DOMINION DAY.

Press, Volume LXVI, Issue 20039, 22 September 1930, Page 8

DOMINION DAY.

A PARTIAL HOLIDAY. •To-day. Dominion Day. certain City offices will be close*!, particularly the City Council, legal office, and the bainks. It was iu September, IL'O7. upon receipt ■of addresses from Ixitb Houses of the General Assembly, his Majesty the King, by an Order-in-Council, dated September 9th, 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 Zenland."' The change took ■ place on September 26th, .1907, and since then Dominion. Dav has been celebrated annually. In the early'days the Government of the colony was vested in a Governor, who was responsible', only to the Crovu, there being an Executive Council, with, advisory powers only, as well as a Legislative Council. In 1852 tho Imperial Parliament provided for a'General Assembly, the first session of which was held in the following year The first . Ministers under a responsible Government were appointed in 1856. No change in the Constitution took- place from then onwards untilNJie colony became a Dominion in 190 f. Ten year's later, in May, 1917, the designation of "Governor and Commander-in-Chief,'' hitherto held by the Royal representative in New Zealand, was altered to that of "Governor-General and Comniaiiderin Chief."