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Their Excellencies The Governor-General, Hon Sir Anand Satyanand and Lady Susan Satyanand attend Pasifika 2010 in Western Springs Park, Auckland

The Governor-General, Hon Sir Anand Satyanand, and Lady Satyanand, hosted a credentials ceremony at Government House Vogel in Lower Hutt on 25 February 2010. Envoys for Poland, Pakistan, Kosovo and Finland presented their credentials.

The Governor-General, Hon Sir Anand Satyanand and Lady Susan Satyanand visited Porirua College on 23 February 2010 where the Governor-General officially opened the three new learning houses at Porirua College, Cannons Creek.

The Governor-General, Hon Sir Anand Satyanand and Lady Susan Satyanand visited Kapiti College on 19 February 2010 where the Governor-General officially opened the new Sports and Recreation Centre.

Their Excellencies host a luncheon in honour of the first Sir Edmund Hillary Fellow, Mr Rahul Gandhi MP.

Rt Hon Helen Clark, UNDP Administrator and former Prime Minister of New Zealand, was invested as a member of the Order of New Zealand by Governor-General, Hon Sir Anand Satyanand, at a ceremony at Government House Auckland on 17 February 2010.

The Governor-General, Hon Sir Anand Satyanand, and Lady Susan Satyanand, visited Waitangi in Northland and Akaroa in Canterbury to mark the 170th anniversary of the signing of the Treaty of Waitangi.

Hon Sir Anand Satyanand, and Lady Susan Satyanand, attended the opening of the We the Peoples(s) Conference in the Legislative Council Chamber in Parliament Buildings on 11 February 2009 where the Governor-General gave the opening address. The Conference was organised by the Centre for Public Law in the School of Law at Victoria University of Wellington.

The Governor-General Hon Sir Anand Satyanand and Lady Susan Satyanand visited Windsor School in Christchurch as part of their Canterbury Regional Visit in February 2010.

The Governor-General, Hon Sir Anand Satyanand, hosted HRH Prince William to a hangi dinner at Government House Auckland on 17 January 2010.

The Governor-General, Hon Sir Anand Satyanand, officially opened the Hillary Trail in the Waitakere Ranges Regional Park on 11 January 2010.

Government House Auckland is much smaller than Government House Wellington, having been originally built as a family home. Sir Frank and Lady Mappin bought the property in 1921 and spent the next 45 years, after building the residence, developing and landscaping the grounds. They gifted it to the Queen to be the Governor-General's official residence in Auckland in 1962.

With the closure of Government House Wellington for a three-year conservation project, when resident in the capital, the Governor-General, Hon Anand Satyanand and Mrs Susan Satyanand, will reside at Vogel House in Lower Hutt, which has been renamed Government House Vogel in the interim. Vogel House was built as a wedding gift for Jocelyn Riddiford from her parents when she married James Vogel in 1932. In 1966 Mrs Vogel gifted the property to the government as a Prime Ministerial residence. The House has been the official residence of, among others, Prime Minister, the late Rt Hon Sir Robert Muldoon, and for a short time Prime Minister, the late Rt Hon David Lange. From 1999 to 2008, it was the home of the Hon Jim Anderton.

Government House in Wellington is a large, two-storey house, built mostly of wood, with attics, a grand staircase, a ballroom, dozens of other large and small rooms, very long corridors and a flag tower. It is the official residence of the Governor-General, but it also contains offices, and is used frequently for receptions of many kinds. This gallery contains photographs of the grounds and various rooms within the House.

High resolution photographs of the Governor-General, Hon Sir Anand Satyanand, and Lady Satyanand