✨ Government Proclamations and Appointments
Auckland Provincial Government Gazette.
PUBLISHED BY AUTHORITY
VOL. XV.] TUESDAY, JUNE 5, 1866. [No. 20.]
Superintendent’s Office,
Auckland, May 28th, 1866.
The following Proclamations, &c., are reprinted from the New Zealand Government Gazette, for general information.
HUGH CARLETON,
For the Superintendent.
G. GREY, Governor.
A PROCLAMATION.
WHEREAS by “The District Courts Act, 1858,” it is enacted that there shall be within the Colony of New Zealand, Courts of Record possessing Civil and Criminal Jurisdiction, to be called District Courts, and the Governor is empowered from time to time, as he shall think fit, by Proclamation in the New Zealand Gazette, to constitute throughout the Colony or in any part thereof, districts within which such Courts shall be respectively held, and such districts to abolish, and the boundaries thereof to define or alter, and also to declare by what local name such Courts shall be designated:
Now therefore, I, Sir George Grey, Knight Commander of the Most Honourable Order of the Bath, Governor and Commander-in-Chief in and over Her Majesty’s Colony of New Zealand and its Dependencies, in pursuance and exercise of the authority aforesaid, do hereby constitute and proclaim the district of the said Colony hereinafter described or referred to, to be a district within which a District Court shall be held under the said Act, and “The District Courts Act Amendment Act, 1865:”
And in further pursuance and exercise of the authority aforesaid, I do hereby declare that the said Court shall be designated by the name which is hereunder specified and set above the description of such district, that is to say—
Designation of Court:
“The District Court of Auckland.”
Description of District:
The whole of the Province of Auckland.
Given under the hand of His Excellency Sir George Grey, Knight Commander of the Most Honourable Order of the Bath, Governor and Commander-in-Chief in and over Her Majesty’s Colony of New Zealand and its Dependencies, at the Government House, at Wellington, and issued under the Seal of the said Colony, this twenty-second day of May, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty-six.
GOD SAVE THE QUEEN!
E. W. STAFFORD.
Colonial Secretary’s Office,
(Judicial Branch),
Wellington, 23rd May, 1866.
HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to appoint
THOMAS BECKHAM, Esq.,
to be District Judge at Auckland, in the
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Auckland Provincial Gazette 1866, No 20
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🏛️ Proclamation of District Courts
🏛️ Governance & Central Administration22 May 1866
District Courts, Proclamation, Auckland, Jurisdiction
- G. Grey, Governor
- E. W. Stafford
⚖️ Appointment of District Judge
⚖️ Justice & Law Enforcement23 May 1866
Appointment, District Judge, Auckland
- Thomas Beckham (Esquire), Appointed District Judge at Auckland