1586 PREROGATIVE INSTRUMENTS 
Zealand ’,! the Colony of New Zealand was defined as comprising all 
Territories, Islands, and Countries lying between the one hundred 
and sixty-second degree of East Longitude and the one hundred and 
seventy-third degree of West Longitude and between the thirty- 
third and fifty-third parallels of South Latitude : 
And whereas by a Proclamation bearing date the twenty-first day 
of July 1887, issued by the Governor of New Zealand under authority 
of Letters Patent passed under the Great Seal of Our United Kingdom, 
bearing date the eighteenth day of January 1887, the Islands situate 
in the South Pacific Ocean between the parallels of 29 degrees and 
32 degrees South Latitude and the meridians of 177 degrees and 
180 degrees West Longitude, known as the Kermadec Group, were, 
from and after the first day of August 1887, annexed to and became 
part of the Colony of New Zealand : 
And whereas by a Proclamation bearing date the tenth day of 
June 1901, issued by the Governor of New Zealand by authority 
of an Order by Us in Our Privy Council dated the thirteenth day of 
May 1901, made by virtue and in exercise of the powers vested in 
Us by the Colonial Boundaries Act 1895, the Boundaries of the Colony 
of New Zealand were on and after the eleventh day of June 1901 
extended so as to include the islands of the Cook Group, and all other 
che Islands and Territories which were then or might thereafter form 
part of Our Dominions situate within the following boundary line, 
viz. :—A line commencing at a point at the intersection of the 23rd 
degree of South Latitude and the 156th degree of Longitude West 
of Greenwich, and proceeding due North to the point of intersection 
of the 8th degree of South Latitude and the 156th degree of Longitude 
West of Greenwich, thence due West to the point of intersection of 
the 8th degree of South Latitude and the 167th degree of Longitude 
West of Greenwich, thence due South to the point of intersection of 
the 17th degree of South Latitude and the 167th degree of Longitude 
West of Greenwich, thence due West to the point of intersection of 
the 17th degree of South Latitude and the 170th degree of Longitude 
West of Greenwich, thence due South to the point of intersection of 
the 23rd degree of South Latitude and the 170th degree of Longitude 
West of Greenwich, and thence due East to the point of intersection 
of the 23rd degree of South Latitude and the 156th degree of Longitude 
West of Greenwich : 
And whereas by Our Royal Proclamation, bearing date the ninth 
day of September 1907, We did ordain, declare, and command that 
on and after the Twenty-sixth day of September 1907 the Colony of 
New Zealand and the territory belonging thereto should be called 
and known by the title of the Dominion of New Zealand : 
And whereas it has become necessary to make provision for the 
office of Governor and Commander-in-Chief in and over Our Dominion 
of New Zealand : 
I. Now therefore We do by these presents revoke and determine 
1 26 & 27 Vict. c. 23.