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Pandora's Box 2 - Establised July 2006 - last updated 22 February 2012 (~53,000 entries)


Pandora's Box (1990-1997)

This is mostly a collection of abridged transcripts of manuscript documents held at Archives New Zealand. The intention is to increase awareness of the Wellington Office correspondence records collection. About one million letters were written to the New Zealand Government between 1840 and 1900. These are generally recorded in registers and most communities will be represented within the many thousands of letters that have survived.

Blue Books1841, 1842, 1843, 1844, 1845
Civil Secretary1848, 1849, 1850, 1851, 1852, Part 1853
Colonial Defence Office (Army Dept)1866, 1868, 1869 (begin)
Customs1864
Colonial Secretary's Office1844, 1845, 1847, 1848, 1861, 1862
Deputy Adjutant General (Army Dept) 1859-1862, 1862-1863, 1864, 1865, Part 1868
Justice 1863
Land and Survey Nelson 1851, 1852, 1853, 1854, 1855
Legislative Department 1876-1900
Marine Department 1870, 1871
Nelson Province 1857, 1858, 1859, 1860
New Munster 1844, 1848
New Munster Blue Books1849, 1851
New Zealand Company: Transfers of Land Orders 1839-1858
Pensioners Claim Act 1861 Act, Background, Claimants, John & Ann HOWLIN
Post Office Part 1888
Treasury 1856, 1857


Article: The Register Room: Mining Gems from Inwards Correspondence by Thomasin Sleigh and Heidi Kuglin
In: Genealogy Absolutely Positively 2007 Conference Proceedings


Article: Letters to the New Zealand Government 10 June 1886 by Dawn Chambers
In: Genealogical Research Institute of New Zealand (GRINZ) Yearbook 2000