This image was taken for a story that ran in The Manawatu Evening Standard on 19 December 1962, "Twenty-five extra staff are at present helping the terrific flow of Christmas mail in the mail-room of the Palmerston North Post Office. There are si...
Creator: Manawatu Evening Standard
Place: Main Street, Palmerston North
Date: December 19, 1962
After work, this group of women went haymaking at the Fitzherbert property in Ihaka Street, Palmerston North, as part of the war effort. From left: Unknown; Eileen Redwood, worked at the Bank of New Zealand (later Mrs Kingston); Rona Fenwick(?), w...
Creator: Unknown
Place: Ihaka Street, Palmerston North
Date: January 1941
Back row: Dulcie Ralph; Joyce Waller; Joyce Smithers; Pearl Goodwin; Dot Gillespie; Joyce Arnold; Necia Annear; Centre: Phyllis. Front row: Miss Ireland; Elsa Robertson; Vera Burr.
R W H Symington and Co. (N Z) Ltd first established themselves in ...
Date: circa 1940
Back row: Stella Smith; Necia Annear; Eileen Mullins. Front row: Connie Johanson; Pearl Cox; Mary Dilks; Thelma Voss.
R W H Symington and Co. (N Z) Ltd first established themselves in New Zealand in 1934. Specialising in corsetry and underwear man...
Creator: Vera L McLennan-Boman, attributed to
Date: circa 1940
Back row: Barton; Vera Burr; P.O. War Censor; Moria Fisher; unknown; Noleen Aisher. Front row: 'Chook' Prarn; M. Chittenden; Harry Brooks; Bill Pascoe (standing).
R W H Symington and Co. (N Z) Ltd first established themselves in New Zealand in 1...
Date: 1939 to 1945
Back: Ellie Howorth, Thelma Voss? Vera Burr, Eileen Mullins? Pearl Cox, Mary Dilks; Front: Molly Duckworth, Connie Johanson, Joan Hill, Stella Smith, Necia Annear.
R W H Symington and Co. (N Z) Ltd first established themselves in New Zealand in 19...
Date: 1940
This unpublished image was taken for a story that ran in The Manawatū Standard on 19th November 1973.
It features a young boy dressed as an olden day worker, with his moustache, cap and pickaxe. His bicycle is also decorated.
Sanson's Centenary...
Creator: Manawatū Evening Standard Negative Collection
Place: Sanson
Date: November 19, 1973
This image was taken by staff photographer Phil Green, for a story that ran in The Manawatū Evening Standard on 3rd September 1974.
"Kirk's State funeral will be on TV. The NZBC is to carry live television and radio coverage of the state funeral...
Creator: Manawatū Evening Standard Negative Collection
Place: Wellington
Date: September 3, 1974
Three workers, with horses hauling a log along a bush tramway. The background shows evidence of bush clearance by burning off.
Date: circa 1890
The second Fitzherbert Bridge was built by Fletcher Construction Co. Ltd between 1933 and 1935. It was opened 20 July 1935 by Viscount Galway, the Governor General. The concrete bridge replaced the original wooden structure completed in 1877. The ...
Date: 1935
This shows Corpes original creamery at Waituna West. The creamery was located directly opposite Smith's Blacksmithery and adjacent to the carpenters shop.
Date: 1900
This historic photograph was reproduced in the Evening Standard, 18 December 1971, with the caption: "Slab Hut at Waituna West, is situated on Messrs Hare Bro's farm."
Date: circa 1900
Traction engines – wheeled steam engines – were imported into New Zealand from 1880. They mainly ran threshers, but some drove other machines such as chaff cutters, which chopped hay or straw for animal feed.
Date: circa 1900
Five timber worksing stand in front of an open-sided shed.
Creator: Believed to be E. G. Child
Date: October 22, 1898
Two axemen stand at at the base of a large tree trunk in an area of partially cleared bush.
Date: 1895 to 1905
The photograph was taken a few chains south-west of Opawe Road and shows the squared sleepers being sledged out of the bush to the road. The owner and driver of the horses and sledge was Mr. Sam Lane. The men in the photo are, from left to right: ...
Creator: C. E. Wildbore
Date: circa 1904
Kingsford Smith visited Palmeston North as part of a tour around New Zealand. Repairs to his aeroplane were necessary after the 'Southern Cross' was damaged when taxiing to a halt at Milson Aerodrome on Saturday 4 Feb 1933. The damaged wing was re...
Creator: T C Benfell
Place: The Showgrounds. Waldegrave Street, Palmerston North
Date: February 1933
[A photograph of Women standing, packing apples in wooden crates ready for export.]
Creator: Manawatu Evening Standard
Place: Palmerston North
Date: 1961-02-24T00:00:00+00:00
This image was taken for a story that ran in The Manawatu Evening Standard on 19 December 1962, "Hundreds of incorrectly addressed letters for which the mailroom staff at the Palmerston North Post Office hope to find owners. Mr H. B. Crawford, in...
Creator: Manawatu Evening Standard
Place: Main Street, Palmerston North
Date: December 19, 1962
This image was taken for a story that ran in The Manawatu Evening Standard on 12 November 1958: "Men are seen hard at work on the new cold storage room at the Longburn freezing works. The steal bars running across the ceiling are runners to take t...
Creator: Manawatu Evening Standard
Place: Works Road, Longburn, Palmerston North
Date: November 12, 1958
A pamphlet explaining, and encouraging women to join, the Land Service in World War Two
Creator: Unknown
Date: circa 1940 to circa 1945
This small 'posterette' encouraged young women (from 17 years of age) to join the Women's Land Service (WLS). The woman is wearing a standrd issue working hat, shirt and overalls, and happily drives a tractor while waving her hand in the victory s...
Creator: Unknown
Place: Palmerston North
Date: October 1943
Staff of Palmerston North Gas lined up up outside the Natural Gas Workshop and Store at 271 Ferguson Street, with vehicles.
Creator: Unknown
Place: The Square, Palmerston North
Date: 1989
Three women sit behind sewing machines at the Libertyland Factory in Palmerston North. R W H Symington and Co. (N Z) Ltd first established themselves in New Zealand in 1934. Specialising in corsetry and underwear manufacturing, a small factory was...
Creator: Clarice Parlane
Place: Corner of Tremaine and Roy Street
Date: 1950s
Libertyland staff enjoy morning tea at the Libertyland Factory in Palmerston North. R W H Symington and Co. (N Z) Ltd first established themselves in New Zealand in 1934. Specialising in corsetry and underwear manufacturing, a small factory was bu...
Creator: Clarice Parlane
Place: corner of Tremaine and Roy Street
Date: 1950s
Three women sit behind sewing machines at the Libertyland Factory, Palmerston North. R W H Symington and Co. (N Z) Ltd first established themselves in New Zealand in 1934. Specialising in corsetry and underwear manufacturing, a small factory was b...
Creator: Clarice Parlane
Place: Corner of Tremaine and Roy Street
Date: 1950s
Workers attending to BB class locomotive 626 that had derailed by the turntable in the Palmerston North railway yards.
Creator: Roland Penhall
Place: Main Street, Palmerston North
Date: November 1963 to December 1963
Workmen constructing the entrance ramp to the new Palmerston North City Library, which leads from The Square across to George Street. The new City Library was formerly a department store, originally built for C M Ross Co. Ltd in 1928.
Creator: Palmerston North City Council
Place: 4 The Square, Palmerston North
Date: circa 1996
Workers sorting mail at the Palmerston North post office.
Creator: Manawatū Evening Standard
Place: Main Street, Palmerston North
Date: 1960s
These workers may have been working at Bock and Coley's portion of the Moutoa Swamp. From left: A Albury; Unknown; W Young; Unknown (partly concealed by flax); Charlie Morgan; William Newth; Morgan (?).
Creator: E A Phillips
Place: Horowhenua Region
Date: 1912