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Item 'Such a work as this' : a case study of the All Saints' children's home, Palmerston North : a thesis presented in fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Arts in History at Massey University, Manawatū, New Zealand(Massey University, 2015) Ward, ElizabethNo abstract. The following is taken from the Introduction: At 4pm on Wednesday 26th of September 1906, about twenty members of All Saints’ Church, Palmerston North, gathered in the schoolroom at the back of the church. They met in response to an announcement by the Vicar, Rev. C. C. Harper, the previous Sunday, that the church intended to open a home for orphan and destitute children, with a creche for working parents.1 The home, which became known as the All Saints’ Children’s Home, was opened on 18 October 1906. Over the fifty-eight years the Home was open it operated from three locations and cared for over 700 children. The Home closed in August 1964, although the Trust which ran it continued to care for children in foster families and by running smaller family homes. For over half of the twentieth century children’s homes, like All Saints’, were part of the provision of child welfare. Children’s homes played an important role in caring for children whose parents, for many reasons, could not. Most New Zealand cities and provincial centres had one or more children’s homes, they were a familiar part of society. However, this system of care is becoming lost to us as the children who were in the homes age and the buildings are demolished or altered beyond recognition.2 Despite the important role children’s homes played in the child welfare system there has been very little specific research done within a New Zealand context. This thesis will go some way towards addressing this by using the All Saints’ Children’s Home in Palmerston North as a case study.Item An uneasy relationship : Palmerston North City and the Manawatu River, 1941-2006 : a thesis presented in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Arts in History at Massey University(Massey University, 2007) White, JillThis preface is a declaration of interest in aspects of this thesis. As a Palmerston North City Councillor from 1983 to 1992 I had a considerable interest in Civil Defence and was involved in the welfare operation in the 1988 flood in the south-west corner of the City. When elected to Manawatu-Wanganui Regional Council in 1989 my interest also encompassed the Lower Manawatu Flood Control Scheme (LMS), to the extent of organising a bus tour of the scheme for the Palmerston North Local History Group in 1990. In 1994 I was one of the Regional Council members on the Public Liaison group for the Review of the LMS. In the late 1990s, as Mayor of Palmerston North I was necessarily involved in the decision-making processes for the Wastewater 2006 project. I am no longer an elected member of any local authority and represent Palmerston North City on the Wastewater Monitoring Group. After the floods of February 2004 I was asked to be the Palmerston North trustee on the newly formed Manawatu-Wanganui Regional Disaster Relief Fund Trust. I have been Chairperson of the Trust since that time. Given the intensive involvement in that work for over twelve months, my topic for a History Masters thesis more or less chose itself.