✨ Proclamations and Appointments
Aumh. 35. 185
The New Zealand Gazette.
Published by Authority.
MONDAY, JULY 22, 1861.
A PROCLAMATION
For the Dissolution of the Provincial Council
of the Province of Canterbury.
By His Excellency Colonel Thomas
Gore Browne, Companion of
the Most Honourable Order of
the Bath, Governor and Com-
mander in Chief in and over
Her Majesty's Colony of New
Zealand and its Dependencies,
and Vice Admiral of the same,
&c., &c., &c.
WHEREAS by an Act of the Imperial
Parliament passed in the Fifteenth and
Sixteenth years of the reign of Her present
Majesty, Cap. 72, intituled "An Act to grant
a Representative Constitution to the Colony of
New Zealand," the several Provinces of Auck-
land, New Plymouth, Wellington, Nelson,
Canterbury, and Otago, are thereby established,
and it is enacted that for each of the said Fro-
vinces there shall be a Superintendent and
Provincial Council:
And whereas by the said Act it is further
enacted that every Provincial Council shall
continue for the period of Four years from the
day of return of the Writs for choosing the same
and no longer. Provided always that it shall
be lawful for the Governor of New Zealand,
by Proclamation or otherwise to dissolve the
same whenever he shall think it expedient so
to do.
Now, therefore, I, the Governor of the
Colony of New Zealand, do by this Proclama-
tion, dissolve the Provincial Council of the said
Province of Canterbury accordingly.
Given under my hand at the Go-
vernment House, at Auckland,
and issued under the Seal of the
Colony of New Zealand, this
nineteenth day of July, in the
year of our Lord, one thousand
eight-hundred and sixty-one.
T. GORE BROWNE.
By His Excellency's command,
I. E. FEATHERSTON.
GOD SAVE THE QUEEN!
Colonial Secretary's Office,
Auckland, 20th July, 1861.
HIS Excellency the Governor having been
pleased to appoint
The Hon. DANIEL POLLEN, Esq., M.L.C.,
to be a Member of the Executive Council of
New Zealand, it is hereby notified that that
gentleman has taken the necessary Oaths, and
his seat at the Council Table accordingly.
F. G. STEWARD,
Clerk of the Executive Council.
Colonial Secretary's Office,
Auckland, 20th July, 1861.
HIS Excellency the Governor has, in Her
Majesty's name, summoned
The Hon. DANIEL POLLEN, Esq., of Auckland,
the Legislative Council of New Zealand, by
Writ of Summons under the Seal of the
Colony.
I. E. FEATHERSTON.
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NZ Gazette 1861, No 35
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🏘️ Proclamation Dissolving the Provincial Council of Canterbury
🏘️ Provincial & Local Government19 July 1861
Proclamation, Dissolution, Provincial Council, Canterbury, Governor
- Colonel Thomas Gore Browne, Companion of the Most Honourable Order of the Bath, Governor and Commander in Chief
- I. E. Featherston
🏛️ Appointment of Daniel Pollen to the Executive Council
🏛️ Governance & Central Administration20 July 1861
Executive Council, Appointment, Oath taking
- Daniel Pollen (Honourable Esquire), Appointed Member of Executive Council
- F. G. Steward, Clerk of the Executive Council
🏛️ Summons of Daniel Pollen to the Legislative Council
🏛️ Governance & Central Administration20 July 1861
Legislative Council, Summons, Writ of Summons
- Daniel Pollen (Honourable Esquire), Summoned to Legislative Council
- I. E. Featherston