Library Display May Music Month

For May Music Month the children's librarians have created a cool display.

Find a lawyer in New Zealand

Now here’s a tip for finding a lawyer in New Zealand.

Try this website of the Auckland District Law Society

www.adls.org.nz.

There is a tab at the top that says “find a lawyer”

Click here then use the search functions to search lawyers

by lawyer type, surname, town, or district within New Zealand.

The New Zealand Law Society also has a useful web page.

You can Google search using this keyword phrase to see.

There is also a directory of lawyers put out by Brookers

So you will need to visit this url: Brookers.co.nz

A directory like this is useful if searching for addresses

to post a sales proposal or a mail out to many lawyers.

Alternatively you can use the NZ yellow pages or the

NZ white pages in the telephone directory.

Statistics for Hastings District

Hastings District Statistics - webpage of useful stats:
http://www.hastingsdc.govt.nz/hastings/statistics/index.htm

Please note there is a link to this from the Hastings Libraries webpage - bottom of menu on left:
http://www.hastingsdc.govt.nz/libraries/index.htm

Other statistics for Hastings District can be found on the Statistics New Zealand website:
http://www.stats.govt.nz/default.htm

Statistics New Zealand - Population Census Night

Population Counts

· New Zealand’s Census night population has passed the 4 Million mark. There were 4,143,279 people in New Zealand on census night, an increase of 322,530 (8.4 percent) since the 2001 Census.

· In the 10 years to March 2006, New Zealand’s census night population increased by nearly half a million (up 461,733 or 12.5 percent).

· In the past 50 years, New Zealand’s census night population has almost doubled – from 2,174,061 in 1956 to reach 4,143,279 in 2006.

· The number of overseas visitors in New Zealand on census night almost doubled in the 10 years between 1996 and 2006 – increasing from 63,243 to reach 115,332.

From Statistics New Zealand, Tatauranga Aotearoa, based on the information on the census usually resident population count from New Zealand’s 2006 Census of Population and Dwellings, held on 7 March 2006

Main website: http://www.stats.govt.nz

Posted by Helena

Place and Street Names

New Zealand Place Names

New Zealand place names – try checking Discover New Zealand : a Wises guide

[Also check the catalogue for other books we hold on NZ, specific areas, e.g. Auckland, Carterton, Masterton; also try Te Puna NBD search for specific areas if not found]

Local place and street names:

Local Māori place names – The Māori history and place names of Hawke's Bay / J.D.H. Buchanan ; edited by D.R. Simmons

[Also other books on Māori place names – check the catalogue]

Hastings street names – KB is compiling a history of the place names of Hastings and district

Napier street names – try What's in a name : a history of the streets of Napier / Ian L. Mills

Meeanee street names – Muskets and marshes : the history of Meeanee : the land, the people, the school / by Laraine Knight

NZ cemetery online database links

While we are on the subject of searchable cemetery databases, JWr suggested the following NZ cemetery database links page:

http://www.geocities.com/madderngenealogy/cemeteriesNZ

Have also added it to the HDL website Family History page:
http://www.hastingsdc.govt.nz/libraries/resources_genealogy.htm

Varcoe's New Zealand Marriage Index

Search for brides or grooms on Varcoe’s NZ Marriage Index: http://marvin.otago.ac.nz/marriages/

Select the year range then enter the folio number, then click Search.

The results will have the microfiche start and finish names with brides on one side and grooms on the other.

Local Cemetery Records

Hastings District Council Cemetery database http://www.hdc.govt.nz/cem/cemetery_home.html

Unfortunately Napier City Council does not have an online database for cemetery records yet.

See: http://www.napier.govt.nz/index.php?cid=facilities/cemeteries/cem_records

Write to:

Reserves Administration Clerk
Works Asset Division
Napier City Council
Private Bag 6010
Hastings Street
Napier 4142

Stewards' reports for NZ Race meetings

At Hastings Library we have a customer who regularly checks stewards' reports.

To find stewards' reports on race meetings in New Zealand:

Go to the following website:

http://www.nzracing.co.nz/Meetings/Results.aspx

Find the race meeting required.
You may have to click on -Month heading to get previous month.

Click on the race meeting.
At the bottom of the page is a link to Stewards Reports
Click on this.

To print, go to Print Preview first to tell customer how many pages are involved.

Enquiry - Home schooling

How to get started with Home Schooling?

Books:
A catalogue search on "home schooling" (rather than homeschooling) will bring up a variety of books held at HDL. Two useful ones for someone starting out:

Home educating in New Zealand : choosing to teach your children at home : a fast growing trend / [Antoinette James]. (Published New Zealand 2004)

USA:
Homeschooling for success : how parents can create a superior education for their child / Rebecca Kochenderfer and Elizabeth Kanna ; with a foreword by Robert T. Kiyosaki. (Published USA 2002)

Websites:
Two very useful websites:

New Zealand home education: http://home.school.nz/

From the Ministry of Education website:

Home-based schooling is available for parents and caregivers who want to educate their children at home. Parents and caregivers need to get approval to do so from the Ministry of Education and must educate their children to the standard they would receive at a registered school. Homeschooling parents and caregivers are given an annual grant to help with the cost of learning materials and can choose to purchase teaching services from The Correspondence School.
Though the number of homeschooled children in New Zealand has grown considerably in recent years it accounts for only one percent of total school enrolments.