About this site

This site was created by Auckland Council as part of its support for Matariki Festival.

If you would like any more information about Matariki Festival 2013 please contact us.

You should contact Auckland Council by email, in writing or over the phone if you have:

• a formal request, comment or enquiry;
• a complaint regarding Auckland Council.

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This website has been designed to be best viewed with web standards compliant browsers. Older browsers such as Internet Explorer 4 and Netscape Navigator 4 may display a degraded page layout. We also recommend setting your screen resolution to a minimum of 1024 x 768, with at least 256 colours and default fonts.

Enlarging text size

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• Firefox: hold down CTRL and press + or - to alter the text size
• Internet Explorer: from the menu bar select 'View' >> 'Text size' and then your chosen size. If you have a mouse wheel simply hold down CTRL and roll the mouse wheel to alter the text size.
• Netscape 6, Mozilla: hold down CTRL and press + or - to alter the text size, or from the menu bar select 'View' >> 'Text zoom'
• Netscape 4: hold down CTRL and press [ or ] to alter the text size
• Netscape 3: from the menu bar select 'Options' >> 'General preferences' >> 'Fonts' >> 'Choose font' to choose a text size
• Opera: select 'View'>> 'Text size', then choose a text size. This will also enlarge graphics.

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Some documents on this site are Portable Document Format (PDF) files as indicated by the icon. In this format you can easily save, view and print the file exactly as it was created, with the same layout, images etc.

To do this you need software called Adobe Acrobat Reader. This is free and simple to download from the Adobe website. If you have problems or want to know the basics of how to use PDFs the Adobe site has plenty of help available.

Acrobat Reader program also has a help function. Click on Help from the menu bar at the top of the screen and then select Reader Guide from the drop down menu.

Viewing large files

The size of a file is given in kilobytes beside each link: Name of file (603KB PDF)

Large PDF and video files, which can easily be over 500KB, take a while to download particularly if you are using an older computer and have a slow internet connection.

Saving a PDF file onto your computer and opening it like you would any other file is a little faster. Your web browser or Windows help will have instructions on how to do this. If you have problems with any particular file and cannot get help from the places mentioned above, please contact us.