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Gertie the first Dunedin Public Library Bookbus
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'Gertie' was purchased for £175 in 1950, and carried a load of 1000 books around Dunedin's hilly suburbs. She initially called at Mornington, Maori Hill, Roslyn, Corstorphine, Kaikorai, Forbury Corner, Andersons Bay and the Gardens. After her first week in service, there were 62 new library members as a result of her visits, and in the first five weeks of the new mobile service 3,782 volumes were borrowed.
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SubjectDUNEDIN CITY - Libraries - PUBLICDunedin - Libraries [D.P]Dunedin City - Libraries EventBuilding the Dunedin City Library on Civic Plaza, Moray PlaceImageDunedin Public Libraries BookbusesOrganisationDunedin Public LibrariesGroupDunedin Public LibrariesArchibald DunninghamPlaceDunedin City LibraryProjectDunedin City Library 40th Anniversary of the Civic Plaza Building on Moray PlaceTimelineA History of the Dunedin Public Library Service
Dunedin - Libraries [D.P]Dunedin City - Libraries EventBuilding the Dunedin City Library on Civic Plaza, Moray PlaceImageDunedin Public Libraries BookbusesOrganisationDunedin Public LibrariesGroupDunedin Public LibrariesArchibald DunninghamPlaceDunedin City LibraryProjectDunedin City Library 40th Anniversary of the Civic Plaza Building on Moray PlaceTimelineA History of the Dunedin Public Library ServiceContributors
ContributorKay Mercer
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