Further information - history of the Governor-General

This web feature was written by Gavin McLean and produced by the NZHistory.net.nz team.

Links

• Cabinet manual
• Clerk of the House
• Extracts from the 1926 Imperial Conference relating to the status of the dominions
• Governors and governors-general (Te Ara)
• Letters patent
• Monarchist League of New Zealand Inc
• New Zealand Herald of Arms Extraordinary
• The Ranfurly Collection, National Library of New Zealand
• Republican Movement of Aotearoa New Zealand
• Speeches on constitutional issues by Sir Denis Blundell, Dame Catherine Tizard, Sir Michael Hardie Boys and Dame Silvia Cartwright

Biographies

• George Bowen
• Robert FitzRoy
• Authur Gordon
• George Grey
• William Hobson 
• Keith Holyoake
• William Jervois
• Authur Porritt

Books

• David Cannadine, Ornamentalism: how the British saw their Empire, Allen Lane, London, 2001
• Philip A. Joseph, Constitutional and administrative law in New Zealand, 2nd edition, Brookers, Wellington, 2001
• Gavin McLean, The governors: New Zealand's governors and governors-general, Otago University Press, Dunedin, 2006
• A.H. McLintock, Crown colony government in New Zealand, Government Printer, Wellington, 1958