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This year the Prime Minister Helen Clark is expected to return to Waitangi. Some question the appropriateness of celebrating a treaty signing which has been the cause of so much bitter dissension.

To read more of this article by Wendy Unkovich / Collection Specialist
,and reproduced from the February edition of the WORD please click here, for the online pdf version, or pick up a hardcopy from your local library.

On 18 February, when the Chinese New Year is celebrated,
the year of the Dog will make way for the year of the Pig.
The Chinese New Year, also known as the Lunar New Year
or the Spring Festival, is the most important festival of the
Chinese calendar. Celebrations last for fifteen days and
end with the Lantern Festival.

On the days before the New Year celebration, it is customary
for Chinese families to give their homes a thorough cleaning to
sweep away bad luck and makes their homes ready for good
luck to arrive. Homes are then decorated with paper banners
and cut-outs with phrases praising the renewal of life and phrases
speaking of health, wealth, and happiness.

To read more of this article by Robyn Sperling / Collection Specialist,
and reproduced from the February edition of the WORD please click here, for the online pdf version, or pick up a hardcopy from your local library.