Archives Identifier00345Date Range1953-1990DescriptionThese records were created while Mervyn Kemp Library was administered by Tawa Borough Council; they cover the setting up of the Library, its opening in August 1964, and subsequent years. The records include a set of reports and statistics (occasionally with some other documents) from 1964 to 1990 when the library became a branch of Wellington Public Libraries. The reports are also found within the Tawa Borough Minute books (00212). Also retained are two early general correspondence file 1953-1972 that document the early years of the library. A later batch of papers includes records about the new Library and annual statistics, and material from the Friends of the Tawa Library, and its administrators, Betty Colclough and C H R Taylor; these papers include some general Tawa historical records collated by Colclough and Taylor, and occasionally personal material about these officials.Quantity (Linear Metres)0.5MediumFileSystem of ArrangementChronological within files.Collection TypeWellington City Council