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                    [0] => The volumes in this series contain copies of Crown Grants issued in the Auckland Land District. The numbering of the volumes to create this series was done at the time the volumes were microfilmed in the 1970s, but the volumes themselves date from 1865 to 1893. Included in this series are the microfilmed (aperture card) copies of all of the volumes.
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                    [custom5] => Bound volumes. General Bound volumes, ranging in size from 41.0 x 31.5 x 1.6cm to 62.5 x 50.5 x 11.0cm. Many have loose or missing covers. In some instances, covers and contents have been mismatched, to the extent that they vary in size and some pages have clearly been assigned to the wrong volumes. If they have been indexed this way (in series 1143), they have been left thus; if not, the loose pages/covers have been extracted and placed where they belong (see s.18).   Numerical references on the spines of some volumes refer to their place in predecessor series, not in series 1142. White numerals or paper labels do identify the volumes' place in series 1142. Occasionally page numbers have been added or clarified by blue ballpoint: this is likely to have happened at the time of indexing (to series 1143).  
Aperture cards
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	PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION On receipt at National Archives, some volumes still had labels from their microfilming, presumably attached by the Government Printing Office. These labels have been removed, but their information is recorded on the arrangement-and-description job file for this series. Individual items a.In reasonable repair, but with particular folios needing attention: BAAZ 1142/10 fol 1 Needs repair at edges BAAZ 1142/11 fol 215 Torn, gaps BAAZ 1142/15 fol 302 Torn, gaps BAAZ 1142/17 fol 1 Torn BAAZ 1142/19 fol 1-2 Torn, "mended" with tape, lettering endangered BAAZ 1142/23 fol 1-2 Loose pages, torn, tape, top part of fol 1 missing BAAZ 1142/29 front ff Folios torn, soiled b. More severe damage: BAAZ 1142/23 Mould damage BAAZ 1142/34 Badly damaged at top edge by mould BAAZ 1142/35 Water damage at top edge BAAZ 1142/38 Both covers missing; pages at front and back torn, gaps; water damage at top of volume BAAZ 1142/39 Been put in guardbook sometime before transfer to National Archives, but volume's binding has since collapsed; pages torn c. Volume partly unused: BAAZ 1142/6 BAAZ 1142/9 BAAZ 1142/20 BAAZ 1142/29 BAAZ 1142/37
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	This is something of an artificial series created by Lands and Survey c.1977. It seems that the decision was made to microfilm these records, and that all the volumes of copies of Crown Grants that the Department knew it held were gathered together, and numbered consecutively with no regard for their existing order. This consecutive numbering formed the basis of the indexing of the volumes (in series 1143) and, presumably, the microfilming project. Volume A was found slightly later, perhaps, and therefore not numbered but included in the series with an alphabetical reference. Other volumes of Crown Grants were not then located and therefore not included: see the items processed within series 1146 and 1147.

	Not quite all the entries in this series were recorded in the index in series 1143. Cancelled grants were not indexed, and some of the loose or badly torn pages were missed. Some of the latter were also misplaced and have, where possible, been restored to their correct places. It is clear, however, that several other pages (and covers) were misplaced at the time of filming / indexing, and were indexed in those erroneous places. Such pages (and covers) have been left in those places, as such was the original order of the series. (Their correct places become clear in the inventories of their predecessor series).

	Predecessor series:

	The predecessor series for a particular volume can be determined by checking the legislation for grants within the volume. Grants under the Native Land Acts are series 1146; grants under (primarily) Waste Lands Acts or New Zealand Settlements Acts are series 1147. Items in series 1147 usually have register numbers distinct from the land registry register numbers, whereas items in series 1146 do not generally have such register numbers; but this distinction is less easy to perceive.

	Specific items:

	BAAZ 1142/27 - folio 113 is marked as missing, and is.

	BAAZ 1142/30 - includes folio 2 restored from volume 22. The relevant page of the index (BAAZ 1143/1a) is missing, so one cannot determine whether folio 2 is indexed as part of vol 30.

	BAAZ 1142/30 - register 136 folio 1 attached to cover; both cover and page are detached from the rest of the volume; it is not clear whether this page is indexed as the relevant page of BAAZ 1143/1a is missing.

	BAAZ 1142/31 - although marked on the cover, "Maori grants...", this volume actually contains grants made under the New Zealand Settlements Act, not Native Land Acts, although many of its grantees are Maori. Its predecessor series therefore is series 1147, not 1146.

	BAAZ 1142/37 - had register 133 folio 1-5 as back cover; appears not to be indexed in BAAZ 1143/1a as part of volume 37.

	BAAZ 1142/37 - folio 119 missing; noted as such in volume, probably before index (BAAZ 1143) compiled - unlikely to have been so noted by National Archives.
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            [ricClassificationDescription] => Numerical by volume number 
A note in the front of the index (series 1143) records that volume A had no number and was therefore given the reference "A" when indexed.
A pencilled note on the copy of the series appraisal sheet attached to the Auckland accession record says that the number "41" was "not used".  The accession record itself records volume 41 as "missing".  It is therefore not clear whether there ever was a volume 41 at all, but the microfilm copy suggests this is volume A.
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	Archives New Zealand, PO Box 201103, Auckland Airport, Auckland
            [seriesRestrictionReason] => 

	a.) Four volumes are badly affected by mould or water damage: BAAZ 1142/34, BAAZ 1142/35, BAAZ 1142/38 and BAAZ 1142/39. Access to these is at the discretion of the Regional Archivist, and no photocopying is permitted.

	 

	All records in the series need to be handled with care and may need special equipment. To protect the records, the method of copying will be at the discretion of Archives New Zealand.
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