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p. 3 Editorial / Cushla Scrivens

p. 5 "Cleared to Land," early days of aviation in Palmerston North / Graham Parsons

p. 15 Design for living: the Savage Crescent conservation area / Margaret Tate

p. 25 Atawhai / Patricia Keiller ...

Creator:      Manawatū Historic Journal Associates
Place:          Manawatū
Date:          2010

Local historians weekly "Back Issues" article in the Manawatū Standard. The oldest part of Terrace End Cemetery is called Public Reserve Number 1 and dates back to 1875. There are only a handful of headstones and plaques in this large flat area of...

Creator:      Leanne Croon Hickman
Place:          Palmerston North
Date:          March 2, 2024

Journalist Tina White's weekly "Memory Lane" article in the Manawatū Standard. Background stories of some of the graves at the historic Terrace End cemetery on Napier Road. One of the oldest remaining headstones is that of Meritini Te Panau, who d...

Creator:      Tina White
Place:          Palmerston North
Date:          November 11, 2017

Terrace End Cemetery Tour hosted by Tina White and Leanne Hickman, part of the 13th Local History Week 2020. This white cross marks the centre of the designated Catholic section where three priests from St. Patrick's Church on Broadway Avenue and ...

Creator:      Raphael Cardoso
Place:          Terrace End Cemetery, Palmerston North
Date:          2020

Terrace End Cemetery Tour hosted by Tina White and Leanne Hickman, part of the 13th Local History Week 2020.

Creator:      Raphael Cardoso
Place:          Terrace End Cemetery, Palmerston North
Date:          2020

Terrace End Cemetery Tour hosted by Tina White and Leanne Hickman, part of the 13th Local History Week 2020.

Creator:      Raphael Cardoso
Place:          Terrace End Cemetery, Palmerston North
Date:          2020

Terrace End Cemetery Tour hosted by Tina White and Leanne Hickman, part of the 13th Local History Week 2020. This image shows the grave of the single known Chinese person buried at Terrace End Cemetery.

Creator:      Raphael Cardoso
Place:          Terrace End Cemetery, Palmerston North
Date:          2020

This image of a headstone was taken at Terrace End Cemetery. William Moffatt, OBE, rests here with his wife and son, his grandmother Ereni Te Awe Awe and his cousin Henare Apatari. Moffatt, or Rangi Mawhete, was born in the Palmerston North distr...

Creator:      PNCC
Place:          Terrace End Cemetery
Date:          January 2022

Journalist Tina White's weekly "Memory Lane" article in the Manawatū Standard. The heritage team at the Palmerston North city library celebrates local history week 2019, hosting many events for a wide variety of interests, with the common theme th...

Creator:      Tina White
Place:           Manawatū
Date:          October 19, 2019

Journalist Tina White's weekly "Memory Lane" article in the Manawatū Standard. The heritage team at the Palmerston North city library celebrates local history week 2020, hosting seven days of events which include walks, talks, day trips and presen...

Creator:      Tina White
Place:          Manawatū
Date:          October 17, 2020

This image of a headstone was taken at Terrace End Cemetery. Frederick Nathan died in 1938 after a successful business career that ran alongside a commitment to the community he lived in. His father Joseph worked for Jacob Joseph's import business...

Creator:      PNCC
Place:          Terrace End Cemetery
Date:          January 2022

This image was taken at Terrace End Cemetery.

This mausoleum was constructed to house the mortal remains of the Wilson family. The first body laid to rest in the mausoleum was that of 23 year-old David Scott who died in 1904. Scott was the son...

Creator:      PNCC
Place:          Terrace End Cemetery
Date:          January 2022

This image of a headstone was taken at Terrace End Cemetery. The oldest Māori headstone in the cemetery is that of Meritini Te Panau, a member of the Te Awe Awe family, the principal family of Rangitanē people who occupied the Palmerston North di...

Creator:      PNCC
Place:          Terrace End Cemetery
Date:          January 2022

This image of a headstone was taken at Terrace End Cemetery. Both Max Bufe and August Dammler were suffocated while down a well in Roberts Line in 1886.

Max Bufe came to New Zealand from Breslau, and August Dammler from Schleswig, both in 1875 a...

Creator:      PNCC
Place:          Terrace End Cemetery
Date:          January 2022

This image of a headstone was taken at Terrace End Cemetery. The first public school in Palmerston North opened on the corner of Main and Princess streets in 1873 and Mr R N Keeling was employed as schoolmaster at a salary of 100 pounds per annum...

Creator:      PNCC
Place:          Terrace End Cemetery
Date:          January 2022

This image of a headstone was taken at Terrace End Cemetery. There was a small Chinese presence in Palmerston North from the earliest years of European settlement. By 1870 there were about 5,000 Chinese living in New Zealand, only two of them wom...

Creator:      PNCC
Place:          Terrace End Cemetery
Date:          January 2022

This image of a headstone was taken at Terrace End Cemetery. Lydia Hoskins arrived in Nelson with her parents in 1850. In 1855, when she was 17 the family arranged for her to marry Amos Burr, a man fifteen years older than her, who had lost both ...

Creator:      PNCC
Place:          Terrace End Cemetery
Date:          January 2022

This image of a headstone was taken at Terrace End Cemetery. Bishop Ditlev Gothard Monrad was Prime Minister of Denmark in 1864. By 1866 he was purchasing land in Karere, Manawatū, having left his native land under a cloud following a war between...

Creator:      PNCC
Place:          Terrace End Cemetery
Date:          January 2022

This image of a headstone was taken at Terrace End Cemetery. Bishop Ditlev Gothard Monrad was Prime Minister of Denmark in 1864. By 1866 he was purchasing land in Karere, Manawatū, having left his native land under a cloud following a war between...

Creator:      PNCC
Place:          Terrace End Cemetery
Date:          January 2022

This image of a headstone was taken at Terrace End Cemetery. Bishop Ditlev Gothard Monrad was Prime Minister of Denmark in 1864. By 1866 he was purchasing land in Karere, Manawatū, having left his native land under a cloud following a war between...

Creator:      PNCC
Place:          Terrace End Cemetery
Date:          January 2022

This image of a headstone was taken at Terrace End Cemetery. Anton Koehler was born in Sorau, Prussia but later lived in Guben. He fought in the Franco-Prussian War of 1870 and won the Iron Cross. He came to New Zealand in 1875 and farmed at Palm...

Creator:      PNCC
Place:          Terrace End Cemetery
Date:          January 2022

This image of a headstone was taken at Terrace End Cemetery. Peter and Maja Anderson left Sweden on the "England." At the time they had two children, Johan aged 3 and Gustav Emil, 18 months. Gustav died of diarrohea on the voyage to New Zealand. ...

Creator:      PNCC
Place:          Terrace End Cemetery
Date:          January 2022

This image of a headstone was taken at Terrace End Cemetery. Anders Clausen emigrated from Denmark in 1875. He farmed at Awapuni near the corner of the present day Monrad Street. Clausen street is named for this family, who still have a number of...

Creator:      PNCC
Place:          Terrace End Cemetery
Date:          January 2022

This image of a headstone was taken at Terrace End Cemetery. Those buried in the Lutheran Division are mainly from Denmark, Norway, Sweden and with a few from Germany. Scandinavians played an important part in the early history of Palmerston Nort...

Creator:      PNCC
Place:          Terrace End Cemetery
Date:          January 2022

This image of a headstone was taken at Terrace End Cemetery. Among the married couples on the ship "Celaeno" were Neils and Bertha Pedersen. Like a number of others on board Neils and Bertha were married in Norway two days before departing for Ne...

Creator:      PNCC
Place:          Terrace End Cemetery
Date:          January 2022

This image of a headstone was taken at Terrace End Cemetery. The marriage of Mary Alice and John Stubbs also became a business partnership after they emigrated from England and settled in Kairanga in 1880. Mary Alice began manufacturing socks usi...

Creator:      PNCC
Place:          Terrace End Cemetery
Date:          January 2022

This image of a headstone was taken at Terrace End Cemetery. Stephen Hartley is believed to be the first European to visit the Papaioea clearing which later became the central area in the site of Palmerston township. Hartley was born in Falworth,...

Creator:      PNCC
Place:          Terrace End Cemetery
Date:          January 2022

This image was taken at Terrace End Cemetery. This open grassed area comprises Public Reserves 2 and 3. From 1910 to 1927 this area was set aside for the burial of the poor, stillborn babies and infants. There were 355 burials here. To the left o...

Creator:      PNCC
Place:          Terrace End Cemetery
Date:          January 2022

This image of a headstone was taken at Terrace End Cemetery. The Jewish population in Palmerston North has always been small and only 28 burials have taken place in this section of the cemetery. Solomon Abrahams, who died in 1932, was the first J...

Creator:      PNCC
Place:          Terrace End Cemetery
Date:          January 2022

This image was taken at Terrace End Cemetery. The Baker Mausoleum was built in 1919. Henry Baker was a victim of the 1918 influenza epidemic which resulted more that 6,000 deaths in New Zealand. Baker was a hotel proprietor who owned the Clarendo...

Creator:      PNCC
Place:          Terrace End Cemetery
Date:          January 2022