NATIONWIDE HEALTH AND DISABILITY ADVOCACY SERVICE
Free support or guidance with resolving your concerns about a Health or Disability Service.
We are lucky to have the services of Connor Clerkin , an advocate with this organisation , who will help people in the Wairarapa . Connor spoke at the Wairarapa bureau recently and clarified for volunteers what this service does. … Continue Reading
Following the successful debut of the Martinborough Music Festival last year another is planned for the last weekend of September.
The aim of this music festival is to make it the premiere chamber music festival in New Zealand attracting top drawer musicians playing in various combinations (quartets, quintets…). One, at least, will include the Schimmel grand piano gifted to the Martinborough community by the late Cherry van Kranen. Works by composers, Mozart, Schubert and Schumann will feature in the programme. A session for children and youth is also in the mix. … Continue Reading
The Lane – Roberts Road
The short road between Grey and Dublin Streets began as a lane down past the Manse to the Cemetery. It marked the boundaries of Cemetery and school’s, five acre blocks which were originally from George Waterhouse’s Station. In 1871 the Presbyterian Church people had purchased two five acre blocks from the JD Baird plan for a Manse and Glebe (cemetery).
The lane did not go right through to Dublin Street so for funeral services the people walked behind the hearse down Weld Street into Hirschberg Street along to Grey Street and the lane into the cemetery. In the patriotic fervour of WW1 the name Hirschberg Street was changed to Roberts Road after Field Marshal Earl Lord Roberts. … Continue Reading
What is happening in the library? We are adjusting to the schools being back and the change in focus from children all day long to the 3 o’clock rush. Nothing like the old 6 o’clock rush but the intensity is the same.
Book babies is back on Tuesdays 10-10.30 and Richmel is on good form although I have some misgivings about the political correctness of Little BunnyFooFoo bopping mice on the head!
New talking books have arrived from National Library in the three month changeover and hopefully next month we will swap over the Large Print for a new selection.
The Census is coming up and the libraries will be open until 7.30pm on Census night (6 March) so the Wifi and computers are available to complete the census if you have unreliable internet at home. There is a slim chance The Star will come out before the 6th but if not at least everyone will know we were open late! Our Wifi has recently been upgraded and now reaches further than in the past so you don’t have to come in the library to use it. … Continue Reading
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