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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 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,
F. E. STEWART,
Provincial Secretary.
VOL. XIV.] SATURDAY, JANUARY 12, 1867. [No. 11.
PUBLIC NOTICE.
Provincial Secretary’s Office,
Christchurch, Jan. 11, 1867.
HIS Honor the Superintendent directs it to be notified that MONDAY, the 14th instant will be observed as a General Holiday, for the Reception of His Excellency the Governor.
F. E. STEWART,
Provincial Secretary.
Provincial Secretary’s Office,
Christchurch, January 5, 1867.
HIS Honor the Superintendent directs it to be notified that he has appointed
A. W. ROWLAND
to be Poundkeeper at the Leeston Pound.
F. E. STEWART,
Provincial Secretary.
COMMISSIONERS’ REPORT.
Ship “Mermaid.”
THE Commissioners report that they found all the Immigrants’ compartments on board the ship “Mermaid” in a cleanly and orderly condition, and that the Immigrants expressed themselves as satisfied with the treatment they had received upon the voyage from the master, surgeon and officers.
The rations supplied had been of good quality, and plentifully supplied.
No cases of sickness of any serious import had occurred throughout the voyage.
Great inconvenience had occurred through the mixing, in the same compartment, of free steerage passengers with the assisted immigrants, these being upon different dietary scales, and to some extent under different discipline. In the single men’s compartment, some of the free passengers refused to take their turn in cleansing the deck, &c., impeding the maintenance of discipline and regularity. To this evil the Commissioners have, on previous occasions, drawn the attention of the Government.
An exception to the general expression of satisfaction among the immigrants had occurred in the married people’s compartment, through one of the bunks being injudiciously placed immediately under three of the ventilators which admit air from the deck. These allowed rain and sea-water to enter the bunk during bad weather, and exposed its occupants to the discomforts of cold and wet.
The matron is reported to have endeavoured to perform her duties, but to have wanted capacity.
The supply of water from the condenser had been plentiful and good.
Vol. 14.—No. 2.
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Canterbury Provincial Gazette 1867, No 2
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🏘️ Public Holiday Announcement
🏘️ Provincial & Local Government11 January 1867
Public Holiday, Reception, Governor
- F. E. Stewart, Provincial Secretary
🏘️ Appointment of Poundkeeper
🏘️ Provincial & Local Government5 January 1867
Appointment, Poundkeeper, Leeston
- A. W. Rowland, Appointed Poundkeeper
- F. E. Stewart, Provincial Secretary
🛂 Commissioners' Report on Ship Mermaid
🛂 ImmigrationImmigrants, Ship Conditions, Rations, Discipline