The soc.culture.new-zealand list of Frequently Asked Questions prepared by Phil Stuart-Jones 1994-1997, Lin Nah 1998.
You may also find other URLs in the relevant sections.
Looking for people: Online phone directory http://www.whitepages.co.nz/ NZ Internet Users directory http://bitz.co.nz/bitz/email/
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For general information, follow this newsgroup! You might also want to investigate the nz.* groups (if they are available to you) particularly nz.general. Readers with web browsers might like to do a search on the 'keyword' "New Zealand". There seem to be quite a few travel resources there. 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.
Searching for organisations, companies, governmental agencies etc
* NZ Yellow Pages http://www.yellowpages.co.nz * The NZ Internet Registry (information on Domains within the *.nz TLD) http://www.domainz.net.nz/ * NZ Government Online (with search facility) http://www.govt.nz/ * Consulates/Embassies Overseas http://www.mft.govt.nz/Overseas/index.htm * The Companies Office http://www.companies.govt.nz/ * Education Links http://nz.com/NZ/EducationResearch/Universities.html * Employment Resources http://url.co.nz/employ.html
New Zealand Search engines A list of major NZ search engines and indexes by Paul Bourke http://www.mhri.edu.au/~pdb/internet/nzsearch.html
Other NZ search engines not included in the list are: http://www.nzpages.co.nz/ http://www.anzwers.co.nz/
List of New Zealand Internet connected sites by Mark Davis of Victoria University of Wellington 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://www.nz.com/
Sam Sampson says: "Stewart Island Pages on the akiko tour of nz. Site is: http://nz.com/tour/Stewart Island/
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.
Jennifer Mary 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
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.
David Lobb's site http://www.tricky.com/davelobb.html Jon Clarke's site http://air.com.hk/~jonc Derek Tearne's site http://url.co.nz/NZ/nzl.html
NZ Legislation http://www.knowledge-basket.co.nz/gpprint/acts.html Health Links http://www.lincoln.ac.nz/libr/nz/nzmed.htm
Government web pages NZ Government Online http://www.govt.nz/ NZ Companies Office http://www.companies.govt.nz/ NZ Statistics http://www.stats.govt.nz/statsweb.nsf NZ Passport Office http://inform.dia.govt.nz/internal_affairs/businesses/doni_pro/pports_home.html Dept of Internal Affairs Information and Services http://202.49.212.149/internal_affairs/helping.frml
Local Government Web pages Auckland City Council http://www.akcity.govt.nz/ Canterbury City Council http://www.ccc.govt.nz/ Dunedin City Council http://www.dcc.govt.nz/ North Shore City Council http://www.nscc.govt.nz/ Palmerston North City Council http://www.pncc.govt.nz/ Waitakere City Council http://www.waitakere.govt.nz/ Wellington City Council http://www.wcc.govt.nz/
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 Libraries: University of Auckland http://www.auckland.ac.nz/lbr/libhome.htm University of Waikato http://www2.waikato.ac.nz/library/ Massey University http://www.massey.ac.nz/~wwwlib/ Victoria University of Wellington http://www.vuw.ac.nz/library/ University of Canterbury http://www.canterbury.ac.nz/libr/home.htm University of Otago http://librius.otago.ac.nz:800/home-page.html 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
Library servers on the web: http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/Libweb/ http://www.lib.ncsu.edu/staff/morgan/alcuin/wwwed-catalogs.html
Arts NZ Arts on the Web http://url.co.nz/arts/nzarts.html NZ Symphony Orchestra http://www.nzso.co.nz/ NZ Music Centre http://www.sounz.org.nz/ Aotearoa Traditional Maori Performing Arts Festival http://www.maori.org.nz/kapahaka/ampac/index.html
Sport Rugby (NZRFU) http://www.nzrugby.co.nz/ Cricket http://www.cricket.org/ Americas Cup 2000 http://www.americascup.co.nz/ Links to NZ Sports http://www.plug.co.nz:80/sport.htm
Transport NZ by Rail http://www.waikato.ac.nz/nz/rail/ Intercity Coach http://www2.intercitycoach.co.nz/intercity/ Interislander Ferry http://www.waikato.ac.nz/nz/rail/interislander.html Automobile Association http://www.aa.org.nz/
Travel and Tourism related web pages: NZ on the Web http://www.nz.com/ Destination NZ http://url.co.nz/nzl.html NZ Tourism Bureau http://www.nztb.govt.nz/visitor/ NZ Travel Channel http://www.nz-travel.co.nz/ http://www.nz-travel.com/ Lonely Planet http://www.lonelyplanet.com/dest/aust/nz.htm Auckland Airport http://www.auckland-airport.co.nz/ Waiheke Island http://homepages.ihug.co.nz/~waiheke Rotorua http://www.rotorua.com/ http://nz.com/Rotorua/index.htm Hawke's Bay Online http://www.hb.co.nz/ Waitomo http://www3.waikato.ac.nz/waitomo/index.html Tourism Taranaki http://tipnet.taranaki.ac.nz/tourism/ Destination Taupo http://www.laketaupo.tourism.co.nz/ Wellington Interactive Tours http://www.wcc.govt.nz/~Virtually.NZ/ http://www.wellington.net.nz/discwell/virtual/ Wellington WWW http://www.wellington.net.nz/ Nelson Guide http://nelson.net.nz/ Antarctica - Tourism http://www.icair.iac.org.nz/tourism/
Millenium Govt Millenium page http://www.year2000.govt.nz Gisborne Events2000 http://gisborne2000.org.nz/
Other sites: Institute of Professional Engineers http://www.ipenz.org.nz/ 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://liber.stanford.edu/~torrie/ Pukeiti http://Vulcan.taranaki.ac.nz/pukeiti/ http://www.actrix.gen.nz/users/jbarton/index.html http://www.gphs.vuw.ac.nz:80/meteorology/meteorology.html http://www.indirect.com/www/richardk/NZgraphic.html http://www.rsnz.govt.nz/ NZ Thoroughbread Network http://www.horse.co.nz/ Gateway to Antarctica http://www.icair.iac.org.nz/ US Naval Antarctic Support unit http://www.iac.org.nz/nasu/default.htm
Information on the Rainbow Warrior The Memorial http://www.northland.ac.nz/matauri/rainbow.htm The Bombing of the Warrior http://www.kauai.net/centralscrutinizer/pardonmyanalysis/rainbow_bomb.html Greenpeace http://www.greenpeace.org/
Unable to connect to the following pages: (The following URLs will be removed unless I can connect to it by the next issue. ) http://www.iol.ie/~saris/bpguide.html http://www.actrix.gen.nz/general/nz-faq.html http://nz.com/NetEdit/ http://nz.com/NZ/Commerce/NetEdit/VOICE.HTM http://nz.com/webnz/
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.<university>.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.
AUSTRALIASYDNEY: Prudential Finance House, 84 Pitt Street, Ph (+61 2) 231 1322 GP Box 614,2100 Sydney (+61 2) 221 7333 NSW 2000
BRISBANE: Ground Floor, 288 Edwards St Ph (+61 7) 221 3176 GPO 2634, Brisbane, Queensland 4001 Fax (+61 7) 221 7289
MELBOURNE: Level 19 Comco Office Tower Ph (+61 3) 823 6283 644 Chapel Street, South Yarra Melbourne, Victoria
BRITAIN LONDON: New Zealand House, Ph (071) 973 0363 Haymarket, SW1Y4TQ
EUROPE FRANKFURT: 6000 Frankfurt am Main 1, Ph (069) 288 189 Kaiserhofstrasse, Fax (069) 281 482
JAPAN TOKYO: Toho Twin tower Building, Ph (03) 508-9981 2nd Floor, 1-5-2 Yurakucho C Hiyoda-ku 100
PAN-ASIA SINGAPORE: 13 Nassam Rd, Ph 2359966 Singapore 1025
HONG KONG: 3414 Jardine House, Ph (05) 255 044 1 Connaught Place, Central
UNITED STATES LOS ANGELES: 501 Santa Monica Blvd 300, Ph 1 800 3885494 Santa Monica CA 90401 Fax (310) 395 5453
NEW YORK: Suite 1206, 432 Park Avenue South, Ph (001212) 447 0550 New York, NY 10016 Fax (001212) 447 0558
CANADA VANCOUVER: 1200 - 888 Dunsmuir Street, Ph (604) 684-2117 Vancouver, B.C., V6C 3K4 Fax (604) 684-1265
Air New Zealand also has offices at 1250 - 888 Dunsmuir Street ph (604) 640-4600
Check libraries, travel agents, embassies, consulates. Year books, almanacs, census data(?) etc. are all usually available.The following book has been suggested as a useful source of information: New Zealand - a Lonely Planet travel survival kit by Peter Turner, Jeff Williams, Nancy Keller and Tony Wheeler http://www.lonelyplanet.com/
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 Ph/fax: (+64 9) 415 9343 Auckland 10
If all else fails, try the:
Auckland Information Bureau/Auckland Information Centre 24 Wellesley St or Queen Elizabeth II Square PO Box 7048 Phone (+64 9) 366 6888 Auckland 1 Fax (+64 9) 366 6893
Wellington Info Centre Phone (+64 4) 801 4000 Fax (+64 4) 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 (+64 3) 379 9629 Fax (+64 3) 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: (+64 4) 472-7910 Fax: (+64 4) 478-1625 Postal Address PO Box 1599, Wellington
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