✨ Immigration and Licensing Notices
given by immigrants in lieu of the ready money payment required by the first clause will be strictly enforced at the time named in the undertaking.
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Any persons resident in the Province, desirous of assisting their friends in England, or elsewhere, to obtain assisted passages to the colony, may do so by drawing a bill to the order of the Provincial Treasurer, endorsed by a substantial householder also resident in the Province, to be approved of by the Superintendent as sufficient security for the same. This bill may then be transmitted to the person in England who is desirous of emigrating to the colony, and being by him presented to the Shipping Agents in England will be received in lieu of cash payment. The bill will be re-transmitted by the Agents to the colony, and must be paid immediately on presentation.
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The Provincial Government are unable at present to state at what the rate of the passage money to the Colony will be fixed, but all bills will be prepared on the supposition that it will amount to £18: should it prove to be less, a proportionate part of the bills will be remitted at the time of repayment.
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Assisted passages will be afforded only to bona fide laboring men, mechanics, and female domestic servants, but persons of all classes will be able to assist their friends to emigrate to the colony by undertaking the payment of the whole of the passage money in the above manner.
No person will be allowed any assistance in his passage to the Settlement until he shall have been approved of by the Emigration Agent in England. No person above the age of 50 years will receive an assisted passage.
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Applications for assisted passages will be received by Richard Harman, Esq., Emigration Agent in England, and in the Colony by Edward Puckle, Esq., Superintendent’s Office, Christchurch, and by Charles C. Bowen, Esq., Inspector of Police, Lyttelton, from whom forms of the Bills required to be drawn may be obtained.
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Mr. Harman, who will shortly sail for England to undertake the duties of Emigration Agent, will be instructed to provide passages in the first ships for all the friends of persons in the Colony whose applications are sent in to either of the above offices before the time of his sailing.
By order of His Honor the Superintendent,
EDWARD PUCKLE,
Private Secretary.
Superintendent’s Office,
Christchurch, March 24th, 1854.
HIS HONOR THE SUPERINTENDENT has been pleased to appoint Richard Harman, Esq., to be Emigration Agent in England for the Province of Canterbury, under the Immigration Ordinance, Sess. II. No. 4.
The above appointment to date from the day of Mr. Harman’s arrival in England.
By order of His Honor the Superintendent,
EDWARD PUCKLE,
Private Secretary.
PUBLIC NOTICE.
THE ANNUAL LICENSING MEETING of MAGISTRATES will be held at Lyttelton on Tuesday, the 18th April, for the purpose of taking into consideration applications for Licenses for the sale of Spirits under the provisions of the Licensing Ordinance, Session II. No. 12.
CHARLES C. BOWEN,
Clerk to the Bench.
PRINTED BY I. SHRIMPTON, AT THE "TIMES" OFFICE, LYTTLETON.
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Canterbury Provincial Gazette 1854, No 7
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Immigration Regulations
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🛂 Immigration24 March 1854
Immigration, Regulations, Assisted Passages, Canterbury
- Edward Puckle, Private Secretary
🛂 Appointment of Emigration Agent
🛂 Immigration24 March 1854
Appointment, Emigration Agent, England, Canterbury
- Richard Harman (Esquire), Appointed Emigration Agent in England
- Edward Puckle, Private Secretary
⚖️ Annual Licensing Meeting of Magistrates
⚖️ Justice & Law EnforcementLicensing Meeting, Magistrates, Spirits, Lyttelton
- Charles C. Bowen, Clerk to the Bench