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This is the soc.culture.new-zealand list of Frequently Asked Questions, and
some hopefully useful answers.
It should be possible to find the latest edition of this FAQ at:
ftp://rtfm.mit.edu/pub/usenet/news.answers/new-zealand-faq
*** PLEASE DON'T E-MAIL CONTRIBUTIONS TO ME ***
*** E-mailed contributions will NOT be included ***
*** E-mailed requests/questions will NOT be answered ***
*** Replies to this message go back into the newsgroup ***
I am NOT here to supply information on request or research obscure topics.
I merely compile the information from the newsgroup and add whatever I
think may be useful or relevant. If you really can't look something up for
yourself, *ask in the newsgroup*!
Like many people in New Zealand (and some other parts of the world) I pay
for my e-mail by volume, both incoming and outgoing. E-mailing a request
to someone you don't know without an invitation is often NOT appreciated.
I very seldom respond to such mail. It particularly annoys me to receive
requests for information which is in the faq...
Contributions and comments are welcomed, but PLEASE POST THEM to s.c.n-z so
that others can comment on their accuracy/relevance. If you quote bits of
the faq for context, please keep it to a minimum.
Thanks.
I correct and amend the FAQ as information and time come to hand and post
it on the tenth of each month. The subject line on the FAQ and the weekly
reminder will be constant for the convenience of those who wish to killfile
them.
Hopefully this FAQ will reduce the number of requests from people who want
to know all about NZ but can't be bothered finding a NZ embassy or travel
agent or want all replies by mail 'because they don't read this group very
often...'.
My thanks to the contributors (listed at the end of section 2) without whom
I couldn't (and wouldn't) have compiled this. Please remember that most of
this stuff is quoted so I may not be to blame for factual errors! :-)
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CONTENTS
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INTRODUCTION: History of soc.culture.new-zealand
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PART A: INFO SOURCES
A1 HOW TO FIND NZers AND INFORMATION ABOUT NZ
A1.1 On The Net
A1.2 Elsewhere
A1.2.1 Overseas Offices of the NZ Tourism Board
A1.2.2 Traditional sources (libraries, newspapers, etc.)
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A2 INFORMATION FOR NZers OVERSEAS
A2.1 NZ Consulates/Embassies Overseas
A2.2 How Do I Get News From Home?
A2.3 Expatriate Organisations?
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A3 INTERNET ACCESS WITHIN NZ
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PART B: FACTS AND FIGURES
B1 THE COUNTRY
B1.1 Where Is NZ?
B1.1.1 General
B1.1.2 Statistics
B1.1.3 Dependencies
B1.1.4 Time Zones
B1.2 The Landscape
B1.2.1 General
B1.2.2 Miscellaneous Figures
B1.2.3 Flora and Fauna
B1.2.4 Climate
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B2 THE PEOPLE
B2.1 A Short History
B2.2 Maoritanga
B2.2.1 The Moriori Question
B2.2.2 Guide to Maori pronunciation
B2.3 Demography
B2.3.1 General
B2.3.2 Major Cities
B2.3.3 Age Distribution
B2.3.4 Ethnicity
B2.3.5 Official Languages
B2.3.6 Religions
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B3 LIFE IN NEW ZEALAND
B3.1 The Political Scene
B3.1.1 Why 'New Zealand'
B3.1.2 Constitution
B3.1.3 Form of Government
B3.1.4 The Justice System
B3.1.5 Organisation Membership
B3.2 Economy
B3.2.1 Defence Against Silly Questions
B3.2.2 Current Status
B3.2.3 Currency
B3.2.4 Stockmarket
B3.2.5 Interest Rates
B3.2.6 Taxes
B3.2.7 Miscellaneous Prices
B3.3 Life In General
B3.3.1 Business Hours
B3.3.2 Tipping
B3.3.3 Cost of Living
B3.3.3.1 Rent
B3.3.3.2 Wages
B3.3.3.3 Transport
B3.3.3.4 Food
B3.3.3.5 Consumer goods
B3.3.4 Crime
B3.3.5 Finding a job
B3.3.6 Schools and Education
B3.3.7 Universities
B3.3.7.1 Teaching focus
B3.3.7.2 Addresses
B3.3.7.3 The University Hierarchy
B3.3.7.4 Postgrad Study
B3.3.8 Health
B3.3.8.1 Water Supply
B3.3.9 Communications
B3.3.10 Misc
B3.4 Holidays
B3.4.1 National
B3.4.2 Regional
B3.5 Technical Stuff
B3.5.1 Electricity
B3.5.2 TV info
B3.5.3 Video Conversion
B3.5.4 Bringing Computers In
B3.5.5 Telephone
B3.5.6 Radio
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B4 COMING TO NEW ZEALAND
B4.1 Travel To NZ
B4.1.1 Travel Details
B4.1.2 Agricultural Restrictions
B4.1.2.1 Animal Quarantine
B4.1.3 Overseas Embassies in NZ
B4.2 Immigration Stuff, Points System
B4.2.1 Assessment for the General Category
B4.2.2 Employability
B4.2.3 Work Experience
B4.2.4 Age
B4.2.5 Settlement Factors
B4.2.6 Business Investment Category
B4.2.7 Importing a Car
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B5 TRAVEL WITHIN NZ
B5.1 Info Sources
B5.1.1 Tourism Board
B5.1.2 Maps
B5.2 Accommodation
B5.2.1 Youth Hostel Association
B5.2.2 Backpackers
B5.3 Transport
B5.3.1 Cycling/Sea kayaking
B5.3.2 Hitchhiking
B5.3.3 Renting a car/campervan
B5.3.4 Train Services
B5.3.5 Cook Strait Ferry
B5.3.6 Coach Travel
B5.3.7 Driving
B5.3.8 Commercial Tours
B5.3.9 Flying
B5.4 Misc Info
B5.4.1 Film Developing
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B6 MAP OF NEW ZEALAND
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B7 CONTRIBUTORS
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PART C: THE SUBJECTIVE BITS
C1 DEFINITION OF 'KIWI'
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C2 DESCRIPTIONS OF NZ CITIES
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C3 HOLIDAYING IN NZ
C3.1 Places
C3.1.1 Parks and Tracks
C3.1.2 Beaches, etc.
C3.1.3 Distinctive Features
C3.1.4 Archaeology/Historical/Heritage Sites
C3.1.5 Places To Go To
C3.1.6 Places To Avoid
C3.1.7 Temporary Attractions
C3.2 Activities
C3.2.1 Tramping
C3.2.2 Skiing
C3.2.3 Climbing/mountaineering
C3.2.4 Watersports
C3.2.5 Whale/Dolphin Watching
C3.2.6 Pubs To Go To/Nightlife
C3.2.7 Anything Else????
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C4 GENERAL CULTURE
C4.1 Sport
C4.1.1 Why do New Zealander Sportspeople Wear Black?
C4.2 Food
C4.2.1 What is Vegemite/Marmite?
C4.2.2 Pavlova recipe
C4.2.3 The Edmonds Cook Book
C4.2.4 Laying A Hangi
C4.3 National Anthems
C4.4 The Gumboot Song
C4.5 Some Works by NZ Authors
C4.6 Other Bits
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C5 FAMOUS NEW ZEALANDERS
C5.1 Cinema
C5.1.1 Films
C5.1.2 People
C5.2 Music
C5.2.1 Pop/rock bands
C5.2.2 Blues
C5.2.3 Country
C5.2.4 Classical
C5.3 Literature
C5.4 Fine Art
C5.5 Humour
C5.6 Other...
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INTRODUCTION: History of soc.culture.new-zealand
The only record I have of the history of soc.culture.new-zealand is this
copy of the CFD, kindly passed on through various people. It appears the
archives of the original material may have been lost, and as this is a
repost (of sorts) I'm not sure how any of the details relate to the
original.
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Newsgroups: news.announce.newgroups,soc.culture.australian,
soc.culture.british,soc.culture.celtic,soc.culture.misc,nz.general
From: gcwillia@daisy.waterloo.edu (Graeme Williams)
Subject: CFD: soc.culture.new-zealand
Date: 25 Feb 91 04:41:44 GMT
[ I have the rest of the header if it'd be useful ]
Z*******Z******* CFD: A New Zealand culture group *******Z*******Z
This is a call for a discussion regarding the creation of a new
newsgroup devoted to "New Zealand culture". Here is what I propose:
NAME: This will need to be decided on, several suggestions are:
soc.culture.newzealand
soc.culture.aoteoroa
soc.culture.kiwi
soc.culture.nz
MODERATION STATUS: The group would be unmoderated.
CHARTER:
The group will provide a forum for discussion of topics
related to New Zealand. In particular such things as:
News, politics, Maori and Pacific Island culture, music, sport,
events, films, telly, jobs, farming, the enviroment, economics,
tourism, places to see, trade, education, bungy jumping, pavlovas,
the Goodnight Kiwi and Wal and the dog in Footrot Flats.
In short anything and everything Kiwi, or related to NZ.
Contributions and queries from people other than New Zealanders
will also be most welcome.
COMMENTS:
I have had rather a lot of positive feedback via email regarding
the creation of this group, some very enthusiastic. What I would
like to see now is some discussion on the net amongst the various
people interested. In particular we will need to decide on a name
for the group.
I have set the Followup-to: field to news.groups so all discussion
regarding this proposal should take place there.
So, if you're interested and don't subscribe to news.groups, SUBSCRIBE
to it NOW! I want to hear publicly from all you Kiwis (and others
interested) scattered few and far between all over the globe. Shake
off the traditional Kiwi apathy cos "she'll be right" won't work
here on the net. Get those fingers typing and tell us what you think.
Cheers,
Graeme Williams - a Kiwi in Canada
gcwillia@daisy.waterloo.edu
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That's it. Any comments or contributions to this introduction would be
appreciated. Please post as usual...
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PART A
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Subject: A1 HOW TO FIND NZers AND INFORMATION ABOUT NZ
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Subject: A1.1 On The Net
Anyone searching for people in NZ might like to try searching the online
telephone directory first. Try pointing your Web browser at:
http://tdl.tols.co.nz/cgi-bin/wmain.pl
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Follow this newsgroup! You might also want to investigate the nz.* groups
(if they are available to you) particularly nz.general. Corrections for
any of these addresses would be appreciated.
The faq is available from numerous sites, including:
ftp site: ftp.demon.co.uk
dir: /pub/ibmpc/misc
including the internet access faq and immigration eligibility software.
For those who want to know who is able to be contacted in New Zealand, Mark
Davies of Victoria University has put the list of New Zealand Internet
connected sites on the web at:
http://www.comp.vuw.ac.nz/~mark/netsites.html
Other info about NZ is available via WWW from:
Michael Witbrock's NZ pages at http://nz.com/
eg. http://nz.com/nz/NZNewsArchive/
and http://nz.com/nz/MainPage.html/
and Sam Sampson says:
"We now have Stewart Island Pages on the akika tour of nz. Site is:
http://nz.com/tour/Stewart Island/
and
Philip Greenspun's file (illustrated with 25 JPEG photos):
http://www-swiss.ai.mit.edu/philg/travel/
then click on "email from New Zealand" and all the old stuff is there.
and
Jennifer George's pages:
Obscurities/infrequently asked questions;
http://www-leland.stanford.edu/~jmgeorge/ifaq.html
and home page
http://www-leland.stanford.edu/~jmgeorge/nz.html
and
Pat Cain's ftp site/web page:
http://www.dosli.govt.nz/lists
ftp://ftp.dosli.govt.nz/pub/lists
including the Internet Access in NZ FAQ, Tony Sutorius' NZ Internet Typical
User Profiles FAQ and BBS Listings for Auckland, Waikato, Manawatu,
Wellington and Christchurch.
and
David Lobb's site:
http://www.tricky.com/davelobb.html
and
Jon Clarke's site:
http://air.com.hk/~jonc
Library sites throughout NZ.
National Library of New Zealand:
http://www.natlib.govt.nz/
Email: visitors@natlib.govt.nz
New Zealand Library Catalogues:
http://www.canterbury.ac.nz/libr/nzopac.htm
New Zealand Library and Information Association:
http://www.netlink.co.nz/~nzlia/
which gives details of the organisation, and links to related sites.
Canterbury Public Library:
http://www.ccc.govt.nz/Library/
University of Auckland:
http://www.auckland.ac.nz/lbr/libhomehtm
University of Waikato:
http://www2.waikato.ac.nz/library/
Victoria University of Wellington:
http://www.vuw.ac.nz/library/
University of Canterbury:
http://www.canterbury.ac.nz/libr/home.htm
Lincoln University:
http://www.lincoln.ac.nz/libr/libhome.htm
http://www.lincoln.ac.nz/libr/nz/
and their alphabetical list of NZ WWW Home Pages at:
http://www.lincoln.ac.nz/libr/nz/nzalpha.htm
University of Otago:
http://librius.otago.ac.nz:800/home-page.html
Library servers on the web:
http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/Libweb/
http://www.lib.ncsu.edu/staff/morgan/alcuin/wwwed-catalogs.html
Other sites:
http://133.30.120.10:10080/=@=:www.ntt.jp/AP/oceania.html
http://archpropplan.auckland.ac.nz/misc/sources9.html
http://charm.wcc.govt.nz/extern/kennett/homepage.htm
http://icair.iac.org.nz/nz/tourism/index.html
http://liber.stanford.edu/~torrie/
http://pluto.taranaki.ac.nz/pukeiti/locus.html
http://pluto.taranaki.ac.nz/tourism/welcome.html
http://www.actrix.gen.nz/general/nz-faq.html
http://www.actrix.gen.nz/users/jbarton/index.html
http://www.gphs.vuw.ac.nz:80/meteorology/meteorology.html
http://www.govt.nz/ps/min/stats
http://www.indirect.com/www/richardk/NZgraphic.html
http://www.iol.ie/~saris/bpguide.html
http://www.nzso.co.nz/
http://www.pncc.govt.nz/
http://www.rsnz.govt.nz/
http://www.rsnz.govt.nz/cgi-bin/news?rsnz/news
http://www.tricky.com/davelobb.html
http://www3.waikato.ac.nz/waitomo/index.html
A list of newspaper sites is at the end of section 1.2.2.
The Wizard of New Zealand (also known as the Wizard of Christchurch) is
pleased to announce that he will shortly reveal his master plans on a WWW
homepage. Comments welcome to:
http://www.chch.planet.org.nz/wizard.html
For the ftp and WWW challenged; to get the FAQ (or any of the other WWW
files mentioned), in ASCII form, send email to:
listserv@info.cern.ch
with the body of the message reading
www http://the.URL.you.want
A message to the same address containing only the 'word' WWW will give you
some useful help and other options, such as retrieving batches of files
and/or pictures, etc.
Also, a recent copy may be obtained by mailing a request to Mark Moir
(moir@cs.unc.edu) and asking very nicely.
Also, try Gopher:
gopher://gopher.wcc.govt.nz/ (The Wellington City Council)
A quick check of gopherspace used to tell you all you never needed to know
about someone but it appears that Lincoln and Waikato both intend to phase
out their gopher servers. Some universities have a database of email
addresses available. Try:
www..ac.nz
or
http://www.comp.vuw.ac.nz/Technical/x500nzquery.html.
or
http://nz.com/NZ/EducationResearch/Universities.html
which will send you to home pages (and all sorts of info including snail
mail) of universities in NZ.
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Subject: A1.2 Elsewhere
A1.2.1 Overseas Offices Of The New Zealand Tourism Board
AUSTRALIA
SYDNEY:
Prudential Finance House,
84 Pitt Street,
NSW 2000
Ph (02) 231 1322, 221 7333
GP Box 614,2100 Sydney
BRISBANE:
Ground Floor, 288 Edwards St
GPO 2634, Brisbane, Queensland 4001
Ph (00617) 221 3176
Fax (00617) 221 7289
MELBOURNE:
Level 19 Comco Office Tower
644 Chapel Street, South Yarra
Melbourne
Victoria
Ph (00613) 823 6283
BRITAIN
LONDON:
New Zealand House,
Haymarket,
SW1Y4TQ
Ph (071) 973 0363
EUROPE
FRANKFURT:
6000 Frankfurt am Main 1,
Kaiserhofstrasse,
Ph (069) 288 189
Fax (069) 281 482
JAPAN
TOKYO:
Toho Twin tower Building,
2nd Floor,
1-5-2 Yurakucho C
Hiyoda-ku 100
Ph (03) 508-9981
PAN-ASIA
SINGAPORE:
13 Nassam Rd,
Singapore 1025
Ph 2359966
HONG KONG:
3414 Jardine House,
1 Connaught Place,
Central
Ph (05) 255 044
UNITED STATES
LOS ANGELES:
501 Santa Monica Blvd 300,
Santa Monica CA 90401
Ph 1 800 3885494
Fax (310) 395 5453
NEW YORK:
Suite 1206,
432 Park Avenue South,
New York, NY 10016
Ph (001212) 447 0550
Fax (001212) 447 0558
CANADA
VANCOUVER:
1200 - 888 Dunsmuir Street,
Vancouver, B.C., V6C 3K4
ph (604) 684-2117
fax (604) 684-1265
Air New Zealand also has offices at 1250 - 888 Dunsmuir Street
ph (604) 640-4600
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A1.2.2 Traditional Sources (libraries, newspapers, etc.)
Check libraries, travel agents, embassies, consulates. Year books,
almanacs, census data(?) etc. are all usually available.
The Lonely Planet guide has been described as 'very helpful'.
The following book has been suggested as a useful source of information:
New Zealand - a travel survival kit
by Tony Wheeler
published by Lonely Planet Publications
The following CD is available:
New Zealand Encyclopedia (TVNZ): An encyclopedia of NZ that covers lots of
different areas. Over 1200 illustrations, 20 maps, over 20 minutes of
videos (1994 version).
Available from:
The Electric Book Co.
PO Box 34-422
Auckland 10
New Zealand
Ph/fax 64-9-4159343
If all else fails, try the:
Auckland Information Bureau/Auckland Information Centre
Aotea Sq
299 Queen St
PO Box 7048
Auckland 1
Phone 366 6888
Fax 366 6893? 358 4648? (Hey Lin! Which of these is right???)
Wellington Info Centre
Phone 801 4000
Fax 801 3030
Wellington is included because if you know how to send a fax via e-mail,
use Wellington's fax number. They probably can't email you back.
Christchurch Info Centre
Phone 379 9629
Fax 377 2424
Lincoln University library keeps (or kept?) a list of all the NZ
magazines/newspapers at:
http://manuka.lincoln.ac.nz/libr/nz/nzserial.htm
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Newspaper Contact Information
New Zealand Major Daily Newspapers: (>25,000 Circulation)
Newspaper Postal Box City Circulation
Phone Mngmnt Fax Editorial Fax
New Zealand Herald (M) PO Box 32 Auckland 238,000
09/379-5050 09/303-0265 09/366-1568
Otago Daily Times (M) PO Box 181 Dunedin 48,000
03/477-4760 03/477-5120 03/477-1313
The Daily News PO Box 444 New Plymouth 29,000
06/758-0559 06/758-4653 06/758-6849
The Dominion (M) PO Box 3740 Wellington 67,000
04/474-0222 09/474-0584 04/474-0350
The Evening Post (M) PO Box 3740 Wellington 69,000
04/474-0222 04/474-0584 04/474-0237
The Press (M) Private Bag Christchurch 100,000
03/379-0940 03/364-8496 04/364-8492
The Southland Times PO Box 805 Invercargill 33,000
03/218-1909 03/218-4349 03/214-9905
Waikato Times Private Bag 3086 Hamilton 41,000
07/849-6180 07/849-9554 07/849-9603
New Zealand Other Daily Newspapers: (<25,000 Circulation)
Newspaper Postal Box City Circulation
Phone Mngmnt Fax Editorial Fax
Ashburton Guardian PO Box 77 Ashburton 6,300
03/308-3089 03/308-9855
Bay of Plenty Times Private Bag Tauranga 21,000
07/578-3059 07/578-0047
Daily Post PO Box 1442 Rotorua 13,000
07/348-6199 07/349-0959 07/346-0153
Evening News PO Box 92 Dannevirke 2,700
06/374-7081 06/374-9353
Evening Standard PO Box 3 Palmerston North 24,000
06/356-9009 06/350-9525 06/357-6316
Evening Star PO Box 3 Greymouth 5,600
03/768-7121 03/768-6205
Hawkes Bay Herald Tribune PO Box 180 Hastings 20,000
06/878-5155 06/876-0655 06/878-5668
Northland Times PO Box 96 Dargaville 2,900
09/439-8209 09/439-6505
Te Awamutu Courier PO Box 1 Te Awamutu ?
07/871-5151 07/871-3675
The Daily Telegraph PO Box 343 Napier 16,000
06/835-4488 06/835-6786 06/835-1129
The Ensign PO Box 182 Gore ?
03/208-9280 03/208-9594
The Gisborne Herald PO Box 1143 Gisborne 9,700
06/868-6655 06/867-8048
The Levin Chronicle PO Box 547 Levin 6,400
06/368-5109 06/368-2366
The Nelson Mail PO Box 244 Nelson 19,000
03/548-7079 03/546-2849 03/546-2802
The Northern Advocate PO Box 210 Whangarei 15,000
09/438-2399 09/430-5669 09/430-5665
The Oamaru Mail PO Box 343 Oamaru ?
03/434-9970 03/434-9723
The Timaru Herald PO Box 46 Timaru 15,000
03/684-4129 03/688-1042
Wairarapa Times-Age PO Box 445 Masterton 9,100
06/378-9999 06/378-2839 06/378-2371
Wairoa Star PO Box 41 Wairoa ?
06/838-7194 06/838-6973
Wanganui Chronicle PO Box 433 Wanganui 15,000
06/345-3919 06/345-3232
Westport News PO Box 249 Westport 2,200
03/789-7319 03/789-7203
New Zealand Non-daily Newspapers:
Newspaper Postal Box City Circulation
Phone Mngmnt Fax Editorial Fax
Clutha Leader (N) PO Box 45 Balclutha 2,500
03/418-1115 03/418-1173
Marlborough Express (N) PO Box 242 Blenheim 10,000
03/578-6059 03/577-6006 03/578-0497
National Business Review* (W) PO Box 1734 Auckland 13,000
09/307-1629 09/373-3997
Northern News (W) PO Box 1 Kaikohe ?
09/401-0123 09/401-2129
Sunday News* (W) PO Box 1409 Auckland 119,000
09/302-1300 09/366-4670 09/358-3003
Sunday Star-Times* (W) PO Box 1409 Auckland 195,000
09/302-1300 09/366-4670 09/309-0258
The Independent* (W) 17 Victoria St West Auckland 10,000
09/303-3534 09/303-2999
The New Truth* (W) PO Box 1409 Auckland 35,000
09/302-1300 09/366-4670 09/309-2279
Whakatane Beacon (N) PO Box 243 Whakatane 8,600
07/308-8129 07/307-0719
Type Note: Provincial Daily unless: (M) Metropolitian Daily
(N) Non-Daily (ie. 2-5 times/week)
(W) Weekly
Distrubution Note: * = Nationwide Circulation
The above information was kindly supplied by the NZPA & INL via Tony Randle
For further information, please contact the NZPA.
Phone: 04/472-7910
Facsimile: 04/478-1625
Postal Address PO Box 1599, Wellington
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Email addresses (some may be EMail to fax gateways).
The owner of most of the above newspapers, INL has the site
http://www.inl.co.nz
http://www.inl.co.nz/websites.html
Waikato Times http://www.wave.co.nz/times/
The Dominion http://www.infotech.co.nz (the weekly computer section)
The Evening Post http://www.evpost.co.nz/ (empty page still?)
The Press http://www.press.co.nz
Otago Daily Times (a domain name registered but inoperative as yet)
also
http://nz.com/nz/NZNewsArchive/
http://nz.com/NetEdit/
http://nz.com/NZ/Commerce/NetEdit/VOICE.HTM
http://nz.com/webnz/
Above and beyond all this, apparently you can read newspapers all over the
world at:
http://www.worldaccess.nl/~brien
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Subject: A2 INFORMATION FOR NZers OVERSEAS
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Subject: A2.1 NZ Consulates/Embassies Overseas
Chase up a phone book. There are embassies and consulates all over the
place. In countries where there are no New Zealand representatives, the UK
representatives usually look after the interests of NZ nationals by
agreement.
For callers in the U.S. the New Zealand Tourism Board has a 24 hour number;
1-800-388-5494. Leave your name, address and particular interests and lots
of free information on New Zealand will be mailed to you. During regular
California business hours it might even be possible to get a real person on
the line.
New Zealand Embassy in Haymarket (UK):
phone:
0171-930 8422
0891-200 288
0171-973 0366
0171-973 0368
New Zealand Embassy in Washington D. C.:
37 Observatory Circle, N. W.
Washington, D. C. 20008
Phone: (202) 328-4800
(Is this place open?)
NZ Embassy
Suite 1206,
432 Park Avenue South,
New York, NY 10016
Phone: (212) 447 0550
Fax: (212) 447 0558
TRADENZ
NZ Consulate General
NZ Tourist Board
780 Third Avenue, Suite 1904
New York, NY 10017-2024
Phone: (212) 832-8482
Fax: (212) 832-7602
They opened a couple of months ago. The NZ Tourism Board office at the
same address has been open for business (to travel agents only) for several
years. The office hopes to have full consular capacity "shortly".
Currently it gives advice, dispenses forms and "aids distressed travelling
Kiwis". The East Coast Manager is Anna Synolt and Peter MacDonald
(pmac@pipeline.com.us) heads the office.
There's a new e-mail address for the New York NZ Consulate/TRADENZ et al.:
tradenz@pipeline.com
It should be noted that the NY NZ Consulate only answers questions and
distributes forms. All processing - issuing visas, renewing passports etc.
- is performed at the Washington DC High Commission. The NY NZ Tourist
Board deals only with travel agents etc. and will not answer questions from
individuals.
The West Coast Consulate:
New Zealand Consulate-General
Suite 1150
12400 Wilshire Boulevard
Los Angeles
CA 90025
Phone: (310) 207-1605
Fax: (310) 207-3605
Mr. Terence Charles Baker is listed as Consul General.
There is also a New Zealand Tourism Board located in Santa Monica, phone
1-310-395-748. Try also (is this valid???):
NZ Embassy
501 Santa Monica Blvd 300,
Santa Monica CA 90401
Phone: 1 800 388 5494
Fax: (310) 395 5453
And in Canada, there is the:
New Zealand High Commission
Ottawa
Phone: (613) 238-5991
Fax: (613) 238-5707
There are consul offices listed for the District of Columbia, Tennessee,
Guam, and Washington State.
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Subject: A2.2 How Do I Get News From Home?
Check the notes on ftp sites; some current news may be archived there.
Read soc.culture.new-zealand, and nz.general if you can get it. A weekly
summary of NZ News is compiled and posted to soc.culture.new-zealand by the
generous Brian Harmer (usually on Sundays). These postings are all
archived on the WWW at http://nz.com/nz/NZNewsArchive/. To get a personal
e-mail copy of the postings, send mail to:
majordomo@nz.com
with the line:
subscribe nznews
in the *BODY* of the message.
"The New Zealander " is a new full colour weekly tabloid available in
Australia for A$2.95. Like other publications we know of, the Dominion,
and the Evening Post are among the sources of its articles, although it can
presumably print articles verbatim.
(I'll be interested to hear what Australian WYSIWYG readers think - BH)
TVNZ has established a web page for those who want to see recent news
items. Comment has been mixed, and like most graphic-laden pages is slow
to load. Try
http://www.tvnz.co.nz/
particularly
http://www.tvnz.co.nz/news/stories
There is a thing called a NewZgram. It's like an aerogram but is printed
with excerpts of news about NZ, including sections about sport, health,
business, etc. It's 4 sides of a page long, sent fortnightly).
Subscription Prices: 24 issues (12 months)
NZ address surface NZ$36
Australia/Sth Pacific - air NZ$55
Rest of world - air NZ$67
The address is:
Peak Communications Ltd
PO Box 54046
Mana
Wellington
New Zealand
Phone/Fax 64/4/2399123
and/or???
Newzgram
PO Box 3882
Christchurch, NZ
Phone - 3-3559222
Fax 3-3559337
Then there is:
New Zealand News UK is an Independent Weekly newspaper, covering NZ
news/current events, United Kingdom jobs, NZ jobs, travel, migrating to NZ,
shipping and accommodation/entertainment in London. There is apparently
also a version called 'Overseas' with lots of info about visa requirements,
etc. for Brits wishing to travel. Try calling NZ News on 0171 930 6451.
NZ news is available free in London and by subscription elsewhere. It does
contain a fair bit of London specific news, but has some quite good
features on Emigrating and NZ lifestyles for people thinking of making a
move to NZ. Prices in Pounds Sterling.
3 Months 6 Months 1 Year
UK £ 8.90 £ 16.40 £ 28.00
Europe £ 12.00 £ 23.00 £ 38.50
World £ 20.80 £ 40.50 £ 57.75
Make your cheque payable to New Zealand News UK and send it to:
Circulation Manager,
New Zealand News UK,
PO Box 10, Berwick upon Tweed,
Northumberland TD15 1BW
Phone/Fax: (44) 0289 306677
Or, have a look at the new net version:
http://www.nznewsuk.co.uk/
which apparently has no pictures, but a good selection of sports news.
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Subject: A2.3 Expatriate Organisations?
There's an organisation in HK called the New Zealand Society. Point of
contact is either the NZ Consulate in Central HK (Jardine House) or Grant
Baird at a restaurant called Landaus. They meet regularly and it's fairly
social.
There's a Kiwi Club of New York for those interested in such things.
Kiwi Club of New York
c/o TRADENZ
780 Third Avenue, Suite 1904
New York, NY 10017-2024
Phone (212) 832-4038 x222 (Brenda Henderson)
The club's secretary is Beatrice Cheer at bcheer@panix.com who can
occasionally be found in s.c.n-z.
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Subject: A3 INTERNET ACCESS WITHIN NZ
Public internet access is available from a growing number of sources
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