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The Register Room, Archives NZ Wellington Inwards Correspondence Register transcripts (Pandora's Box II) Dates letters are received New Munster NM 1844 Complete Letters 1-420 Colonial Secretary's Office IA 1844 Complete Letters 1-2681 Civil Secretary CS 1848 Complete Letters 1-118 Civil Secretary CS 1849 Complete Letters 1-107 Civil Secretary CS 1850 In Process Letters 1-527 Deputy Adjutant General [Army Dept] AD 1859-1862 Complete Letters 1-1324 Colonial Secretary's Office IA 1861 Complete Letters 1-2743 Colonial Secretary's Office IA 1862 Complete Letters 1-2874 Deputy Adjutant General [Army Dept] AD 1862-1863 Complete Letters 1-3292 Deputy Adjutant General [Army Dept] AD 1864 Complete Letters 1-2004 Deputy Adjutant General [Army Dept] AD 1864 Complete Letters 2005-3239 Deputy Adjutant General [Army Dept] AD 1865 Complete Letters 1-217 Colonial Defence Office [Army Dept] AD 1868 Complete [in part] Letters 1-113 Travel Register [Army Dept] AD 1872 Complete [in part] Letters 172-607 [in part] - either duplicated in another register or a subsection of a wider sequence
References to letters received by Government Departments 1840-1913 Article: The Register Room: Mining Gems from Inwards Correspondence by Thomasin Sleigh and Heidi Kuglin In: Genealogy Absolutely Positively 2007 Conference Proceedings NZ Society of Genealogists Article: Letters to the New Zealand Government 10 Jun 1886: GRINZ Yearbook 2000 (Genealogical Research Institute of New Zealand) A short analysis of 98 letters written on the day of the Tarawera Eruption. Includes a general outline of how the 19th century government correspondence system worked.
Listings of volumes of some Government Departments Army, Customs, Immigration, Land, Post Office, Public Works, Registrar General's Office
Examples presented as 'wallpaper' at the 2007 NZ Society of Genealogists Conference Government Department Agency Code Year Agent-General Government Auckland AGG-A 1869-1870 Army Department AD 1879,1888-89,1894,1901 Civil Secretary CS 1848,1850,1853 Colonial Secretary's Office IA 1840-1843,1845,1847,1851,1854-1857,1869,1893,1909 Crown Lands - Secretary ABWN 8077 W5272 1858-1874 Customs Department C 1865,1883-1884,1906,1913 Electoral Department EL 1906-1907 Immigration Department IM 1871-1872,1888 Island Territories IT 1913-1914,1918-1921 Justice Department J 1858-1860,1875,1893,1896 1908-1910,1915-1918 Maori Department MA 1847-1849,1858,1914 Maori Affairs Napier MA-NA 1864-1865 Maori Trust Office MA-MT 1882,1884-1885 Marine Department M 1877,1880-1882,1892,1899 Mines Department MD 1885-1886,1890,1914 Nelson Province NP 1857 New Munster NM 1844,1846,1852 New Zealand Company NZC 1839-1841 Police P 1877,1891,1903 Post and Telegraph PO 1887,1893,1897,1902,1907,1908 Public Works W 1876,1912 Railways Rw 1878,1890 Registrar General BDM 1873,1874,1893,1900,1905,1917,1919 Treasury T 1895,1898,1904 Wellington Province WP 1865