✨ Quarantine Proclamation
AUCKLAND PROVINCIAL GOVERNMENT GAZETTE.
Published by Authority.
Vol. VI.] AUCKLAND, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 18, 1857. [No. 28.
Superintendent’s Office,
Auckland, December 17, 1857.
THE following Proclamation and Notices,
published in the New Zealand Gazette,
are re-published for general information.
J. WILLIAMSON,
Superintendent.
PROCLAMATION.
By His Excellency Colonel Thomas
Gore Browne, Companion of the
Most Honourable Order of the
Bath, Governor and Commander
Chief in and over Her Majesty’s
Colony of New Zealand, and its
dependencies, and Vice-Admiral
of the same.
WHEREAS by an Ordinance enacted by
the Governor of New Zealand, with the
advice and consent of the Legislative Council
thereof, Session 2, No. 15, intituled “An Or-
dinance to provide for the Regulation of Har-
bours,” it is amongst other things enacted, that
the Governor shall, from time to time, by Pro-
clamation, appoint Stations or Places for the
performance of Quarantine by vessels bound to
the several Harbours of the Colony: Now,
therefore, in pursuance of the authority in me
vested by the said recited Ordinance, I, the
Governor of New Zealand, do hereby proclaim
and appoint the following Stations for the
performance of Quarantine, viz:—
For the Port of Auckland—Hobson’s Bay,
or Shoal Bay, on the North side of the
Harbour.
For the Port of Wangarie—Between the
Calliope Bank and the main land on the
East side of the entrance to the Harbour,
about three quarters of a mile North of
the ordinary anchoring ground off the
Custom House.
For the Bay of Islands—To the South
of the Island of Moturoa, between it and
the Brampton Shoal.
For the Port of Mongonui—In an indenta-
tion in Doubtless Bay, just outside the en-
trance to Mongonui Harbour, and to the
North East thereof.
For the Port of Kaipara—In the Wairoa
River, immediately below the Custom
House.
For the Port of Manukau—Within the Bluff,
where the Harbour widens out from the
entrance.
For the Port of New Plymouth—In the
roadstead, about a mile North-west of the
centre Sugar Loaf.
For the Port of Wellington—Evans’ Bay,
Port Nicholson.
For the Port of Wanganui—About one mile
within the Heads of the River, mid-
way between the entrance and the Land-
guard Bluff.
For the Port of Napier—In the roadstead off
the entrance to the Harbour.
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Auckland Provincial Gazette 1857, No 28
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🏥 Proclamation of Quarantine Stations
🏥 Health & Social Welfare17 December 1857
Quarantine, Harbours, Auckland, Wangarie, Bay of Islands, Mongonui, Kaipara, Manukau, New Plymouth, Wellington, Wanganui, Napier
- J. Williamson, Superintendent
- Colonel Thomas Gore Browne, Governor and Commander Chief