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:

New Zealand Christmas

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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.
Christmas cards - KiwiCard: Uniquely New Zealand electronic postcards featuring Pohutukawa, Fred Dagg and other Kiwi standards.
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

Father Christmas at T. Armstrong & Co. premises [ca. 1930]

Christmas photographs: Photos from our collections.
Hay’s Parade: More photos from our collection.
Christmas time: A Christmas set from our Flickr collection.
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.

About Christmas

The History of Christmas: Read about the 1914 Christmas truce, the symbolism surrounding Christmas and visit Santa’s workshop via videos and craft. From History.com.
How Christmas Works: Q & A guide to Christmas traditions and customs from HowStuffWorks.
Christmas: from Infoplease.
Holidays.net: brings you loads of information on holidays throughout the year and Christmas is no exception.