Nelson Provincial Gazette – 1856 – No. 20

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✨ Provincial Council Proclamation

NEW ZEALAND
GOVERNMENT GAZETTE
(PROVINCE OF NELSON).

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 may relate, and are to be obeyed accordingly.

By His Honor's command,
S. L. MULLER, Provincial Secretary.

VOL. IV. NELSON, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 17, 1856. No. 20.

PROCLAMATION.

By his Honor JOHN PERRY ROBINSON, Esquire, Superintendent of the Province of Nelson, in the Islands of New Zealand, &c., &c.

WHEREAS, by an Act of the Imperial Parliament, passed in the session holden in the fifteenth and sixteenth years of the reign of her Majesty Queen Victoria, cap. 72, intituled "An Act to grant a Representative Constitution to the Colony of New Zealand," it is enacted that it shall be lawful for the Superintendent of any Province established by the said act, by proclamation in the Government Gazette, to fix such place or places within the limits of the Province, and such times for holding any session of the Provincial Council as he may think fit, and from time to time, in manner aforesaid, to alter and vary such times and places as he may judge advisable and most consistent with general convenience:

Now therefore I, the Superintendent of Nelson, in pursuance of the power and authority in me vested, do hereby proclaim and appoint that the Provincial Council of Nelson shall meet at the Council Chamber, Nelson, on MONDAY, the Twelfth day of January next, at one o'clock, p.m.

Given under my hand, and issued under the seal of the Province, at Nelson, this Sixteenth day of December, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and fifty-six.

J. P. ROBINSON,
Superintendent.

By his Honor's command,
S. L. MULLER,
Provincial Secretary.

GOD SAVE THE QUEEN!

PDF — Nelson Provincial Gazette 1856, No 20

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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🏘️ Proclamation convening the Provincial Council of Nelson

Domain🏘️ Provincial & Local Government
Dated16 December 1856
KeywordsProclamation, Provincial Council, Nelson, Meeting
👩‍💼 Officials

J. P. Robinson, Superintendent
S. L. Muller, Provincial Secretary

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