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Aid From Country Library Service At Punga-haruru there are now about 850 of our own books on the shelves, over 200 of the earlier books having been weeded out because they were shabby, or out of date or not being borrowed. The School Library Service has continued its regular loans to the children's section, and at the end of last year Miss Helen Cowey of the Country Library Service, Palmerston North, who is also Convenor of the N.Z. Library Association's Maori Library Committee, visited us to discuss help. The first loan of 150 books arrived from the C.L.S. in January, and the C.L.S. book van will be calling twice yearly to exchange supplies. Punga-haruru began officially lending books to the adult residents of Putiki on Saturday, March 12, 1966. In true Maori tradition the doors had been hospitably if unofficially open for some time, and borrowing had already

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Te Ao Hou, December 1966, Page 18

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Aid From Country Library Service Te Ao Hou, December 1966, Page 18

Aid From Country Library Service Te Ao Hou, December 1966, Page 18