New Settlers

New Settlers Collections

ESOL Collection - English for speakers of other languages

Our ESOL collection has more than 600 books and is downstairs in the Non Fiction area of Hastings Library.  These are for practicing your English plus helpful guides to pronunciation, grammar, and spelling. 

Community Languages

The Community Languages section at Hastings Library is downstairs in the Non Fiction wing.  There are more than 1100 books printed in a wide variety of languages.

Hastings Information Marketplace

Come to our  Information Market Place on Tuesdays

Hastings Library 2.00pm - 4.00pm

Talk with people from various organisations who can help. 

Citizens Advice Bureau 
Volunteering Hawke's Bay

The library also holds information about the Hastings District Council and local services.

New to New Zealand

New Kiwi

Are you new to New Zealand? Want to meet other migrants to make friends, gain local information and make contacts? Come to New Kiwi!

New Kiwi is a lunchtime networking group, meeting fortnightly at Opera Kitchen in Hastings, organised by Settlement Support New Zealand and the Hastings District Council.

For more information contact:

Diana Arnold (06) 877 5439 or

Cheryl Paget (06) 871 5070

New to New Zealand Workshop series

The New to New Zealand Workshop series is being held:

  • at 6pm on the first Tuesday of each month, upstairs at Hastings Library.

 

Working in New Zealand Seminar

Tuesday 25 October - Steps to employment in Hawkes Bay

Working in New Zealand Seminars are held in the Hastings Library (normally) on the first Tuesday of the month at 6.00pm. The last two sessions for 2011 have been rescheduled as per the dates below.

These seminars are designed for people new to New Zealand who wish to learn about job search skills and NZ workplace culture, but are open to everyone.

Newcomers Guide

Settlement Support Hawke's Bay has published a very useful "Newcomers Guide".    

It is full of information about settling in to our country and our district, plus further contacts.

We have copies of this booklet for you to take home - ask at the desk for these.

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