Marlborough Provincial Gazette – 1874 – No. 248

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✨ Proclamation

NEW ZEALAND
GOVERNMENT GAZETTE
(PROVINCE OF MARLBOROUGH.)

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.

A. P. SEYMOUR,
Superintendent

VOL. XV.] THURSDAY, APRIL 2, 1874. [No. 247.

PROCLAMATION.

By his Honor ARTHUR PENROSE SEYMOUR, Esquire, Superintendent of the Province of Marlborough, in the Colony of New Zealand.

WHEREAS by an Act of the General Assembly of New Zealand in Parliament assembled, and by authority of the same intituled “The Protection of Animals Act, 1873,” it is enacted that it shall be lawful for the Superintendent from time to time, by proclamation published in the Gazette, to declare that all or any of the provisions of this Act relating to Native Game shall not be in force in such parts of the said Province as he shall in such proclamation define :

Now, therefore, I, ARTHUR PENROSE SEYMOUR, Superintendent of the above Province, do hereby proclaim and declare that all the provisions of the said Act relating to Native Game shall not be in force in the Province of Marlborough from the First day of April now next ensuing, until revoked by proclamation in the Gazette in the manner prescribed by the said Act.

Given under my hand, and issued under the Public Seal of the Province of Marlborough, this Twenty-fifth day of March, One thousand eight hundred and seventy-four.

A. P. SEYMOUR,
Superintendent.

By his Honor’s command,
CYRUS GOULTER,
Provincial Secretary.

VUW Te Waharoa — Marlborough Provincial Gazette 1874, No 248

The Marlborough Provincial Council used two modest buildings in Blenheim (depicted) as their council chambers.

✨ LLM interpretation of page content

🏛️ Proclamation regarding the Protection of Animals Act, 1873

Domain🏛️ Governance & Central Administration
Dated25 March 1874
KeywordsProtection of Animals Act, Native Game, Proclamation, Marlborough Province
👩‍💼 Officials

ARTHUR PENROSE SEYMOUR, Superintendent
CYRUS GOULTER, Provincial Secretary

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