Library And Museum

The Kawerau District Library/Sir James Fletcher Kawerau Museum

Street Address: Jellicoe Court, Kawerau

Postal Address: P.O. Box 103, Kawerau, 3169

Phone: (07) 306 9041

E-mail: library@kaweraudc.govt.nz
museum@kaweraudc.govt.nz

Opening Hours

Monday-Friday 10am-5pm

Saturday 10am-1pm

News And Events

Be A Legend - Read! Summer Reading Programme Was A Great Success!

The Kawerau District Library has had a legendary time this year and we’re so pleased with all our summer readers who contributed to our reading dragon. Children wrote their favourite titles they had read on dragon scales and our dragon ended up with 110 scales just in time for the start of the Chinese Year of the Dragon. We also had lots of good readers with Zephyna McKeown and Niao Harawira topping the list with 50 books read over the summer each. Lots of fun was had with the different activities held in the Library. These included toddler Mermen and Mermaids, aboriginal artworks, mythical mosaics, unique unicorns, taniwha/dragons and a hunt for gods and goddesses. Seventy-six youth aged 5-17 enrolled in our three reading programmes and many others participated in our competitions and activity session. The programme finished 25 January 2012 with a Legendary Finale featuring professional performer Mary Kippenburger and a prizegiving for our competition winners below:

Design A Mythical Creature Junior: Matthew Reihana-Asquith
Design A Mythical Creature Intermediate: Elana Spod
Design A Mythical Creature Senior: Michelle Whyte
Colouring Competition Junior (No. 5): Zephyna McKeown
Colouring Competition Senior (No. 5): Niao Harawira
Crafty Costume Competition Junior (No. 15): Ronan van Niekerk
Crafty Costume Competition Senior (No. 15): Kaitlin Dredge 

Congratulations on all your efforts!

Kete Kawerau Is Launched

The Kawerau District Library and Sir James Fletcher Kawerau Museum has launched a new website Kete Kawerau to collect the stories and images of Kawerau. Visitors can view the Kete Kawerau on the APNK computer service or go online at http://ketekawerau.peoplesnetworknz.info/ to add your own material. Kete Kawerau has been created to capture and preserve the historical and current memories, stories, and activities of the Kawerau community and we need you to share your stories and images, past and present.

To get things started, we are asking people to share their memories of Kawerau's first pub - The Kawerau Hotel - with us. We are calling the project Pub Stories and you can find it at http://ketekawerau.peoplesnetworknz.info/site/topics/show/58-pub-stories-at-the-kawerau-hotel . We know there are some great stories out there about the "Flying Jug" and other hotel bars, and you can add yours online or come in and see the Museum and Library staff. Donations of original documents and photos are also appreciated.

Kete Kawerau is your place to add online material about Kawerau's current and past history so please help us by adding your stories for future generations to enjoy.

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