Recent data contributions to New Zealand Mesozoic terrane geology confirm the consensus interpretation that New Zealand
grew by the progressive addition of material by plutonic and accretionary processes along the Gondwana margin. The data
also (1) emphasise the discontinuous but inter-related nature of these processes of continental growth, (2) better establish a
direct Gondwana correlation of the Western Province and probable Gondwana provenance of at least some of the Eastern
Province, (3) suggest specific times and places when passive or strike-slip rather than subduction regimes are recorded along
the south Gondwana margin, and (4) potentially lead to interpretations emphasising parautochthonous rather than far- travelled relationships between many New Zealand terranes.