✨ Disease Control and Gold Field Reward
shall be immediately destroyed and their carcasses disposed of in such manner as the Governor shall direct; and all such Cattle as shall, upon such inspection, be found and declared by such person so to be appointed as aforesaid not to be infected with the said disease, shall be immediately removed to the Slaughter Yards at the said Ports of Hobart Town and Port Arthur, as the case may be, there to remain until they shall be slaughtered.
Given under my hand and seal, at Hobart Town, in Tasmania aforesaid, this second day of December, One thousand eight hundred and sixty-one.
H. E. F. YOUNG.
By His Excellency’s Command, and with the advice of the Executive Council.
WILLIAM HENTY,
Colonial Secretary.
£1,000 REWARD.
AVAILABLE GOLD FIELD.
Superintendent’s Office,
Wellington, 15th January, 1862.
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the Provincial Government of Wellington, will award a Sum or Sums of Money, not exceeding in the whole the amount of One Thousand Pounds Sterling, payable to any one person, or distributable rateably amongst any number of persons, who shall discover and make known to the Government the existence of an available Gold Field within the Province of Wellington.
All claims for the payment of this Reward, or any portion of it, are to be sent in to the Government, addressed to the Provincial Secretary in the first instance, by whom they will be afterwards referred to the decision of a Commission consisting of three persons, one to be named by the Wellington Chamber of Commerce and two by the Superintendent.
By “available Gold Field” is meant a district within which Gold shall be judged by the Commissioners to exist capable of affording employment to a body of not less than six hundred (600) diggers at a remunerative rate of wages.
I. E. FEATHERSTON,
Superintendent.
Joseph Rhodes
Depy. Supy.
Printed under the Authority of the Government of the Province of Wellington by Thomas McKenzie and James Muir, Printers for the time being to such Government.
Marlborough Provincial Gazette 1862, No 4
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Proclamation Regarding Pleuro Pneumonia in Cattle
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🌾 Primary Industries & Resources2 December 1861
Pleuro Pneumonia, Cattle, Disease Prevention, Import Restrictions
- H. E. F. YOUNG
- WILLIAM HENTY, Colonial Secretary
🌾 Reward for Discovery of Available Gold Field
🌾 Primary Industries & Resources15 January 1862
Gold Field, Reward, Discovery, Wellington Province
- I. E. FEATHERSTON, Superintendent
- Joseph Rhodes, Depy. Supy.