The Beyond Amazing RaceScavenger Hunt

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Lower Hutt, Upper Hutt & Wellington City Libraries present

Visit a range of locations in search of answers to earn points. You only need a minimum of 500 points to enter the draw for some fabulous prizes!

Answer sheets can be returned at any library in the 3 cities before closing time on Sunday 23rd July to be entered into the prize draws:

Level 1: 500 – 4,499 points

Level 2: 4,500 – 8,999 points

Level 3: 9,000 points +

Instructions and Terms and Conditions

• This scavenger hunt can be completed as an individual challenge by children and teens, or as a family group.

• The hunt starts on Saturday 8th of July.

• Entries can be handed in to your local Wellington City, Hutt City or Upper Hutt City Libraries, or emailed to beyondthepage@gmail.com.

• To enter the prize draw submit this form, with your contact completed details, at any library in the 3 cities before closing time on Sunday 23rd July.

• Entries will be placed into one of three prize draws.

• Prize winners will be notified on 27th July. All decisions are final and no correspondence will be entered into. Event organisers will make reasonable attempts to contact winners. If contact cannot be made then the prize will be redrawn.

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Hard (1,000 points)

Wellington City

Visit the Wahine Memorial Park at Breaker Bay. List the items from the ship that are located there:

Challenging (500 points)

To whom is the ceramic pyramid sculpture on the top of Mt Victoria dedicated?

Visit the Katherine Mansfield Birthplace, make a rubbing of the Historic Places plaque and attach it to this form.

Visit the Wellington City Libraries website and go to the eLibrary webpage. Find the Odizzi database and log in. What are the six topics featured under the ‘Explore the World’ section?

What is the date on the old lamppost at the corner of Featherston Street and Lambton Quay?

Medium (350 points)

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Find a poem on the Wellington Writers Walk and write it down.

Visit a Wellington City Library and ask a librarian to sign or stamp here:

Easy (100 points)What’s the name of an exhibition that’s currently on at Wellington City Art Gallery?

Visit the Bolton Street Cemetery and walk to the top towards the Botanic Gardens. Which former Prime Minister of New Zealand has a large memorial located at the entrance gates there?

Find out who John Plimmer was and visit his statue in Wellington City. What words are written on the information plaque?

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Have you ever written a Haiku? Have a go at writing one below!

Visit the Beyond the Page website. List one festival event for each of the cities – Wellington City, Hutt City and Upper Hutt City.

Go to a Beyond The Page event in Wellington City. Have one of the event staff sign here:

Visit the free Museum of Wellington. What’s the name of your favourite artefact that’s on display?

Go to the Wellington City Libraries Website and visit the Kids’ Blog. What is the title of the most recent blog post?

Visit a Wellington City library and borrow a fiction book to read. List the title and author, along with the first line of the novel.

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Challenging (500 points)

Explore Horoeka Park, Stokes Valley, and count the fairy doors.

Take a torch and enter the weta tunnel at Percy’s Scenic Reserve. What is hidden at the end?

Take a walk around Hikoikoi Reserve and count the sculptures.

Hard (1,000 points)

Hutt City

In Belmont Regional Park, visit Korokoro Dam, New Zealand’s first concrete gravity dam, in use from 1903 to 1964 (access from Oakleigh Street). On the track just above the dam there are two track signs. How many directional arrows are on the two signs?

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Look at the ‘portrait gallery’ bordering the Naenae Boxing Academy, on Sladden Street. What was the professional name of the boxing champion from 29 June 1933 to 14 June 1934?

Medium (350 points)

Visit Taita’s historic Christ Church, Wellington’s oldest Church. There is a low wall at the south west corner of the grounds. What was used to construct this wall?

How many red carved posts (pou) form part of the palisade fence surrounding the Waiwhetu Marae entrance?

A memorial plaque sits by a large Wellingtonia tree outside the Belmont Hall. Who is the plaque in memory of?

Visit the Dowse Art Museum and get a special stamp.

Easy (100 points)

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Through the fence at Port Road, Seaview, you can see a number of massive oil storage tanks. Find those numbered 82, 85 and 90, and put them in order from smallest to largest.

Search the Hutt City Libraries Heritage Collection catalogue for the ladies hockey team, 1903. What was the team captain’s name?

Down the alley between 62 & 68 Queens Drive you’ll find large robot murals. What character is showing the way to Bunny Street?

Check out the information board near the duckpond at Williams Park, Days Bay. One of the photos shows an attraction which was a feature at this park in the 1910s. What collection is this photo from?

Go to a Beyond The Page event in Hutt City. Have one of the event staff sign here:

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Hard (1,000 points)

Upper Hutt City

Get a stamp at the entry of Staglands.

Challenging (500 points)

Who restored Golders Cottage and what are its opening hours?

How many prominent artists are on the Pumpkin Cottage plaque?

When was the St. Hilda’s Anglican church foundation stone laid? (clue: search by McDonalds)

HALF PRICE STAGLANDS ENTRY!Present this form at Staglands from 8 - 23 July 2017*

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*Not valid in conjunction with any other offer. Valid only on the day the form is presented.

Discount only applies to individuals and teams participating in the race.

Visit the Upper Hutt RECOLLECT website: uhcl.recollect.co.nz Find and listen to the interview with Mayor Wayne Guppy. What was the name of his barber?

Visit the former site of the Benge and Pratt building on Main Street, which is marked by a plaque. Take a rubbing of the building shown on the plaque, and attach it to this form.

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Visit the Upper Hutt City Library website and navigate to the children’s page. Find the game about learning languages and list every language you can learn in the game:

What are the rules for the Maidstone rugby/football turf?

Medium (350 points)

Go to a Beyond The Page event in Upper Hutt City. Have one of the event staff sign here:

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Easy (100 points)

Visit the Wall of Remembrance outside Upper Hutt City Council. Look at the plaque, and name all the occupations of the men who died as a result of the Benge & Pratt fire.

Get an item out from Pinehaven Library, and attach your check out slip to this form.

Find the “New Dawn” Oamaru Stone sculpture on Main Street. Who donated this piece and when?

How many people are fishing in the mural at Ebdentown?

How many gun ports does the Upper Hutt Blockhouse have?

What is number 11 on the Upper Hutt Solar Bright Board on Main Street?

Go to the Hairy Maclary exhibition at Expressions and name a book written by Lynley Dodd.

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Collect over 500 points and get your form in to your library by closing time on Sunday 23rd July to go in the prize draw!