✨ Diseased Cattle Proclamations
NELSON GOVERNMENT GAZETTE.
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deemed to be an Infected District within the meaning
of "The Diseased Cattle Act, 1861;" and that no
cattle shall be allowed to be imported from that
district into the Province of Nelson.
Given under my hand, at Wellington, this
Fourteenth day of October, One thousand
eight hundred and seventy-one.
OSWALD CURTIS,
Superintendent of Nelson.
PROCLAMATION.
WHEREAS the Governor hath, by and with the
advice of the Executive Council of New Zealand,
delegated to WILLIAM ROLLESTON, Esq., Superinten-
dent of the Province of Canterbury, within the said
Province, so long as he shall remain Superintendent
of the Province, the several powers vested in the
Governor or Governor in Council by the second,
fifth, seventh, ninth, and tenth Sections of "The
Diseased Cattle Act, 1861;" and all the powers
which by the fifth section of "The Diseased Cattle
Act Amendment Act, 1865," the Governor is
authorized 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, shall
be deemed to be an Infected District within the mean-
ing of the said Acts:
And I do further proclaim and declare the follow-
ing 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. -
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 dis-
tricts contrary to these Regulations. -
If any person shall willfully impede or
obstruct any Inspector or any Police Con-
stable 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. -
These Regulations shall take effect from and
after the day following the date of publi-
cation in the New Zealand Gazette.
Given under my hand, this Nineteenth day of
October, One thousand eight hundred
and seventy-one.
W. ROLLESTON,
Superintendent.
Printed under the authority of the Provincial Government of the Province of Nelson, by CHARLES ELLIOTT, Trafalgar-street,
Nelson, Printer for the time being to the said Government.
Nelson Provincial Gazette 1871, No 28
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Proclamation regarding diseased cattle districts
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- Oswald Curtis, Superintendent of Nelson
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- William Rolleston (Esquire), Superintendent of the Province of Canterbury
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