Massey Agricultural College, 1956

An aerial view of Massey Agricultural College, its farms and surrounds.

The Dairy Factory can be clearly seen near the lower edge, while the Main Building is just above centre with the Old Hostel, Refectory and Pink Hostel barely visible to the left of it, and the Registry Building and Tiritea House behind it.

Behind the Pink Hostel is the recently completed Young Farmers' Club Memorial Hostel, surrounded on three sides by the Rehab Hostels which were moved to Massey from Linton Army College in 1947.

On the far left of the picture is the Water Tower, and below it is Atawhai - still a private residence at this time, it would be purchased by the Presbyterian Educational Purposes Trust, renamed Fergusson Hall in honor of Governor General Sir Bernard Fergusson, and used by Massey University as a student residence from 1964 onwards.

Also of note are the buildings in the centre of the image - below the Main Building and above the Dairy Factory. These were originally built as the wool classing, farm machinery, carpenters' workshop, fitter shop and the concrete shop facilities, but would be reused for multiple purposes over the following years, and are today known as the Courtyard Complex.