✨ Judicial District Proclamation
Numb. 11.
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SOIT QUI MALY PENSE DIEU ET DROIT
The New Zealand Gazette.
Published by Authority.
WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 27, 1861.
PROCLAMATION.
By His Excellency Colonel THOMAS
GORE BROWNE, Companion of the
Most Honorable Order of the
Bath, Governor and Commander-
in-Chief in and over Her Ma-
jesty's Colony of New Zealand,
and its Dependencies, and Vice-
Admiral of the same, &c., &c., &c.
WHEREAS by an Act of the General
Assembly of New Zealand, intituled
"The Supreme Court Act, 1860," it is enacted
that it shall be lawful for the Governor in
Council from time to time to divide the Co-
lony into Judicial Districts for the purposes
of the said Act, and the limits of such Dis-
trict from time to time to alter as occasion
may require :
Now therefore I, Thomas Gore Browne,
Governor of the said Colony, with the
advice and consent of the Executive
Council thereof, do hereby proclaim and de-
clare that for the purposes of the said Act
the said Colony shall be divided into three
districts, to be called respectively the Northern
District, the Middle District, and the Southern
District.
And that the Northern District shall include
all that portion of the said Colony which lies
on the Northern side of the line which sepa-
rates the Provinces of Auckland and Tara-
naki from the Provinces of Wellington and
Hawke's Bay.
And that the Middle District shall include
all that portion of the Colony which lies on
the Southern side of the above-named line,
and on the Northern side of the line which
separates the Provinces of Nelson and Marl-
borough from the Province of Canterbury,
and also the Chatham Islands, and Islands
adjacent thereto.
And that the Southern District shall include
all that part of the Colony which lies on the
Southern side of the last mentioned line.
And whereas by the said Act the Governor
in Council is required to assign every such
Court, who shall have within the same all the
powers and jurisdiction by the said Act given
to the Court,
Now therefore I, the Governor as aforesaid,
in further pursuance of the said Act, do
hereby, with the advice and consent aforesaid,
proclaim and declare that I assign the North-
ern District unto
GEORGE ALFRED ARNEY, ESQUIRE,
the Chief Justice of the said Court.
And the Middle District unto
ALEXANDER JAMES JOHNSTON, ESQUIRE,
a Judge of the said Court.
And the Southern District unto
HENRY BARNES GRESSON, ESQUIRE,
a Judge of the said Court.
And whereas it is provided by the said
Act that there shall be held Circuit Courts
for the dispatch of Civil and Criminal busi-
ness of the Court before one of the Judges
thereof at such places and times as the Go-
vernor in Council may from time to time ap-
point,
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NZ Gazette 1861, No 11
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⚖️ Proclamation establishing Northern, Middle, and Southern Judicial Districts
⚖️ Justice & Law Enforcement27 February 1861
Proclamation, Supreme Court Act 1860, Judicial Districts, Judges, Jurisdiction
- GEORGE ALFRED Arney (Esquire), Assigned Northern Judicial District
- ALEXANDER JAMES Johnston (Esquire), Assigned Middle Judicial District
- HENRY BARNES Gresson (Esquire), Assigned Southern Judicial District
- Colonel Thomas Gore Browne, Governor and Commander-in-Chief