Local historians weekly "Back Issues" article in the Manawatū Standard. History of the Kosy Theatre, which opened in 1915 near the Post Office Building in The Square. Wartime footage and movies attracted audiences in its first years. The theatre c...

Creator:      Val Burr
Place:          Palmerston North
Date:          October 18, 2025

Local historians weekly "Back Issues" article in the Manawatū Standard. Mounted on the wall of the Palmerston North Brass Band room is a bass drum with more than 100 years of history. The instrument traces its playing days back to World War 1 and ...

Creator:      Russell Poole
Place:          Palmerston North
Date:          October 11, 2025

‘Killed in Action’, a pamphlet written by Rutherford Waddell M.A., D.D. Published 1919.

A religious tract, which considers the question of whether a soldier "killed in action" will be saved, regardless of a lack of Christian faith. The booklet or...

Creator:      Rutherford Waddell
Date:          1919

Plaque to Mabel Jamieson and Marion Sinclair Brown who drowned on October 26 1915 when the British transport ship SS Marquette was torpedoed in the Aegean Sea.  Mabel and Marion were among 10 members of the New Zealand Army Service killed....

Creator:      Leanne Hickman
Date:          October 5, 2018