The Māori Battalion Hall, named 'Te Rau Aroha' (emblem of gratitude), was erected in Palmerston North as a national memorial to the men of the 28th (Māori) Battalion who lost their lives in the Second World War. It was designed by John Scott, arch...

Creator:      R H Abraham
Place:          Corner of Cuba and Pitt Street, Palmerston North
Date:          June 27, 1964

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:          1954

"Te Wa O Te Reo Maori. 31 July - 7 August. Maori Language Week". Part of a collection of posters that were displayed in the Public Library in the 1970s - 1980s.

Creator:      Unknown
Date:          1980s

I muri i te tangi tuatahi o nga pere i runga i te karaka i te Whare Poutaopeta i haere nga tangata ki to te W.T. Wood whare. Ko Kerei Te Panau e noho ana ki te taha maui tuarima. He korowai, he potae ona. Ko tona hoa ranatira, ko Ereni Te Awe A...

Creator:      Unknown
Place:          Corner of Cook and Ferguson Street, Palmerston North
Date:          1906

Wiremu Kingi Te Awe Awe with the flag, a taonga of the Rangitane people, presented to them by the New Zealand Government in recognition of their military service in Taranaki during the years 1866 to 1869. Emblazoned on to the flag is the Union Jac...

Creator:      Unknown
Place:          Palmerston North
Date:          1970

This image was taken for a story that ran in The Manawatu Evening Standard on 05 November 1958: "The Maori girls recently won the competition at Wellington consisting of long pois, action songs and the aggregate points section. They are members of...

Creator:      Manawatu Evening Standard
Place:          Palmerston North
Date:          November 5, 1958

This image was taken for a story that ran in The Manawatu Evening Standard on 01 October 1958: "Members of the Auckland P.R.O. show "Maori" were given a tribal welcome on their arrival in Palmerston North today. Here their leader replies to the we...

Creator:      Manawatu Evening Standard
Place:          Palmerston North
Date:          October 1, 1958

The Māori Battalion Hall, named 'Te Rau o Te Aroha' (emblem of gratitude), was erected in Palmerston North as a national memorial to the men of the 28th (Māori) Battalion who lost their lives in the Second World War. It was designed by John Scott,...

Creator:      Lesley Courtney - Palmerston North City Council
Place:          Corner of Cuba and Pitt Street, Palmerston North
Date:          October 6, 2011

The Māori Battalion Hall, named 'Te Rau Aroha' (emblem of gratitude), was erected in Palmerston North as a national memorial to the men of the 28th (Māori) Battalion who lost their lives in the Second World War. It was designed by John Scott, arch...

Creator:      R H Abraham
Place:          Corner of Cuba and Pitt Street, Palmerston North
Date:          June 27, 1964

Memorial alcove within the Māori Battalion Hall on the corner of Cuba and Pitt Streets. Inscribed on brass plates are the names of soldiers from the 28th Māori Battalion who died while serving overseas, with photographs of members surrounding the ...

Creator:      Maori Battalion Hall
Place:          Corner Pitt and Cuba Streets, Palmerston North
Date:          May 9, 2018

The New Zealand Poppy Places Trust has been established to develop, promote, and oversee a nation-wide project to commemorate and recognise as part of the heritage of New Zealanders, the participation of New Zealand in military conflicts and milit...

Creator:      Evan Greensides
Place:          138 Cuba Street, Palmerston North
Date:          October 11, 2018

The Māori Battalion Hall, named 'Te Rau Aroha' (emblem of gratitude), was erected in Palmerston North as a national memorial to the men of the 28th (Māori) Battalion who lost their lives in the Second World War. It was designed by John Scott, arch...

Creator:      R H Abraham
Place:          Corner of Cuba and Pitt Street, Palmerston North
Date:          June 27, 1964

The Māori Battalion Hall, named 'Te Rau Aroha' (emblem of gratitude), was erected in Palmerston North as a national memorial to the men of the 28th (Māori) Battalion who lost their lives in the Second World War. It was designed by John Scott, arch...

Creator:      R H Abraham
Place:          Corner of Cuba and Pitt Street, Palmerston North
Date:          June 27, 1964

The Māori Battalion Hall, named 'Te Rau Aroha' (emblem of gratitude), was erected in Palmerston North as a national memorial to the men of the 28th (Māori) Battalion who lost their lives in the Second World War. It was designed by John Scott, arch...

Creator:      R H Abraham
Place:          Corner of Cuba and Pitt Street, Palmerston North
Date:          June 27, 1964

The Māori Battalion Hall, named 'Te Rau Aroha' (emblem of gratitude), was erected in Palmerston North as a national memorial to the men of the 28th (Māori) Battalion who lost their lives in the Second World War. It was designed by John Scott, arc...

Creator:      Maurice Thompson
Place:          Corner of Cuba and Pitt Street, Palmerston North
Date:          August 21, 1966

The 1992 Māori Club at Freyberg High School.

Creator:      Freyberg Highschool
Place:          Freyberg Street, Palmerston North
Date:          1992

Drawing of a Māori meeting house, with man and dog, possibly at Puketotora or Raukawa Pā. It is not signed but handwriting on the back says, "Drawn by R Grindell Manawatu 1859". The drawing is in ink and watercolour. Drawn on card measuring 27 x 1...

Creator:      R Grindell
Place:          Unknown
Date:          1859

This image was not published in the Manawatu Evening Standard, taken on 12 May, 1963. [A Māori woman in traditional garments and a Thai man hold poi.]"

Creator:      Manawatū Evening Standard
Date:          1963-05-08T00:00:00+00:00

This image was taken for a story that ran in The Manawatu Evening Standard on 28 April 1958, page 8: "Seen opening the Dominion conference of the Maori Welfare League in Palmerston North today is the Prime Minister and Minister of Maori Affairs (M...

Creator:      Manawatu Evening Standard
Place:          Palmerston North
Date:          April 28, 1958

This image was taken for a story that ran in The Manawatu Evening Standard on 28 April 1958, page 6: "Seen at the opening of the Dominion conference of the Maori Welfare League in Palmerston North today are a section of the delegates who were list...

Creator:      Manawatu Evening Standard
Place:          Palmerston North
Date:          April 28, 1958

This image was taken for a story that ran in The Manawatu Evening Standard on 05 April 1961 "The photograph shows a scale model of the new Maori Battalion Memorial Community Centre to be built near the south-eastern corner of Cuba and David Street...

Creator:      Manawatu Evening Standard
Place:          Palmerston North
Date:          April 5, 1961

This image was taken for a story that ran in The Manawatu Evening Standard on 27 February 1961 "Princess Kahu, representing the Maori community in the queen carnival, had her float decorated with Maori motifs in the procession on Saturday night. S...

Creator:      Manawatu Evening Standard
Place:          Palmerston North
Date:          1961-02-27T00:00:00+00:00

This image was not published in the Manawatu Evening Standard, taken on 12 May, 1963. [A large group of people in a room with international flags hung from the ceiling. Some are wearing traditional Maori and Thai garments.]"

Creator:      Manawatū Evening Standard
Date:          1963-05-12T00:00:00+00:00

Ko te kaiārahi kaiwhakakairo ko Mātahi Avauli Whakataka-Brightwell e tautokona ana e te runanga o te marae of Pahiatua. I tīmata te mahi i te tau 1979. I te tau 1981 i neke atu te waka ki tētahi Kura Whakakairo ki Porirua kia oti ai. I te tau 1985...

Creator:      Manawatu Evening Standard
Place:          Pahiatua
Date:          August 5, 1981

A flyer about stopping the subdivision of Bastion Point, and requesting support for a planned march and picket in Palmerston North. It also contains information about the land historically and the issues. Bastion Point has come to symbolise Māori ...

Creator:      Bastion Point Support Committee
Place:          Bastion Point, Auckland
Date:          May 1982

This manuscript contains a brief history of the Māori in Palmerston North. Ian Matheson, City Archivist, created a series of manuscripts on local history in the course of his work.

Creator:      Ian Matheson - Palmerston North City Council
Place:          Palmerston North
Date:          1986

The reconstructed Māori sleeping house, which stood at the end of the main gallery of the Museum in Church Street, Palmerston North

Creator:      Manawatu Evening Standard
Place:          Church Street, Palmerston North
Date:          1975

Rangiātea Church in Otaki, New Zealand was the oldest Māori Anglican church in New Zealand. In 1848, Te Rauparaha who had just returned to Otaki from Australia, issued the challenge of building the church to the chief of Te Wehiwehi, who accepted....

Creator:      Unknown
Place:          Kapiti District
Date:          unknown

Rangiātea Church in Otaki, New Zealand was the oldest Māori Anglican church in New Zealand. In 1848, Te Rauparaha who had just returned to Otaki from Australia, issued the challenge of building the church to the chief of Te Wehiwehi, who accepted....

Creator:      Unknown
Place:          Kapiti District
Date:          unknown

This image was taken as part a feature that ran in the Manawatu Evening Standard on January 17 1987 about the work of Māori Wardens in Marton. According to the story that accompanied the photographs, Māori Wardens were instituted in 1937 and by 19...

Creator:      Manawatu Evening Standard
Place:          Marton
Date:          January 1987