What’s New
Digital Continuity Strategy Out Now for Consultation
Archives New Zealand is leading the development of a whole-of-government Digital Continuity Strategy. We value your help in achieving digital continuity across the New Zealand public sector and would like you to comment on the draft document.
The consultation process is your opportunity to influence how digital continuity issues will be addressed and to give voice to your suggestions and feedback on how to best manage digital content for now and for the future.
Further information on the Digital Continuity Strategy Consultation Draft can be found here.
SS1 Shipping List Repairs and Digitisation
Archives New Zealand is currently undertaking a project to digitise the Social Security passenger lists so they will be able to be accessed via the web. One component of this project is the repair work on various SS1 shipping lists in order to preserve the integrity of the documents, and ensure they can be safely digitised. The second component of the project is to capture the images so they can be indexed prior to being made accessible via the web. While we appreciate this may cause some disruption while we complete the repairs and imaging process, we will however endeavour to keep the lists out of circulation for the shortest time possible. If you have any questions regarding which lists are currently unavailable, please ask the reference desk staff. Thank you for your patience while we proceed with this vital work.
Deed of Settlement between the Crown and Taranaki Whānui — 19 August 2008
A Deed of Settlement between the Crown and Taranaki Whānui was signed this morning, 19 August 2008.
As previously advised, on Thursday 13 December 2007, the Crown signed an Agreement in Principle with the Port Nicholson Block Claims Team, who were mandated to represent Taranaki Whānui (Wellington). This represented a significant milestone for both the Crown and Taranaki Whānui (Wellington). The Agreement in Principle included a sale and leaseback mechanism on a number of properties.
Under the Deed of Settlement signed today, the Port Nicholson Block Claims Team will have up to 10 years to purchase the land on which a number of buildings that have a strong cultural association with Taranaki Whānui (Wellington) are sited. This includes the land on which Archives New Zealand’s Wellington Office is sited. The Archives New Zealand land is of special importance given its proximity to the historical Pipitea pa.
The Office of Treaty Settlements with Archives New Zealand has been involved in developing the detail of the sale and leaseback mechanism with the Port Nicholson Block Claims Team.
For further details on the Agreement visit the Office of Treaty Settlements website: http://www.ots.govt.nz
Two New Standards
We have issued two new standards for the management of government information, the Create and Maintain Standard and the Electronic Recordkeeping Metadata Standard.
Records & Archives Roadshow
Press release (
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Homecoming for Auckland records
Press release ( 178 kb)
1951 Waterfront Dispute Files Available From 27 March 2008
The 1951 Waterfront Dispute Files will be available in the Reading Room of the Wellington office of Archives New Zealand from 27 March, Archives New Zealand Chief Executive and Chief Archivist Dianne Macaskill said today.
“The files came to us from the New Zealand Security Intelligence Service earlier this month and because of the great interest in them staff have worked hard to make them accessible to the public as soon as possible,” Dianne Macaskill said.
“This involves ensuring they are accurately catalogued, arranged and described so people will be able to easily access the historical content of these significant records.
“People will need to come into the Wellington office in Mulgrave Street to see them,” Dianne Macaskill said.
More information about the records is available on Prime Minister Hon Helen Clark’s website.
Details of the records are available on Archway.
2007
Agreement in Principle between the Crown and Taranaki Whānui
On Thursday 13 December 2007, the Crown signed an Agreement in Principle with the Port Nicholson Block Claims Team, who are mandated to represent Taranaki Whānui (Wellington). This represents a significant milestone for both the Crown and Taranaki Whānui (Wellington). The Agreement in Principle includes a sale and leaseback mechanism on a number of properties.
Under the Agreement, the Port Nicholson Block Claims Team will be able to purchase the land on which a number of buildings that have a strong cultural association with Taranaki Whānui (Wellington) are sited. The organisations include Archives New Zealand’s Wellington Office, the Wellington High Court, and the National Library of New Zealand.
The offer provides Taranaki Whānui (Wellington) with a direct connection to sites which are very important to them.
The Office of Treaty Settlements is in the process of developing the detail of the sale and leaseback mechanism with the Port Nicholson Block Claims Team. As part of that process, there will be ongoing discussions with the agencies involved.
For further details on the Agreement visit the Office of Treaty Settlements website: www.ots.govt.nz
50 Years of Archives in New Zealand Celebrated
More information 
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Chief Executive’s speech (424 kb)
Archives New Zealand’s contribution to national identity
A research paper (285 kb) commissioned by Dianne Macaskill, Chief Executive & Chief Archivist, on the role of archives in forming a national identity. This paper was the basis of a presentation by Tom Norcliffe, Archivist, to Te Aronui Humanities Conference, Wellington, New Zealand, August 2007.
Early Auckland region records to return home
More information (RTF 19 kb)
Archives New Zealand opens new Auckland building
More information (294 kb)
New Zealanders at War
Press Release (16 kb)
Records from Passchendaele
Press release (37 kb)
This is New Zealand — in a Cinema Near You
Film Festival press release (37 kb)
Archives New Zealand at ARANZ Conference
Dianne Macaskill’s key note speech (357 kb)
Archives New Zealand at NZSOG Conference
More information (18 kb)
Dianne Macaskill’s key note speech (708 kb)
Media Release (18 kb)
War Art
Archives New Zealand’s WAR ART exhibition opened on Tuesday 24 April. The exhibition features 26 oil paintings from the National Collection of War Art.
This is New Zealand Remastered Film Premiere
Film Premiere Speech (100 kb)
Revised Storage Standard for Local and Central Government (2nd April 2007)
Media Release (24 kb)
Auckland Office Closure - Moving Premises
Archives New Zealand’s Auckland Office is moving to new premises at 95 Richard Pearse Drive, Mangere.
This means the following services will be unavailable from May 2007:
- written reference is unavailable from 4 May
- box sales will be unavailable from 25 May
- the reading room is closed from 25 May.
The standard Government Loans Service will be unavailable from 1 June 2007. We will make provision for extreme urgency, such as the loan of files relating to schedules legal proceedings etc. These loans will be on a charged basis. The turnaround time is likely to be three days or more.
We apologise for any inconvenience this may cause.
Full services are expected to resume at our new Mangere building on Monday 17 September 2007.
Authorisation for General Disposal Authority for District Health Boards (12 February 2007)
Media Release (38 kb)
Archive’s Erebus commemorative exhibition in final days (1 February 2007)
Media Release (23 kb)
Art at Archives
Archives New Zealand will work with young Wellingtonians to create a three-part mural to commemorate Waitangi Day 2007.
Media Release (102 kb)
Waitangi Day Poster (573 kb)
Continuum Site What’s New
Please also refer to the Continuum what’s new