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GOVERNMENT GAZETTE.
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VOL. III.] AUCKLAND, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 5, 1843. [No. 14.
PROCLAMATION.
By His Excellency WILLOUGHBY
SHORTLAND, Esquire, the Officer
Administering the Government in and
over Her Majesty's Colony of New
Zealand and its Dependencies, and
Vice Admiral of the same, &c. &c. &c.
Issued under the Public Seal of the
Colony.
WHEREAS by an Ordinance enacted by
the Governor of New Zealand, with the
advice and consent of the Legislative Council
thereof, Session II, No. 17, intituled, "An
Ordinance to impose a Tax upon Raupo Houses,"
it is enacted that it shall be lawful for His Ex-
cellency the Governor from time to time by
Proclamation, to declare the provisions therein-
after contained, to be in force in any Town, or
part of any Town, the boundaries whereof res-
pectively shall be defined by such proclamation;
and whereas it is further enacted by the afore-
said Ordinance, that on a day to be named in
such Proclamation, not being less than six calen-
dar months from the date thereof, and on the
same day of every succeeding year, there shall
be levied in respect of every building constructed
wholly, or in part of raupo, nikau, toitoi, wiwi,
kakaho, straw, or thatch of any description, and
situate within the boundaries so defined, the sum
of twenty pounds.
And whereas it is further enacted, that no
person shall erect or cause to be erected, any
such building as aforesaid, in any Town in which
the provisions of this Ordinance shall be declared
to be in force, and that every person shall, for so
offending, forfeit and pay the sum of one hun-
dred pounds, to be recovered in a summary way.
Now therefore I, the Officer administering
the Government of New Zealand aforesaid, in
pursuance of the authority, by the said in part
recited Ordinance, in me vested, do hereby
proclaim and declare that from and after
the first day of October next, the Borough
of Wellington, and the whole of the said
Borough, that is to say, all lands comprised
within the line set forth in the Surveyor's
plan, as the outside boundaries of the Public
Reserve, in the plan of the Town of Port
Nicholson, approved by His Excellency the
Governor, excepting the Pah Te Aro, and the
Pah Pipeten, as at present occupied by the
natives, shall come within the operation of the
said Ordinance.
Given under my hand, at Government
House, Auckland, this thirtieth day of
March, in the year of our Lord one
thousand eight hundred and forty-three..
WILLOUGHBY SHORTLAND,
THE OFFICER ADMINISTERING THE GOVERNMENT,
By His Excellency's Command,
(For the Colonial Secretary),
WILLIAM CONNELL.
GOD SAVE THE QUEEN !
Colonial Secretary's Office,
Auckland, 3d April, 1843.
H IS EXCELLENCY the Officer administering
the Government directs it to be notified
that a Despatch has been received from the
Right Honorable Her MAJESTY'S Principal
Secretary of State for the Colonies, intimating
the confirmation, by his Lordship, of the ap-
pointments of
EDWARD LEE GODFREY, Esq., and
MATHEW RICHMOND, Esq.,
as Commissioners for hearing and reporting on
Claims to Grants of Land in New Zealand.
By His Excellency's command.
(For the Colonial Secretary,)
WILLIAM CONNELL.
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NZ Gazette 1843, No 13A
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🏛️ Proclamation applying Raupo House Tax to Borough of Wellington
🏛️ Governance & Central Administration30 March 1843
Raupo house tax, Wellington Borough, Ordinance, Public Reserve, Land boundaries
- WILLOUGHBY SHORTLAND, Esquire, THE OFFICER ADMINISTERING THE GOVERNMENT
- WILLIAM CONNELL, (For the Colonial Secretary)
🗺️ Confirmation of appointments for Land Claims Commissioners
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Land Claims Commissioners, Confirmation, Secretary of State for the Colonies, Appointments
- Edward Lee Godfrey (Esquire), Appointed Land Claims Commissioner
- Mathew Richmond (Esquire), Appointed Land Claims Commissioner
- WILLIAM CONNELL, (For the Colonial Secretary)