Te Peeti Te Awe Awe (c1820-1884), a chief of the Rangitāne tribe, was involved with negotiations and the sale of Māori Land for the opening up of the Manawatu for pakeha settlement. A marble statue of Te Peeti was installed in The Square, Palmerst...
Creator: Unknown
Place: The Square, Palmerston North
Date: circa 1907
A drawing by J T Stewart who was the District Engineer of the Public Works Department. Drawing shows two carved palisade posts in old pa, in bush at Wairarapa. Entitled "Figure in old Pa Wairarapa 1862". The drawing is in pencil and water colour. ...
Creator: J T Stewart
Place: Wairarapa
Date: 1862
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
This photograph was taken for a story that ran in the Manawatu Evening Standard on 29 October 1985 about an extended visit made by Highbury residents to the Kauwhata Marae (Feilding). The families spent the week at the marae for an educational pro...
Creator: Manawatu Evening Standard
Place: Te Arakura Road, Feilding
Date: October 1985
This photograph was taken for a story that ran in the Manawatu Evening Standard on 29 October 1985 about an extended visit made by Highbury residents to the Kauwhata Marae (Feilding). The families spent the week at the marae for an educational pro...
Creator: Manawatu Evening Standard
Place: Te Arakura Road, Feilding
Date: October 1985
This photograph was taken for a story that ran in the Manawatu Evening Standard on 29 October 1985 about an extended visit made by Highbury residents to the Kauwhata Marae (Feilding). The families spent the week at the marae for an educational pro...
Creator: Manawatu Evening Standard
Place: Te Arakura Road, Feilding
Date: October 1985
This photograph was taken for a story that ran in the Manawatu Evening Standard on 29 October 1985 about an extended visit made by Highbury residents to the Kauwhata Marae (Feilding). The families spent the week at the marae for an educational pro...
Creator: Manawatu Evening Standard
Place: Te Arakura Road, Feilding
Date: October 1985
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: February 27, 1961
This photograph was taken for a story that ran in the Manawatu Evening Standard on 29 October 1985 about an extended visit made by Highbury residents to the Kauwhata Marae (Feilding). The families spent the week at the marae for an educational pro...
Creator: Manawatu Evening Standard
Place: Te Arakura Road, Feilding
Date: October 1985
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
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
Nga Huruhuru Rangatira, "the feathers of the chief", forms a 6.4-metre high archway framing a view of the long-standing statue of Te Peeti Te Awe Awe. It stands on the corner of The Square and Church Street, and is illuminated at night. The styl...
Creator: Lesley Courtney - Palmerston North City Council
Place: The Square, Palmerston North
Date: December 11, 2016
Nga Huruhuru Rangatira, "the feathers of the chief", forms a 6.4-metre high archway on the corner of The Square and Church Street, and is illuminated at night. The stylised giant huia feathers are the creation of Massey University Profess...
Creator: Leith Haarhoff for PNCC
Place: The Square, Palmerston North
Date: December 11, 2016
Nga Huruhuru Rangatira, "the feathers of the chief", forms a 6.4-metre high archway on the corner of The Square and Church Street, and is illuminated at night. The stylised giant huia feathers are the creation of Massey University Profess...
Creator: Leith Haarhoff for PNCC
Place: The Square, Palmerston North
Date: December 11, 2016
I tikina ngā rakau totara ki Pahiatua mai i te ngahere o Whirinaki i te marama o Hakihea i te tau 1979. Ko te kaiwhakakairo i roto i te whakaahua ko Fred Clamp. Ko te kaiārahi ko Mātahi Avauli Whakataka-Brightwell. I neke atu te waka ki Porirua ...
Creator: Manawatu Evening Standard
Place: Pahiatua
Date: June 10, 1980
Titiro ki nga raina hiko kia mōhio ai i ngā wā i whakaahuatia.
Creator: Unknown
Place: Otaki
Date: circa 1950 to circa 1959
He mahi toi mō ngā tīpuna e mātakitaki ana i ngā mahi whakairo o te waka Hawaiki-nui kei Pahiatua. Ancestor paintings on the Pahiatua shed’s structural posts, where the waka Hawaiki-nui was being carved.
Creator: Manawatu Evening Standard
Place: Pahiatua
Date: July 3, 1980
I hangaia ai te whakamaru waka ki te totara me te kahikatea. Nā te ope Tūtāngata o Te Papaiōea ngā whakairo. I puta te waka i te one o Santoft i te tau 1965. E noho ana te waka i te Ngahere o Santoft. A canoe shelter, made of totara and kahikatea,...
Creator: Manawatu Evening Standard
Place: Santoft, Rangitikei
Date: July 26, 1982
I tukua ngā karakia e te kaumātua hei whakapainga. The Minister of Lands & Forests viewing a shelter built to house a 150 year old canoe that was washed up on Santoft Beach in 1965.Two Photographs. To access these images, please contact us.
Creator: Manawatu Evening Standard
Place: Santoft, Rangitikei
Date: July 2, 1982
Ko te Kaiwhakiro akonga ko Mark Russell e mahi ana i runga i te pare. Student Mark Russell is working on the pare, the carving traditionally placed above the doorway of the Meeting House, which was due to open in 1980. Behind him, is Art Lecture...
Creator: Manawatu Evening Standard
Place: Centennial Drive, Palmerston North
Date: November 28, 1979
Ko te Kaiwhakakairo i roto i te whakaahua ko Fred Clamp. ko te kaiarahi kaiwhakakairo ko Matahi Avauli Whakataka-Brightwell e tautokona ana e te runanga o te marae o Pahiatua. I timata te mahi i te tau 1979. I te tau 1981 i neke atu te waka ki tet...
Creator: Manawatu Evening Standard
Place: Pahiatua
Date: June 10, 1980
Ko te marae tuatahi ki te tū i runga i tētahi wāhi akonga. Ko te tūwheratanga o te marae ‘Te Kupenga o Te Mātauranga’ i te rā e ono o te marama o Māhuru i te tau 1980. I tae mai te tāngata tokorua ngā rau. The first Marae to be built on a campus...
Creator: Manawatu Evening Standard
Place: Centennial Drive, Hokowhitu, Palmerston North
Date: September 6, 1980
He mahi toi mō ngā tīpuna e mātakitaki ana i ngā mahi whakairo o te waka Hawaiki-nui kei Pahiatua. Ancestor paintings on the Pahiatua shed’s structural posts, where the waka Hawaiki-nui was being carved.
Creator: Manawatu Evening Standard
Place: Pahiatua
Date: July 3, 1980
Ko te kaiwhakakairo i roto i te whakaahua ko Fred Clamp. 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 k...
Creator: Manawatu Evening Standard
Place: Pahiatua
Date: June 10, 1980
Cliff Whiting and one of the working drawings for a new mural. In 1955, Whiting began teacher training at Wellington Teachers' College. From 1973-1981, Mr Whiting was an art lecturer at Palmerston North Teachers College. He encouraged the inclusio...
Creator: Manawatu Evening Standard
Place: Palmerston North
Date: 1981
The Te Peeti Te Awe Awe Statue, designed by Harold Anderson was commissioned in 1905 by Te Peeti's younger sister, Ereni Te Awe Awe (Mrs Kerei Te Panau). It was made of white Carrara marble and was unveiled 29 January 1907 by Hon. James Carroll, N...
Creator: K H Shea
Place: Palmerston North
Date: circa 1907
Te Peeti Te Awe Awe (c1820-1884), a chief of the Rangitāne tribe, was involved with negotiations and the sale of Maori Land for the opening up of the Manawatu for pakeha settlement. A marble statue of Te Peeti was installed in The Square, Palmerst...
Creator: Colin Rush
Place: The Square, Palmerston North
Date: circa 1960 to circa 1979