[Aust-NZ] NZ Towns

[Peter]

I have blown an inordinate amount of time trying to merge various online sources to get a  listing of towns in NZ. Ideally this list would have town , district/city/unitary council, region, and population or area. This would allow me filter by towns above certain sizes for various web app uses.
GPS coords would also be good but i can get those from google geocoder.

So far ive tried the below:

Im sure this data must exist in some govt database somewhere, does anyone have access to anything that might be helpful?

Cheers.

P.

Theres a list of electoral ward/district/population:

http://www.stats.govt.nz/browse_for_stats/population/estimates_and_projections/subnational-pop-estimates-tables.aspx

Local authoritys

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Territorial_Authorities_of_New_Zealand

Towns

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_towns_in_New_Zealand

Stats Meshblocks

http://www.stats.govt.nz/Census/2006CensusHomePage/MeshblockDataset.aspx

Postcodes

http://www.noodles.net.nz/2006/08/09/nz-postcode-database/
http://www.noodles.net.nz/2007/09/14/new-zealand-postcode-database-v2/