http://www.morrinsvillemuseum.org.nz/blog/ The latest Blog feeds from www.morrinsvillemuseum.org.nz en-us Sat, 18 Apr 2026 02:11:55 +1200 Rocketspark http://www.morrinsvillemuseum.org.nz/blog/post/140322/john-studholme-1829-1903/ ... Mon, 13 Jan 2025 11:09:54 +1300 http://www.morrinsvillemuseum.org.nz/blog/#post140322 http://www.morrinsvillemuseum.org.nz/blog/post/139029/gummers-department-store/ ... Tue, 10 Dec 2024 10:22:22 +1300 http://www.morrinsvillemuseum.org.nz/blog/#post139029 http://www.morrinsvillemuseum.org.nz/blog/post/139027/tales-from-the-dead-centre-of-town/ ... Tue, 10 Dec 2024 10:09:30 +1300 http://www.morrinsvillemuseum.org.nz/blog/#post139027 http://www.morrinsvillemuseum.org.nz/blog/post/138948/sir-edmund-hillary-visits-morrinsville/ 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 dispel any public concerns that this was a government venture for which the public was expected to subscribe funds to. It was to be stressed this was a Commonwealth venture in which the United Kingdom and New Z... Fri, 06 Dec 2024 13:40:01 +1300 http://www.morrinsvillemuseum.org.nz/blog/#post138948 http://www.morrinsvillemuseum.org.nz/blog/post/94088/morrinsville-school/ ... Mon, 14 Nov 2022 15:35:32 +1300 http://www.morrinsvillemuseum.org.nz/blog/#post94088 http://www.morrinsvillemuseum.org.nz/blog/post/94085/early-schools-in-the-morrinsville-district/ 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 June 1877 in Studholme Street on the land donated by Mr. T Morrin. Formal education had arrived. But in rural areas the situation was very different. Manawaru built a school in 1900 although the first school classes with... Mon, 14 Nov 2022 15:19:00 +1300 http://www.morrinsvillemuseum.org.nz/blog/#post94085 http://www.morrinsvillemuseum.org.nz/blog/post/87303/electric-trucks/ 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. Large fleets were imported into New Zealand. The half ton electric trucks had a top range of forty miles (64 kms) dependent on the load and road conditions, and a top speed of 14 mph (24 m/h) This meant that the dairy farms need... Mon, 22 Aug 2022 22:19:48 +1200 http://www.morrinsvillemuseum.org.nz/blog/#post87303 http://www.morrinsvillemuseum.org.nz/blog/post/84355/dutch-settlers-in-morrinsville/ ... Fri, 24 Jun 2022 19:32:13 +1200 http://www.morrinsvillemuseum.org.nz/blog/#post84355 http://www.morrinsvillemuseum.org.nz/blog/post/83206/meet-cecil-at-the-museum/ ... Sat, 21 May 2022 14:34:21 +1200 http://www.morrinsvillemuseum.org.nz/blog/#post83206 http://www.morrinsvillemuseum.org.nz/blog/post/82865/pakarau-settlers/ ... Sat, 14 May 2022 11:23:06 +1200 http://www.morrinsvillemuseum.org.nz/blog/#post82865