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From: john luke <[FOI #29998 email]>
Sent: Friday, 7 February 2025 9:40 pm
To: OIA <[DIA request email]>
Subject: Official Information request - NZ travel documents- policy

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Dear Department of Internal Affairs,

Please provide any notes, regulations, guidelines, policies or other document used to determine what personal titles, honorifics, ranks or designations are or are not deemed acceptable/appropriate for inclusion in NZ travel documents.

I am particular interest in how you handling the customary pacific island title, e.g. https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/peters-giv...

SAVAI'I - Foreign Minister Winston Peters was bestowed with a chiefly Samoan title today in a ceremony full of tradition and laughter.

Yours faithfully,

john luke

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