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Teams from Waitaki Boys’ and St Andrew’s were also invited. “The festival is about us coming together as a whānau and as a community to celebrate Matariki, and with the hāngi afterwards, coming together to share a meal,” she said.
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Waitaki Boys’ High School perform at the Waimate Matariki Festival on Friday. While Matariki is often considered to have seven visible stars, there are actually nine depending on what rohe the stars are viewed from. Adams said part of this year s focus will be learning more about the two extra stars and what they mean.
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Waimate District Library librarian Ann Hume (seated) and mayor Craig Rowley (second from right) are flanked by Inner Wheel Club members, from left, Julie Anderson, Gael Grigg and Pat Collins as they show off some of the new range of decodable books donated to the library by the club.
A new stack of decodable books at Waimate s public library aims to boost the confidence of those finding reading difficult. More than 70 of the specialised books have been donated to the library by the town s Inner Wheel Club (IWC) in a bid to help those with dyslexia, children learning to read and older learners wanting to increase their overall reading ability.