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