✨ Cemetery Agreement
NEW ZEALAND GOVERNMENT GAZETTE.
(PROVINCE OF NEW MUNSTER.)
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 Excellency’s Command,
ALFRED DOMETT, Colonial Secretary.
VOL. II.] WELLINGTON, FRIDAY, MARCH 23, 1849. [No. 5.
Colonial Secretary’s Office,
Wellington, 22nd March, 1849.
HIS EXCELLENCY THE LIEUTENANT-GOVERNOR has been pleased to direct the publication, for general information, of the following memorandum of an agreement, respecting the Cemetery Reserve in the Town of Wellington, entered into by the Lord Bishop of New Zealand and the other representatives of the various sections of the public interested therein.
His Excellency takes this opportunity of expressing the high sense entertained by himself and the Executive Council of the liberal and conciliatory spirit manifested on the present occasion by all the parties to the arrangement alluded to, and which mainly contributed to its satisfactory conclusion.
By His Excellency’s Command,
ALFRED DOMETT,
Colonial Secretary.
MEMORANDUM of an arrangement between the Right Reverend the Lord Bishop of New Zealand on behalf of the Church of England, and the Rev. J. Woodward, the Rev. J. Inglis, the Rev. J. Watkin, W. Lyon, Esq., and R. Hart, Esq., on behalf of the Non-Episcopalian portion of the community of Wellington, entered into this 21st day of March, 1849, in the presence and under the sanction of His Excellency the Lieutenant-Governor and the Executive Council of the Province—for the purpose of adjusting the difficulties which have arisen in connexion with the Cemetery question, viz.:
It is unanimously agreed upon and consented to by all the parties present, on their own behalf and on behalf of those whom they represent—
First, That the Lord Bishop shall resign his claim to the seven and a half acres awarded as a Cemetery to the Church of England by the Board appointed in October, 1842, to appropriate the Public Reserves;
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New Munster Gazette 1849, No 5
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🏛️ Memorandum of Cemetery Agreement
🏛️ Governance & Central Administration22 March 1849
Cemetery, Agreement, Wellington, Church of England, Non-Episcopalian
6 names identified
- Bishop of New Zealand (Right Reverend), Representing Church of England
- J. Woodward (Reverend), Representing Non-Episcopalian community
- J. Inglis (Reverend), Representing Non-Episcopalian community
- J. Watkin (Reverend), Representing Non-Episcopalian community
- W. Lyon (Esquire), Representing Non-Episcopalian community
- R. Hart (Esquire), Representing Non-Episcopalian community
- Alfred Domett, Colonial Secretary