Canterbury Provincial Gazette – 1859 – No. 2

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✨ Customs and Port Regulations

NEW ZEALAND

GOVERNMENT GAZETTE.

PROVINCE OF CANTERBURY.

Published by Authority.

All Public Notifications which appear in this Gazette, with any Official signature, are to be considered as Official Communications made to those persons to whom they may relate, and are to be obeyed accordingly.

By His Honour's command,

JOHN OLLIVIER,
Provincial Secretary.

VOL. VI.] SATURDAY, MARCH 19, 1859. [No. 12.

By His Excellency Colonel Thomas Gore Browne, Companion of the Most Honourable Order of the Bath, Governor and Commander-in-Chief in and over Her Majesty's Colony of New Zealand and Vice-Admiral of the same, &c., &c., &c.,

In exercise of the powers in me for this purpose vested by the "Customs Regulation Act, 1858," I, Thomas Gore Browne, the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, do hereby appoint that the undermentioned Port shall be a Warehousing Port for the purposes of the Customs Regulation Act, 1858, viz.,

Lyttelton,

and do hereby approve of the same Port as a Port for the Importation of Tobacco.

Given under my hand, at Auckland, this 1st day of January, 1859.

THOMAS GORE BROWNE.

Treasury, Auckland, 1st January, 1859.

His Excellency the Governor directs it to be notified that the Hon. Christopher William Richmond has been appointed Commissioner of Customs.

C. W. RICHMOND.

Office of Commissioner of Customs,

In exercise of the power in me for this purpose vested by the "Customs Regulation Act, 1858," I, the Commissioner of Customs, do hereby appoint and declare that the undermentioned Port shall be a Port at which persons arriving as Passengers in the said Colony, or in any British or Foreign Ship, Vessel, or Boat, and any business relating thereto, shall be required to be duly licensed for that purpose, viz.,

Lyttelton, at Auckland.

Given under my hand, at Auckland, this 1st day of January, 1859.

C. W. RICHMOND.

VUW Te Waharoa — Canterbury Provincial Gazette 1859, No 2

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✨ LLM interpretation of page content

🏭 Appointment of Warehousing Port and Tobacco Importation Port

Domain🏭 Trade, Customs & Industry
Dated1 January 1859
KeywordsCustoms, Warehousing Port, Tobacco Importation, Lyttelton
👩‍💼 Officials

Thomas Gore Browne, Governor and Commander-in-Chief

🏭 Appointment of Commissioner of Customs

Domain🏭 Trade, Customs & Industry
Dated1 January 1859
KeywordsAppointment, Commissioner of Customs
👱🏽 Names

Christopher William Richmond (Honourable), Appointed Commissioner of Customs

👩‍💼 Officials

C. W. Richmond, Commissioner of Customs

🏭 Licensing Requirement for Passenger Arrival Port

Domain🏭 Trade, Customs & Industry
Dated1 January 1859
KeywordsLicensing, Passenger Arrival, Lyttelton
👩‍💼 Officials

C. W. Richmond, Commissioner of Customs

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