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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 Honor's Command,
THOMAS WILLIAM MAUDE,
Provincial Secretary.
VOL. VIII.] TUESDAY, DECEMBER 24, 1861. [No. XXIX.
NOTICE.
Provincial Treasury, Christchurch,
December 12, 1861.
NOTICE is hereby given that
EDWARD GENET,
of Lyttelton, has taken out an Auctioneer's
Licence, for the term ending 31st July,
1862.
ALEXANDER BACK,
Provincial Treasurer.
Provincial Secretary's Office,
Christchurch, December 20, 1861.
HIS Honor the Superintendent directs
the publication of the following
Report of the Immigration Commissioners
on the ship "Sebastopol" for general infor-
mation:—
SHIP "SEBASTOPOL."
The Commissioners report that they found
the ship well ordered, the provisions of good
quality; they heard no complaints of any
kind, excepting from the single men, who
handed the document appended.*
The Commissioners have made enquiries
into the several matters referred to. The
principal dissatisfaction appears to have
arisen from the young men being called upon
to undertake the duties of nursing one of
their messmates. In this the Commissioners
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consider that the Surgeon-Superintendent
exercised a wise discretion in a matter not
clearly provided for in the Regulations, and
that the recusant passengers evinced not
only insubordination, but want of natural
kindness.
The Commissioners recommend that, to
prevent a similar misunderstanding in future
ships, a distinct provision for appointing and
enumerating extra nurses be made in the
printed Regulations.
The difficulty in the cooking department
appears to have been caused by the act of
the passengers themselves, in neglecting to
comply with the instructions of the Captain
and Surgeon in the regulation of the messes.
The Commissioners recommend that more
care be taken in placing the galley in immi-
grant vessels,
The insinuations against the accuracy of
the weights appear wholly unsupported by
facts.
The Commissioners are assured that the
Surgeon's visits were regular, and that he
passed hours daily in the 'tween decks.
The Commissioners consider that a grave
error was committed in placing a seaman
affected with fever in the Immigrants' Hos-
pital. They do not, however, believe that
the fever was continued by contagion; as far
as they can now ascertain, the fever cases
were produced by the men sleeping on the
VOL. 8, No. 29.
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Canterbury Provincial Gazette 1861, No 29
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🏘️ Granting of Auctioneer's Licence
🏘️ Provincial & Local Government12 December 1861
Auctioneer, Licence, Christchurch, Provincial Treasury
- Edward Genet, Granted Auctioneer's Licence
- Alexander Back, Provincial Treasurer
🛂 Report of the Immigration Commissioners on the ship 'Sebastopol'
🛂 Immigration20 December 1861
Immigration, Ship Sebastopol, Commissioners Report, Health, Passengers