Scout Association of New Zealand. Wellington Area : Records

Collection comprises records of the Wellington Scout Area and of the scout groups and scout districts under its jurisdiction. It includes minutes, correspondence, training records, membership files, census returns, renewal and cancellation of warrants, financial records, annual reports, log book and scrapbooks.

Source of title - Supplied by Library

Arrangement: The boxes were arranged in numerical order by Area, District and Group by Scouts New Zealand before the records were deposited with the Library. The original box numbers have been incorporated in the title of each record. The division of the records into three series has also been retained.

The Wellington Area was established in 1962 from the former Wellington Province which was set up in 1955. The Area administered a number of districts (groups combined into geographical units)which in turn were subdivided into individual scout groups (local community units). The Wellington Area was abolished in 2007 prior to the reorganisation of Scouting New Zealand in 2008.

The national association, officially named Scout Association of New Zealand, was known as Scouts New Zealand from 2008.

Quantity: 367 box(es). 73 folder(s). 7 volume(s). 1 Electronic document(s) Textual file: Fmt/40: Microsoft Word, 97-2003. 50 Linear Metres.

Physical Description: Mss, typescripts, photographs and printed matter

Finding Aids: An introduction to the organisation of Scouting in Greater Wellington and a list of the boxes in the collection compiled by Scouting New Zealand is available as a digital file (.

Provenance: Each scout group was responsible for their own records. The records were collected and stored at Brookfields Outdoor Centre in Wainuiomata in 2007. Following the restructure of the organisation the records were stored by the Wellington Area office in 2012. Some records were badly water damaged and destroyed.

Transfers: Collection as a whole taken into Manuscripts. Transfers made from there. - To Photographic Archive - Two boxes of photographs PA-Group-01019.