Whereas, the Right Worthy Grand Lodge of the Ancient Independent Order of Odd Fellows, of the Colony of Victoria, did, by its warrant, bearing date the nineteenth day of February, A. D. 1869, grant authority to certain subordinate Lodges of the Ancient Independent Order of Odd Fellows in New Zealand, to form a Grand Lodge of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, to be known and hailed by the name, style, and title of the Right Worthy Grand Lodge of the Ancient Independent Order of Odd Fellows of New Zealand, giving and granting to them and their successors, by the name, style, and title aforesaid, full power and authority to grant warrants for opening Lodges subordinate thereto, for the propagation of the established principles of the Order with power and authority also to cause all honorary and the first five degrees of the Order; to be conferred on deserving members, according to the laws page 4 customs, and usages of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows; and, as the Grand Legislative Head of the Order in the Colony of New Zealand, to have and to exercise full power and authority to enforce upon its subordinates a strict adherence to the laws and usages of the Order, and to make and establish such rules for their government as in the opinion of the said Grand Lodge of New Zealand may be for the advancement of the Order:

Now, therefore, we, the Past Grands and other qualified Officers residing within said jurisdiction, do hereby make and declare the following as the Constitution of the R.W. Grand Lodge of the Ancient Independent Order of Odd Fellows of New Zealand.