A sacred hill in Palmerston North has been ground-zero for decades of debauchery for the area’s youth. On the eve of a retrospective photography exhibition, Michelle Duff asks if the way we fall in love has changed. The Manawatū River and Palmerston North city unfurl from Te Motu o Poutoa. By 2003, the Palmerston North City Council reckoned it was forking out about $1000 a month to clean the park. A memory flashes past – a drunken night in Scarfies, a Palmerston North student pub when I went to Massey University in the early 2000s.

Source: Stuff October 10, 2020 15:56 UTC