The Sir Edmund Hillary Library (also known as Papakura Library) is a library in

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Papakura Papakura is a suburb of South Auckland, in northern New Zealand. It is located on the shores of the Pahurehure Inlet, approximately south of the Auckland CBD, Auckland City Centre. It is under the authority of the Auckland Council. The ar ...

’s first municipal library was established in 1914 when the Papakura Town Board took over a small

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run by the Papakura Literary Association since 1871. One of the library’s first homes was a former toll-house beside the Great South Road. Still, over the years the library service was moved several times until (by now known as the

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Library) it finally moved into its present home in the Accent Point building in 2010.. Retrieved 5 April 2024.

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