Original birth records - Dannevirke 1918

[SpudKiwi]

Thank you Alan, you've been amazing.

[Fresh Fields]

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A bit discouraged at the amount of hoops it looks I may have to jump through.

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Don't let the reading room put you off. Easy located with usually about six off street car parking spaces. Just a little way to walk to the front door.  Alan

[Fresh Fields]

Hello again.

This week I enquired at the public reading room counter, about the original B. D. & M., records that were registered with the local Governmental agency, throughout the country, 100 + years ago. (Court Houses and Post Offices etc.)

I was informed that; yes the Archives NZ branches do hold original registers (& some local area compilations) from which the Department of Internal Affairs compiled their national record at Wellington; but since the introduction of new legislation, to greater protect from identity theft, even “historic” (100+ years) records are deemed “restricted” and the public are denied access.

Hence the RESTRICTION DOES NOT EXPIRE notation.

The archivist stated that occasionally, to her knowledge, the Registrar-General has requested Auckland branch ARCHIVES staff to look up, and produce a reproduction of an entry for Internal Affairs, but they have never processed a permission granted by the Registrar-General, for a member of the public, to be able to gain access to witness an entry therein.

I am therefore very lucky that I chose to pay to witness such entries therein, back in the 1980’s when I looked up records at Auckland B. D. & M., Ngaruawahia Post Office, Hamilton Court, and Cambridge Post Office.

Any redress therefore appears to be with/through dialogue with the Registrar General, B D & M, Department of Internal Affairs, Wellington.

Alan.

[SpudKiwi]

Hi Alan,

That news is most dire, but thank you so much for taking the time to find that out for me.