New Zealand Gazette – 1845 – No. 28

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✨ Official Proclamation



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NEW ZEALAND
GOVERNMENT GAZETTE,
EXTRAORDINARY.

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.

By His Excellency's Command,
ANDREW SINCLAIR, Colonial Secretary.

VOL. V.] AUCKLAND, TUESDAY, NOV. 18, 1845. [No. 28.

PROCLAMATION.

By His Excellency GEORGE GREY,
Esquire, Governor and Commander-in-
Chief of Her Majesty's Province of
South Australia, and Lieutenant-Governor
and Commander-in-Chief in and over Her
Majesty's Colony of New Zealand, and
its Dependencies, and Vice-Admiral of
the same, &c., &c., &c.

WHEREAS, Her Majesty has been gra
ciously pleased, by a Warrant under
the Royal Signet and Sign Manual, bearing
date the twenty-first day of June, in the year
of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and
forty-five, to constitute and appoint me,
GEORGE GREY, Esquire, to be Lieutenant-
Governor of Her Majesty's Colony of New
Zealand, with such powers and authorities, and
according to such directions as are expressed in
Her Majesty's Letters Patent under the Great
Seal of the United Kingdom of Great Britain
and Ireland, bearing date at Westminster, the
sixteenth day of November, 1840: And Her
Majesty did require and command all Officers
and Ministers, and all other Her subjects in
the said Colony, and all others whom it may
concern, to take due notice of Her Majesty's
said Warrant, and to give their ready obedience
accordingly.

Now therefore, I, GEORGE GREY. do hereby
proclaim and declare, that I have, this day,
taken the prescribed Oaths, and assumed the
administration of the Government, accordingly;
And I hereby call upon the Inhabitants of the
Colony, to be aiding and assisting me therein.

(L. S.)

Given under my Hand, and under
the Public Seal of the Colony,
at Government House, Auckland,
this eighteenth day of Novem-
ber, in the year of Our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and
forty-five.

GEORGE GREY,
Lieutenant-Governor.

By His Excellency's Command,

ANDREW SINCLAIR,
Colonial Secretary.

GOD SAVE THE QUEEN!

CHRISTOPHER FULTON, Government Printer, Auckland,



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🏛️ Proclamation of George Grey assuming office as Lieutenant-Governor

🏛️ Governance & Central Administration
18 November 1845
Proclamation, Lieutenant-Governor, Assumption of office, Auckland, Royal Warrant
  • George Grey, Esquire, Lieutenant-Governor
  • Andrew Sinclair, Colonial Secretary