bernard freyberg

Viceregal visiting

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  'To be invisible is to be forgotten,' constitutional theorist Walter Bagehot (1826–77) warned. For the King or Queen's New Zealand representative, the Governor-General, that meant hitting the road

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• Page 2 - Putting on appearancesNew Zealanders still loved a good viceregal do, and no one was observed more closely than Their

Notes for My Successor

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  Until the late 1960s New Zealand's Governors-General were British, mainly minor aristocrats or admirals or generals.

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• Page 4 – Staff and servants

  Lord Bledisloe (1930–35) felt that senior staff 'should be fond of dancing and of games and sport of all kinds, as these accomplishments appeal to people here I

• Page 3 – Hail and farewell

  The new Governor-General had to make a good impression. That meant landing in the capital.

History of the Governor-General

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  New Zealand has had a governor or (from 1917) a Governor-General since 1840. The work of these men and women has reflected the constitutional and political history of New Zealand in many ways.

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• Page 6 - RegalisedThe constitutional arrangements of the British Empire changed greatly between the creation of the Imperial War Cabinet in 1917 and the passing of the Statute of Westminster in