Naturalization Proclamation




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. XII.] MONDAY, APRIL 10, 1865. [No. XVIII.

[Extracted from the General Government Gazette, No. 10, March 18, 1865.]

A PROCLAMATION
For the Naturalization of Certain Persons.

By His Excellency Sir George Grey, Knight Commander of the Most Honorable Order of the Bath, Governor and Commander-in-Chief in and over Her Majesty’s Colony of New Zealand and its Dependencies, and Vice-Admiral of the same, &c., &c., &c.

WHEREAS by “The Naturalization Act, 1864,” it is enacted that every person who shall be declared to come within the operation of that Act by any Proclamation to be issued in that behalf by His Excellency the Governor shall, as from the time in such Proclamation specified, be deemed and taken until the termination of the next Session of the General Assembly, to be, and to have been from such specified time, a natural-born subject of Her Majesty, within the Colony of New Zealand, as fully to all intents and purposes as if his name had been inserted in the Schedule to the Act annexed;

PROVIDED ALWAYS that every such Proclamation shall contain the description, occupation or calling of every person therein named, and his place of residence at the date of such Proclamation.

NOW THEREFORE, I, Sir George Grey, the Governor of New Zealand, in pursuance of the power and authority in me vested by the said Act, DO HEREBY proclaim and declare that the persons hereinafter mentioned shall come within the operation of the said Act from the dates hereinafter specified, viz:

FRIEDRICH CULLMANN,

From the first day of January, One thousand eight hundred and fifty-nine, native of Prussia, Baker; residence, Timaru, in the Province of Canterbury.

CHRISTIAN HADLER,

From the first day of December, One thousand eight hundred and sixty-four, native of Prussia, Farmer; residence, Woodend, in the Province of Canterbury.

CONRAD GEPKIN,

From the fifth day of December, One thousand eight hundred and sixty-four, native of Hanover, Farmer; residence, Woodend, in the Province of Canterbury.

MORRIS BARSHIT,

From the nineteenth day of December, One thousand eight hundred and sixty-four, native of Carlish Poland, Russia, Tailor; residence, Christchurch, in the Province of Canterbury.

FRIEDERICH BRINKMANN,

From the twenty-fourth day of January, One thousand eight hundred and sixty-five, native of Germany, Bushman; residence, Waimate Mate, in the Province of Canterbury.

HERMANN MEYER,

From the twenty-fourth day of January, One thousand eight hundred and sixty-five, native of Germany, Carpenter; residence, Waimate Mate, in the Province of Canterbury.

Vol. 12.—No. 18.



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🏛️ Proclamation for the Naturalization of Certain Persons

🏛️ Governance & Central Administration
10 April 1865
Naturalization, Proclamation, Citizenship, Canterbury
6 names identified
  • Friedrich Cullmann, Naturalized as British subject
  • Christian Hadler, Naturalized as British subject
  • Conrad Gepkin, Naturalized as British subject
  • Morris Barshit, Naturalized as British subject
  • Friederich Brinkmann, Naturalized as British subject
  • Hermann Meyer, Naturalized as British subject

  • Sir George Grey, Governor and Commander-in-Chief
  • William Rolleston, Provincial Secretary