1890
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- The Public Library Collection is handed over to the Palmerston
North Working Men's Club where it is only available to Club
Members
- Longburn Freezing Works opens
- Sewerage system constructed, sewerage is discharged directly
into the Manawatu River
- Volunteer Fire Brigade builds a small substation in Terrace
End
- 361 acres next to the Manawatu River are set aside for a park
and botanic gardens (this later becomes the Victoria
Esplanade)
- Sir James Glenny Wilson elected MP for the newly created
Palmerston North electorate
- Central School moves to Campbell Street
- 'Craiglockhart', home of Charles Monro, was constructed at
Fitzherbert for ₤1054
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1891
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- Population 4,303 (excludes Maori)
- Railway completed through Manawatu Gorge to Napier
- Mr Kenneth Wilson's private High School opens
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1892
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- Caccia Birch House constructed for £900 by Jacob Nannestad
- Robert Edwards (35) elected Mayor, the youngest Mayor elected
to the City at that time
- Craven School opens
- First Railway Hotel built on the corner of Main and David
Streets (replaced 1904)
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1893
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- Frederick Pirani elected as MP for Palmerston North
- Rangitane Iwi sells the Hokowhitu block
- Public Hospital opens in a wooden building on what is now
Ruahine Street, thanks to significant fundraising
- Primary School opens in Kelvin Grove
- College Street Primary School opens
- William Park elected Mayor
- Carow Ladies College opens (Mrs Von Blaramberg)
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1894
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- The Public Library book collection is removed from the
Palmerston North Working Men's Club and handed over 'in trust' to
the Palmerston North Volunteer Fire Brigade which had just opened
its members library to public subscribers
- Palmerston North Working Men's Club premises destroyed by fire,
Club moves to Cuba Street
- Leila Adair, an internationally renowned balloonist, ascends to
around 3000 feet from The Square and then parachutes back to
earth
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1895
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- William Thomas Wood elected Mayor
- Manawatu Sports Association Ltd, a private company, is formed
and is responsible for the first sports ground on Fitzherbert
Avenue
- Theatre Royal burns down
- Keeling and Mundy Printers established on Rangitikei Street
(later K&M Print)
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1896
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- Population 5,910 (excludes Maori)
- Robert Edwards, City councillor, introduces rating system based
on unimproved value of land, the first borough in the colony to do
so (this may have been 1897)
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1897
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- Eleanor Tasker, the first registered nurse in New Zealand and
the first nurse at the Palmerston North Hospital, leaves to get
married
- Victoria Esplanade is named
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1898
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- Repairs are made to the Fitzherbert Bridge after two major
floods in 5 years
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1899
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- Population 6,200
- Local men volunteer to participate in the Boer War in South
Afric
- Henry Haydon elected Mayor
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