✨ Public Holiday and Gold Field Notices
AUCKLAND
PROVINCIAL GOVERNMENT GAZETTE
Published by Authority.
VOL. XIX. FRIDAY, JANUARY 28, 1870. No. 7.
PUBLIC NOTIFICATION.
Superintendent’s Office,
Auckland, 25th January 1870.
IT is hereby notified that Wednesday, the Second day of February, proximo, will be observed as a Public Holiday, in celebration of the Thirtieth Anniversary of the Colony.
Thomas B. Gillies,
Superintendent.
HAURAKI GOLD FIELD.
G. F. Bowen, Governor.
Order in Council.
At the Government House at Auckland, this seventh day of January, 1870.
Present:
His Excellency the Governor in Council.
WHEREAS by “The Gold Fields Act, 1866,” it is enacted that it shall be lawful for the Governor, by Order in Council, from time to time to constitute for any Gold Field, or for any part thereof, Wardens’ Courts, for the administration of justice therein, and to appoint Wardens of such Courts with power to act alone or with Assessors, and in such manner as is provided by the said Act, and to exercise all or any of the powers hereinafter mentioned, as the Governor shall think fit to direct;
And whereas by a certain Proclamation issued under the hand of John Williamson, Esquire, then Superintendent of the Province of Auckland, bearing date the fourteenth day of April, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-eight, and published in the Auckland Provincial Government Gazette on the sixteenth day of April, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-eight, a certain block of land therein described was proclaimed to be a Gold Field under the provisions of “The Gold Fields Act, 1866.”
And whereas it is expedient that a Warden’s Court should be constituted in and for the said Gold Field.
Now, therefore, His Excellency the Governor, in exercise and in pursuance of the said power and authority, doth hereby, with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of New Zealand, order that Wardens’ Courts shall be and the same are hereby constituted and established for the Gold Field constituted by the hereinbefore recited Proclamation dated the fourteenth day of April, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-eight, for the administration of justice therein; and with the like advice and consent His Excellency the Governor doth hereby appoint
George Boutflower Davy, Esquire,
William Fraser, Esquire,
Jackson Keddell, Esquire,
to be Wardens of such Courts, with power to act alone or with Assessors, and in such manner as is provided by the said Act, and to exercise all such powers as are mentioned in the said Act, and which the Governor by the said Act has power to direct them to exercise.
Approved in Council,
Henry D. Pitt, Capt., R. A.,
Private Secretary.
For Clerk of the Executive Council.
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Auckland Provincial Gazette 1870, No 7
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🏘️ Public Holiday Notification
🏘️ Provincial & Local Government25 January 1870
Public Holiday, Anniversary, Colony
- Thomas B. Gillies, Superintendent
⚖️ Establishment of Wardens' Courts for Hauraki Gold Field
⚖️ Justice & Law Enforcement7 January 1870
Gold Field, Wardens' Courts, Hauraki, Appointments
- George Boutflower Davy (Esquire), Appointed Warden
- William Fraser (Esquire), Appointed Warden
- Jackson Keddell (Esquire), Appointed Warden
- G. F. Bowen, Governor
- Henry D. Pitt, Capt., R. A., Private Secretary