Gummer’s Department Store
December 10, 2024
Tales from the Dead Centre of Town
December 10, 2024
Sir Edmund Hillary Visits Morrinsville
December 6, 2024
On September 5th 1955, Sir Edmund Hillary visited Morrinsville as part of the Ross Sea Committee's mission to raise £100,000 for an Antarctic expedition planned for 1956. Members of the committee set out on a tour of New Zealand to drum up support for the expedition and to ...
Morrinsville School
November 14, 2022
Early Schools in the Morrinsville District
November 14, 2022
School and district jubilee booklets in the museum reading room are a treasure trove, recording the trials and tribulations of starting schools when the ‘good old days’ were not so easy. The first local school was proposed in 1873 then again in 1876. It opened in ...
Electric Trucks
August 22, 2022
Long before electric trucks became a topic of environmental and political debate, the Waitoa Dairy Factory had a fleet of electric trucks.
These trucks were manufactured in Chicago in the early part of the nineteenth century until 1941, when the USA entered World War 11. Lar...
Dutch Settlers in Morrinsville
June 24, 2022
Meet Cecil at the Museum
May 21, 2022
Pakarau Settlers
May 14, 2022
Morrinsville Methodist Church
May 14, 2022
OUR METHODIST CHURCH
A meeting took place on April 17th, 1903, where members agreed to stand loyal to the project of building a church. A following meeting at Annandale formed a committee under the chairmanship of Rev. C. Abernethy.
A site at the corner of Thames and Canada Streets was secured a...
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