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| YEAR | DATE | EVENT | KING | PRIME MINISTER | GENERAL GOVERNOR | 
| 1907 | 26 september | Dominion | king Edward VII | ||
| 1910 | 6 may | king George V | |||
| 1910 | 8 june | Sir Robert Stout (I) | |||
| 1910 | 22 june | John Poynder Dickson-Poynder Baron Islington | |||
| 1912 | 28 march | Thomas Mackenzie | |||
| 1912 | 10 july | William Ferguson Massey | |||
| 1912 | 3 december | Sir Robert Stout (II) | |||
| 1912 | 19 december | Arthur William de Brito Savile Foljambe, Earl of Liverpool | |||
| 1920 | 8 july | Sir Robert Stout (III) | |||
| 1920 | 27 september | John Rushworth Viscount Jellicoe of Scapa | |||
| 1924 | 13 december | Charles Fergusson | |||
| 1925 | 14 may | Francis Henry Dillon Bell | |||
| 1925 | 30 may | Joseph Gordon Coates | |||
| 1928 | 10 december | Sir Joseph G. Ward (II) | |||
| 1930 | 8 february | Sir Michael Myers (I) | |||
| 1930 | 19 march | Charles Bathurst Viscount Bledisloe of Lydney | |||
| 1930 | 28 may | George William Forbes | |||
| 1935 | 15 march | Sir Michael Myers (II) | |||
| 1935 | 12 april | George Monckton-Arundell Viscount Galway | |||
| 1935 | 5 december | Michael Joseph Savage | |||
| 1936 | 20 january | king Edward VIII | |||
| 1936 | 12 december | king George VI | |||
| 1940 | 1 april | Peter Fraser | |||
| 1941 | 3 february | Sir Michael Myers (III) | |||
| 1941 | 22 february | Sir Cyril Newall, Baron Newall | |||
| 1946 | 19 april | Sir Michael Myers (IV) | |||
| 1946 | 17 june | Bernard Cyril Freyberg Baron Freyberg of Wellington | |||
| 1949 | 13 december | Sidney G. Holland | |||
| 1952 | 6 february | queen Elisabeth II | |||
| 1952 | 15 august | Sir Humphrey O'Leary | |||
| 1952 | 2 december | Willoughby Norrie Baron Norrie | |||
| 1957 | 25 july | Sir Harold Eric Barrowclough (I) | |||
| 1957 | 5 september | Charles John Lyttelton Viscount Cobham | |||
| 1957 | 26 september | Keith Jacka Holyoake (I) | |||
| 1957 | 12 december | Walter Nash | |||
| 1960 | 26 november | Keith Jacka Holyoake (II) | |||
| 1962 | 13 september | Sir Harold Eric Barrowclough (II) | |||
| 1962 | 9 november | Sir Bernard Fergusson | |||
| 1967 | 20 october | Sir Richard Wild (I) | |||
| 1967 | 1 december | Sir Arthur Porritt | |||
| 1972 | 7 february | John Ross Marshall | |||
| 1972 | 7 september | Sir Richard Wild (II) | |||
| 1972 | 27 september | Sir Denis Blundell | |||
| 1972 | 8 december | Norman Kirk | |||
| 1974 | 1 september | Hugh Watt | |||
| 1974 | 6 september | Wallace Eduard Rowling | |||
| 1975 | 12 december | Robert David Muldoon | |||
| 1977 | 5 october | Sir Richard Wild (III) | |||
| 1977 | 26 october | Sir Keith Jacka Holyoake | |||
| 1980 | 25 october | Sir Ronald Davidson | |||
| 1980 | 6 november | Sir David Stuart Beattie | |||
| 1984 | 26 july | David Russell Lange | |||
| 1985 | 22 november | Sir Paul Reeves | |||
| 1989 | 8 august | Geoffrey Palmer | |||
| 1990 | 4 september | Mike Moore | |||
| 1990 | 27 october | Jim Bolger | |||
| 1990 | 20 november | Dame Catherine Tizard | |||
| 1996 | 21 march | Sir Michael Hardie Boys | |||
| 1997 | 8 december | Jenny Shipley | |||
| 1999 | 10 december | Helen Clark | |||
| 2001 | 22 march | Dame Sian Elias | |||
| 2001 | 4 april | Dame Silvia Cartwright | |||
| 2006 | 23 august | Anand Satyanand | |||
| 2008 | 19 november | John Key | |||
| 2011 | 31 august | Sir Jerry Mateparae | |||
| 2016 | 14 september | Dame Patsy Reddy | |||
| 2016 | 12 december | Bill English | |||
| 2017 | 26 october | Jacinda Ardern | |||
| 2021 | 21 october | Dame Cindy Kiro | |||
| 2022 | 8 september | king Charles III | |||
| 2023 | 25 january | Chris Hipkins |