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Documents Relating to New Zealand's Participation in the Second World War 1939–45: Volume III

102 — The Prime Minister of New Zealand to the Secretary of State for Dominion Affairs

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The Prime Minister of New Zealand to the Secretary of State for Dominion Affairs

9 December 1941

The existence of a state of war with Japan has been declared here as from 11 a.m. New Zealand summer time on 8 December 1941.2

C. L. N. Newall

,

Governor-General.

2 The text of the Proclamation, published in a New Zealand Gazette Extraordinary on 9 Dec 1941, was as follows:

His Excellency the Governor-General has it in command from His Majesty the King to declare that a state of war exists between His Majesty and the Emperor of Japan, and that such a state of war has existed in respect of New Zealand, from 11 a.m. New Zealand Summer time, on the eighth day of December, 1941.

Given at Wellington this ninth day of December, 1941.