Semiweekly newspaper published in Hawera from 1924. Previously known as the Hawera and Normanby Star.
Hawera star (Newspaper)
St Mary's Church (Hawera) :St Mary's fifteenth annual spring flower show. Winter Show B...
Date: 1923
From: [Ephemera of octavo size relating to flower shows and floral festivals]
By: St. Mary's Church (Hawera, N.Z.); Hawera star (Newspaper)
Reference: Eph-A-FLORAL-1923-01
Description: Includes schedule of 131 classes: pot plants, cut flowers, open, schools, amateur, decorative, children under 16, Sunday School children, baking, sewing, doll-making, handwriting, essay writing, drawing. Quantity: 1 booklet. Physical Description: Booklet of 16 pages, each 215 x 140 mm.
Historical items taken from Taranaki newspapers
Date: 1935-1937
From: Craig, Elsdon Walter Grant, 1917-1980 : Papers
Reference: fMS-Papers-7888-1
Description: The clippings are from the `Hawera Star' and `Taranaki Daily News', and refer to aspects of the Taranaki wars, and to Parihaka, especially with regard to forts and blockhouses. Quantity: 1 folder(s).
New Zealand Tape Recording Club :Of interest to tape recorder enthusiasts. Hawera Star ...
Date: 1956
By: Hawera star (Newspaper)
Reference: Eph-C-PHONO-1956-01
Description: Poster advertising the proposed formation of the New Zealand Tape Recording Club, by H C Madigan, and the publication of a membership list to enable enthusiasts to correspond with each other. Each applicant for membership was asked to indicate the categories he or she was interested in: Popular recordings, Classical recordings, General recordings, Unusual recordings, Sound effects, Playette recordings, Human interest recordings, Interview recordings, Travel recordings, Dusty recordings (of old cylindrical recordings). An application form formed the lower part of the poster. Dated from accompanying newsletter (now at B PHONO 1956). Quantity: 1 b&w photo-mechanical print(s) on poster. Physical Description: Offset print, on green sheet 450 x 191 mm. Provenance: Acquired in Ephemera section in 2004.
Taranaki and West Coast notes
Date: 1934-1938
From: Craig, Elsdon Walter Grant, 1917-1980 : Papers
Reference: MS-Papers-7888-216
Description: Newspaper clippings from the `Hawera Star' of articles written by John Houston on early Maori history of the South Taranaki, Wanganui and coastal Manawatu areas. Includes copy of map showing location of Maori tribes in that region. Quantity: 1 folder(s).
[Ephemera of around A3 size relating the Continuance campaigns to ensure the continuati...
Date: 1900 - 1939
By: Hawera star (Newspaper); Quartermain, Leslie Bowden, 1895-1973; Willis & Aiken Ltd
Reference: Eph-C-ALCOHOL-Continuance-1900/1939
Description: Includes: 1908: Local Option Poll. To the electors of the Avon District. Willis and Aiken Ltd., printers, Christchurch [1908] 100 Invercargill electors solemnly declare against No-License. Hawera Star print [1908] 1919: Public warning. Be it known to all men that, according to medical opinion, a further outbreak of the influenza epidemic may occur in the next few months ... the public is hereby warned not to jeopardise their individual lives by acquiescing in the demands of the Prohibitionists to prevent the use of alcoholic stimulants, either in health or disease. NZ Times Print [1919] Messages from Canada; the truth about Prohibition. Prohibition creates cesspools of iniquity. Public men, the Church, and Labour denounce Prohibition. Evening Post, Monday December 15, 1919, page 29 [Full-page notice] 1938: The Empire has rejected Prohibition. Vote Continuance. Strike out the two bottom lines. [1938]. Some material of related subject matter may be housed at subject locations ALCOHOL-Prohibition, and ALCOHOL-Temperance Quantity: 1 folder(s).
Election loss
Date: 1928
From: Coates, Joseph Gordon, 1878-1943 : Papers
Reference: MS-Papers-1785-184
Description: Inward and outward correspondence; most correspondents identified and entered in the Name field. Also includes letters from Julian K[?], Cosworthy, Ashburton and Capt Bertichochner at the New Zealand Herald. Quantity: 1 folder(s).
General legal file
Date: [1971-1980]
From: Shadbolt, Maurice Francis Richard, 1932-2004 : Papers and recordings
Reference: MS-Papers-8044-016
Description: Inward and outward correspondence and legal papers relating to maintenance, estate of B J Gardiner, Gill Shadbolt's appointment to Wellington Polytechnic (1978) and her interest in purchasing more land in Kaiwharawhara (1973) Quantity: 1 folder(s).
Taranaki newspapers - Historical records
Date: [ca 1960s-1980s]
From: New Zealand News Ltd : Records
Reference: 89-072-06/5
Description: Quantity: 1 folder(s). Transfers: To Newspaper Collection - Taranaki Herald, 4 Aug 1852 (1st edition). Includes photographs
Correspondence - Newspapers
Date: 1930-1958
From: New Zealand Press Association : Records
Reference: 75-213-035
Description: Quantity: 1 box(es). Finding Aids: Preliminary list available.
Frost, Ted and Adrienne :Staff of Hawera Star
Date: 1977
By: Frost, Edward George Alfred, 1926-2010; Frost, Adrienne, 1931-1995 -
Reference: PAColl-3473
Description: Quantity: 1 colour original photographic print(s). Finding Aids: Photocopy of back of original, with names of subjects, housed with collection.
Public Schools' Exhibition ... in conjunction with South Taranaki Winter Show, Hawera, ...
Date: 1929-1930
By: New Zealand. Statistics New Zealand; Hawera star (Newspaper)
Reference: Eph-D-EDUCATION-1930-01
Description: Notice of a special section of the Winter Show Public Schools' Exhibition to be devoted to work from Samoan school children. The categories of work to be submitted by the children are listed in the Schedule, and include: handwriting, composition, hats, baskets, tapa cloth, fans, beads, shells, woodwork, model canoes, walking sticks, and drawing. Topics for the Composition class are: "The banana", "Steamer Day", "A day on the reef", "How we make our mats", "Fruit growing for the New Zealand market". Drawings were to be of pineapple, spray of breadfruit, orange on spray, hibiscus. Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Letterpress, 535 x 263 mm. Provenance: Donated by Statistics New Zealand in 2015.