The Museum holds:

• Some very early records for both Waipawa and St. Columbia’s schools
• School register – Otane school / Takapau
• Early birth records – Waipawa [1875 – 1900]
• St. Peter’s Church cemetery records – closed cemetery
• A Waipawa Mail data-base of births, deaths & marriages from the late 1800’s to 1930’s
• Telephone directories - 1920, 1930, 1939, 1944, 1945, 1951, 1960, 1962
• The “Waipukurau Press” – from the early 1900’s
• An extensive collection of local history books
• Archives
• WW1 Personnel records
• Veterans file [under development]
• Electoral roll 1893

Research charge - $35.00 per hour. Newspaper collection not suitable for general handling – Curator will undertake searches on request.