✨ Proclamation of Governor Succession
NEW ZEALAND
GOVERNMENT GAZETTE
Published by Authority.
All Public Notifications which appear in this Gazette, with any fiat.
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,
ANDREW SINCLAIR, Colonial Secretary.
VOL II.] AUCKLAND, TUESDAY, JAN 3, 1854. [No. 1.
PROCLAMATION
By Lieutenant-Colonel Robert
HENRY WYNYARD, Companion
of the Most Honourable Order
of the Bath, and Chief Officer
in Command of Her Majesty's
Military Forces within, the said
Colony of New Zealand,
&c., &c.
WHEREAS by certain Letters Patent,
bearing date the 13th day of Septem-
ber, 1852, Her Majesty did constitute and
appoint Sir GEORGE GREY, Knight Com-
mander of the most Honourable Order of the
Bath, to be her Majesty's Governor and
Commander-in-Chief in and over the Islands
of New Zealand, with all and singular the
powers, authorities, privileges, and duties in
the said Letters Patent mentioned or referred
to: And whereas, by the said Letters Patent,
her Majesty did will and ordain that in the
event of the absence of the said Sir GEORGE
GREY from the said Islands of New Zealand,
any person being within the said Islands, and
holding a commission from her Majesty, to
be her Lieutenant-Governor of the said Islands,
aid, upon the occurrence of the absence
of the said Sir GEORGE GREY, and during the
continuance of such absence, or until her
pleasure should be known, dis-
charge all the powers, authorities, privileges,
and duties of her Majesty's said Governor
and Commander-in-Chief; and whereas her
Majesty's Commission for the exercise of that
office during such period had been addressed
to him; and whereas it should not be
within the said Islands during the continu-
ance of such absence, or until her
Majesty's Commission as such Lieu-tenant-
tenant-Governor, then, during the contin-
uance of such absence, or until her Ma-
jesty's pleasure should be known, the exercise of
the said Office of Governor and Commander-in-
Chief should be assumed by the Chief
Officer for the time being in command of her
Majesty's Military Forces within the said
Colony. And whereas the said Sir GEORGE
GREY, Governor and Commander-in-Chief in
and over the Islands of New Zealand, did
and is now absent from the said Islands of
New Zealand:
Now, therefore, I, the said Robert Henry
Wynyard, the Chief Officer in command of
Her Majesty's Military Forces within the
Colony of New Zealand, do hereby proclaim
and declare that I have this day taken the
prescribed oaths, and assumed the exercise
of the office of her Majesty's said Governor
and Commander-in-Chief in and over the
Islands of New Zealand; and I hereby call
upon all Officers and Ministers, Civil and
Military, and all other the Inhabitants of the
said Islands, to be aiding and assisting me
herein.
Given under my hand, and issued under
the Public Seal of the Islands of
New Zealand, at Auckland, this
Third Day of January, in the
Year of our Lord one thousand
eight hundred and fifty-four.
By his Excellency's command,
ANDREW SINCLAIR, Colonial Secretary.
GOD SAVE THE QUEEN!
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🏛️ Proclamation assuming office of Governor and Commander-in-Chief
🏛️ Governance & Central Administration3 January 1854
Governor, Lieutenant-Governor, Military Command, Succession, Auckland
- Lieutenant-Colonel Robert Henry Wynyard, Companion of the Most Honourable Order of the Bath
- Sir George Grey, Knight Commander of the most Honourable Order of the Bath
- Andrew Sinclair, Colonial Secretary