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Writer: S. Carroll, Secretary, Wellington Chamber of Commerce, Wellington
Subject: Draws attention to rates of Commission charged upon Post Office Money Orders payable within the Colony
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Two enclosures attached, which are child items that have been described individually but are currently not viewable in public due to item-to-item relationship metadata issues
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R26900758
1877
Physical
Open
Enclosed: P.G. 77/1835, P.G. 77/1834.
Two enclosures attached, which are child items that have been described individually but are currently not viewable in public due to item-to-item relationship metadata issues
Wellington repository
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P.G.77/1781
No restrictions on the content.
Preservation Access Statement
Some records are protected under section 49(1)(a) of the Public Records Act 2005.
1) Access to films and audio records are subject to preservation and technical requirements.
2) Photographic negatives are not issuable due to preservation reasons.
3) Photographs require that gloves are worn when viewing.
4) Maps/plans require special handing due to their size and storage conditions. Gloves and paper weights will be provided where required.
Contact Archives New Zealand for permission to view or the availability of alternative access provisions. Viewing is by appointment only.
Research Services Archives New Zealand Head Office PO Box 12050 Wellington NEW ZEALAND
An alternative search system for Archives NZ, inspired by the beautiful simplicity of the beloved Archway system.
π How does it work?
The search results displayed here are sourced directly from the backend of Archives NZ's publicly available Collections Search system, in almost exactly the same way that the official website works, but organised and displayed differently.
To start with, you can do a straight-forward search with a few keywords and an optional date range and whether to focus on digitised items. You then have the option to filter the results futher (such as by Series and Format - photos, documents, etc).
You can highlight search keywords in the results by clicking the orange text in 'X results matching {keywords}'
The Advanced Search allows you to search with criteria such as showing only Series or Agency results, records held in a specific location, plus sorting and grouping options.
You can also browse within a Series or Accession by clicking the Series name. Search for records within that Series by using the search box on that page.
Digitised records can be viewed by clicking on the thumbnail or the 'Show Scan' links. This embeds a simple viewer directly in the page. You can switch to the official Archives NZ viewer by clicking the π Archives NZ Source link under the viewer.
Reporting by RNZ's Phil Pennington produced an internal Archives NZ report on Collections Search, describing: "Several significant issues ... slowness, a lack of booking functionality and an external user design that makes accessing archival records difficult. The level of user experience in place now is well below what was in place before the roll out". The report goes on to detail a number of privacy breaches, "continued delays by the vendor" on software improvements, and outages of 29 days in total, out of the ten months since launch.
This alternative search system aims to address some of the shortcomings of Collections Search, such as:
Only 12 search results are displayed at a time
Pages load very slowly
Full name of search result is cut off after a few words
No direct link to scanned documents
Type of record (military records, divorce files, land records, etc) and access status is not shown
It is almost impossible to browse records within a Series or Accession
π Are my searches private?
Great question! In a nutshell, your searches are visible to me, but anonymous.
Your search queries on this system are recorded in logs for a period of time, without any user-identifiable information associated with them, for debugging purposes.
I have no way of identifying you as a person, or associating your search queries with you.
This website does not use Google Analytics, Facebook Pixel, or any other analytics/tracking software.
π Who made this?
I'm Luke Howison, a freelance web developer with an interest in genealogy. I have written a few homebrew tools to assist with this research, such as NZ Ancestor Search Helper.