New Zealand Gazette

The official newspaper of record for the New Zealand Government, from 1840 to the present day.

General notes:

For most of the Gazette's timeline, there were three types of issue:

  • Ordinary editions
  • Supplements to the ordinary editions (these usually concerned a specific topic)
  • Extraordinary editions (often a time-sensitive announcement of some kind)

From the 1980s there were additional types:

  • Special editions (basically Extraordinary editions)
  • Customs Editions
  • Commercial editions
  • Trade and Industry editions
  • Professional & Trade Lists (eg, registers of teachers)

Issue numbers

  • Issues are numbered from No. 1 in January each year, and are in chronological order.

Page numbers

  • within each year, page numbers are continuous between issues (until 2014)
  • in early issues, the first page (with the masthead) usually omits the page number, so it must be inferred from subsequent pages.
  • page numbering generally includes blank pages at the end of the issue. For example, a one-page issue might have pages 10 and 11 (a blank page) with the next issue starting at page 12.

Publishing Timeline

Year Event
1840 Gazette Extraordinary published (one issue, 30 December)
1841 New Zealand Government Gazette first published (No. 1, 7 July)
1847 The Gazette is split into two provincial editions: Province of New Ulster (top half od North Island) and Province of New Munster (Wellington and South Island).
1853 The two provincial editions are recombined as the New Zealand Government Gazette.
1857 Name changed to The New Zealand Gazette (No. 27, 23 September)
2014 Last traditional printed edition (No. 127, 16 October). A digital-only version published weekly on Thursdays, with non-continuous page numbers.
2017 Last digital-only weekly issue (No. 107, 26 October). Notices are now posted continuously online

Missing Issues

Year Issue No Notes Page numbers
1853 all issues
1854 13 late May 55-62
1854 23 late August 117-122
1857 34, 35 late December 199-206
1877 1 not in NatLib bound volume 1-10
1985 75 Possibly a Supplement to 26 Apr 1944 ?

Skipped Issue Numbers

It appears some issue numbers were skipped or omitted

Year Issue No Notes
1843 43 No missing page numbers - possibly never printed
1845 24 No missing page numbers - possibly never printed
1873 55 No missing page numbers - possibly never printed
1878 45 No missing page numbers - possibly never printed
1879 75 Probably mis-numbered - there is a No. 74 and a No. 74 (Extraordinary), which has incorrect page numbers
1881 90 No missing page numbers - possibly never printed
1988 215, 216 "GOVERNMENT PRINTER ADVISED THAT GAZETTES 215, 216 AND 217 WERE NOT PRINTED" (but 217 was printed!)

More information

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Zealand_Gazette

https://gazette.govt.nz

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New Zealand Gazette Statistics

172

Years Covered

18,830

Issues Processed

473,391

Pages Transcribed

8,002,571

Names Identified

2,087,093

Unique Names

1,466,668

Named Officials

95,298

Unique Officials