Urban rail services operate in Wellington and Auckland, and interurban services run between Palmerston North and Wellington ( the Capital Connection ) and Masterton and Wellington ( the Wairarapa Connection ).

An extramural branch of Victoria was founded at Palmerston North in 1960.

* Palmerston North, New Zealand

Twelve cities are in the North Island: Auckland, New Plymouth, Tauranga, Gisborne, Napier, Hamilton, Hastings, Palmerston North, Rotorua, Wanganui, Whangarei and Wellington, the capital, located at the southern extremity of the island.

The title is used in New Zealand for the Headmaster of some independent schools, such as Lindisfarne College, and a number of state schools for boys, including Otago Boys ' High School, King's High School, Dunedin, Waitaki Boys ' High School, Timaru Boys ' High School, Palmerston North Boys ' High School and Southland Boys ' High School showing the Scots ' involvement in the foundation of those schools.

* International Pacific College, Palmerston North, New Zealand.

* Charles Hartley ( 1825 – 1897 ) Founder of Palmerston North, New Zealand

The University has campuses in Palmerston North ( sites at Turitea and Hokowhitu ), Wellington ( in the suburb of Mount Cook ) and Auckland ( at Albany ), with the largest in terms of student numbers being the Turitea site.

The New Zealand Agricultural College Act of 1926 established the sixth college of the University of New Zealand ( UNZ ) at Turitea, across the Manawatu River from Palmerston North City.

In 1960 a branch of VUW was established in Palmerston North to teach students by distance education, known as extramural study.

Massey University has campuses in the Manawatu at Palmerston North ( sites at Turitea and Hokowhitu ), at Wellington ( in the suburb of Mt Cook ) and on Auckland's North Shore at Albany.

On 9 February 2006, two students at the School-Brandon James Gedge, 20, from Tauranga, and Dae Jin Hwang, 27, from West Auckland-both flying Piper Warrior II ( PA-28-161 ) trainer aircraft, registrations ZK-MBD and ZK-MBL, were killed in a mid-air collision over Opiki, 18 km southwest of Palmerston North, at 9: 47 am.

As a result of the accident, special procedures were set up in the Southern Training Area airspace south of Palmerston North.

Palmerston North, Dunmore Press Ltd, 1985.

Category: Palmerston North

Both the North and South branches of the Johnstone River flow through the Palmerston section.

After the outbreak of war with Japan, the Treaty was placed with other state documents in an outsize luggage trunk and deposited for secure custody with the Public Trustee at Palmerston North by the local MP, who did not tell staff what was in the case.

Palmerston ordered that reinforcements be sent to Canada because he was convinced that the North would make peace with the South and then invade Canada.

* Two distant places in New Zealand are named after him: the town of Palmerston, in the South Island, and the city of Palmerston North, in the North.

By 2004 its fleet had expanded to five Boeing 737-300 aircraft and it was providing direct non-stop services to the Australian cities of Brisbane, Gold Coast, Newcastle, Sydney and Melbourne from Hamilton, Auckland, Wellington, Christchurch, Dunedin and Palmerston North.

An airport was established at Milson in 1936, which is now Palmerston North International Airport.

Palmerston North International Airport in the suburb of Milson is a secondary international airport.

Palmerston North International Airport's last international flights stopped at around the beginning of 2007.

Palmerston North International Airport is the operational base of the Massey University School of Aviation, and by night is as a busy domestic freight hub.

* June 9 – During an instrument approach to Palmerston North International Airport in Palmerston North, New Zealand, in bad weather, Ansett New Zealand Flight 703, a de Havilland Canada DHC-8-102, crashes west of the Tararua Ranges, killing four of the 21 people on board and injuring all 17 survivors.

* Palmerston North International Airport

With the city's central location, large student population, the stadium's close proximity to the CBD, International Pacific College, as well as the New Zealand Rugby Institute ( a facility in which the All Blacks used to use ), the idea of basing a team and having a pool game in Palmerston North is attractive.

Its main base is Auckland Airport, with hubs at Christchurch International Airport and Palmerston North International Airport.

Bunnythorpe is less than 10 minutes ' drive from Palmerston North International Airport in Milson, where regular flights to Auckland, Wellington, Hamilton, Christchurch and Nelson are available.

Palmerston North International Airport is located on the outskirts of the suburb of Milson in Palmerston North, New Zealand, north-east of the City central area.

Although the airport has not had a regular international flight since the end of March 2008, the official name, Palmerston North International Airport still remains.

Flights from Air Post, Air Freight, Massey University's School of Aviation, commuter airlines such as Air2there, Air National, Vincent Aviation and Rescue Fire Services also use Palmerston North International Airport.

In October 2008 the Manawatu Standard reported that Ozjet was in talks with Palmerston North International Airport ; to discuss Ozjet commencing the services from Australia to Palmerston North that had been abandoned at the time of the HeavyLift sale.

Palmerston North Airport chief executive Darin Cusack said they provided day-to-day back up for Wellington when flights were diverted.

In the years after Grey's retirement the party was led first by Lord Melbourne, a fairly traditional Whig, and then by Lord John Russell, the son of a Duke but a crusading radical, and Lord Palmerston, a renegade Irish Tory and essentially a conservative, although capable of radical gestures.

The Whig-Radical amalgam could not become a true modern political party, however, while it was dominated by aristocrats, and it was not until the departure of the " Two Terrible Old Men ", Russell and Palmerston, that Gladstone could become the first leader of the modern Liberal Party.

Surprisingly, Cook never sighted the largest island, Rarotonga, and the only island that he personally set foot on was tiny, uninhabited Palmerston Atoll.

The settlement there became the town of Palmerston in 1869, and was renamed Darwin in 1911.

Remains of Palmerston Town Hall, destroyed by Cyclone TracyIn 1863, the Northern Territory was annexed from New South Wales by the young colony of South Australia.

One of the foreign policy issues on which Palmerston and Russell disagreed apparently was the type of relationship that England should have with France and especially France's ruler, Louis Bonaparte.

Lord Palmerston, who at the time of Louis Bonaparte's 2 December 1851 coup was serving as the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs in the Whig government of Prime Minister Lord John Russell.

However, he was following the pressure that was being exerted on him from some members of his cabinet, including Palmerston, who in this rare instance was actually being supported by John Russell, both of whom were in favor of a more aggressive policy against perceived Russian expansion.

Boggs claims Pitt the Elder was the greatest Prime Minister to Barney's Lord Palmerston, causing Barney to punch Boggs in the face, knocking him unconscious.

Once in London, Jardine ’ s first order of business was to meet with Lord Palmerston.

In the ' Jardine Paper ', Jardine emphasized several points to Palmerston in several meetings and they are as follows: There was to be complete compensation for the 20, 000 chests of opium that Lin had confiscated, the conclusion of a viable commercial treaty that would prevent any further hostilities, and the opening of further ports of trade such as Fuzhou, Ningbo, Shanghai, and Keeson-chow.

Queen Victoria was not pleased with this statement, and an outraged Palmerston considered it seditious incitement to agitation.

The Liberal Party ( the term was first used officially in 1868 but had been used colloquially for decades beforehand ) arose from a coalition of Whigs, free trade Tory followers of Robert Peel, and free trade Radicals, first created, tenuously under the Peelite Lord Aberdeen in 1852, and put together more permanently under the former Canningite Tory Lord Palmerston in 1859.

In particular the main shopping centre, Palmerston Road, was almost completely destroyed.

At the end of Palmerston Road where it joins the Ladies Mile a plaque on a house records that it was once the home of Fred Jane, the creator of the standard naval reference book Jane ’ s Fighting Ships.

A blue commemorative plaque was erected on her home in Palmerston Road, Wimbledon by The Music Hall Guild of Great Britain and America in November 2010.

On 15 October 1862, the Hartley Institute was opened by the Prime Minister Lord Palmerston in a major civic occasion which exceeded in splendor anything that anyone in the town could remember.

In 1855 he refused from Lord Palmerston an office not connected with foreign affairs, was elected lord rector of Aberdeen university, and on June 15 moved a resolution in the House of Commons ( defeated by a large majority ) declaring that in public appointments merit had been sacrificed to private influence and an adherence to routine.