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NOTIFICATION.
By Donald M’Lean, Esquire, 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 21st day of July, 1863, after reciting that it was provided by “The Militia Act, 1858,” 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, Esquire, to be his Deputy within the said District of Napier, from time to time to call out the Militia thereof for actual service: And whereas it is expedient to call out for actual service all those men of the Napier Regiment of Militia, to be hereafter known and designated as “The Hawke’s Bay Volunteers.”
Now, therefore, I, the said Donald M’Lean, Esquire, 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 ACTUAL SERVICE all the men of the Napier Regiment of Militia, hereafter to be known and designated as “The Hawke’s Bay Volunteers.”
And I hereby authorize and request Charles Lambert, Major, the Officer Commanding Militia and Volunteers in Hawke’s Bay, to carry into effect this direction.
Given under my hand, at Napier, this eighth day of April,
One thousand eight hundred and sixty-five.
DONALD M’LEAN.
Printed under the authority of the Government of the Province of Hawke’s Bay, by James Wood Printer for the time being to such Government.
Hawke's Bay Provincial Gazette 1865, No 9
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🛡️ Call-out of Napier Regiment of Militia
🛡️ Defence & Military8 April 1865
Militia, Call-out, Hawke’s Bay Volunteers, Napier Regiment
- Charles Lambert (Major), Authorized to carry out the call-out
- Donald M’Lean, Esquire, Superintendent of the Province of Hawke’s Bay
- James Wood, Printer for the Government of the Province of Hawke’s Bay