✨ Militia Call-out Notice
THE
HAWKE’S BAY GOVERNMENT GAZETTE.
PUBLISHED BY AUTHORITY.
All public Notifications which appear in this Gazette, with any Official Signature thereto 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. VI. WEDNESDAY, APRIL 19, 1865. No. 11.
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 receiving that it was
provided by the “Militia Act 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 all the men of the 1st and 2nd
classes of the Militia of the said Napier District and all the men of the Volunteers of the same
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 of the said Napier District, and all
the men of the Volunteers of the same District.
And I hereby authorize and request Charles Lambert, Major, the Officer commanding
the said District, to carry into effect this direction.
Given under my hand, at Napier, this 15th day of April, One thousand
eight hundred and sixty-five.
DONALD M’LEAN.
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Hawke's Bay Provincial Gazette 1865, No 11
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🛡️ Call-out of Militia and Volunteers for Training
🛡️ Defence & Military15 April 1865
Militia, Volunteers, Training, Napier District, Hawke's Bay
- Charles Lambert (Major), Authorized to carry out the call-out
- Donald M'Lean, Superintendent of the Province of Hawke's Bay