Post researched and written by Scott Campbell, Collections Assistant On 21 November 1997, representatives of Te Rūnanga o Ngāi Tahu and the Crown gathered at Takahanga Marae in Kaikōura to sign the Ngāi Tahu Deed of Settlement. A copy of the Deed of Settlement occupies a good foot of shelf space in the Hocken’s publications […]

While we are all pondering who to vote for in the upcoming local body elections, by-laws from a city’s past can provide an interesting, curious and sometimes amusing glimpse into the way things once were.   Common sense underlines many, but one can’t help but wonder if there was a story behind the origin of others. […]

Hurray for the digital world – two announcements that will make life easier for researchers, one available now and one to come.The NZ Electronic Text Centre has announced the Journal of the Nelson Historical Society is now available online http://www.nzetc.org/tm/scholarly/tei-corpus-nhsj.html and the Parliamentary Counsel Office is initiating a programme to digitise historical NZ Acts, from […]