City at the Centre: The History of Palmerston North - Watson, Geoff; Taylor, Kerry; Tennant, Margaret
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Once a small town sited at Te Papaioea, a clearing in the bush that cloaked the Manawatu Plains, Palmerston North has always had big-city aspirations.

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Once a small town sited at Te Papaioea, a clearing in the bush that cloaked the Manawatu Plains, Palmerston North has always had big-city aspirations.
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Dr Geoff Watson is a senior lecturer in the School of Humanities, Massey University. His research focus is sports history. He is the principal author of Seasons of Honour: A Centennial History of New Zealand Hockey 1902-2002 (2002) and Sporting Foundations of New Zealand Indians: A Fifty-year History of the New Zealand Indian Sports Association (2012). He is co-author of Sport and the New Zealanders: A History (2018), Sport Development in Action: Plan, Programme, Practice (2019) and Legends in Black: New Zealand Rugby Greats on Why We Win (2014). He teaches a paper in sports history at Massey University and takes an interest in most sports. He has been extensively involved in sport at grass-roots level, including coaching Massey University hockey teams and participating in long-distance running. Kerry Taylor is head of the School of Humanities and director of the W. H. Oliver Humanities Research Academy at Massey University. His work has been mainly on the history of the left and political dissent, and the history of material culture in New Zealand. His works include Culture and the Labour Movement (edited with John Martin), On the Left: Essays on Socialism in New Zealand (edited with Pat Moloney), and Te Hao Nui The Great Catch: Object Stories from Te Manawa (edited with Fiona McKergow). Emeritus Professor Margaret Tennant's past publications have mainly been in the areas of women's history and the history of social policy. Most recently she has published articles, chapters and books on the non-profit sector, including a history of the New Zealand Red Cross. She is a Fellow of the Royal Society of New Zealand Te Aparangi.