Our guide to our resources, the information you'll find in them and when to try elsewhere
Women in the Council Chambers
Brief audio political biographies of Christchurch’s own “Women in the Council Chamber”, which originally featured in an Our City O-Tautahi exhibition from 19 - 30 September 2006, initiated and co-ordinated by Cr Anna Crighton.
Heritage Photograph Competition
For Heritage Week 2008 Christchurch City Libraries invites the people of Christchurch to enter a photo competition designed to uncover Christchurch photos of the 40s, 50s, 60s and 70s. You could win a digital camera.
Albert Ronald Guthrey 1916 - 2008
Ron Guthrey passed away on September 8, aged 92. He died a few hours after his wife, Mary, aged 91. Mr Guthrey was a councillor from 1944 to 1968, and from 1968 to 1971 served as mayor.
Sir Hamish Hay, 1927 - 2008
Former Christchurch mayor Sir Hamish Grenfell Hay died on September 7 2008, aged 80. A city councillor from 1959, Sir Hamish became Christchurch's mayor in 1974 and won five terms in office before stepping down in 1989.
