✨ Government Proclamation
NEW ZEALAND GOVERNMENT GAZETTE.
(PROVINCE OF NEW MUNSTER.)
Published by Authority.
All Public Notifications which appear in this Gazette, with any Official Signatures 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. IV.] WELLINGTON, MONDAY, APRIL 28, 1851. [No. 11.
PROCLAMATION.
By His Excellency EDWARD JOHN EYRE, Esquire, Lieutenant-Governor of the Province of New Munster, in the Islands of New Zealand, &c., &c., &c.
WHEREAS by an Ordinance enacted by the Lieutenant-Governor of New Zealand, by and with the advice of the Legislative Council thereof, Session 8, No. 9, intituled “An Ordinance for Registering Births, Deaths, and Marriages in the Colony of New Zealand,” it is enacted that for the purposes of the said Ordinance, “it shall be lawful for the Governor (or Lieutenant-Governor) by Proclamation, to be for that purpose issued, to divide the Colony of New Zealand into such and so many Districts as he shall think fit, and every such District shall be called by a distinct name,” and shall be a Deputy Registrar’s District :
And whereas by a Proclamation bearing date the Fifteenth day of May, One thousand eight hundred and forty-eight, the boundaries of the District of Akaroa for the purposes of the aforesaid Ordinance were particularly described :
And whereas it has become necessary to divide the aforesaid District of Akaroa into two Districts, to be respectively named the Akaroa District and the Canterbury District :
Now therefore, I, the Lieutenant-Governor in pursuance of the power and authority in me vested by the said in part recited Ordinance, do hereby appoint that until further notification the District of Akaroa shall, for the purposes of the aforesaid Ordinance, consist of that tract of country lying to the South-east of a line drawn from the Western Headland of Pigeon Bay, on the North coast of Banks’ Peninsula to Waikakahi on its Southern coast, and that the Canterbury District for the purposes of the said Ordinance shall consist of the whole of that tract of country lying to the North-west of the said line and heretofore included in the District of Akaroa, as appointed by the Proclamation hereinbefore in part recited.
Given under my hand, and issued under the Public Seal of the Province of New Munster, in the Islands of New Zealand, at Government House, at Wellington, this twenty-sixth day of April, in the year of Our Lord One thousand eight hundred and fifty-one.
E. EYRE,
Lieutenant-Governor.
By His Excellency’s command,
ALFRED DOMETT,
Colonial Secretary.
GOD SAVE THE QUEEN !
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New Munster Gazette 1851, No 11
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🏛️ Proclamation Dividing Akaroa District
🏛️ Governance & Central Administration26 April 1851
Proclamation, District Division, Akaroa, Canterbury, Births, Deaths, Marriages
- EDWARD JOHN EYRE, Lieutenant-Governor of the Province of New Munster
- ALFRED DOMETT, Colonial Secretary