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    Mobility, household change and housing : a study of the owner-occupied sector of the housing market of Palmerston North in 1979 : a thesis presented in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Arts in Geography at Massey University
    (Massey University, 1980) Dixon, Glenda Margaret
    An analysis of the owner-occupied sector of Palmerston North's housing market over the period from January 1979 to December 1979, shows high levels of mobility and household movement. The study provides a conceptual framework to aid understanding of the links between mobility, household change, and housing. It looks at how economic and social forces operative in New Zealand during 1979 influenced the national and local housing markets, describes Palmerston North's housing stock, and proceeds to delineate and map submarkets for the city based on age and value of housing. Estimates are made of the relative magnitude of the components of household change associated with mobility, including household formation. Data is presented on reasons for moving, and on search and movement patterns of people and households moving into, within and out of Palmerston North City during the year in question. As well, some attempt is made to describe the spatial nature of intra-city movement. The study provides evidence, using the submarket concept, about what types of households have recently been able to move into what kinds of housing. It also considers whether people moving house are "improving" their housing circumstances by doing so. Hints are offered about the types of households which may have less "choice in housing" in the future. Finally, some implications are drawn about housing outcomes under particular conditions of mobility and population growth,net migration, construction, interest rates and so forth. Questions are raised about the present decline in the volume of rental housing stock in New Zealand, and about the nature and direction of future governmental policy in the housing sector.
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    Roads, social severance and elderly pedestrians : a Palmerston North pilot study: a thesis presented in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Resource and Environmental Planning at Massey University
    (Massey University, 1999) Halsted, Elizabeth Louise
    Social severance, both physical and psychological, refers to the negative social impacts caused by roads and their traffic. Social severance falls most heavily upon groups of people with limited mobility, including the elderly. This thesis examines the extent to which social severance is experienced by elderly pedestrians. A research framework is developed and its utility for identifying and measuring social severance effects on elderly pedestrians is assessed in relation to a pilot study carried out in Palmerston North. A literature review was undertaken on how the elderly are affected by social severance, as users of both roads and vehicles. Following this, Tate's (1997) framework is adapted for identifying and measuring social severance effects on elderly pedestrians. First, questionnaires were completed by elderly people living in Palmerston North, the majority of whom were from the Palmerston North Senior Citizens Club. Second, semi-structured interviews were conducted with 12 elderly pedestrians drawn from the questionnaire respondents. Findings of both research methods were then analysed. It was found that social severance is experienced significantly by elderly pedestrians in everyday living in relation to established residential streets. The data suggests psychological severance is experienced more by elderly pedestrians when they and their neighbours have lived and owned their homes for a lengthy period of time. Income, health, disability and lack of choice are identified as factors constraining mobility and access to facilities and social activities. However, this is exacerbated by the lack of knowledge on the part of elderly pedestrians about the facilities and transport services available to them. The mobility and accessibility of elderly pedestrians is also constrained by inadequate public transport, poor road design and, poor crossing facilities. Safety and confidence of elderly pedestrians when walking is decreased at certain times of the day, by people's driving behaviour, lack of lighting and poor road design. These findings point for the need for social severance to be given more weight when improvements to existing road networks as well as new road developments are proposed.
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    Evaluation of a service delivery programme : a thesis presented in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Arts in Psychology at Massey University
    (Massey University, 1987) Russell, Gail Robin
    The present study is an evaluation of the service delivery programme offered at the Palmerston North Plunket-Karitane family unit. The study had three aims: firstly, to replicate and extend an investigation conducted on a similar programme in Dunedin; secondly, to examine the eitiology and intensity of stress experienced by the service delivery staff; and thirdly, to systematically evaluate programme process and outcome. Results obtained in the present study were in many respects similar to those obtained in the Dunedin study, but some significant differences are also noted. Although valuable information pertaining to the causes of stress was obtained, the service delivery staff recorded stress levels comparable to other working women. Process and outcome evaluation data indicated that the programme was functioning in accordance with its aims and objectives, however recommendations for programme modification and improvement are offered.
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    A comparison of the most successful and the least successful students in a teachers college language curriculum course : a thesis presented in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Arts in Education at Massey University
    (Massey University, 1970) Millar, John Kennedy
    This study was conducted with the co-operation of the 1969 second-year students of Palmerston North Teachers College. I am also grateful to the Principal, the staff of the College and in particular my colleagues in the Education Department, for their help and the use of College facilities. I am especially grateful to Mr A. Forrest, Senior Lecturer in Education, Palmerston North Teachers College, without whose encouragement and assistance this work may not have been completed, and to Mr D. McAlpine, Senior Lecturer in Education, Massey University, for his help in planning and executing this study.
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    Commuting to Palmerston North : an examination of some aspects of the journey to work in the Palmerston North urban area : a thesis presented in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Arts in Geography at Massey University
    (Massey University, 1970) Bang, Bryan Desmond
    While this study could have been undertaken by another whose competence was in some other field, it is offered in the hope that the geographer's point of view may illuminate an area of knowledge about the Manawatu of which we were formerly ignorant. It is offered, too, in the hope of making a contribution, however meagre, to the literature which is available on the local area. At the outset of the study it was the intention to enumerate commuters in terms of origin areas, the sole destination considered being the Palmerston North Urban Area. The inflow of commuters to the major employment centre in the Manawatu was the main consideration but it was expected that commuting might shed some light upon the distribution of population in the district. It was felt that the existence of an urban hierarchy, formulated on the basis of population size and urban function might well be the result of forces operating both in the settlements and within the area as a whole. Changes within the hierarchy could then be viewed as resulting from alterations of the forces. It was considered that commuting, as it is currently operating, was having an effect upon the Manawatu hierarchy and that settlement patterns were possibly being stabilised or reinforced by the existence of commuting. In this way the examination of commuting as a phenomenon taking place within a changing hierarchy became an important aim and some attempt was made to equate changes in the hierarchy with commuting patterns.
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    Accommodation for itinerant visitors to Palmerston North : a thesis presented in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Arts in Geography at Massey University
    (Massey University, 1970) Bayliss, Gavin Spencer
    This thesis investigates all accommodation which has operated in Palmerston North and is especially suited for the itinerant visitor. It is necessary at the outset to define terminologies used within the context of the thesis. 'Itinerant visitors' comprise all those persons who do not live in Palmerston North, and who stay from day to day at an accommodation house in the city. 'Accommodation' for the purpose of this thesis comprises all those buildings in Palmerston North whose business is to provide overnight lodging for the itinerant visitor at any time during the year. This accommodation comprises all private and licensed hotels, motels, motor hotels and camping ground cabins. 'Private Hotels' are defined by the fourth schedule of the Town and Country Planning Regulations 1960 and Ordinance 1, Clause 3 of the Code of Ordinances as being 'a residential building not being a licensed hotel in which board1 and lodging2 is provided for five or more lodgers for reward or payment.' 'Licensed Hotels' provide the same services as the Private Hotel, but have the additional service of a publican's licence issued under the Licensing Act, 1908.