Auckland Provincial Gazette – 1869 – No. 55

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✨ Militia Training Orders

AUCKLAND PROVINCIAL GOVERNMENT GAZETTE.

PUBLISHED BY AUTHORITY.

VOL. XVIII. FRIDAY, AUGUST 20, 1869. No. 55.

G. F. BOWEN, GOVERNOR.

TO ALL WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME: GREETING.

WHEREAS by "The Militia Acts Amendment Act, 1862," it is enacted that the number of days or hours for the meeting of the Militia of any district for training and exercise shall be from time to time fixed by the Governor; and that it shall be lawful for the Governor, or such person as he shall appoint as his Deputy for that purpose, to call out the whole, or any part or number of any Regiment, Battalion, Corps, or Company, in the said districts as he shall think fit:

Given under the hand of His Excellency Sir George Ferguson Bowen, Knight Grand Cross of the most distinguished Order of Saint Michael and Saint George, Governor and Commander-in-Chief in and over Her Majesty’s Colony of New Zealand and its dependencies, and Vice-Admiral of the same, at the Government House, at Wellington, this twenty-ninth day of July, in the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-nine.

W. GISborne.

WHEREAS by "The Militia Acts Amendment Act, 1862," it is enacted that it shall be lawful for the Governor, or such person as he shall appoint as his Deputy, to call out for training and exercise the whole or any part or number of any Regiment, Corps, or Company as he shall think fit;

Now know ye that I, Sir George Ferguson Bowen, the Governor of New Zealand, in exercise of the powers vested in me by the said Act, do hereby fix twenty-four as the number of days, and two hours on each day as the number of hours, for the meeting of the Militia of the Districts of Auckland and Thames, who shall be called out for training and exercise by my Deputy hereinafter named.

And I the said Governor do hereby appoint

THE HONORABLE DANIEL POLLEN

my Deputy for the purpose of calling out for training and exercise the whole, or any part or number of any Regiment, Battalion, Corps, or Company in the said districts as he shall think fit.

Given under the hand of His Excellency Sir George Ferguson Bowen, Knight Grand Cross of the most distinguished Order of Saint Michael and Saint George, Governor and Commander-in-Chief in and over Her Majesty’s Colony of New Zealand, at Wellington, this twenty-ninth day of July, in the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-nine.

W. Gisborne.

VUW Te Waharoa — Auckland Provincial Gazette 1869, No 55

After Parliament moved to Wellington in 1865, the Auckland Provincial Council sat in General Assembly House (depicted).

It was nicknamed the 'Shedifice' as it was large and drafty, with a leaking roof. First premier Henry Sewell described it as 'a great wooden barnshaped affair, which might serve for a Hospital, a Jail, or a Barrack'.

✨ LLM interpretation of page content

🛡️ Militia Training and Exercise Orders

Domain🛡️ Defence & Military
Dated29 July 1869
KeywordsMilitia, Training, Exercise, Auckland, Thames
👱🏽 Names

George Ferguson Bowen (Sir), Governor issuing militia orders
Daniel Pollen (Honourable), Appointed Deputy for militia training

👩‍💼 Officials

W. Gisborne

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