Canterbury Provincial Gazette – 1862 – No. 19

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✨ Diseased Cattle Act Proclamation



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. IX.] THURSDAY, OCTOBER 30, 1862. [No. XIX.

PROCLAMATION

Containing Regulations under the Diseased Cattle Act, 1861.

WHEREAS by the “Diseased Cattle Act, 1861,” it was provided that the Governor in Council might, by warrant under his hand, from time to time delegate to the Superintendent of any Province within the said Colony, all or any of the powers vested in the Governor or Governor in Council by the said Act, subject to such regulations as he might think fit, and might from time to time rescind such delegation;

And whereas the said Governor hath, with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of New Zealand, delegated to William Sefton Moorhouse, Esquire, so long as he shall hold the office of Superintendent of the Province of Canterbury, the several powers vested in the said Governor by the second, fourth, fifth, seventh, ninth, and tenth sections of the said Act, subject to being rescinded as in the said Act provided, and subject to the regulations issued by the Governor in Council on the Fifteenth day of September, One Thousand Eight Hundred and Sixty-two, and to any other regulations to be from time to time duly made.

Now, therefore, I, William Sefton Moorhouse, by virtue of such powers in me vested, do hereby proclaim and declare:—

  1. That after the date hereof the several Colonies of Australia, that is to say, the Colony of Victoria, of New South Wales, of Queensland, of South Australia, and Western Australia, as well as the Colony of Tasmania and the Colony of the Cape of Good Hope, and the Islands of Great Britain and Ireland, shall be deemed to be, for the purposes of the above recited Act, infected districts within the meaning of the said Act, and that no Cattle shall be allowed to be imported from the above-mentioned districts, and that in the case where any Cattle may be imported from the said districts, such Cattle shall be destroyed forthwith, in such manner and at such places as the Superintendent may proclaim and appoint.

  2. That after the date of these regulations the Provinces of Otago and Southland, in the Colony of New Zealand, shall be deemed to be infected districts within the meaning of the said Act, and that no Cattle shall be imported from the said Provinces either by land or sea.

  3. That the following persons shall be appointed Inspectors under the second section of the said Act:—

  • Henry Scott M’Kellar
  • Herbert Belfield
  • Thomas Williamson Hall
  • Michael Studholme
  • Harry Parker
  • George Babington Parker
  • Philip Baker Boulton
  • Robert Greaves.
  1. That every Inspector so appointed shall produce on demand, to any person...


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🌾 Proclamation Containing Regulations under the Diseased Cattle Act, 1861

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Diseased Cattle Act, Regulations, Cattle Importation, Infected Districts, Inspectors
9 names identified
  • William Sefton Moorhouse (Esquire), Superintendent of Canterbury, delegated powers
  • Henry Scott M’Kellar, Appointed Inspector
  • Herbert Belfield, Appointed Inspector
  • Thomas Williamson Hall, Appointed Inspector
  • Michael Studholme, Appointed Inspector
  • Harry Parker, Appointed Inspector
  • George Babington Parker, Appointed Inspector
  • Philip Baker Boulton, Appointed Inspector
  • Robert Greaves, Appointed Inspector

  • William Sefton Moorhouse, Superintendent of Canterbury
  • THOMAS WILLIAM MAUDE, Provincial Secretary