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                    [0] => This series includes the correspondence of the Inspector of Police, some of the correspondence, reports and school registers from the Office of the Inspector of Schools, and the minute book of the Ahuriri Settlers' Association.
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            [name] => Correspondence and papers of various provincial officials and organisations
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            [authenticityNote] => This series description was compiled as part of a project to capture the finding aids created prior to 1987 into the GAIMS system. The dates of the series are based on the dates of holdings.

NB: These records were formally Record Group series HB11.

For the records of the Provincial Engineer and Surveyor, see Record Group agency W-NA.

For the records of the Commissioner of Crown Lands and the Receiver of Land Revenue, see Record Group agency LS-NA.

Provenance:
The records were stored in an attic of the old Provincial Council chambers in Napier until 1900, when they were sent to the Colonial Secretary's Department. They were inventoried c. 1907 and some of the archives were subsequently disposed of.  Some were sent to the Commissioner of Crown Lands at Napier, some of the printed papers were sent to the Government Printer for distribution, and some were destroyed. 

The remaining archives were moved to the Police Headquarters Building in 1911 when water damage was discovered. In 1919 they were reorganised and re-listed. A comparison of this and the earlier inventory show that some further records may have been lost.

Both inventories actually covered the records of three agencies - the Hawke's Bay Provincial Government, the Agent for the General Government at Hawke's Bay and the earlier archives of the Commissioner of Crown Lands at Napier. These had probably been stored together in the Provincial Council chambers and were intermingled to some extent. 

The papers were transferred to the Archives c. 1946 and the three groups were separated.  The arrangement of the record groups followed their original arrangement as closely as possible, but in cases where the papers were completely confused or where they had lost all trace of their old order, new series and groupings were made.

For full details see  "National Archives Preliminary Inventory No.6"
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This series includes the correspondence of the Inspector of Police, 1861-1862, some of the correspondence, reports and school registers from the Office of the Inspector of Schools, 1857-1874, and the minute book of the Ahuriri Settlers' Association, which was the body which led the agitation for the separation of Hawke's Bay from Wellington province.
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