{"id":14214,"date":"2025-11-10T18:17:00","date_gmt":"2025-11-10T05:17:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/cfb\/?p=14214"},"modified":"2025-11-10T18:17:00","modified_gmt":"2025-11-10T05:17:00","slug":"a-celebration-of-pauls-book-arcade-next-march","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/cfb\/a-celebration-of-pauls-book-arcade-next-march\/","title":{"rendered":"A Celebration of Paul&#8217;s Book Arcade next March"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/cfb\/files\/2025\/11\/Screenshot-2025-11-10-at-6.11.12-PM.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-14213 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/cfb\/files\/2025\/11\/Screenshot-2025-11-10-at-6.11.12-PM-180x300.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"180\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/cfb\/files\/2025\/11\/Screenshot-2025-11-10-at-6.11.12-PM-180x300.png 180w, https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/cfb\/files\/2025\/11\/Screenshot-2025-11-10-at-6.11.12-PM-90x150.png 90w, https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/cfb\/files\/2025\/11\/Screenshot-2025-11-10-at-6.11.12-PM.png 552w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 180px) 100vw, 180px\" \/><\/a>A group of enthusiasts is organising the Paul\u2019s Book Arcade 125th Anniversary on Saturday 7th March 2026. It is a celebration of the iconic Hamilton and Auckland bookshops, William Paul family, and Blackwood &amp; Janet Paul publishing.<\/p>\n<p>The main event from 10am to 4.30pm is for staff, families, customers, friends, published authors and artists, readers, researchers,<br \/>\nhistorians, architects and anyone with memories or connections.<\/p>\n<p>Venue: The Link Community Centre, St Andrew\u2019s Presbyterian Church<br \/>\n4 Te Aroha St,<br \/>\nHamilton East (on the corner of River Rd and Te Aroha St).<\/p>\n<p>Pre-paid registrations are required &#8211; now open, closing 7 Feb 2026<br \/>\nThe cost is $50 per person. Attendance is limited to 100.<\/p>\n<p>For full details, <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/cfb\/files\/2025\/11\/Screenshot-2025-11-10-at-6.11.12-PM.png\">see flyer.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A group of enthusiasts is organising the Paul\u2019s Book Arcade 125th Anniversary on Saturday 7th March 2026. It is a celebration of the iconic Hamilton and Auckland bookshops, William Paul family, and Blackwood &amp; Janet Paul publishing. The main event from 10am to 4.30pm is for staff, families, customers, friends, published authors and artists, readers, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20027,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14214","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/cfb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14214","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/cfb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/cfb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/cfb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/20027"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/cfb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14214"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/cfb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14214\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/cfb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14214"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/cfb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14214"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/cfb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14214"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}