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Children playing with wooden blocks at Waitohi Library
Person holding the book Pātaka Kai, Growing Kai Sovereignty, by Jessica Hutchings and Jo Smith ; with Johnson Witehira and Yvonne Taura
Johnsonville branch Woman using the self-issue machine at a library

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