Christmas
Season's greetings / Ngā mihi o te wā
Christmas takes place on 25 December each year. This page links you to information on this celebration, Christmas resources at the library, images and websites.
We also have the following Christmas related pages:
- Holiday hours
- Christmas in Christchurch and Canterbury
- Christmas music
- Festive food
- Christmas for kids
- Christmas reading for kids
- Join a holiday programme
- Volunteer to help others
New Zealand Christmas
Search the catalogue
Culture
- Kiwi Christmas
- Twelve stories from NZ History.net which illustrate what Christmas is like in this part of the southern hemisphere. Includes media gallery.
- NZ Post Christmas
- Find out the mailing dates for Christmas cards and packages, plus Santa’s address for letters or send him a message from the website.
- New Zealand Christmas Songs
- From New Zealand Folk Song.
- Project Crimson trust
- Project to save the pohutukawa and rata which are considered to be New Zealand’s Christmas trees and are under threat from possums and development.
Images of New Zealand Christmas
- Christmas photographs
- Photos from our collections.
- Hay’s Parade
- More photos from our collection.
- Christmas time
- A Christmas set from our Flickr collection.
- Christmas in Christchurch
- A DigitalNZ set of Christchurch Christmas images.
- Santa and me
- A DigitalNZ set of images of people with Father Christmas.
- Christmas parade
- A DigitalNZ set of Christmas and Santa Parade pictures.
- Christmas
- Christmas photographs and paintings from Matapihi, a window onto the online collections of a number of New Zealand cultural organisations.
- Kiwi Christmas
- Media gallery from NZHistory.net
- Christmas Collection
- Classic New Zealand film and television moments from NZonscreen.com.
