Image shows flooded street with houses affected, and submerged cars.

The floods of July 1988 occurred after Palmerston North experienced the highest 24 hour rainfall on record. It fell mostly between 1pm and midnight 24 July. A state of emergency...

Creator:      Manawatu Evening Standard
Place:          Palmerston North
Date:          July 25, 1988

This image was taken for a story that ran in The Manawatu Evening Standard on 16 February 1961: "Trooper Neil Jackson, of Auckland, gets a taste of living in the field with the N.Z.T.F. Army as he washes this morning. He also probably received a t...

Creator:      Manawatu Evening Standard
Place:          Rangitikei River, Rangitikei
Date:          1961-02-16T00:00:00+00:00

This image comes from a collection of unidentified negatives taken by H M Griffiths in the early 1900s, probably 1910-1920. Many of these negatives are labelled as having been taken in Tokomaru, but many have no information with them. They were do...

Creator:      H M Griffiths
Place:          Manawatu
Date:          1910 to 1920

 Room 9, (Standards 4 and 5) spent a day at the museum at Palmerston North, learning about life in early Manawatu. One of the activities they participated in was washing clothes by hand.

Creator:      Lesley Courtney
Date:          1985

Six years of planning went into the design of a new, 2700 metre laundry extension which was on three levels. The new system was expected to be faster and much more efficient that the previous one.

Creator:      Manawatu Evening Standard
Place:          Ruahine Street, Palmerston North
Date:          April 30, 1981