NEW ZEALAND 1593 
minster, the Eighteenth day of November 1907, We did constitute, 
order, and declare that there should be a Governor and Commander- 
tn-Chief in and over Our Dominion of New Zealand, and did authorize, 
empower, and command Our said Governor and Commander-in-Chief 
to do and execute all things belonging to his said office as therein 
is more particularly set forth : 
And whereas by Our said Letters Patent We did declare that, in 
the event of the death, incapacity, or removal of Our said Governor 
and Commander-in-Chief or of his departure from the Dominion, Our 
Lieutenant-Governor, or if there should be no such Officer in the 
Dominion, then such person or persons as We might appoint under 
Our Sign Manual and Signet, should during our pleasure administer 
the Government of the same : 
Now know you that by this Our Commission, under Our Sign 
Manual and Signet, We do appoint you the Chief Justice for the time 
being of Our said Dominion of New Zealand, until Our further 
pleasure shall be signified, to administer the Government thereof in 
case of the death, incapacity, or removal, or of the departure from 
the Dominion of Our said Governor and Commander-in-Chief, as well 
as of Qur Lieutenant-Governor (if any), with all and singular the 
powers and authorities granted by Our said Letters Patent, or by 
any other Letters Patent adding to, amending, or substituted for the 
same ; and, in the said event, and in case of the death, incapacity 
or departure from Our said Dominion of the said Chief Justice for 
the time being, then We do appoint you, the Senior Judge for the 
“ime being of the Supreme Court of Our said Dominion, then residing 
therein, and not being under incapacity, to administer the Govern- 
ment thereof, with all the powers and authorities aforesaid. And 
We do hereby authorize and require you the said Chief Justice or the 
said Senior Judge for the time being, as the case may be, to exercise 
and perform the said powers and authorities according to such Instruc- 
tions as Our said Governor and Commander-in-Chief or Our said 
Lieutenant-Governor hath already received or may hereafter receive 
from Us, under Our Sign Manual and Signet, or through one of Our 
Principal Secretaries of State, and according to such laws as are now 
or shall hereafter be in force in Our said Dominion. 
Provided always that you, the Senior Judge, shall act in the 
administration of the Government only when and so often as you, the 
said Chief Justice, shall not be present within the Dominion and 
capable of administering the Government. 
And We do hereby appoint that from and after the date of the 
coming into operation of Our above recited Letters Patent of the 
Eighteenth day of November 1907, this Our present Commission 
shall supersede the Commission under the Sign Manual and Signet of 
Her late Majesty Queen Victoria dated the Twentv-second day of 
+ This clause meets a difficulty which was raised in Victoria in 1875 as to the 
right, of the Chief Justice to resume the administration from the Senior Judge 
witer once the latter had commenced to act : see Standard, March 17, 1875.