New Munster Gazette – 1852 – No. 22

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✨ Proclamation on Passenger Ship Regulations



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. V.] WELLINGTON, TUESDAY, OCTOBER 1, 1852. [No. 22.

PROCLAMATION.

By His Excellency Sir George Grey, a Knight Commander of the most Honorable Order of the Bath, Governor and Commander-in-Chief in and over the Islands of New Zealand, and Governor of the Provinces of New Ulster and New Munster, and Vice Admiral of the same, &c., &c., &c.

WHEREAS, an Act was passed in the Session of Parliament holden in the Twelfth and Thirteenth years of the Reign of Her present Majesty, intituled “An Act for regulating the carriage of Passengers in Merchant Vessels.”

AND WHEREAS, by the said recited Act it is enacted that it shall be lawful for the Governor of any British Colony, to declare by Proclamation that the said Act shall be extended and shall apply to the carriage of passengers by sea from such colony to such places as may by him be named for the purpose in such proclamation; and that thereupon the said Act shall be thenceforth so extended and shall so apply accordingly:

NOW THEREFORE, I, the Governor-in-Chief of the New Zealand Islands by virtue of the authority in me for that purpose vested as aforesaid, Do hereby proclaim and declare that the said recited Act of Parliament shall be extended and shall apply to the carriage of passengers by sea from the said colony of New Zealand to all ports and places lying between the 70th degree of longitude west, and 110° east of Greenwich.

AND WHEREAS, by the said recited Act it is further enacted that it shall be lawful for the Governor of any such colony as aforesaid by proclamation to declare the rule of computation by which the length of the voyage of any ship carrying passengers from such colony to any other place shall be estimated for the purposes of the said Act:

NOW THEREFORE, I, the said Governor-in-Chief pursuant to such authority as aforesaid, Do hereby further proclaim and declare that the number of days deemed to be necessary for the voyage of any such ship shall be as follow, that is to say:

For a voyage to any Island in the Pacific Ocean, Thirty-five days.

For a voyage to any port on the coast of North or South America, Sixty-three days.



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🏛️ Extension of Passenger Ship Regulations Act to New Zealand

🏛️ Governance & Central Administration
1 October 1852
Proclamation, Passenger Ship Regulations, Act Extension, Maritime Law, New Zealand
  • Sir George Grey, Governor and Commander-in-Chief
  • Alfred Domett, Colonial Secretary