BNZ (Bank of New Zealand) Museum and Archives.Located at 60 Waterloo Quay, Wellington, the Museum holds records relating to employees including Staff Registers, Staff Lists and Reports, World War Staff Cards, BNZ Staff News magazine (1950-1990’s), photograph collection and other resources. Holdings relating to customers include Signature Books, Account Ledgers, Manager’s Diary notes for lending, General Managers’ correspondence and more. Staff records may include records of service, images, information about the time period and district.
The Museum and Archives also hosts group visits and can adjust visits to suit interests, e.g. genealogy, numismatics, early New Zealand history etc.
Both research and museum visits are free of charge.
Email: Museum[at]bnz.co.nz
Crew Lists of the British Merchant Navy – 1915In a joint project between National Archives UK and National Maritime Museum, 39,000 crew lists have been digitized, along with 750,000 names of crew members. You can search by either name or ship.
http://1915crewlists.rmg.co.ukEarly New Zealand photographers and their successors.http://canterburyphotography.blogspot.co.nz/Kauri Gum Diggers.These websites provide a general history of the gun diggers. The last site mentions the Chinese.
http://www.teara.govt.nz/en/kauri-gum-and-gum-digging/2http://ahipara.co.nz/gumfields/info/kaurigum.htmhttp://www.kauricoast.co.nz/History_Gum_Diggers.cfmIndex of Obituaries in the New Zealand Medical Journal 1887–2006.http://www.nzma.org.nz/journal/119-1238/2090/NZMJObituaries1887-June%202006.pdfList of Teachers in New Zealand in 1906.http://shadowsoftime.co.nz/teachers.htmlNew Zealand Nurses Organisation. They take email enquiries.
http://www.nzno.org.nz/services/library Kai Tiaki. The Journal of the Nurses of New Zealand 1908-1929.http://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/cgi-bin/paperspast?a=d&cl=CL1.KT&e=-------10--1----0--The Goldminers Database. Covering Otago Mining Records (1861-1866) and Thames Mining Records (1867-1872), this site lists 34,000 gold miners.
http://www.kaelewis.com/index.htmWomen Graduates in New Zealand.Educational profiles of female graduates of the University of New Zealand 1877-1920 and the career profiles of those graduates who became teachers 1878-1950 (click on ‘Graduates’).
In addition, there is a listing of all New Zealand Girls’ Schools (1855-2008) with the names of the foundation principals.
Only those schools that are known to have operated for ten years or more are included.
http://womeninhighereducation.eit.ac.nz/Remittance Men in New Zealand.https://genealogyjourno.wordpress.com/remittance-men-in-new-zealand/‘Remittance man’ was the term given to those reliant on family or friends for an income. A remittance agreement was usually verbal and the reason might be to protect the family reputation due to some indiscretion on the part of the individual now consigned to live on a monthly cheque which would arrive by mail. See also
Colonial Outcasts. A search for the remittance men, by N. Hartley (1993) Arrow Press.
Fallen (UK) Railwaymen of World War Onehttps://fallenrailwaymen.omeka.net/
Records of London's Livery Companies Onlinehttps://www.londonroll.org/Maritime History Archivehttps://mha.mun.ca/mha/German Occupationshttps://www.jewishgen.org/infofiles/germanoccs.htm