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Place naming
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Guide
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This A3 PDF gives an overview of the New Zealand Geographic Board - Ngā Pou Taunaha o Aotearoa - The memorial markers of the landscape.

Information provided in this PDF includes:

  • The New Zealand Geographic Board's role and responsibilities
  • Why geographic names are important to New Zealanders
  • Why we have official place names
  • An overview of the standard proposal process and the Treaty Names process
  • What the Board names
  • What the Minister for Land Information needs to do (and other Ministers who decide official place names)
  • Who the Board members and Secretariat are

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