DOMINION DAY

Manawatu Herald, Volume L, Issue 4000, 21 September 1929, Page 2

DOMINION DAY

MONDAY NEXT.

Monday .next is Dominion Day; and banks and legal and. insurance offices will be closed. It "was in September, 1907, upon receipt of addresses from both Houses of the General Assembly, His Majesty the King, by an Order in Council, dated Oth September, and by proclamation the following day, announced that he was pleased to change the style and designation of .the “Colony of New Zealand” to “Dominion of New Zealand.” Th' 1 change took place on 21)tli Septem-ber,-1907, and since then Dominion Day has been annually celebrated. In the early days the Government of the colony was vested in a Governor who was responsible only to the Crown, there being an Executive [Council, with advisory powers only, as well as a Legislative Council In 1852 the Imperial Parliament' provided for a General Assembly, the first session of which was held in the following year. The tirst Ministers under a responsible Government wore appointed in 1850. No change in the Constitution took .place from then onwards until the colony became a Dominion in 1907. Ten years later, in May, 1917, the designation of “Governor and Coni-mander-in-'Chief,” hitherto held by the Royal representative in New Zealand, was altered to that of “Governor-General and- Coniman-der-in-Chief.”