Mina McKenzie, Museum Director, with cases and drawers of letterpress type, on display at the Manawatu Museum Printery. The printery is no longer in operation.

Creator:      Manawatu Evening Standard
Place:          Palmerston North
Date:          September 1979

Mina McKenzie, Museum Director, is demonstrating an Albion Flatbed printing press used at the printery. The printery is no longer in operation.

Creator:      Manawatu Evening Standard
Place:          Church Street, Palmerston North
Date:          September 1979

A McCormick-Deering tractor ploughing land at Massey Agricultural College. The tractor driver is Thomas Edward Simms, known as Joe Simms, tractor salesman. He is demonstrating ploughing with this particular model on behalf of the International Har...

Creator:      J H Daroux
Place:          Palmerston North
Date:          1928

This resealing machine was one of the first of its kind to be built in New Zealand. Milson Airport also had an alternative grass runway for light planes to use.

Creator:      Unknown
Place:          Airport Drive, Milson, Palmerston North
Date:          February 2, 1963

Local historians weekly "Back Issues" article in the Manawatū Standard. The history of the Manawatū Standard, also known as the Manawatū Evening Standard for many years. Founded by Alexander McMinn in 1880, it started as a one page morning paper. ...

Creator:      Tracey Armstrong
Place:          Manawatū
Date:          December 9, 2023

PalmyProud celebrates the people, places and events in our city. The free quarterly magazine aims to inspire locals and visitors to learn more about this special place we call home. It’s published by Palmerston North City Council.

Creator:      Palmerston North City Council
Place:          Manawatū
Date:          December 2023

The 'Southern Cross', flown by Sir Charles Kingsford Smith and crew, shortly before its departure from Milson Aerodrome. The Fokker F. VII Trimotor aircraft was delayed in Palmerston North for several weeks after its wing was damaged during taxiin...

Creator:      Snapshots Unlimited
Place:          Palmerston North
Date:          February 1933

This image was taken for a story that ran in The Manawatu Evening Standard on 1 July, 1963. "Stating the telephone number required to an operator will soon be a thing of the past at Foxton. This automatic telephone exchange is well on the way to c...

Creator:      Manawatū Evening Standard
Place:          Foxton
Date:          July 1, 1963

This image was taken for a story that ran in The Manawatu Evening Standard on 24 August 1961 "The Manawatu branch of the Chartered Institute of Secretaries inspected the cobalt bomb at the Palmerston North Hospital yesterday. Dr. D.W. Urquhart (fo...

Creator:      Manawatu Evening Standard
Place:          Ruahine Street, Palmeston North
Date:          August 24, 1961

This image was taken for a story that ran in The Manawatu Evening Standard on 20 August, 1959, "The Health Department's mobile X-ray unit is at present operating in Palmerston North where the staffs of business houses are being examined. The oper...

Creator:      Manawatu Evening Standard
Place:          Palmerston North
Date:          August 20, 1959

This image was taken for a story that ran in The Manawatu Evening Standard on 08 September 1961 "On call throughout the day are the "Manawatu Standard's" three office assistants trained to take down the particulars of the numerous advertisements w...

Creator:      Manawatu Evening Standard
Place:          Church Street, Palmerston North
Date:          September 8, 1961

This image was taken for a story that ran in The Manawatu Evening Standard on 27 September 1969. The caption was illegible, but the negative packet reads, "New Knitting Machine Being Delivered to Blue Bell Knitwear".

Creator:      Manawatu Evening Standard
Place:          Palmerston North
Date:          September 27, 1969

This image was taken for a story that ran in The Manawatu Evening Standard on 27 September 1969. The caption was illegible, but the negative packet reads, "New Knitting Machine Being Delivered to Blue Bell Knitwear".

Creator:      Manawatu Evening Standard
Place:          Palmerston North
Date:          September 27, 1969

This image was taken for a story that ran in The Manawatu Evening Standard on 08 September 1961 "Facilitating our speedy new telephone service is Mrs. L.M. Davies, our Post Office trained operator, who is ready throughout the day to direct your ca...

Creator:      Manawatu Evening Standard
Place:          Church Street, Palmerston North
Date:          September 8, 1961

This image was taken for a story that ran in The Manawatu Evening Standard on 9 May, 1959. "A major advancement will be made in the handling and processing of cheques and lodgments by the installation of a proof machine at the Square and Coleman P...

Creator:      Manawatu Evening Standard
Place:          Corner of The Square and Coleman Mall, Palmerston North
Date:          May 9, 1959

This image was taken for a story that ran in The Manawatu Evening Standard on 19th January 1966 "Mr. B.J. Laurent, a telephone technician at the Palmerston North automatic exchange, works on the 2000-line extension to the installation."

Creator:      Manawatū Evening Standard
Place:          Palmerston North
Date:          January 19, 1966

This image was taken for a story that ran in The Manawatu Evening Standard on 14 November 1989 with the caption: "Athol Dean of Manawatu TV and Sound waits for the word from the cellular portable telephone his firm has for sale. Local interest is ...

Creator:      Manawatu Evening Standard
Place:          The Square, Palmerston North
Date:          November 1989

This image was not published in the Manawatu Evening Standard, taken on 8 July, 1963. "Linton telephone subscribers, 160 in all some with as many as ten on a party line will now have no difficulties. The fully automatic telephone exchange was offi...

Creator:      Manawatū Evening Standard
Place:          Linton
Date:          July 8, 1963

The Manawatu-Oroua Electric Power Board’s building committee inspect the substation; from L to R: Roger Meads (Engineer-Manager); Murray Macphee (Engineer); Matt Green and Russell Signal (Board Chairman). This substation, in Flygers Line near the ...

Creator:      Manawatu Evening Standard
Place:          Flygers Line, Palmerston North
Date:          October 3, 1979

PalmyProud celebrates the people, places and events in our city. The free quarterly magazine aims to inspire locals and visitors to learn more about this special place we call home. It’s published by Palmerston North City Council.

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Creator:      Palmerston North City Council
Place:          Palmerston North
Date:          June 2021

This piece of equipment appears to be a portable well digger. Richardson Drilling Co Ltd was founded in 1925 by Thomas Harold Richardson, as a water well contractor. The business was originally located at 37 Ferguson Street, which was renumbered o...

Creator:      Elmar Studios, 459 Main Street, Palmerston North
Place:          Palmerston North
Date:          circa 1946

George Shailer (1848-1918) was a well known local photographer in Palmerston North at the end of the 19th century. He later established an orchard in Scandia Street (now Albert Street). George Shailer is at right spraying the fruit trees, helped b...

Creator:      Unknown
Place:          Palmerston North
Date:          circa 1910 to circa 1919

One of the wind turbines on the Wind Farm at the top of the Pahiatua Track. The Turitea Wind Farm is to be the largest in New Zealand.

Creator:      Ian Matheson City Archives
Place:          Pahiatua Track
Date:          June 27, 2021

One of the wind turbines on the Wind Farm at the top of the Pahiatua Track. The Turitea Wind Farm is to be the largest in New Zealand.

Creator:      Ian Matheson City Archives
Place:          Pahiatua Track
Date:          June 27, 2021

One of the wind turbines on the Wind Farm at the top of the Pahiatua Track. The Turitea Wind Farm is to be the largest in New Zealand.

Creator:      Ian Matheson City Archives
Place:          Pahiatua Track
Date:          June 27, 2021

One of the wind turbines on the Wind Farm at the top of the Pahiatua Track. The Turitea Wind Farm is to be the largest in New Zealand.

Creator:      Ian Matheson City Archives
Place:          Pahiatua Track
Date:          June 27, 2021

This grader was owned by the Kairanga County Council and used on their roads. The exact locality of this photograph is unknown. Mr Jack Findlay is standing on the grader.

Creator:      Unknown
Place:          Unknown - Manawatu
Date:          circa 1914 to circa 1918

The Palmerston North abbatoir was opened in Maxwells Line in 1906, and purchased by the Palmerston North Borough Council in 1917. It remained in operation until 1969 when it was demolished. This is a compound steam engine driving a 4000 volt gener...

Creator:      Crown Studios
Place:          Maxwells Line, Palmerston North
Date:          circa 1920

A number of type setters preparing the daily newspaper at the Manawatu Evening Standard. The Manawatu Evening Standard, launched in 1880, was the first daily newspaper in Palmerston North.

Creator:      Manawatu Evening Standard
Place:          Church Street and the Square, Palmerston North
Date:          1968

A crane is used to lift a new type making machine through the roof, into the Manawatu Evening Standard building. The Manawatu Evening Standard, launched in 1880, was the first daily newspaper in Palmerston North.

Creator:      Manawatu Evening Standard
Place:          51 The Square, Palmerston North
Date:          circa 1960