Recent changes to access to Hamilton City Libraries for Waikato District residents are a short-term move, says Waikato District Council ward councillor Dynes Fulton. “This is all part of a process of council working towards developing a Waikato regional library facility for all. “The long term goal is to actually increase access to libraries throughout
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My, how we’ve changed. Check out this photo of Gordonton Village from the 1970s, sent in by the inimitable Perry Rice from Hamilton Central Libraries. This is looking at where The Mandarin Tree and Global Veterinary Services now reside. I’m unreliably informed that the building on the right may have been a butcher’s shop at
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“It’s halfway to Auckland!” shouted the very vocal opponents of the new bridge proposal. Those who didn’t say that quite so stridently certainly did consider it “too far out in the country”. All of which must be accepted as strange behaviour for anyone north of the railway track (now Claudelands Rd) because this bridge gave
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