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Tuesday, 1 September 2026
Ōmokoroa from the Air: Alf Rendell and the Unsworth Subdivisions
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From Tauranga City Library’s archives A monthly blog about interesting items in our collection Today, it is difficult to imagine Ōmokoroa Po...
Friday, 28 August 2026
Henry Williams and the Herald: Their First Visit to Tauranga Moana
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Pilot Bay in the 1800s Image: John Kinder, Mt Mau nganui, Tauranga, 1874, 1937/15/46 , Auckland Art Gallery, Toi O Tamaki On 26th June 202...
Friday, 21 August 2026
F is for a Fisherman’s Priest
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Fishing off the Town Wharf, Tauranga, 1960s. Tauranga Museum 0005/20/1194 Childhood memories of casting homemade handlines from local wharve...
Friday, 14 August 2026
A very independent woman
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Yatton Park from above, 2026. Mansel Street is at extreme top-left corner. The site of the original homestead, above the bend of the Wai...
Tuesday, 4 August 2026
A Journey Across the Pacific: Samoan Migration to New Zealand
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From Tauranga City Library’s archives A monthly blog about interesting items in our collection Image of Virginia Marshall (nee Williams). Ta...
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