For isolated places such as this the local newspaper provided a window to the rest of the world. MEMORY LANE: In the tight-knit world of early Palmerston North, settlers relied on two things – each other, for help, company and friendship, and the local newspaper, for contact with the "outside", whether that might mean the next town, New Zealand itself or somewhere overseas. The bush is close to the centre of Palmerston North. That is the introduction of a number of ferocious dogs into places where dogs were never intended to be admitted. PALMERSTON NORTH CITY LIBRARY An early view of The Square, from the 1870s.

Source: Stuff January 24, 2020 21:56 UTC