Friends of The Dorothy Neal White Christmas Event 2007
The Friends' end-of-year gathering was held at the National Library on 29 November 2007. Members of the committee read New Zealand Christmas Stories and Poems dating from 1862 to 2006.
Top left, the crowd gather to be entertained at the summer 2007 social. David Retter reads a description of Christmas from the Graham Family in New Zealand written in 1861 by Mrs Aylmer, and below him Alison Grant reads Dorothy Neal White's poem Christmas in New Zealand
At top right Lynne Jackett read an extract from A Southern Cross Fairytale by Kate McCosh Clark (1892) and Margaret Mahy's poem A New Zealand Christmas and below Janet Blake reads Slinky Malinki's Christmas by Lynley Dodd (2006).
The audience also enjoyed Emma MacDonald's hilarious rendition of A Kiwi Night Before Christmas and admired Tania Connelly's reading of her own Christmas Carol.
Bottom left are committee members with the books they read. Left to right: Tania Connelly, Janet Blake, Emma MacDonald, Lynne Jackett, David Retter, and Alison Grant.