1834 in New Zealand

Incumbents

Regal and viceregal

• Head of State – King William IV
• Governor of New South Wales – Major-General Sir Richard Bourke

Government and law

• British Resident in New Zealand – James Busby

Events

• March
• * – James Busby convenes a meeting of Māori chiefs from northern New Zealand. They will become the United Tribes of New Zealand.
• 9 March or 20 March – The United Tribes of New Zealand choose a design for their flag.
• 30 December – William Colenso, printer/missionary for the Church Missionary Society, arrives at Paihia in the Bay of Islands.

• The house for James Busby is completed. After the signing of the Treaty of Waitangi there in 1840 it will be known as the Treaty House.
• Late in the year a site is chosen for a mission at Matamata by Alfred Nesbitt Brown and William Williams.
• The establishment of the Anglican mission at Te Papa peninsula, Tauranga, is begun late in the year.
• While in England, Thomas McDonnell is appointed Additional British Resident in New Zealand
• Two Māori converts returning from the Bay of Islands introduce Christianity to Gisborne.

Births

• 14 February : William Odgers R.N., Victoria Cross recipient.
• 16 March : James Hector, geologist.

• Malcolm Fraser, surveyor.

• Alfred Henry Burton, photographer.