1592 PREROGATIVE INSTRUMENTS 
Jovernor of any neighbouring Colony or State for periods not 
exceeding one month at any one time, nor exceeding in the aggregate 
one month for every year’s service in the Dominion. 
X. The temporary absence of the Governor for any period not 
exceeding one month shall not, if he have previously informed the 
Executive Council, in writing, of his intended absence, and if he 
have duly appointed a Deputy in accordance with Qur said Letters 
Patent, nor shall any extension of such period sanctioned by one of 
Our Principal Secretaries of State and not exceeding fourteen days, 
be deemed a departure from the Dominion within the meaning of 
Our said Letters Patent. 
XI. From and after the date of the coming into operation of Our 
above-recited Letters Patent of even date, the Instructions issued to 
the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand under the Sign Manual 
and Signet of Her late Majesty Queen Victoria, bearing date the 
T'wenty-sixth day of March 1892 shall, without prejudice to anything 
awfully done thereunder, be revoked. 
Given at Our Court at Saint James's this Eighteenth day of 
November 1907. in the Seventh year of Our Reign. 
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COMMISSION under the Royal Sign Manual and Signet, 
appointing The Right Honourable Lord Islington, D.S.0., 
to be Governor and Commander-in-Chief of the Dominion 
of New Zealand. 
(This Commission is substantially identical with the Canadian 
Jommission.) 
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DORMANT COMMISSION passed under the Royal Sign 
Manual and Signet, appointing the Chief Justice or the 
Senior Judge for the time being of the Supreme Court of 
New Zealand to administer the Government of that Do- 
minion, in the event of the death, incapacity, or absence 
of the Governor and Lieutenant-Governor (if any). 
Dated December 18, 1907. 
EDWARD R. & I. 
Edward the Seventh, 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 
Trusty and Well-beloved the Chief Justice or the Senior Judge for 
she time being of the Supreme Court of New Zealand : Greeting. 
WHEREAS by Our Letters Patent under the Great Seal of Our 
Untied Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. bearing date at West-