✨ Provincial Proclamation
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:
JOHN DAVIES ORMOND, Superintendent.
VOL. XII. SATURDAY, APRIL 22, 1871. No. 14.
PROCLAMATION.
By JOHN DAVIES ORMOND, Esquire, Superintendent of the Province of Hawke’s Bay, in the Islands of New Zealand.
WHEREAS by an Act of the General Assembly of New Zealand, Session 5, No. 70, intituled “An Act to provide for the establishment of New Provinces in New Zealand,” it is among other things enacted that the Provincial Council of any new Province created under such Act shall, upon its first meeting, by an absolute majority, elect some person qualified to vote in the election of a member of the said Council, to be Superintendent of the Province.
And whereas at the first meeting of the Provincial Council of Hawke’s Bay, held on Saturday, the 22nd April, instant, the said Council did, by an absolute majority, elect John Davies Ormond, Esq., to be Superintendent of the Province of Hawke’s Bay.
Now, therefore, I, John Davies Ormond, under the provisions of the said Act, and by virtue of the election aforesaid, have accordingly this day entered upon the duties of Superintendent of the said Province.
Dated this twenty-second day of April, in the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-one.
J. D. ORMOND,
Superintendent.
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🏘️ Proclamation of Election of Superintendent
🏘️ Provincial & Local Government22 April 1871
Proclamation, Election, Superintendent, Hawke's Bay, Provincial Council
- John Davies Ormond (Esquire), Elected Superintendent of Hawke's Bay
- John Davies Ormond, Superintendent