✨ Government Proclamations and Notices
NEW ZEALAND
GOVERNMENT GAZETTE,
PROVINCE OF CANTERBURY.
Published by Authority.
All Public Notifications which appear in this Gazette, with any Official Signatures, 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,
WILLIAM ROLLESTON,
Provincial Secretary.
VOL. XI.] MONDAY, FEBRUARY 1, 1864. [No. III.]
PROCLAMATION.
WHEREAS by Proclamation dated October 30, 1862, the Province of Otago was declared to be an infected district within the meaning of the “Diseased Cattle Act, 1861,” and it was declared that no cattle should be imported from the said Province either by land or sea: Now, therefore, I, SAMUEL BEALEY, Superintendent of the Province of Canterbury, by virtue of the powers vested in me in that behalf do hereby proclaim and declare the following Regulations for the destruction of diseased cattle and for preventing the introduction of cattle out of the said infected district into the Province of Canterbury.
I. If any person shall drive or remove, or cause to be driven or removed, or assist in driving or removing any cattle from the said infected district into the Province of Canterbury, such person shall be liable to a penalty of fifty pounds for every head of cattle so driven into the Province of Canterbury.
II. It shall be lawful for any Inspector of Cattle or Police Constable to destroy or cause to be destroyed any cattle which shall pass into this Province from the District of the Province of Otago.
III. If any person shall wilfully impede or obstruct any Inspector or any Police Constable acting under the authority of these Regulations, every person so offending shall and may be seized and detained by such person so acting as aforesaid, or any person or persons he may call to his assistance, until such offender or offenders can be taken before two Justices of the Peace, and shall be liable to a penalty of Fifty Pounds.
Given under my hand, at Christchurch, this thirtieth day of January, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-four.
S. BEALEY,
Superintendent.
By His Honor’s command,
Wm. Rolleston,
Provincial Secretary.
NOTICE.
£100 REWARD.
WHEREAS by the breaking out of the disease called Pleuro-pneumonia among the cattle in the Province of Otago, it is necessary strictly to enforce the prohibition of the introduction of cattle into the Province of Canterbury from the said Province either by land or sea; and whereas certain Regulations to this effect have been issued by His Honor the Superintendent: Notice is hereby given that a reward of £100 will be given to any person who shall give such information as shall lead to the conviction of any person who shall drive or remove, or cause to be driven or removed, or assist in driving or removing any cattle from the said infected district into the Province of Canterbury.
WM. ROLLESTON,
Provincial Secretary.
January 30, 1864.
Vol. XI.—No. 3.
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Canterbury Provincial Gazette 1864, No 3
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🌾 Proclamation regarding diseased cattle from Otago
🌾 Primary Industries & Resources30 January 1864
Cattle, Disease, Proclamation, Otago, Canterbury
- Samuel Bealey, Superintendent
- William Rolleston, Provincial Secretary
🌾 Notice offering reward for information on cattle smuggling
🌾 Primary Industries & Resources30 January 1864
Cattle, Smuggling, Reward, Otago, Canterbury
- William Rolleston, Provincial Secretary