✨ Proclamation and Resignation
NEW ZEALAND
GOVERNMENT GAZETTE.
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. III] AUCKLAND, FRIDAY, JAN. 26, 1855. [No. 2.
PROCLAMATION.
By His Excellency Colonel ROBERT
HENRY WYNYARD, Companion
of the most Honourable Order
of the Bath, Officer Admin-
istering the Government and
Commander-in-Chief in and
over the Islands of New Zea-
land, &c., &c.
WHEREAS by an Act hearing date the
fourteenth day of September, one
thousand eight hundred and fifty-four, passed
by the Governor of the New Zealand Islands,
by and with the consent of the General As-
sembly, intituled "An Act for the Naturaliza-
tion of certain persons in the Colony of
New Zealand. It is enacted, inter alia, that
all and singular the persons who shall be
declared to come within the operation of such
Act by any Proclamation to be issued in that
behalf by his Excellency the Governor shall
be deemed and taken until the next session
of the General Assembly to be natural born
subjects of Her Majesty within the Islands of
New Zealand,
Now therefore, I the Officer-Administering
the Government of the Islands of New Zea-
land in pursuance of the power and authority
in me vested by the said in part recited. Act
do hereby proclaim and declare that the
person whose name is underwritten shall be
deemed and taken to be a natural born
subject of Her Majesty from the date set
opposite his name until the next Session of
the General Assembly as fully to all intents
and purposes as if his name had been in-
serted in the Schedule annexed to the said
Act.
JOHN GODFRIED ENGST,
Merchant, residing at the Chatham Islands,
a native of Germany, from the 2nd July,
1852.
This Proclamation shall take effect from
and after the above date..
Given under my hand and issued
under the public Seal of the
Islands of New Zealand, at
Auckland, in the Islands afore-
said this said 24th day of January
in the year of our Lord, one
thousand eight hundred and fifty-
five.
R. H. WYNYARD,
By His Excellency's command,
ANDREW SINCLAIR,
Colonial Secretary.
Colonial Secretary's Office, Auckland,
24th January, 1855.
THE Officer Administering the Govern-
ment directs it to be notified for gene-
ral information, that Colonel Wynyard, C.B.,
Superintendent of the Province of Auckland,
having resigned the Office of Superintendent,
His Excellency, on behalf of Her Majesty the
Queen, has accepted the resignation.
By His Excellency's command,
ANDREW SINCLAIR,
Colonial Secretary.
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🏛️ Proclamation of Naturalization for John Godfried Engst
🏛️ Governance & Central Administration24 January 1855
Proclamation, Naturalization Act, German, Chatham Islands, Subject status
- JOHN GODFRIED ENGST, Declared natural born subject
- Colonel ROBERT HENRY WYNYARD, Companion of the most Honourable Order of the Bath, Officer Administering the Government and Commander-in-Chief in and over the Islands of New Zealand
- ANDREW SINCLAIR, Colonial Secretary
🏘️ Acceptance of Resignation of Superintendent of Auckland Province
🏘️ Provincial & Local Government24 January 1855
Resignation, Superintendent, Auckland Province, Governor acceptance
- Wynyard (Colonel, C.B.), Resigned Office of Superintendent
- ANDREW SINCLAIR, Colonial Secretary