[6][3] Devonport Borough Council resumed ownership of the library on 26 February 1954, and all subsequent iterations of local government has held jurisdiction since.

[3] In 1903, a fountain was constructed as a memorial to John Peard Mays and Harold Frankham, the two soldiers from Devonport who served and perished in the Second Boer War.

[2] The fountainhead, designed by Devonport Borough Council's architect Edward Bartley, was made of bronze and depicted three horse heads, with scallop shells in between, all within an urn.

[8] The slab was fenced and decorated with musical notes that read the beginning of "God Save the King".

[7] In 1985, the fountain was reinstated in a smaller, rounder pool and a plaque was added that recognised former Devonport mayor P. G.

[2] This fountain continues to reside on the northern-most corner of Windsor Reserve, Victoria Road and Flagstaff Terrace.

[2]Devonport's First World War memorial stands at the corner of Victoria Road and King Edward Parade, facing south towards the ferry building.

[2] He is 2.1 metres tall, standing on a Coromandel and Bluff granite base, with a rocky and irregular appearance.

Also unique about the statue is the soldier's very life-like, classically 'New Zealand' face, as many other war memorials at the time were mass produced from Italian firms and therefore 'lacked type and character'.

The statue was commissioned by Devonport residents in 1922, after lengthy discussions of what type of memorial would be suitable for the town.

There was consideration for a library, a gymnasium, a Corinthian column and an astronomical observatory at the top of Mount Victoria.

The statue was sculpted by librarian Fiona Startup and depicts the cat upon a stack of books with a plinth and an inscription below.