✨ Port Regulations and Prison Rules




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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
do hereby Proclaim and Declare that the legal
Quay or Landing-place at the Port of Colling-
wood in Massacre Bay, shall be the Beach at
Collingwood, between the North side of Wash-
ington Street and a line produced to low water
mark from the North side of Copenhagen Street
as the same is delineated on the Map of the
Town of Collingwood authenticated by the
Chief Surveyor of the Province of Nelson, and
that all goods shall be laden and unladen at the
said Quay or Landing-place and not elsewhere
in the said Port.

And I do further Proclaim and Declare that
at the Port of Collingwood aforesaid goods shall
be laden and unladen only within the hours
hereinafter specified and not otherwise, viz:

All goods not being goods entered to be
warehoused, between the hours of eight in the
morning and four o'clock in the afternoon, on
and from the 1st day of October to the 31st
day of March inclusive, and between the hours
of nine o'clock in the morning and four o'clock
in the afternoon on and from the 1st day of
April to the 30th day of September inclusive.

All goods entered to be warehoused between
the hours of eight o'clock in the morning and
three o'clock in the afternoon on and from the
1st day of October to the 31st day of March
inclusive and between the hours of nine o'clock
in the morning and two o'clock in the afternoon
on and from the 1st day of April to the 30th
day of September inclusive.

Provided that no goods shall be laden or
unladen on Sundays or holidays, and no goods
shall be laden or unladen on Saturdays after
the hour of 2 p.m.

Provided also that nothing herein con-
tained shall prevent the lading or unlading of
any such goods at any other time or place at
the said Port of Port Collingwood with the
permission of the principal Officer of the Cus-
toms.

Given under my hand, and issued
under the Public Seal of the
Colony of New Zealand, at
Government House, at Auck-
land, this third day of
February, in the year of our
Lord One thousand eight
hundred and fifty-eight.
THOMAS GORE BROWNE.

By His Excellency's command,
E. W. STAFFORD.

GOD SAVE THE QUEEN!

At Government House, at Auckland, the
third day of February, 1858.

IN pursuance of the powers vested in me by
an Ordinance of the Governor and
Legeslative Council of New Zealand, Sess. 7,
No. 7, intituled "An Ordinance for the
Regulation of Prisons," and also by an Act of
the General Assembly of New Zealand, passed
in the session holden in the eighteenth year of
Her Majesty, No. 9, intituled the "Secondary
Punishment Act, 1854," I, the Governor of
New Zealand, do hereby make and publish the
Rules and Regulations following for the
classification, diet, instruction, treatment, cor-
rection and discipline of prisoners under con-
finement in Public Gaols and for the employ-
ment, safe custody, management and discipline
of convicts under sentence of penal servitude
within the Province of Nelson in the Colony of
New Zealand.

THOMAS GORE BROWNE,
Governor.

RULES AND REGULATIONS.

General Rules respecting the Prisoners.

  1. Prisoners to whom the following Regula-
    tions apply include four classes.
  2. Prisoners awaiting trial or commitment
    by the Magistrates' Court.
  3. Prisoners committed for trial in the
    Supreme Court.
  4. Prisoners under sentence of the Magis-
    trates' Courts.
  5. Prisoners under sentence of the Supreme
    Court.

2 EVERY prisoner on first entering the Gaol,
and before being locked up, is to be searched
in the presence of the Gaoler or Turnkey; his
name, age, country, religion, height, and gene-
ral description, are to be entered in the Register
kept for that purpose. The prisoner is to be
reported to the Sheriff in the evening of the
day of his entry.

  1. All money, property, instruments, &c.,
    are to be taken from prisoners entering the
    Gaol; a minute, specifying particulars, and
    signed by the gaoler, is to be entered in the
    Register. Such money, property, &c., shall
    remain in the custody of the gaoler, unless
    otherwise directed, until such time as the pri-
    soner shall be discharged or otherwise entitled
    to a return of his property, or until other dis-
    position thereof shall be ordered by competent
    authority.

  2. All prisoners of class 4, and prisoners of
    class 3 under sentence for longer than one
    week, will have their hair cut close on entering
    the Gaol.

  3. Every cell is to be opened at 6 A.M.,
    between the 1st September and the 10th April,
    and at daylight during the remainder of the
    year.

  4. Fifteen minutes is to be allowed for
    dressing.

  5. The cells are then to be swept and dusted;
    the bedding, weather permitting, to be sus-
    pended in the airing-yard, and afterwards put
    away and folded in the smallest possible com-
    pass. This duty to be performed by such of
    the prisoners as may be told off for that purpose
    by the Gaoler.

  6. The prisoners are then to wash themselves
    thoroughly, and make themselves as clean as
    possible.

  7. The prisoners are then to be assembled,
    and their names called over, after which prayers



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🏭 Proclamation Defining Legal Quays and Landing Places for Goods (continued from previous page)

🏭 Trade, Customs & Industry
3 February 1858
Port Collingwood, Legal Quay, Landing Place, Customs Hours, Lading, Unlading, Massacre Bay
  • THOMAS GORE BROWNE
  • E. W. STAFFORD

βš–οΈ Rules and Regulations for Classification and Discipline of Prisoners in Nelson Province Gaols

βš–οΈ Justice & Law Enforcement
3 February 1858
Prison Regulations, Prisoner Classification, Discipline, Nelson Province, Gaol Management, Secondary Punishment Act
  • THOMAS GORE BROWNE, Governor