| YEAR | DATE | EVENT | HEAD OF STATE | PRIME MINISTER | GENERAL GOVERNOR | 
| 1921 |  |  |  | 
| 1923 | 26 may |  |  |  | Sir Charles Carmichael Monro | 
| 1928 | 13 august |  |  |  | Sir Alexander John Godley | 
| 1933 | 13 may |  |  |  | Sir Charles Harington Harington | 
| 1938 | 12 august |  |  |  | Sir Edmund Ironside | 
| 1939 | 11 july |  |  |  | Sir Clive Gerard Liddell | 
| 1941 | 14 may |  |  |  | John Standish Surtees  Prendergast Vereker, Viscount Gort | 
| 1942 | 31 may |  |  |  | Sir Noel Mason-MacFarlane | 
| 1944 | 14 february |  |  |  | Sir Ralph Eastwood | 
| 1947 | 8 february |  |  |  | Sir Kenneth Arthur Noel Anderson | 
| 1952 | 23 april |  |  |  | Sir George Holmes Alexander MacMillan of MacMillan | 
| 1955 | 6 may |  |  |  | Sir Harold Redman | 
| 1958 | 16 april |  |  |  | Sir Charles Frederic Keightley | 
| 1962 | 8 june |  |  |  | Sir Alfred Dudley Ward | 
| 1965 | 5 august |  |  |  | Sir Gerald William Lathbury | 
| 1969 | march |  |  |  | Sir Varyl Cargill Begg | 
| 1969 | 30 may | Dominion | queen Elisabeth II | Sir Joshua Hassan (I) | Sir Varyl Cargill Begg | 
| 1969 | 6 august |  |  | Robert Peliza |  | 
| 1972 | 25 june |  |  | Sir Joshua Hassan (II) |  | 
| 1973 | 3 october |  |  |  | Sir John Grandy | 
| 1978 | 30 may |  |  |  | Sir William Jackson | 
| 1982 | 26 october |  |  |  | Sir David Williams |