1920
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14-Apr |
- Danish community celebrate the restoration of Slesvig province
to Denmark
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| 4-May |
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| 31-Jul |
- Arrival of the first aeroplane to visit Palmerston North, a de
Haviland piloted by Captain R Russell DFC
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| 13-Sep |
- Girl's High School opens in Fitzherbert Avenue
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1921
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- Population 15,649 (excludes Maori)
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- Campbell Street School's Infant Block is opened on the new
Featherston Street site
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| 8-Sep |
- First bus service commenced by Borough Council, ending a long
running debate on installing an electric tram system
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| 9-Nov |
- Manawatu-Oroua Electric Power Board established to distribute
power to rural areas
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1922
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15-Mar |
- Central School opens on Featherston Street (formerly Campbell
Street School)
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| 31-Oct |
- Drainage programme for 22,000 acre Makerua Swamp between Linton
and Shannon starts
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1923
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- Frederick Joseph Nathan elected Mayor
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- Final night soil cart collections are made in the City
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| 3-Mar |
- Terrace End School Memorial Baths opened by the Mayor Mr Nash
(MP) in memory of school old boys who died in WWI
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| 21-Dec |
- Gasworks at Terrace End opens on Napier Road
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1924
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- A report to the Council proposes a major upgrade to the town
water supply including a large new dam at Turitea
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- His Majesty's Theatre becomes The Paramount
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| 18-Jul |
- Terrace End School Memorial Gates unveiled, the gates and
associated swimming pool are a memorial to the School's old boys
who died in WWI
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| 4-Nov |
- First Royal Show in New Zealand opens at Showgrounds, overseen
by the Manawatu Agricultural and Pastoral Association, Prime
Minister William Massey and governor Lord & Lady Jellicoe
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| November |
- Mangahao Hydro Electric Power Station opens at Shannon, this
helps secure electricity supply furthering the development of the
town of Palmerston North
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| 12-Nov |
- Electric Power Station at Terrace End opens, built by the
Palmerston North Borough Council
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1925
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- Palmerston North Working Men's Club premises gutted by
fire
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| 7-Dec |
- First Radio Station in Palmerston North 2GI owned by Manawatu
Radio Club
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1926
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- New Fire Station is opened in Cuba Street between Andrew Young
and Pitt Streets
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- Work starts on the Longburn to Roslyn railway deviation (not
completed until 1959)
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| 7-Feb |
- War Memorial (Cenotaph) in The Square unveiled by Prime
Minister Gordon Coates after lengthy debate on its location
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- The King Edward VII Memorial fountain is dismantled and moved
to the middle of the Beautifying Society's pond in the SW corner of
The Square (in front of the CM Ross building), as it was blocking
the view of the new War Memorial
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| 21-Mar |
- St. Patrick's Catholic Church opens
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1927
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- Archibald James Graham elected Mayor
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| 2-Mar |
- Borough of Palmerston North celebrates it's Golden Jubilee
(50th )
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| 3-4 March |
- Duke and Duchess of York visit (Albert & Elizabeth)
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| 8-Dec |
- Palmerston North Working Men's Club becomes the Cosmopolitan
Club
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1928
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- Dairy Research Institute moves to Palmerston North
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- Department of Agriculture's Plant Research Station moves to
Palmerston North, later known as Grasslands Division of DSIR
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- Council donates land to the Massey Agricultural College to
ensure the institution is located close to the town
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- Palmerston North Cosmopolitan Club opens a new building on Cuba
Street
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1929
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- Awapuni Racecourse Memorial fountain and pond opened by
Governor General Sir Charles Fergusson in memory of the members of
the New Zealand Medical Corps who trained at the racecourse and
were killed or injured in WWI
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- Russell Street School opens
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| 10-Jun |
- New Library Building officially opened on the corner of The
Square and Fitzherbert Avenue
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| 17-Aug |
- First 'talkie' movie screens at the Palace Theatre
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