Broadcast on Manawatu People's Radio, 26th January 2021. Part 4 of 4. Change in nature of art galleries after WWII. The effects of WWII on artists. Marriage and moving to New Zealand. Black sheep and weaving. Hardy Amies buying her ...
Creator: Stuart Birks
Place: Ashhurst
Date: January 26, 2021
This image was taken for a story that ran in The Manawatu Evening Standard on 24 January, 1964. "Mr C. J. M. Gardener, of the Department of Agriculture, judge in the fleeces section at the Feilding Show. It was the first time he has judged at Feil...
Creator: Manawatū Evening Standard
Place: Feilding
Date: January 24, 1964
This image was not published in the Manawatu Evening Standard, taken on 03 July, 1963. [Three men admire and study a fleece. It is on a table with two other fleeces.]
Creator: Manawatū Evening Standard
Date: July 3, 1963
This image was taken for a story that ran in The Manawatu Evening Standard on 08 July 1961 "The Sheep and Wool N.Z. Ltd team, which won the R.A. Vibert Shield awarded annually by the Massey College Wool Association in the teams' event and presente...
Creator: Manawatu Evening Standard
Place: Palmerston North
Date: July 8, 1961
This image was taken for a story that ran in The Manawatu Evening Standard on 18 February 1961 "Over the past 55 years of trading, Garners have made every effort to bring to the people of Palmerston North a top rate service backed with prices uneq...
Creator: Manawatu Evening Standard
Place: Between Broadway Avenue and Main Street, Palmerston North
Date: February 18, 1961
This image was taken for a story that ran in The Manawatu Evening Standard on 8 January, 1959. "A party of 17 Amercian woolgrowers paid a short visit to the city today in the course of a tour through New Zealand to study wool development in this c...
Creator: Manawatu Evening Standard
Place: Palmerston North
Date: January 8, 1959
This image was taken for a story that ran in The Manawatu Evening Standard on 22 June 1961 "The judging for the Massey Agricultural College "fleece of the year" took place in the college wool room yesterday and today. The 58 entries included fleec...
Creator: Manawatu Evening Standard
Place: Massey University, Palmerston North
Date: June 22, 1961
This image was taken for a story that ran in The Manawatu Evening Standard on 24 June 1958, page 18: "One of the World's foremost dress designers, who is obviously aware of the versatility of wool, introduced a new fashion interest when he designe...
Creator: Manawatu Evening Standard
Place: Palmerston North
Date: June 24, 1958
This image was taken for a story that ran in The Manawatu Evening Standard on 21 July 1961 "Three gold medal award winning models, showing the high fashion, elegant, and versatile qualities of wool fibre, seen at the social event concluding the re...
Creator: Manawatu Evening Standard
Place: Palmerston North
Date: July 21, 1961
This image was taken for a story that ran in The Manawatu Evening Standard on 7 July, 1959. "Wool classers at the wool block at Massey College inspecting competition fleeces submitted for judgement at the Massey woolgrowers' conference which opene...
Creator: Manawatū Evening Standard
Place: Massey University, Palmerston North
Date: July 7, 1959
This image was taken for a story that ran in The Manawatu Evening Standard on 7 July, 1959. "These men are inspecting the New Zealand champion Merino fleece at the wool block at Massey College, where the woolgrowers conference opened this morning....
Creator: Manawatū Evening Standard
Place: Massey University, Palmerston North
Date: July 7, 1959
This image was taken for a story that ran in The Manawatu Evening Standard on 24 June 1958, page 15: "Wool has been the only fibre that will afford protection against the bitter cold of the Antarctic. Here two members of the New Zealand Trans-Anta...
Creator: Manawatu Evening Standard
Date: June 24, 1958
[Woman modelling a day dress with shawl collar in wool, seen at the social event concluding the recent Massey College Wool Association conference, by the Wool Board.]
Creator: Manawatu Evening Standard
Place: Palmerston North
Date: July 21, 1961
This image was taken for a story that ran in The Manawatu Evening Standard on 4 December, 1959. “The field of retailing is one in which any young man or woman can be sure of a prosperous and secure future. The economists predict that New Zealand ...
Creator: Manawatū Evening Standard
Place: Palmerston North
Date: December 3, 1959
Refer Fitzherbert East Aokautere School and District 1889-1989, p 34.
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Place: Aokautere, Palmerston North
Date: 1910
John McCaw states that in 1902 Feilding claimed a North Island record for the number of sheep yarded at a sale - 42,000. This was not eclipsed until the 1937 sale of over 50,000 sheep.
John McCaw appears in this 1974 Spectrum radio documentary ab...
Creator: Unknown
Place: Manawatu
Date: 1902
John McCaw states that in 1902 Feilding claimed a North Island record for the number of sheep yarded at a sale - 42,000. This was not eclipsed until the 1937 sale of over 50,000 sheep.
John McCaw appears in this 1974 Spectrum radio documentary ab...
Creator: Unknown
Place: Feiding
Date: 1902
John McCaw states that in 1902 Feilding claimed a North Island record for the number of sheep yarded at a sale - 42,000. This was not eclipsed until the 1937 sale of over 50,000 sheep.
John McCaw appears in this 1974 Spectrum radio documentary ab...
Creator: Unknown
Place: Feilding
Date: 1902
John McCaw states that in 1902 Feilding claimed a North Island record for the number of sheep yarded at a sale - 42,000. This was not eclipsed until the 1937 sale of over 50,000 sheep.
John McCaw appears in this 1974 Spectrum radio documentary a...
Creator: Unknown
Place: Manawatu
Date: 1902
John McCaw states that in 1902 Feilding claimed a North Island record for the number of sheep yarded at a sale - 42,000. This was not eclipsed until the 1937 sale of over 50,000 sheep. See also 2014N_Sf18b_008033
John McCaw appears in this 1974...
Creator: Unknown
Place: Feilding
Date: 1902
Studio portrait of an unknown girl. The glass plate this image is from has the name "Kerslake" scratched onto it.
Creator: George W Shailer
Place: Palmerston North
Date: circa 1890
Wool from slaughtered sheep is baled for processing. The Longburn Slaughtering and Freezing Company Ltd was established as a farmer's co-operative in 1890. Sited at Longburn, just south of Palmerston North, it later became known as the Longburn Fr...
Creator: Elmar Studios, 459 Main Street, Palmerston North
Place: Works Road, Palmerston North
Date: circa 1946
English Leicester sheep on A S Aldrich’s farm “Matsubara”, Bunnythorpe, north of Palmerston North. These sheep had long, coarse, lustrous wool, a pioneer breed well suited to the wetter conditions and rough grazing on North Island hill country. L...
Creator: A S Aldrich
Place: Manawatu
Date: circa 1908
Frederick Pirani (1858-1926) was proprietor of the 'Manawatu Evening Standard' and Member of Parliament for Palmerston North 1893-1902. He married Martha Berry c1879 and they had 4 children. They divorced in 1922 and Frederick remarried Iris Helen...
Creator: Unknown
Place: Palmerston North
Date: 1892 to 1895
The Puketotara Estate, as identified by the name on the bales, was located on the western bank of the Oroua River in the vicinity of its junction with the Manawatu River. During the 1890s, it was owned by the Pascal Brothers, three well-known Fren...
Creator: George W Shailer
Place: Manawatu
Date: circa 1890
The Longburn Slaughtering and Freezing Company Ltd was established as a farmer's co-operative in 1890. Sited at Longburn, just south of Palmerston North, it later became known as the Longburn Freezing Works. It closed in 1986.
Creator: Elmar Studios, 459 Main Street, Palmerston North
Place: Manawatu
Date: circa 1946
This photograph shows a group of men on a shearing gang.
Creator: Unknown
Place: Palmerston North
Date: 1890s
This negative comes from the Elmar Collection - a large series of semi-identified and unidentified images from the 1930s-1970s.
Creator: Elmar Studios, 459 Main Street, Palmerston North
Date: April 1969
A truck and trailer loaded with wool bales.
Creator: Unknown
Date: circa 1940
The 1953 flood of the Manawatu and Oroua Rivers was one of the worst on record, for the area. This photograph shows some sheep belonging to Norm Terry who are close to being caught in the Rangiotu Flood.
Creator: J Moore
Place: Manawatu
Date: February 1953