Portal:New Zealand

Flag of New Zealand

Legislation

Portal:Law of New Zealand

• Bill of Rights 1689
• New Zealand Institute Act 1867
• Constitution Act 1986
• Letters Patent 1983
• Head of state (Referenda) Bill
• New Zealand Bill of Rights Act 1990
• Regulatory Reform (Repeals) Act 2012

Treaties

• The Treaty of Waitangi/Te Tiriti o Waitangi (1840)
• Kellogg-Briand Treaty (1928)

General works

• God Defend New Zealand (national anthem), by John Joseph Woods
• Our New Zealand Cousins (1887) by James Inglis
• Notes on New Zealand (1892) by W E Swanton
• State Socialism in New Zealand (1911) by James Edward Le Rossignol IA
• Ka Mate (translation) by Te Rauparaha
• Canterbury Papers (1850) by Association for Founding the Settlement of Canterbury in New Zealand
• Outlines of the women's franchise movement in New Zealand (1905) by William Sidney Smith
• "New Zealand To-day," by William Pember Reeves in The Empire and the century (pp. 462−477), London: John Murray (1905)
• The Queen v Brenton Harrison Tarrant: Sentencing remarks (27 August 2020)

History

• Some Account of New Zealand (1807) by John Savage
• Progress of Discovery in the Middle Island of the New Zealand Group (1843) by George Murray
• A Narrative of the Discovery of the West Coast Gold-Fields (1869) by Reuben Waite
• Banking Under Difficulties (1888) by George Ogilvy Preshaw
• The authentic and genuine history of the signing of the Treaty of Waitangi, New Zealand, February 5 and 6, 1840 (1890) by William Colenso
• Hokitika, N.Z. (1921) by David John Evans
• The History of Addison's Flat Gold Fields (1923) by Dan Moloney
• Quartz Reefs of the West Coast Mining District, New Zealand (1928) by John Francis Downey
• Old Westland (1939) by E. Iveagh Lord
• Charleston: Its Rise and Decline (1941) by Irwin Faris

Māori Culture

• Maori Religion and Mythology (1882) by Edward Shortland
• Te Tohunga, The Ancient Legends and Traditions of the Maoris (1907) by Wilhelm Dittmer
• The Maori Division of Time (1922) by Elsdon Best

Science

• Portal:Royal Society of New Zealand

Agriculture

• Bee-Culture (2nd ed.) (1907) by Isaac Hopkins

Fauna

• "Report on the Present State of our Knowledge of the Species of Apteryx living in New Zealand" by Philip Lutley Sclater, with Ferdinand von Hochstetter in Natural History Review, Series 2, 1 (4) (1861), pp. 504–507
• An Elementary Manual of New Zealand Entomology (1892) by George Vernon Hudson
• New Zealand Moths and Butterflies (1898) by George Vernon Hudson
• The Kea: a New Zealand problem (1908) by George Reginald Marriner

Flora

• Native Flowers of New Zealand (1888) by Georgina Burne Hetley
• Manual of the New Zealand Flora (1906) by Thomas Frederick Cheeseman

Travel writing

• The Boy Travellers in Australasia (1889) by Thomas Wallace Knox
• Castaway on the Auckland Isles (1866) by Thomas Musgrave
• The Conquest of Mount Cook (1915) by Freda Du Faur
• Emerald Hours In New Zealand (1906) by Alys Lowth
• Our New Zealand Cousins (1887) by James Inglis
• Picturesque New Zealand (1913) by David Paul Gooding
• Rambles in New Zealand (1841) by John Carne Bidwill
• Through South Westland (2nd ed., 1916) by A. Maud Moreland
• With axe and rope in the New Zealand Alps (1891) by George Edward Mannering

Literature

• Brown Bread from a Colonial Oven by Blanche Edith Baughan (1912)
• Erewhon by Samuel Butler (1872)
• The Tracks We Tread by G. B. Lancaster (1907)
• The Strange Attraction by Jane Mander (1922)
• The Garden Party, and Other Stories by Katherine Mansfield (1922)

Transcription projects

To be proofread

• Index:Transactions NZ Institute Volume 11.djvu (1878)
• Index:Tales-of-Banks-Peninsula Jacobson 2ed 1893 cropped.pdf by Howard Charles Jacobson (1893)
• Index:Tussock land; a romance of New Zealand and the Commonwealth (IA tussocklandroman00adam).pdf by Arthur Henry Adams (1904)
• Index:Radio-activity.djvu by Ernest Rutherford (1905)
• Index:GB Lancaster--law-bringer.djvu by G. B. Lancaster (1914)

To be validated

• Index:A Grammar and Vocabulary of the Language of New Zealand.pdf by Thomas Kendall and Samuel Lee (1820)
• Index:Shingle-short-Baughan-1908.djvu by Blanche Edith Baughan (1908)
• Index:Not understood - and other poems (IA notunderstoodoth00braciala).pdf by Thomas Bracken (1908)
• Index:Reminiscences of Earliest Canterbury 1915.pdf by James Hay (1915)

Validated

• Index:Fairytales•Tregear•1891.pdf by Edward Robert Tregear (1891)

Encyclopedias

• "New Zealand," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911)
  • "Auckland," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911)
  • "Christchurch (New Zealand)," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911)
• "New Zealand," in The American Cyclopædia (1879)
  • "Christchurch (New Zealand)," in The American Cyclopædia (1879)
• "New Zealand," in The Nuttall Encyclopædia, (ed.) by James Wood, London: Frederick Warne and Co., Ltd. (1907)
  • "Auckland," in The Nuttall Encyclopædia, (ed.) by James Wood, London: Frederick Warne and Co., Ltd. (1907)
  • "Christchurch," in The Nuttall Encyclopædia, (ed.) by James Wood, London: Frederick Warne and Co., Ltd. (1907)
  • "Dunedin," in The Nuttall Encyclopædia, (ed.) by James Wood, London: Frederick Warne and Co., Ltd. (1907)
  • "Wellington," in The Nuttall Encyclopædia, (ed.) by James Wood, London: Frederick Warne and Co., Ltd. (1907)
• "New Zealand," by John Askew Scott in Catholic Encyclopedia, (ed.) by Charles G. Herbermann and others, New York: The Encyclopaedia Press (1913)
  • "Diocese of Auckland," by Henry William Cleary in Catholic Encyclopedia, (ed.) by Charles G. Herbermann and others, New York: The Encyclopaedia Press (1913)
  • "Diocese of Christchurch," by Henry William Cleary in Catholic Encyclopedia, (ed.) by Charles G. Herbermann and others, New York: The Encyclopaedia Press (1913)
  • "Diocese of Dunedin," by Henry William Cleary in Catholic Encyclopedia, (ed.) by Charles G. Herbermann and others, New York: The Encyclopaedia Press (1913)
  • "Archdiocese of Wellington," by John Bowden in Catholic Encyclopedia, (ed.) by Charles G. Herbermann and others, New York: The Encyclopaedia Press (1913)
• "New Zealand," in The New Student's Reference Work, Chicago: F.E. Compton and Co. (1914)
  • "Cook Islands," in The New Student's Reference Work, Chicago: F.E. Compton and Co. (1914)
• "New Zealand," in Collier's New Encyclopedia, New York: P. F. Collier & Son Co. (1921)
• "New Zealand," in The World Factbook, (ed.) by CIA (1982)
• "New Zealand," in The World Factbook, (ed.) by CIA (1990)
• "New Zealand," in CIA World Fact Book, (ed.) by CIA (2004)

Newspapers and Periodicals

Newspapers

• Marlborough Express
• New Zealand Truth

Periodicals

• Colonial Law Journal (1875)