Treasury gets backing to hire staff

Both our Council and the Thames Community Board have agreed to provide $30,000 each in funding from their 2017-18 budgets to the Treasury to hire a curator and administrator. Hauraki District Council is to vote on contributing $30,000 as well.

Longer term funding to operate The Treasury will be considered under the 2018-28 Long Term Plan which will go to the public for consultation early in 2018.

The Treasury provides a heritage and archival repository for the Coromandel Peninsula and Hauraki Plains and operates as an active heritage and genealogy research centre which attracts visitors from outside the region.

The Treasury is operated entirely by the volunteers of the Coromandel Heritage Trust and their capacity to run the centre has reached its limits. The Trust has successfully raised funds to refurbish the historic Carnegie Library in Thames and commissioned the design and built of the purpose-built adjoining archive, which won a New Zealand Institute of Architects national award upon completion in 2015.

Trust member Geraldine Dunwoodie was awarded the Queen's Service Medal for services to heritage preservation in the Queen's Birthday Honours List, for her role with the Treasury. In 2016, her late husband Morrison (Morrie) Dunwoodie was recognized with a Community Service Award from our Council for his key role in setting up and running the Treasury.

For more about what The Treasury does, visit their website www.thetreasury.org.nz

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