New Zealand Gazette
Te Kāhiti o Aotearoa

Page 505 of the 6 November 1918 edition
Type	Daily and continuous official journal
Publisher	Department of Internal Affairs
Founded	1840
Website	https://gazette.govt.nz/

The New Zealand Gazette (Māori: Te Kāhiti o Aotearoa), commonly referred to as the Gazette, is the official newspaper of record the New Zealand Government (government gazette), serving as the medium by which decisions of Government are promulgated.

Published since 1840, it is the longest-running publication in New Zealand. In October 2014, the printed edition was replaced by an official online version, which was published every Thursday. October 2017 marked the end of the weekly edition, and the Gazette began to be published continuously.^[1] Special editions are also published twice a year to cover the New Year Honours and King's Birthday Honours.

The New Zealand Gazette, as the official newspaper and journal of the New Zealand government publishes various kinds of content, such as:

• Government notices - legislation updates, viceregal information, parliamentary notices, government departmental announcements and appointments
• Commercial notices - bankruptcies, liquidations, land transfers, incorporated societies, removals from the Companies Register
• Professional notices - such as the Scopes of Practice and Prescribed Qualifications for the Practice of Medicine
• Special editions - including the New Year and King's Birthday honours lists

Prior to October 2014, a printed edition was available, but it was replaced by an official online version. In October 2017, the weekly edition ceased publication, and notices are now published online continuously, from 9am-5pm on working days. The Gazette is freely available to the public.

For much of its existence, it was printed in weekly editions, occasionally with supplementary editions such as the Customs, Professional and Trade Lists; these are no longer published.^[2]

The current official website contains all notices published since 2000. Notices published from October 1993 to 1999 are no longer available on the site. Notices published before 2000 are available by contacting the Gazette directly, via the National Library of New Zealand or by visiting certain local libraries.

The predecessor to the New Zealand Gazette was the New Zealand Advertiser and Bay of Islands Gazette, published in Kororāreka/Russell during 1840. Though the Advertiser was a private newspaper, it was used by the colonial government for publishing official notices. When the editor of the Advertiser started to criticise the government for its land policy, the government responded in a way that effectively closed down the Advertiser. In the first issue of the New Zealand Gazette, it was claimed that the Advertiser was no longer being used for government notices because the newspaper had declined to publish them. This was greeted with disbelief by settlers, who found it hard to accept that the newspaper would turn down the very business that sustained it. The government copped much criticism for its actions from the New Zealand Gazette and Wellington Spectator, New Zealand's other newspaper at the time.^[3]

The first issue was published as Gazette Extraordinary on 30 December 1840. Then it was the New Zealand Government Gazette from 1841 to 1847. Between 1847 and 1853 it was split into the New Zealand Government Gazette, Province of New Ulster for New Ulster (the North Island), published in Auckland, and the New Zealand Government Gazette, Province of New Munster for New Munster (the South Island), published in Wellington. In 1853 the two were reunited as the New Zealand Government Gazette and it changed to its present title on 11 August 1857.^[4]

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