New Zealand Historic Places Trust

New Zealand Historic Places Trust
New Zealand Historic Places Trust logo
Purpose/focus	Protecting heritage buildings in New Zealand
Headquarters	Antrim House, Boulcott Street
Location	Wellington, New Zealand
Region served	New Zealand
Chairman	John Acland
Main organ	Board of Trustees
Affiliations	Minister for Arts Culture and Heritage Ministry for Culture and Heritage Department of Conservation Te Puni Kōkiri
Budget	NZ$12,975,000[1]
Website	http://www.historic.org.nz/

The New Zealand Historic Places Trust (Māori: Pouhere Taonga) is a non-profit trust that advocates for the protection of ancestral sites and heritage buildings in New Zealand. It was set up through the Historic Places Act 1954 with a mission to "...promote the identification, protection, preservation and conservation of the historical and cultural heritage of New Zealand" and is an autonomous Crown Entity.

It is governed by a Board of Trustees, currently chaired by John Acland, and a Māori Heritage Council, currently chaired by Tumu te Heuheu. Past chairs include Dame Anne Salmond. The head office is in Antrim House, Wellington, while regional and area offices are in Kerikeri, Auckland, Tauranga, Wellington, Christchurch and Dunedin.

It publishes the quarterly magazine New Zealand Heritage.

Buildings owned by the trust include the Mission House, the Stone Store, and the Te Waimate mission house.

The Register

The register of historic places is divided into four main areas:

• Historic Places
• Historic Areas
• Wahi Tapu (Māori sacred sites)
• Wahi Tapu Areas

The historic places are organised in two categories:

• Category I - "...places of 'special or outstanding historical or cultural heritage significance or value' "
• Category II - "...places of 'historical or cultural heritage significance or value' "

Maori Heritage Council

The Maori Heritage Council sits within the New Zealand Historic Places Trust and was established by the Historic Places Act 1993. The functions of the Council^[2] include:

• the protection and registration of wahi tapu and wahi tapu areas
• assisting the Trust to develop and reflect a bicultural view in the exercise of its powers and functions
• providing assistance to whanau, hapu and Iwi in the preservation and management of their heritage resources
• consideration of recommendations in relation to archaeological sites
• advocacy of the interests of the Trust and Council so far as they relate to Maori heritage at any public or Maori forum.

Gallery

Antrim House, Wellington	Timeball Station, Lyttelton	Fyffe House, Kaikoura	The flag of the Historic Places Trust flying outside Fyffe House in Kaikoura
Mission House, Kerikeri	Stone Store, Kerikeri	Old St. Paul's, Wellington	Katherine Mansfield's Birthplace
Wellington Harbour Board Head Office and Bond Store	Wellington Harbour Board Wharf Office Building	St Mary of the Angels (Wellington)	The Colonial Cottage Museum, Wellington
Criterion Hotel, Oamaru	St Luke's Anglican Church, Oamaru	Old Harbour Board building, Oamaru	Granary, Privy & Schoolhouse, Matanaka, Otago
Railway Hotel, Invercargill	Municipal Offices & Public Library, Timaru	New Zealand Historic Places Trust blue plaque in Dunedin at the site of the first performance of God Defend New Zealand

See also

Wikimedia Commons has media related to: New Zealand Historic Places Trust

• SAHANZ (Society of Architectural Historians of Australia and New Zealand)
• Category:New Zealand Historic Places Trust

References

External links

• Historic Places Trust (official website)

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