Nelson Provincial Gazette

Also known as Government Gazette (Province of Nelson)

The Nelson Provincial Gazette is currently not available online

Some reprinted content is available on Papers Past in the Nelson Examiner.

Historical Background

Nelson Province was one of the six original provinces established under the New Zealand Constitution Act 1852, proclaimed into force on 17 January 1853. It was formed from the northern portion of the former New Munster province, and as originally delimited covered the entire upper South Island — from the Hurunui River in the east to the mouth of the Grey River in the west.

Settlement had been established at Nelson by the New Zealand Company in 1842, making it the second New Zealand Company settlement after Wellington and the first major planned European city in the South Island. The province was named after Vice-Admiral Lord Nelson (similar to nearby Wellington). Nelson Anniversary Day commemorates the arrival of the Fifeshire on 1 February 1842.

Nelson's first Superintendent, Edward Stafford, went on to become one of the more significant figures of early colonial politics, serving as Premier of New Zealand on three separate occasions. He is also credited with establishing the free, secular and compulsory education system that became the model adopted nationally in 1877.

The province lost its north-eastern district when Marlborough separated in 1859, reducing Nelson to roughly the area it retained for the remainder of the provincial era.

Provincial government was abolished under the Abolition of Provinces Act, which took full effect on 1 November 1876.

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Map of provincial boundaries, 1873

1873 Province boundaries (from Wikipedia)

Further reading

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nelson_Province

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Provinces_of_New_Zealand

https://teara.govt.nz/en/colonial-and-provincial-government/page-2

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The Nelson Provincial Council Buildings (depicted) were constructed beginning with the laying of the foundation stone on 26 August 1859, with the first Council meeting held there on 30 April 1861. The buildings served Nelson for over a century before being demolished on 12 September 1969.

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As the Gazette has been published for more than 185 years, copyright status depends on the publication date of each issue:

1840–1925 (Public Domain): Issues of the New Zealand Gazette and Provincial Gazettes from this period are in the public domain, as the term of Crown copyright (100 years) has expired. Mechanical reproductions (e.g., scanned PDFs) of these public domain documents do not attract new copyright.
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Sources and Attribution

NZ Gazette Sources

The primary sources for the issues of the NZ Gazette indexed by this project are:

New Zealand Gazette Archive, provided by Victoria University Library, copyright 2008 LexisNexis NZ Limited, Crown Copyright of New Zealand Gazette Office
- Issues from 1841-2008, including the New Munster, New Ulster, and Provincial Gazettes
New Zealand Gazettes by New Zealand Legal Information Institute (note: "NZLII is not the copyright owner in the source documents published on NZLII")
- Issues from 1913-1999
Gazette.govt.nz, Crown copyright / licensed by the Department of Internal Affairs under CC-BY 3.0 NZ
- Issues from 2000-2017

Additional Sources

Wellington City Recollect have made available a comprehensive and excellent-quality scan of the Wellington Provincial Gazette which was used to fill in a number of issues missing from Victoria University's Gazette Archive; in particular, all 1856 issues, issues 22-34 for 1864 and issues 9-19 for 1870.
27 issues of The New Zealand Advertiser and Bay of Islands Gazette (1840) were sourced from Papers Past (public domain).
Gazette Extraordinary No. 1 (1840), held at the Alexander Turnbull Library, Wellington, New Zealand. Imaged by Luke Howison at the National Library reading rooms; PDF released into the public domain.

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The logo in the header is an edited version of “Winning Coat of Arms Competition Entry, 1908” by Archives New Zealand, CC BY 2.0 (found via Wikipedia).

Who made this?

I'm Luke Howison, a freelance web developer with an interest in genealogy. I have created several websites for genealogical research, such as NZ Ancestor Search Helper.