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Image: Haircutting ceremony, Otara, 1971. Auckland Libraries Heritage Collections Footprints 08563. Reminisce and celebrate our beautiful Niue! Niue celebrates its 50th anniversary of self-governing, highlighting its relationship with Aotearoa. The island is commonly referred to as 'The Rock of Polynesia.' Through historical imagery, we explore Niue’s timeless stories, memories and identity which ground our Niuean communities here in Aotearoa and abroad. Ngā Pātaka Korero o Tāmaki Makaurau | Auckland Libraries house nearly 25,000 materials related to Niue. Over 400 of those materials are of heritage significance, many of which are featured in our online, lending and research catalogues. Within our collections, Niue materials are embedded across various formats and categories. On our Kura Heritage Collections Online , Niuean-themed materials can be found amongst our photographs, maps, ephemera, journals, and manuscripts (to name a few). Additionally, our library catalogue includ...

An account of a voyage in search of La Perouse: undertaken by order of the Constituent Assembly of France, and performed in the years 1791, 1792, and 1793 in the Recherche and Esperance, ships of war, under the command of Rear-Admiral Bruni D'Entrecasteaux. Ref:  An account of a voyage in search of La Perouse, title page, M. Labillardiere,   1800, Sir George Grey Special Collections, Auckland Libraries, 1800 LABI Atlas. This three volume set was published in 1800. The first two volumes were acquired by the Leys Institute Library  Ponsonby  in 1905 and some decades later transferred to Sir George Grey Special Collections. Volume three, an atlas including many beautiful engraved illustrations, was recently purchased, thus completing the set over a century later.