New Zealand Gazette – 1854 – No. 27

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✨ Government Proclamation

DIEU

OUI MAL・X
DROIT

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, and are to be obeyed accordingly.

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

VOL. II.] AUCKLAND, SATURDAY, SEPT. 16, 1854. [No. 27.

PROCLAMATION.

By His Excellency Lieutenant
Colonel ROBERT HENRY WYN-
YARD, a Companion of the Most
Honourable Order of the Bath,
the Officer Administering the
Government of the Islands of
New Zealand, &c., &c. &c.

WHEREAS by an Act made and en-
acted in the Parliament holden in
the fifteenth and sixteenth years of the
Reign of Her Majesty Queen Victoria,
intituled "An Act to grant a Representa-
tive Constitution to the Colony of New
Zealand," it is amongst other things en-
acted that the Governor may at his
pleasure prorogue the General Assembly of
New Zealand.

Now I, the Officer administering the
Government of New Zealand, do hereby

proclaim and declare that, pursuant to the
authority vested in me in that behalf by
the said recited Act, I have this day pro-
rogued the General Assembly of New
Zealand until the Fifth day of
July, one thousand eight hundred and
fifty-five.

Given under my hand and issued
under the Public Seal of the
Islands of New Zealand, at
Auckland, this 16th day of
Septr., in the year of our
Lord one thousand eight hun-
dred and fifty-four.

R. H. WYNYARD,
Officer Administering the Government.

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

GOD SAVE THE QUEEN!

VUW Te Waharoa — NZ Gazette 1854, No 27

Parliament sat at General Assembly House (nicknamed the 'Shedifice') in Auckland from 1854-1864, sharing the building with the Auckland Provincial Council.

Ironically the Upper House met on the lower story, and the Lower House on the upper story.

✨ LLM interpretation of page content

🏛️ Prorogation of the General Assembly of New Zealand until July 1855

Domain🏛️ Governance & Central Administration
Dated16 September 1854
KeywordsProclamation, General Assembly, Prorogation, Government Authority
👩‍💼 Officials

Lieutenant-Colonel ROBERT HENRY WYNYARD, Officer Administering the Government
ANDREW SINCLAIR, Colonial Secretary

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