✨ Proclamation on cattle disease
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NELSON GOVERNMENT GAZETTE.
sections of "The Diseased Cattle Act 1861," aforesaid, and all the powers which by the fifth section of "The Diseased Cattle Act Amendment Act 1865," the Governor in Council is authorised so to delegate:
Now therefore I, WILLIAM ROLLESTON, by virtue of such powers in me vested, do hereby proclaim and declare that, after the date of the publication hereof in the New Zealand Gazette, all that portion of the Middle Island of New Zealand lying to the north of the Hurunui River, and of a straight line from the source of that river to the County of Westland, the County of Westland, and the Provinces of Otago and Southland in the Middle Island, and the Provinces of Auckland and Taranaki in the North Island, shall be deemed Infected Districts within the meaning of the said Acts: and I do further proclaim and declare the following Regulations for the destruction of diseased cattle, and for the preventing and regulating the removal or transportation of cattle from the said several infected districts into the Province of Canterbury:—
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If any person shall import, drive, or remove, or cause to be imported, driven, or removed, or assist in driving or removing, any cattle from either of the said infected districts into the Province of Canterbury, except upon Quarantine Ground, and the authority of a Quarantine Certificate, such person shall be liable to a penalty of not less than five pounds and not exceeding fifty pounds for every head of cattle so imported, driven, or removed.
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It shall be lawful for any Inspector of Cattle or Police Constable to destroy, or cause to be destroyed, any cattle which shall pass into this Province from either of the said districts, contrary to these Regulations.
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If any person shall wilfully impede or obstruct any Inspector or any Police Constable acting under the authority of these Regulations, every person so offending shall be liable to a penalty of not less than five pounds and not exceeding fifty pounds.
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These Regulations shall take effect from and after the day following the date of publication in the New Zealand Gazette.
Given under my hand this ninth day of September, one thousand eight hundred and seventy.
WM. ROLLESTON,
Superintendent.
Printed under the authority of the Provincial Government of the Nelson, by R. LUCAS and SON, Bridge-street, Nelson, Printers for the time being to the said Government.
Nelson Provincial Gazette 1870, No 31
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Proclamation regarding infected districts and regulations for cattle movement
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🌾 Primary Industries & Resources9 September 1870
Proclamation, Diseased Cattle Act, Infected Districts, Canterbury, Cattle movement, Regulations
- William Rolleston, Superintendent