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On 21 May 1840, Lieutenant-Governor Hobson proclaimed sovereignty over the whole country, (the North Island by treaty [88] and the South Island and Stewart Island by discovery) [89] [90] and New Zealand was constituted the Colony of New Zealand, separate from New South Wales by a Royal Charter issued on 16 November 1840, with effect from 3 May ...
New Zealand said on Wednesday it will draft a bill aimed at reinterpreting country's founding agreement, even as two of three governing parties say they will not support the bill becoming law. The ...
The founding of the New Zealand Labour Party, on 7 July 1916 in Wellington, [12] brought together a number of earlier socialist groups advocating proportional representation, the abolition of the country quota, the recall of members of Parliament, as well as the nationalisation of production and exchange.
At first New Zealand was administered from Australia as part of the colony of New South Wales, and from 16 June 1840 New South Wales laws were deemed to operate in New Zealand. [53] This was a transitional arrangement, and the British Government issued the Charter for Erecting the Colony of New Zealand on 16 November 1840.
18 October 1968 (age 55) Auckland, New Zealand. Occupation (s) Historian, author. Evan Paul Moon ONZM (born 18 October 1968) is a New Zealand historian and a professor at the Auckland University of Technology. He is a writer of New Zealand history and biography, specialising in Māori history, the Treaty of Waitangi and the early period of ...
New Zealand Birth Certificates - 50 of New Zealand's Founding Documents. AUT Media. ISBN 9780958299718. Hamer, David Allen, ed. (1990). The Making of Wellington, 1800-1914. Victoria University of Wellington Press. ISBN 9780864732002. Palmer, Matthew (2008). The Treaty of Waitangi in New Zealand's Law and Constitution.
Formerly called. New Zealand Book Council. Read NZ Te Pou Muramura (formerly the New Zealand Book Council) is a not-for-profit organisation that presents a wide range of programmes to promote books and reading in New Zealand. It was established in 1972 and its programmes have included supporting writers' visits to schools and enabling writers ...
New Zealand Company. The New Zealand Company, chartered in the United Kingdom, was a company that existed in the first half of the 19th century on a business model that was focused on the systematic colonisation of New Zealand. The company was formed to carry out the principles devised by Edward Gibbon Wakefield, who envisaged the creation of a ...