These files are a LaTeX template for PhD theses at the University of Waikato, New Zealand. They are designed for theses in Computer Science but probably work just as well for other departments.
By Andrea Schweer schweer@cs.waikato.ac.nz -- use at own risk but in whichever way you want.
The template follow the regulations in the Higher Degrees Handbook at its current version (31 August 2010). The files include a sample output file.
Instructions are in thesis.tex. Replace introduction.tex and conclusions.tex with your own chapters, same for the appendix.