Militia and Superintendent Notices




THE

HAWKE’S BAY GOVERNMENT GAZETTE.

(PUBLISHED BY AUTHORITY.)

All public Notifications which appear in this Gazette, with any Official Signature thereunto annexed, are to be considered as Official Communications made to those persons to whom they relate, and are to be obeyed accordingly.

DONALD M’LEAN,
Superintendent.

Vol. V. SATURDAY, MAY 7, 1864. No. 9.

NOTIFICATION.

By DONALD M’LEAN, Esq., Superintendent of the Province of Hawke’s Bay, in the Islands of New Zealand.

WHEREAS by an Instrument under the hand of His Excellency Sir George Grey, the Governor of New Zealand, dated the 26th day of June, 1863, after reciting that it was provided by “The Militia Acts Amendment Act 1862” that it should be lawful for the Governor or such person as he should appoint as his deputy for that purpose from time to time to call out the whole or any part or number of any Regiment, Battalion, Corps or Company as he should think fit, and reciting that it was expedient that a person should be appointed for the Militia District of Napier to exercise the above recited power, the said Governor did appoint me, the undersigned, Donald M’Lean, Esq., to be his Deputy within the said District of Napier, from time to time to call out the Militia thereof for training and exercise, subject nevertheless to the conditions and restrictions of the laws in force for the regulation of the Militia:

And whereas it is expedient to call out for training and exercise the men of the 1st and 2nd classes of the Militia and Volunteers of the said Napier District;

Now, therefore, I, the said Donald M’Lean, Esq., Deputy of the said Governor, as aforesaid, in pursuance and execution of the power given to me by the Instrument before recited, Do hereby call out for training and exercise

All the men of the 1st and 2nd classes of the Militia and Volunteers of the said Napier District; and I hereby authorise and request George Stoddart Whitmore, Major, the officer commanding the said District, to carry into effect this direction.

Given under my hand at Napier, this sixth day of May, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-four.

DONALD M’LEAN,
Superintendent.

PROCLAMATION.

By DONALD M’LEAN, Esq., Superintendent of the Province of Hawke’s Bay.

WHEREAS by an Act of the General Assembly of New Zealand, Session 4, No. 16, intituled “The Superintendent’s Deputy Act 1856,” the Superintendent of any Province is empowered by proclamation in the “Provincial Government Gazette” to appoint such registered elector of the Province as he may think fit to be his Deputy, and as such to perform and exercise all the acts and powers (except such powers as are conferred by the Constitution Act)



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🛡️ Militia Call-out for Training

🛡️ Defence & Military
6 May 1864
Militia, Training, Napier, Volunteers
  • George Stoddart Whitmore (Major), Authorised to carry out training direction

  • Donald M'Lean, Esq., Superintendent

🏛️ Superintendent's Deputy Appointment Proclamation

🏛️ Governance & Central Administration
Proclamation, Deputy Appointment, Superintendent
  • Donald M'Lean, Esq., Superintendent