Two railway cottages are visible on the left. The Associated Bottlers Company (ABC) depot is on the right. The ABC was a subsidiary of New Zealand Breweries and operated a beer bottle recycling depot in the good yards. After sorting, the bottle w...
Date: 1971 to 1974
John Taylor Dalrymple bought the 815 acre Te Matai property at the district's first auction of Crown Land in 1866. He is reported to have settled there in 1868 and it is likely that the original section of the house, the single-storey kitchen and ...
Date: 1920s
This image was taken for Photorama pictorial magazine’s September 1960 edition but was not published.
Captions read:
“Watched by local residents a workman removes the thin, deceptive layer of tarseal on the approach to the bridge at Whakarongo, ...
Creator: Frank Goldingham
Place: Whakarongo
Date: September 1960
This image was taken for Photorama pictorial magazine and was published in the September 1960 edition.
Caption: “Ministry of Works employees busy at work erecting a bailey bridge over the old bridge.”
Creator: Frank Goldingham
Place: Whakarongo
Date: September 1960
This image was taken for Photorama pictorial magazine’s September 1960 edition but was not published.
Captions read:
“Watched by local residents a workman removes the thin, deceptive layer of tarseal on the approach to the bridge at Whakarongo, ...
Creator: Frank Goldingham
Place: Whakarongo
Date: September 1960
This image was taken for Photorama pictorial magazine’s September 1960 edition but was not published.
Captions read:
“Watched by local residents a workman removes the thin, deceptive layer of tarseal on the approach to the bridge at Whakarongo, ...
Creator: Frank Goldingham
Place: Whakarongo
Date: September 1960
This image was taken for Photorama pictorial magazine and was published in the September 1960 edition.
Caption: “Watched by local residents a workman removes the thin, deceptive layer of tarseal on the approach to the bridge at Whakarongo, near St...
Creator: Frank Goldingham
Place: Whakarongo
Date: September 1960
This image was taken for Photorama pictorial magazine’s September 1960 edition but was not published.
Captions read:
“Watched by local residents a workman removes the thin, deceptive layer of tarseal on the approach to the bridge at Whakarongo, ...
Creator: Frank Goldingham
Place: Whakarongo
Date: September 1960
The crescent is named for Pokerekere, Whakarongo's first husband. December 2022.
The aerial image is a derivative of the Palmerston North City Council online mapping Geographic Information System (GIS)...
Creator: Heritage Team, Palmerston North City Library
Date: 2025
The crescent is named for Tukere, Whakarongo's second husband. December 2022.
The aerial image is a derivative of the Palmerston North City Council online mapping Geographic Information System (GIS).
To l...
Creator: Heritage Team, Palmerston North City Library
Date: 2025
The drive is named in honour of Te Hirawanui Kaimokopuna (c. 1808-1883). Te Hirawanui Kaimokopuna was ariki (hereditary high chief) of the hapū (kinship group) Ngāti Mutuahi, Te Rangiaranaki and Ngāti...
Creator: Heritage Team, Palmerston North City Library
Date: 2025
Local historians weekly "Back Issues" article in the Manawatū Standard. Whakarongo settlement carries the name of a nineteenth century Rangitanē woman of courage and resilence. Whakarongo was raised as a whāngai at Te Kuripaka pa by her uncle, Te ...
Creator: Karla Karaitiana
Place: Whakarongo, Palmerston North
Date: September 21, 2024
This image was taken for a story that ran in The Manawatu Evening Standard on 01 May 1958, page 12: "K. Cleghorn (North) and A. Merrin (South), two of New Zealand's top riders, fight out the finish for the 500 c.c. race at the inter-island motor-c...
Creator: Manawatu Evening Standard
Place: Whakarongo
Date: May 1, 1958
This image was taken for a story that ran in The Manawatu Evening Standard on 26 November 1958: "The junior place-getters in the care in rearing section of the annual calf judging competitions held at the Whakarongo School on Monday were from righ...
Creator: Manawatu Evening Standard
Place: 17 Stoney Creek Road, RD 10, Palmerston North
Date: November 26, 1958
This image was taken for a story that ran in The Manawatu Evening Standard on 28 April 1958, page 10: "Fighting for positions at the first turn in the 500 c.c. class race at the inter-island motor-cycle scramble championships at Whakarongo on Satu...
Creator: Manawatu Evening Standard
Place: Whakarongo
Date: April 28, 1958
Men dressed as farriers on the Whakarongo float in the Centennial Parade. 92 floats took part at the Palmerston North City Centennial celebrations of 1971. Approx. 10,000 people were present at the event to celebrate 100 years of Palmerston North.
Creator: Unknown
Place: The Square, Palmerston North
Date: March 1971
This photograph shows Napier Road bisected by Roberts Line and Te Matai Road.
Creator: Unknown
Date: 1937 to 1938
This photograph shows land on the left of Napier Road looking towards Ashhurst.
Creator: Unknown
Date: 1937 to 1938
Kelvin Grove School, September 1935. The right hand section of the building came from Stoney Creek School in 1898.
Creator: Unknown
Date: September 1935
The traction engine, owned by Mr W Eggleton of Bunnythorpe, is stumping a farm on Stoney Creek Road, near Bunnythorpe. It is possibly the farm of Mr R H James.
Creator: Unknown
Place: Bunnythorpe, Manawatū
Date: 1918
The former Kelvin Grove School, with its exterior plastered, in about 1965 as the Manawatu Car Clubrooms. The classroom that was formerly the Stoney Creek School building is in the foreground. Soon afterwards the building was demolished for reloca...
Creator: Unknown
Date: circa 1965