This image was taken for a story that ran in The Manawatu Evening Standard on 11 december 1956: "Extensive travel test: In eight months this suitcase has travelled over 80,00 miles and has visited more than a dozen countries." In collaboration, a ...

Creator:      Manawatu Evening Standard
Place:          Palmerston North
Date:          December 11, 1956

Geoffrey Tremaine was the 19th Mayor of Palmerston North, from 1947-56. The other portion of this photograph shows Arthur Hopwood handing a cheque for 50,000 pounds, to Geoffrey Tremaine to establish the Arthur Hopwood Charitable Trust. This trust...

Creator:      Unknown
Place:          Palmerston North
Date:          circa 1956

Sass was the first Danish Lutheran pastor in New Zealand. Originally in charge of the Scandinavian churches in Queensland, he came over to New Zealand to minister to the 7000 or so Lutherans in the Taranaki, Manawatu, Wairarapa and Hawke’s Bay in ...

Creator:      Thomas Bucchare, Denmark
Place:          Wairarapa Region
Date:          circa 1880