Taking a look at Carterton
The celebrations to mark the sesquicentennial of the founding of Carterton have kicked off to a great start with a large display of early agricultural machinery, and a massive street parade.
As their contribution to the celebrations the Wairarapa Archive will be adding The Look of Carterton to their successful series of pictorial records of the district’s townships.
With over 160 photographs, and with a commentary by archivist Gareth Winter, the new book will be a welcome addition to the already strong publishing programme of the archive.
Click this link to look at the full range of Wairarapa Archive and Masterton District Library publications
The book will be officially launched in Carterton on July 1 2007.
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The Wairarapa Archive
and Masterton Library have recently taken
possession of microfilm of Wairarapa’s
oldest newspapers. The Wairarapa Mercury
was published in Greytown from 1867 until
1872, when it was replaced by the Wairarapa
Standard.
The archive had funds aside, dedicated to filming some of the gaps in the run
of the Wairarapa Daily Times, a Masterton-based newspaper. National Library’s
microfilming unit contacted the archive, asking if they could borrow the Archive’s
copies of the newspaper so they could re-film them
A deal was struck, and the papers were loaned on the condition that the Archive’s
funds could be used to film the old Greytown newspapers, and that National Library
would release their copies for the filming.
Wairarapa Archivist Gareth Winter is excited about the arrival of the microfilm.
“ These films effectively put our newspaper collection a further fourteen
years in the past, as we only had effective copies from 1881 forward. We now
have a run of film from 1867 to the present.
The newspapers have been available in Wellington but it is great for Wairarapa
researchers to have access to their own papers at last. As the Greytown paper
was the only one in the valley the news is carried for the whole district.”
The films are stored at the Wairarapa Archive and are able to be photocopied
in the library’s microfilm reader/printer. |
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