Marlborough Provincial Gazette – 1863 – No. 48

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✨ Military Volunteer Enrollment



THE

GOVERNMENT GAZETTE

OF THE

PROVINCE OF MARLBOROUGH.

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.

WILLIAM DOUGLAS HALL BAILLIE,
Superintendent.

Vol. IV.] FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 6, 1863. [No. 48.

(CIRCULAR MEMORANDUM.)

Deputy Adjutant General's Office,
Auckland, 22nd Jan., 1863.

SIR,—I have the honour to enclose copy of a letter written to me by direction of the Hon. the Colonial Secretary, communicating the views of the Government with respect to the enrollment of Volunteers in New Zealand, and request you to give it every publicity in your power.

I have the honour to be, sir,
Your most obedient servant,

H. C. BALNEATIS,
Deputy Adjutant-General of Militia and Volunteers.

The Hon. Capt. Baillie, Commanding
Militia and Volunteers,
Marlborough.

Colonial Secretary's Office,
Auckland, 22nd Jan., 1863.

SIR,—I have the honour, by the direction of Mr. Domett, to communicate to you the views of the Government with respect to the enrollment of Volunteers in the different provinces of New Zealand.

  1. The Government regret that in the Northern Island, where the necessity for local forces is the greater, the Volunteer movement has not in the several Provinces, with the exception of Taranaki and of the Districts of Wanganui and the Hutt, made that progress which might have been reasonably anticipated.

  2. This result has, no doubt, arisen from a variety of causes to which it is not now necessary to advert, inasmuch as the object of this letter is not to impute blame to any one for the past, but to state explicitly the course which the Government wish to take with respect to the future.

  3. The Regulations, under which the services of Volunteers are accepted, now in force, are as you are aware, those constituted by an Order in Council dated the 16th January 1862, and published in the New Zealand Gazette, No. 6, of the 20th of that month. The Government would infer from the disinclination shown by the



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🛡️ Circular Memorandum on Volunteer Enrollment

🛡️ Defence & Military
22 January 1863
Volunteers, Enrollment, Military, Marlborough, Taranaki, Wanganui, Hutt
  • H. C. Balneatis, Deputy Adjutant-General of Militia and Volunteers
  • The Hon. Capt. Baillie, Commanding Militia and Volunteers
  • Mr. Domett