New Zealand Gazette – 1841 – No. 1B

Page 1

✨ Colonial Naming Proclamation

SUPPLEMENT (B.)
TO THE
NEW ZEALAND
GOVERNMENT GAZETTE.
OF JULY 7, 1841.
Published by Authority.

No. 1.] AUCKLAND, WEDNESDAY, JULY 7, 1841.

HIS Excellency the GOVERNOR has been pleased to direct the re-publication of the
following Proclamations, and orders promulgated
from time to time, between the period of the
separation of this Colony from New South Wales
and the present date, for the sake of General
Information and Record.

By His Excellency's Command,

WILLOUGHBY SHORTLAND.

PROCLAMATION.

By HIS EXCELLENCY CAPTAIN WILLIAM
HOBSON, Governor and Com-
mander-in-Chief in and over Her
Majesty's Colony of New Zealand,
and its Dependencies.

WHEREAS Her Majesty has been pleased
by Letters Patent under the Great Seal
of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and
Ireland, bearing date the Sixteenth day of Novem-
ber, in the Year of our Lord One thousand eight
hundred and forty, to erect the Islands of New
Zealand into a separate territory, by the name of
Her Majesty's Colony of New Zealand:-Now,
therefore, I, the Governor and Commander-in-
Chief, by Commission under the Great Seal ap-
pointed, do hereby Notify and Proclaim that
of New Zealand and its Dependencies. And I do
hereby further Notify and Proclaim, that Her
Majesty has been pleased to direct that the Three
Principal Islands of New Zealand, heretofore
known or commonly called-"The Northern
Island," "The Middle Island," and "Stewart's
Island," shall henceforth be designated and
known respectively as "New Ulster," "New
Munster," and "New Leinster," of which all
Her Majesty's subjects are hereby required to take
Notice.

Given under my Hand and Seal, at Go-
vernment House, Auckland, this third
day of May, in the fourth year of Her
Majesty's Reign, and in the year of our
Lord One thousand eight hundred and
forty-one.

"W. HOBSON, GOVERNOR."

By His Excellency's Command,

WILLOUGHBY SHORTLAND.

GOD SAVE THE QUEEN !

VUW Te Waharoa — NZ Gazette 1841, No 1B

Governor William Hobson's Government House in Auckland (1840s)

✨ LLM interpretation of page content

📰 Notice of Re-publication of Previous Orders

Domain📰 NZ Gazette
Dated7 July 1841
KeywordsSupplement preamble, Proclamations, Record keeping
👩‍💼 Officials

Willoughby Shortland

🏛️ Proclamation establishing official names for New Zealand's Principal Islands

Domain🏛️ Governance & Central Administration
Dated3 May 1841
KeywordsProclamation, Island names, New Ulster, New Munster, New Leinster, Auckland
👩‍💼 Officials

William Hobson, Governor and Commander-in-Chief
Willoughby Shortland

As the Gazette has been published for more than 185 years, copyright status depends on the publication date of each issue:

1840–1925 (Public Domain): Issues of the New Zealand Gazette and Provincial Gazettes from this period are in the public domain, as the term of Crown copyright (100 years) has expired. Mechanical reproductions (e.g., scanned PDFs) of these public domain documents do not attract new copyright.
1926–1999 (Crown Copyright): Issues from this period remain subject to Crown copyright. Usage of these issues in this project is "Fair Dealing" for research purposes and consistent with the spirit of the open-access principles championed by NZGOAL, ie, "The default licensing position under ... NZGOAL is the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International licence ... [t]o the greatest extent possible, agencies should apply this licence to copyright material on their websites"
2000–Present (CC-BY 3.0 NZ): Gazette issues published on gazette.govt.nz are Crown copyright but are explicitly licensed by the Department of Internal Affairs under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 New Zealand licence (CC-BY 3.0 NZ). This project redistributes this content in accordance with those terms.

Nothing in this project is intended to infringe copyright, trademark law or personal privacy. Please contact me immediately if you have any concerns.

Third-Party Content

Where third-party content (e.g., notices submitted by external organisations) is identified within the Gazette, users should satisfy themselves regarding the copyright status of that specific content, as it may be subject to different ownership terms than the Gazette itself.

Sources and Attribution

NZ Gazette Sources

The primary sources for the issues of the NZ Gazette indexed by this project are:

New Zealand Gazette Archive, provided by Victoria University Library, copyright 2008 LexisNexis NZ Limited, Crown Copyright of New Zealand Gazette Office
- Issues from 1841-2008, including the New Munster, New Ulster, and Provincial Gazettes
New Zealand Gazettes by New Zealand Legal Information Institute (note: "NZLII is not the copyright owner in the source documents published on NZLII")
- Issues from 1913-1999
Gazette.govt.nz, Crown copyright / licensed by the Department of Internal Affairs under CC-BY 3.0 NZ
- Issues from 2000-2017

Additional Sources

Wellington City Recollect have made available a comprehensive and excellent-quality scan of the Wellington Provincial Gazette which was used to fill in a number of issues missing from Victoria University's Gazette Archive; in particular, all 1856 issues, issues 22-34 for 1864 and issues 9-19 for 1870.
27 issues of The New Zealand Advertiser and Bay of Islands Gazette (1840) were sourced from Papers Past (public domain).
Gazette Extraordinary No. 1 (1840), held at the Alexander Turnbull Library, Wellington, New Zealand. Imaged by Luke Howison at the National Library reading rooms; PDF released into the public domain.

PDF Icon

The PDF PDF Icon was made by Good Ware, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Masthead

The logo in the header is an edited version of “Winning Coat of Arms Competition Entry, 1908” by Archives New Zealand, CC BY 2.0 (found via Wikipedia).

Who made this?

I'm Luke Howison, a freelance web developer with an interest in genealogy. I have created several websites for genealogical research, such as NZ Ancestor Search Helper.

New Zealand Gazette Index