User:Ben Arnold
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Ben Arnold is a software developer working for software services company SolNet Solutions in Wellington, New Zealand. Ben specialises in the Java programming language.
Key dates in New Zealand's history:
- 6 February 1840 - Treaty of Waitangi established British Sovereignty (Crown Colony)
- 26 September 1907 - New Zealand became a Dominion (how?)
- 11 May 1917 - Letters Patent set up the office of Governor-General
- Royal and Parliamentary Titles Act, 1927 - divides the crown, so that each dominion is its own kingdom, the British government lost the right to formally advise the monarch on the exercise of his or her powers in the dominions
- 1931 - Statute of Westminster passed in the United Kingdom, giving the dominions the ability to take freedom to legislate for themselves subject only to their constituions
- 1947 - New Zealand finally adopts the Statute of Westminster
- 1947 - New Zealand Constitution (Amendment) Act 1947 gives New Zealand free reign to amend its own constitution, removing the last obsticle to complete legislative freedom
- 1953 - New Zealand "offically discards" the term Dominion in favour of Realm
- 1974 - Royal Titles Act 1974 makes the Queen Queen of New Zealand
- 1983 - Letters Patent 1983
- 1 January 1987 - Constitution Act 1986 supersedes the Statute of Westminster, preventing British lawmaking for New Zealand