• Cost
    $434 per week
    $434
    per week
  • Furniture
    Fully furnished
    Fully furnished
  • Ideal for
    17-23 year olds
    17-23
    year olds
  • Catering
    Two meals per day
    Two meals per day
  • Walking time
    0 minutes to campus
    0 minutes
    to campus

Mataī, Miro, Tawa and Tōtara halls are collectively called the Tree Halls. Our Tree Halls are centrally located in a park-like setting within Massey’s Manawatū campus, close to student facilities and the bus stop.

Overview

  • Spacious, fully furnished single rooms in a modern living environment for 200 students (50 per hall), aged 17 to 23 years.
  • Shared gender-neutral bathrooms in each wing, large common room with TV and kitchen.
  • Catered meal plan, offering two meals per day (lunch and dinner during the week and brunch and dinner during weekends).
  • Access to external large shared common space for socialising, laundry, bathroom and study room.
  • Internet/wifi in all rooms and common areas.
  • Massey gym membership.
  • Close to all student facilities including lecture theatres, the library, dining hall, and the Colombo Road public bus stop.
  • Based within a community of four halls, forming a supportive student environment in attractive surroundings.

Rooms and furniture

All bedrooms in Mataī, Miro, Tawa and Tōtara halls are fully furnished, large single private rooms. Each has a window that can be opened, and a secure lockable door.

Each room includes:

  • king single bed and mattress
  • drawers
  • wardrobe
  • desk, chair and desk lamp
  • shelf, mirror and rubbish bin
  • carpet and curtains
  • heater.

Items you should bring

Along with clothing and personal items, you should also bring:

  • bedding and towels (or you can purchase a bedding pack when you accept your offer of place)
  • toiletries and toiletry bag
  • coat hangers
  • laundry basket
  • laundry detergent
  • cleaning products
  • 3M hooks/tape or white tac, if you wish to hang anything on your wall (no tape, nails, screws or blu tac allowed).

You may also choose to bring a small fridge, no larger than 45L, which must be put on a waterproof mat.

Bathrooms

The halls have shared gender-neutral bathrooms with showers, toilets and sinks. There is one bathroom for every four students. All toilets and showers are within self-contained private cubicles with lockable doors.

Catering

Residents living in Mataī, Miro, Tawa and Tōtara halls are on a catered meal plan, which offers you two meals daily – lunch and dinner Monday to Friday, and brunch and dinner on weekends.

The dining hall is situated at the Student Centre on Concourse. It offers a diverse range of food choices that change daily. You use your student ID card to receive meals.

Our Time2Eat App provides access to view the menu. You can also allow a friend to collect your meal if you are sick, order a takeaway meal and give feedback.

Communal spaces and shared facilities

The halls have a common lounge with TV, sofas and a fully equipped kitchen. The Tree Halls share two external communal spaces, named Karaka and Kānuka, which have a social space, study space and a laundry with washers, dryers and an ironing board. Cost for laundry is $3 per wash and $3 per dry.

There is also plenty of communal outdoor space, including a volleyball court.

Alcohol

Drinking in moderation is permitted between 7pm to 10pm, Thursday to Saturday in the Kānuka and Karaka Commons,. Drinking in bedrooms is not permitted.

Certain types of alcohol are not permitted, such as spirits and hard liquors, or alcohol in large quantities such as beer kegs.

2024 pricing

Pricing for Mātai, Miro, Tawa and Tōtara halls 2024:

Domestic pricing for Matai, Miro, Tawa and Totara halls 2023.
Week Full year Semester One Semester Two
$434 $17,360 $8,246 $8,680

Room rates include:

  • two meals per day – lunch and dinner on weekdays, and brunch and dinner on weekends
  • internet/wifi
  • power and water
  • gym membership at the Massey Recreation Centre.

You can prepay by semester or full year. Domestic students are also able to pay by direct debit on a weekly basis.

Payment options

Deposit

After you have applied for accommodation and your application has been successful, you will need to pay a deposit by the offer expiry date stated in your letter of offer to secure your place.

The deposit is $762 for a full year or $722 for one semester.

Deposit break down of the accommodation at the Manawatū campus.

Deposit break down Full year One semester
Processing fee $120 $120
Bond (refundable when contract ends if no damage or arrears) $500 $500
Activity fee $120 $80
Mattress protector $22 $22
Total $762 $722

To secure a refund of fees (the processing fee is non-refundable) cancellations must be received by:

  • 1 December 2023 for returning halls residents
  • 22 January 2024 for new hall residents.

The processing fee is non-refundable.

2024 occupancy dates

Your accommodation contract term must reflect your study programme – if your programme of study is full year you must apply for full year accommodation.

The following table gives the contracted term dates when you will be living at Massey Halls Manawatū.

Mataī, Miro, Tawa and Tōtara halls contract dates for 2024.
Term Start date End date Duration
Full Year 18 February
2024
24 November
2024
40 Weeks
Semester One 18 February
2024
30 June 2024 19 Weeks
Semester Two 7 July 2024 24 November
2024
20 Weeks

Location

Colombo Road, Massey University, Palmerston North 4410, New Zealand

Take a virtual tour of Mataī Hall and Kānuka common room

Manawatū accommodation office

Hours

Monday to Friday, 8.30am to 4.30pm

Office phone
After-hours emergency

+64 27 246 2316 (calls Residential Assistant on duty)

Location

Physical address

Massey University

Accommodation Services Office

Tennent Drive

Palmerston North 4410

Located on the corner of University Avenue and Rehab Road.


Postal address

Massey University

Student Accommodation Manawatū

Private Bag 11222

Palmerston North 4442

Apply now for accommodation at Massey.