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Ngā Pou Taunaha o Aotearoa New Zealand Geographic Board is marking 100 years of official place naming in New Zealand, its offshore islands, Antarctica and on the sea floor.

The trig beacon at the summit of Maungawhau / Mount Eden is set to be removed next week due to health and safety concerns.

Applications for Landbanking and/or Sites of Significance for properties in this schedule close 8 November 2024

Several important updates ahead of Christmas, including the update to survey and title fees and information about our processing times in November and December.

In this edition: Digital certificate downloads in Internet Explorer 11, customers provide input into LINZ website refresh, and finding dealings/requests in workspace

The Ngā Pou Taunaha o Aotearoa New Zealand Geographic Board today announces decisions on 12 place name proposals.

In this edition: we discuss the move to online publication of the NZ Gazette and how that affects the way we reference Gazette Notices in LINZ records; and how the timing of the Christmas and New Year break will affect the lapsing of caveats and notices of claims. We provide reminders around transmissions, corrections and discrepancies in names.

This month's Pānui includes our summer holiday dates, new webforms and exemption application forms, and our recent decision summaries.

This month we inform you about Landonline being unavailable on 10 December 2016; LINZ hours over the holiday season; finding New Zealand Vertical Datum 2016 Heights; changes to the Land Transfer Tax Statement; verication of identity using Skype and videoconferencing; lapsing caveats over the Christmas / New Year period; an update on rules for Cadastral Surveying in Greater Christchurch and Kaikoura earthquake information for Surveyors.

This month we inform you about changes to the Landonline login, the latest Landonline maintenance release and the updated subdivision checklist.

Work to control one of the country’s worst aquatic weeds is due to get underway at Lake Dunstan next week.

New Zealand’s favourite topographic maps can now be viewed in 3D on our Basemaps website.

A new management plan is being developed for South Canterbury hydro lakes Waitaki and Aviemore after large infestations of the invasive lake weed lagarosiphon were found.

The Māori Crown Relations team is excited to provide the first issue of our pānui to provide information on our services, products and Treaty settlement activities that may be of value to Iwi and Māori.

On 1 January 2025, the significant business assets threshold for Australian investors will be updated.

LINZ and the Parliamentary Counsel Office (PCO) are seeking feedback on the Valuers Bill before it is introduced to Parliament. The purpose of the Bill is to revise the Valuers Act 1948.