ngāti...
Creator: Heritage Team, Palmerston North City Library
Date: 2025
Photo taken by Terry Finnerty, photographer. Aerial view shows intersection Broadway Avenue and The Square. Opposite The Square is Australia and New Zealand Bank Limited, Gerrands and Sons, watchmakers, jewellers and optical services. Behind the t...
Creator: Terry Finnerty
Place: Palmerston North
Date: circa 1958
Photo taken by Terry Finnerty, photographer. The Municipal Chambers building is on the far left, next to All Saints' Church on Church Street.
Opposite the church is the Grand Hotel. Coles Henry & Co, a music and radio shop is on the next corner, ...
Creator: Terry Finnerty
Place: Palmerston North
Date: circa 1958
View of the Tararua Ranges, from the 3rd floor of the Palmerston North City Library. looking across The Square, with the clock tower in the foreground.
Creator: Lesley Courtney - Palmerston North City Council
Date: August 16, 2011
The Miranui Flaxmill was reputed to be the largest of its kind in the world when opened in 1907. It was owned by A & L Seifert Flaxmilling Company Ltd. This picture shows the height the river got to in the "Old Man Flood".
Creator: Unknown
Place: Horowhenua Region
Date: circa 1914
This photograph of The Square was probably taken from one of the top storeys of the CM Ross Building (Roscos Department Store) and showcases some of the changes that have taken place in The Square since the 1940s. Note the lack of the Hopwood Cloc...
Creator: Royal Studios, Marton
Place: The Square, Palmerston North
Date: circa 1940
Cattle grazing in the hills on land that later became the McKenzie Property.
Creator: Unknown
Place: Horowhenua Region
Date: 1895 to 1905
The Miranui Flaxmill, near Shannon, was the largest flaxmill built in New Zealand, in 1907. The view shows the bleaching paddocks, where flax hung on drying fences and lay on ground to dry. Stacks were also used for drying. Part of the scutching s...
Creator: Unknown
Place: Horowhenua Region
Date: circa 1907
Untitled map showing Māori placenames of inland Manawatū.
Scale: 1 inch to 1 mile. Annotated as follows: This map is based on a half-scale copy (dated 1860) of JT Stewart's 2 inches to 1 mile survey of 1859. By GL Adkin, Nov 1956.
Creator: G. L. Adkin
Place: Manawatu
Date: November 1956
View from the 3rd Floor of the Palmerston North City Library in The Square, showing snow on the Tararua Ranges. Looking across The Square to the north east.
Creator: Lesley Courtney - Palmerston North City Council
Place: 4 The Square, Palmerston North
Date: August 16, 2011
View of Makomako and Pahiatua region from the Tararua Ranges. Area accessed via South Range Road and DoC bait track. An abandoned Army munitions depot and bunkers are visible at Makomako.
Creator: Evan Greensides
Place: South Range Road, Turitea
Date: May 5, 2018
Looking across The Square from the top of Rosco's department store, near Coleman Place, to the Premier Department Store (PDC) on Church Street.
Creator: Bruce Watt
Place: The Square, Palmerston North
Date: 1950
Photograph of Te Apiti Wind Farm sitting along the Tararua Ranges at sunrise. Photograph was taken looking southwest from the carpark at the top of Valley Road, Pohnagina.
Creator: Evan Greensides
Place: North Range Road, Manawatu
Date: March 6, 2016
View of snow on the Tararua Ranges, from the 3rd floor of the Palmerston North City Library in The Square. The Clock Tower stands in The Square, the advertising hoardings are on the exterior of the Plaza and the multi storey black and white buildi...
Creator: Lesley Courtney - Palmerston North City Council
Place: 4 The Square, Palmerston North
Date: August 16, 2011
Taken from the 3rd floor of the Palmerston North City Library, at snow on the Tararua Ranges. Looking towards the south east.
Creator: Lesley Courtney - Palmerston North City Council
Place: 4 The Square, Palmerston North
Date: August 16, 2011
At the top of the Pahiatua Track, just on the Manawatu side, with snow lying on the ground.
Creator: Lesley Courtney
Place: Pahiatua Track, Palmerston North
Date: July 13, 2017
This view of the Miranui Mill buildings was taken from the Railway, looking south-east towards the Tararua Ranges. Scutching sheds are the white buildings in the left background. Stripping sheds in the middle background - hard to see clearly. Slee...
Creator: Unknown
Date: circa 1907