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NZ sovereignty.
Topic Started: 4 Apr 2014, 12:00 PM (130 Views)
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New Zealand has always come under Britain's sovereingty, it was a Governor General that signed the treaty of Waitangi.. The Governor General is basically the Queen's representative and while in office will appear at functions as the Queens representative.. If there's any knighthoods or other Commonwealth awards to be given here, the Governor General performs this duty and gives the awards on the Queens behalf..

There has been a few rumbles in the recent past of NZ becoming a seperate state and cutting official ties with Britain, but they never really got going too far, perhaps the governments of the day/s decided it may be a little risky given the trade agreements between NZ and England which is worth in excess of a billion dollars a year to us..

There is quite a reasonably sized group of people that think we should split from the commonwealth and this country be it's own entity, I'm not sure if it's because they think the royals are a waste of money, or they think we could do just as well under self rule..

As some may have noticed, we use the British/english way of spelling here, this has been the case since the country was settled.. Other things we used was currency, we had the pounds, shillings and pence as currency until 1967 when we changed to dollars.. Our measurement system was in inches, feet and miles, petrol was done in gallons rather than litres.. We've now had the metric system for over 20 years, our litres are 4.55 to a gallon rather than the US's 2.5 litres..

I do wonder how much longer we'll stay as part of the commonwealth.. Australia already seems to have a lot of people wanting to cut ties with Britain, given time it may well happen.. If it happens here, I suspect it'll take longer to come as any government here would want guarantees they wouldn't lose any trade with either Britain, or any other commonwealth countries..
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Are you still apart of the common wealth today?
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We will be for quite a long time to come I think, leaving the commonwealth could lose the country to much trade, and we rely on exports for a lot of income..
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