Tuesday 5 December 2023

December activities and communications

From Tauranga City Library’s archives
A monthly blog about interesting items in our collection

As Aotearoa heads towards Christmas holidays, December can be a month of parties...

Bethlehem School Christmas party - Photo gcc-5596

picnics...

Christmas day 1937 - Photo 01-259

 and parades...

Christmas procession, Katikati - Photo gca-2812

In the 1960s December was an especially busy time for the Post Office - look at all the Christmas mail in these Bay of Plenty Times photographs - do you think one of the workers will be heading for the rugby field after work?

Post Office Christmas rush - Photo gcc-5553

Christmas mail, Tauranga Post Office - Photo gca-2784

The Ethel Macmillan watercolours in Tauranga City Libraries Archives includes a Christmas card she painted of Mauao.

Mauao - Christmas card - Ms 80/11/2


These archival items have been digitised and added to Pae Korokī. For more information about other items in our collection, visit Pae Korokī or email the Heritage & Research Team: research@tauranga.govt.nz

Written by Kate Charteris, Heritage Specialist at Tauranga City Library.