Don't Forget Our Libraries!

SUPPLIERS to the GOLD FIELDS then and now GOLD PANS Railroad buffs will love the restored train and SHOVELS station buildings at the Goldfields Railway in Waihi. PICKS 308 Pollen St. Telephone Don’t Forget our Libraries! Thames 07 868 6608

“Toddler Time” storytelling, art programmes, and author events are some of the activities available at Coromandel peninsula libraries. Look also for any market fairs or book sales they may sponsor. Here you may also find wifi and computers you may use. As a family project, you can contribute scans of old family scrapbook photos, remembances, documents, keepsakes... and record oral histories of life on the Coromandel via the Kete Hauraki Coromandel Project. You can use the library’s scanner and computers, or work from home online. See ketehaurakicoromandel.peoplesnetworknz.info to register, view existing contributions, comment on photos, etc. Give your local TCDC library a ring or search online at Photo: Sir George Grey Special Collections, Auckland Libraries, AWNS-19011212-9-3 Auckland Libraries, Sir George Grey Special Collections, Photo: www.tcdc.govt.nz/Your-Council/Events-Meeting-Calendar/ Pupils of the Thames School of Mines at a gold mining shaft Thames Library. 503 Mackay St. Ph 07 868 6616, [email protected] Tairua Library. 2 Manaia Rd. Ph 07 864 7960, tairualibrary@ tcdc.govt.nz Mercury Bay Library. 22 Victoria St, Whitianga. Ph 07 866 I want an award-winning 4776, [email protected] builder whose quality of Whangamata Library. Port Rd. Ph 07 865 7416, work is impeccable, COROMANDEL COMMUNITY LIBRARIES like a master craftsman. Hahei Library (Florence Harsant Library). 52 Hahei Beach Road, Whitianga. Ph +64 7-866 3385. FB Hahei Library. They will keep me in the loop Hauraki District Community Libraries. For info about libraries every step of the way and in Ngatea, Kaiaua, Paeroa, Turua, Waihi, and Whiritoa see www. finish my project on time and library.hauraki-dc.govt.nz/where on budget. And I want it in writing The Treasury in Thames. History buffs of the area will want to with a Master Builder guarantee. take advantage of the resources of this ever-growing research library located in the historic Thames Library building, with new adjacent archive. Some photos and articles can be researched Is that too much to ask? online, and for a fee, researchers can do the work for you. Kudos to the many volunteers that have made this remarkable resource a state of the art operation. If you have an oral history No. to relate...or old photos, newspapers, business documents, inquire about donating them. Members $5 hr, nonmembers $15 hr. 705-9 Queen St, Ph (07) 868 8827. 11am - 3pm Mon, Thur – Sat. See www.thetreasury.org.nz. Read our story about it here www.coromandellife.com/flipview/summer_easter_2014

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