OUT COAT OF ARMS.

Marlborough Express, Volume XLVI, Issue 12, 15 January 1912, Page 3

OUT COAT OF ARMS.

DESCRIPTION OF DESIGN

Tte Royal Warrant granting armorial ensigns and supports.to the Dominion of New Zealand has been received, and is published' in the last number of the Gazette. • The document reads as follows:— (Seal.) . GEORGE R.I. George the Fifth, by the Grace of God, of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland and of the, British Dominions beyond the Seas King, Defender of the Faith, Emperor of India, to Our Right Trusty and Right Entirely Beloved Cousin and Councillor Henry Duke of Norfolk, Earl Marshal, and Our Hereditary Marshal of England, Knight of , Our .Most 'Noble Order of the Garter, Knight Grand Cross of our Royal Victorian Order: Greetings. Whereas his late Majesty King" Edward the Seventh, by aiid with the advice of his Privy Council, was pleased to issue his Royal Proclamation, bearing date the 9th day of | September, 1907, ordaining, declaring, and commanding that the Colony of New1 Zealand and the territory belonging thereto. should be called and known by the title of the Dominion of New; Zealand: And for as much as it is our Royal Will and Pleasure that for the greater honor and distinction of the' said Domihicm of New Zealand certain Armorial Ensigns and Supporters should be assigned thereto: Know Ye, therefore, that We of Our Princely Grace and Special Favor have granted and assigned and by these : presents -do grant and assign for the Dominion of New Zealand the Armorial-Ensigns and Supporters fol-lowing,-that is to say:— "Quarterly: Azure and Gules on a Pal© Argent three- Lymphads Sable, in the first Quarter four Mullets in Cross of the last each surrounded by a Mullet of the second (representing the Constellation of the Southern Cross), in the second Quarter 'a- | Fleece, in the third a Garb, and, in the Fourth two Mining Hammers in Saltire all. Or; And for the Crest on a Wreath of the Colors a demiLioii Rampant guardaht Or supporting a flagstaff erect proper thereon flying to the sinister the Union Flag; And for the Supporters on the dexter side a female Figure proper vested Argent supporting in the dexter hand a flagstaff proper hoisted thereon the Ensign of the Dominion of New Zealand, And on the sinister side a Maori Rangatira (chieftain) vested proper holding in his dexter hand a Taiahia (halbert), all proper," together with the motto "Onward," as the same are in the painting hereunto annexed more plainly depicted, to bo borne for the said Dominion of New Zealand on Seals, Shields, Banners, or otherwise according to the Laws of Arms.

Our "Will and Pleasure; tlierefore is that you Henry Duke of Norfolk, to wliom the cognisance* of matters of this nature doth properly belong, do require and command, that this Our Concession and Declaration be recorded in Our College of Arms and ii. order that Our Officers of Arms and all other Public Functionaries whom it may concern may take full notice and have knowledge thereof in their several and respective departments. Arid for so doing this shall be your Warrant. Given at Our.Court at St. James's in this 26th-day of August, 1911, in the Second Year of Our Reign. By His Majesty's Commands, L. HARCOTTRT.