A new you

• How to create a new you
• Get a better diet - tips and advice
• Remodelling yourself - makeovers
• Get to grips with your body image
• Top tips on pampering yourself
• Resources for a healthy lifestyle

Get learning with CINCH

The best way to find a course to suit you is to search CINCH, our community information directory. You’ll find lots of information about tertiary courses, alongside all the opportunities run by local community education providers.
Try these links for starters:

• Sustainable development
• Conservation of natural resources
• Occupational training
• Job hunting
• Personal development
• Beauty, Personal
• Employment re-entry
• Life skills
• Self actualization
• Self realization

This week in Christchurch history

What interesting things happened in Christchurch this week? Find out with the help of the Christchurch Chronology on the library website.

• August 31, 1959 Princess Margaret Hospital opens.
• August 31, 1974 Death of Prime Minister Norman Kirk, M.P. for Sydenham. He had earlier been M.P. for Lyttelton, and Mayor of Kaiapoi.
• September 1, 1888 Earthquake causes damage throughout City. Cathedral spire badly damaged.
• September 1, 1906 First Timaru to Christchurch cycle race.
• September 1, 1924 New City Council offices in Manchester Street open. The first of the Council’s 2 recycled office buildings, this had been the Canterbury Exhibition Hall, gutted by fire in 1917.
• September 1, 1940 New Zealand Railways railcar sets a speed record of 125 kilometres per hour (78 miles per hour) near Rolleston. This is still the highest speed officially acknowledged on the New Zealand rail system.
• September 2, 1885 Public meeting of 25,000 (possibly the country’s biggest to that time) in Hagley Park in support of the proposal to build a railway to the West Coast (the Midland Line).
• September 3, 1879 Canterbury Industrial Association formed (now the Canterbury Manufacturers Association).
• September 4, 1903 Canterbury Automobile Association formed.
• September 5, 1985 French agent Dominique Prieur convicted over the bombing of the Greenpeace ship "Rainbow Warrior", transferred from Mt Eden Jail to Christchurch Womens Prison.
• September 5, 1987 Canterbury Rowing Club 125th anniversary - believed to be the oldest sports club in New Zealand. See 1861.
• September 5, 1988 Stanley Reid, New Zealand's longest serving prisoner (43 years) dies in Christchurch.