The database of archives of the former Auckland City Council is accessible via the Auckland Council website and contains more than 168,000 entries, with the earliest record dating from 1852. The records come from Auckland City Council 1871-1989, Auckland City 1989-2010 and the local authorities that amalgamated with Auckland City Council prior to 1989 and with Auckland City in 1989.

These included Arch Hill, Eden Terrace, Epsom, Orakei and Remuera Road Boards, Auckland, Avondale, Ellerslie, Grey Lynn, Mt Eden, Mount Roskill, Mount Wellington, Newmarket, Onehunga, Otahuhu, One Tree Hill, and Parnell Borough Councils, Mount Albert and Tamaki City Councils and Great Barrier and Waiheke County Councils.

To access the archives database, visit and find out more about these collections go to www.aucklandcouncil.govt.nz/councilarchives or email us with your research enquiry archives@aucklandcouncil.govt.nz. 

To access the ex-Auckland City Council Archives collection, you can visit the Auckland Council Archives central office in the Auckland Central Library building at 44-46 Lorne Street.  The research room is open to the public Monday to Friday from 2 to 5pm and by appointment.  Use the entrance to the Academy Cinema and take the stairs two floors down. Ring the bell on the door.  We advise people with restricted mobility to contact us before their visit. We can make arrangements for alternative access through the main library, use the video intercom at the entrance when you arrive.  Archives staff working at the central office who are rostered on the research room desk are James Armstrong, Vicky Spalding, Jane Ferguson and Andrea Woods.

The Archives team have assembled a small collection of documents, plans and photographs regarding the establishment and opening of the Auckland Zoo in December 1922 on the archives pages of the Auckland Council website go to

http://www.aucklandcity.govt.nz/dbtw-wpd/CityArchives/DigitalExhibitions/ZooOpening/frontpage.htm

Donations of former council records, publications, plans, photographs and memorabilia from the public and former staff are welcome. For more information, please email Sarah Padey, Team Leader Archives Management Auckland Council, sarah.padey@aucklandcouncil.govt.nz

The Archives Team would like to wish you all a very pleasant and safe Christmas and look forward to helping you with your research in the New Year.  Please note our research rooms will be closed from Friday 21st December 2012 to Friday 14th January 2013. Access between Monday January 7th to Friday January 11th 2013 is available by appointment only.

Phone              09 307 7792

Email                archives@aucklandcouncil.govt.nz

Website           www.aucklandcouncil.govt.nz/councilarchives

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