Heathcote river in flood on Ashgrove Terrace, 22 July 2017.

Librarians waiting for the new Ōrauwhata: Bishopdale Library ...

A librarian helps a man with the self return machine at the ...

Family, friends and visitors watch and take photographs as the ...

Local kapa haka teachers and librarians perform a welcome for ...

A selection of food as well as a specially designed cake at the ...

The Mayor of Christchurch, Lianne Dalziel with Jamie Gough and ...

View from the back of the audience of a traditional Māori ...

An excited women gets a photo in front of the doorway to ...

Young boys who performed in the Kapa haka group tuck in to some ...

A mother and her son wait in line to enter the new Ōrauwhata: ...

People arrive to the opening ceremony of the Ōrauwhata: ...

A young boy looks into the Ōrauwhata: Bishopdale Library as his ...

Young boy plays on virtual reality game at the opening of the ...

A young boy looks through a display of books on the opening day ...

A man looks through a book on old fighter planes on the opening ...

Students from a local school perform at the opening ceremony of ...

Members of the public browse the shelves at Ōrauwhata: ...

Members of the public exploring Ōrauwhata: Bishopdale Library ...

Speeches at opening of Ōrauwhata: Bishopdale Library.

Members of the public cram into the new Bishopdale Library to ...

Christchurch Mayor Lianne Dalziel, alongside MP Gerry Brownlee ...

Members of the public arriving through the main doors at ...

A traditional Māori ceremony to mark the opening of Ōrauwhata: ...