This question is for testing whether you are a human visitor and to prevent automated spam submissions. One hundred years ago on 26 September 1907, New Zealand became a Dominion. Commercial re-use may be allowed on request. However, the 1907 royal proclamation of Dominion status has never been revoked and remains in force today. [7] Some members of this group, such as newspaper publisher Samuel Revans, recounting earlier New Zealand Company schemes for a separate colony, advocated for independence outside of the British Empire. 1). New Zealand became a dominion just six years after it decided not to join the Australian federation. It essentially gave legal recognition to the "de facto independence" of the Dominions by removing Britain's ability to make laws for the Dominions without their consent:[25]. Cricket’s interprovincial Plunket Shield was first contested in the summer of 1906/07. New Zealand participated in the 1891 National Australian Convention in Sydney to consider the Federation of the Australian and New Zealand colonies. This page was last edited on 27 August 2020, at 13:35. Some Aucklanders wanted Auckland Anniversary Day (in January) made Dominion Day as the weather was bound to be better. The lights that decorated Parliament Buildings when dominion status was proclaimed (using new-fangled electricity), spelled out an optimistic slogan – reflecting the confidence that New Zealand could make progress on its own. However, New Zealanders remained British subjects under New Zealand nationality law. [23] The new letters patent declared New Zealand as the "Realm of New Zealand", and repealed the previous Imperial Letters Patent of 1917. 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Parliament Buildings put on a grand show. By 1939, the Governor-General ceased to be Britain's High Commissioner to New Zealand; instead, an independent officer was appointed. Prior to this Act, migrants to New Zealand were classed as either "British" (mainly from the United Kingdom itself, but also other Commonwealth countries such as Australia, South Africa and India) or "Non-British".[19]. The Dominion of New Zealand (Māori: Te Tominiana o Aotearoa) was the historical successor to the Colony of New Zealand. Both claimed in 1908; territories formed in 1962 (British Antarctic Territory) and 1985 (South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands). [8], In 1901 New Zealand did not ratify the Australian Constitution, and did not partake in the Federation of Australia. The lights that decorated Parliament Buildings when dominion status was proclaimed (using new-fangled electricity), spelled out an optimistic slogan – reflecting the confidence that New Zealand could make progress on its own. https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Independence_of_New_Zealand&oldid=979091780, All Wikipedia articles written in New Zealand English, Short description is different from Wikidata, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License, This page was last edited on 18 September 2020, at 18:50. Bolger's republicanism met little public enthusiasm, however. Others dispute this, pointing to the use of the term kāwanatanga (governorship) in the Treaty deducts from rangatiratanga, equating the term to Māori control of Māori assets. New Zealand was, therefore, to all intents and purposes independent in domestic matters from its earliest days as a British colony. This site is produced by the Research and Publishing Group of the New Zealand Ministry for Culture and Heritage. [21] The Third Labour Government also passed the Royal Titles Act 1974, changing the Queen's style and titles to be solely Queen of New Zealand. The signing of the Treaty of Waitangi on 6 February 1840 marked the beginning of the colonisation of New Zealand by Britain. Premier Sir Joseph Ward hoped the term ‘dominion’ would remind the world that New Zealand was not Page 3 – The first Dominion Day. The Antarctic territory of the Ross Dependency, previously under the sovereignty of the United Kingdom, is today regarded by New Zealand as having become part of the Dominion of New Zealand on 16 August 1923. Dominion Day, 26 September, never really took hold in New Zealand. The first Dominion Day, 1907, was a holiday for public servants as all government offices closed to mark the occasion. Commercial re-use may be allowed on request. [1] The Declaration and acknowledgement of New Zealand's independence continued after this acknowledgement, such as in Lord Normanby's instructions to Captain William Hobson, where Lord Normanby stated: "...we acknowledge New Zealand as a sovereign and independent State."[2]. Home The Dominion newspaper began on Dominion Day, 1907. Before 1933 British and Australian coins circulated in New Zealand. In 1996, New Zealand created its own royal honours system (including knighthoods and damehoods).

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