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                    [0] => This series is made up of records of various select committees who met between 1898 - 1961. This series is incomplete. The records in this series largely relate to petitions presented to committees.
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            [id] => 18512
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            [name] => Consolidated record books of select committees
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                    [custom5] => 18 Volumes with spines measuring under 25mms
3 Volumes with spines measuring between 25-50mms
3 Archives Boxes
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                            [0] => 25429
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            [authenticityNote] => This agency description was compiled as part of a project to capture the finding aids created prior to 1987 into the GAIMS system. The agency dates are based on the dates of the Record Group holdings. The following documents from the original Record Group binders have not been captured in Collections: A 'Location List' that connects the Paper number (in year/number format) with a box number. A Copy of 'Notes: Unpublished Parliamentary Papers, a comment on untapped source material on New Zealand history' from the 'NZ Journal of History' April 1967. A list of files not transferred but not to be destroyed. A document written by Archives New Zealand called 'Making sense of Parliamentary Papers.' This is a finding aid to the LE1 series with step by step instructions on what can be found in LE1 and how to locate different types of holdings. Notes made by the transferring archivist regarding the organisation and completeness of the Legislative Department records. A copy of AJHR H-28 "Records of the House of Representatives: Memorandum addressed to the Hon. the Speaker." Notes on the sources of minutes of the Legislative Council of New Zealand, including New Munster and New Ulster Legislative Councils.
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                    [normalizedValue] => 1898-01-01T00:00:00.0Z
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This series is made up of record books created by various Select Committees which met between 1898 - 1961. This series is incomplete, and there may be some gaps. The records in this series largely relate to petitions presented to the committees, and include information such as the name of the petitioner and the presenter, the recommendations of the committee, and the date that the petition was tabled in the House.The indexes in this series are usually by surname of the petitioner, although the Maori Affairs Committee record books are sometimes also  indexed by the name of the block of land in question.
Other records relating to Select Committees can be found in series 18507, "Papers of the Houses of Parliament, arranged on a yearly system."
The Committees that are represented in this series are:
Defence
Goldfields and Mines
Industries and Commerce
Lands
Local Bills
Maori Affairs
Public Accounts
Public Petitions
These Record Books contain different quality and amounts of information.
 
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                            [name] => Wellington repository
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            [ricClassificationDescription] => Lexicographical - The material in this series is divided up under the name of the creating committee. 
Chronological - Within committee, the minute books books are organised by date.

Only the Defence and Maori Affairs Committee records have indexes attached, and these do not cover the entire period described by the records.
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