✨ Government Orders and Proclamations
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The New Zealand Gazette.
Published by Authority.
TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 12, 1861.
ORDER IN COUNCIL
Prohibiting carriage coastwise of Spirits,
within certain parts of the Colony.
AT THE GOVERNMENT HOUSE, AT AUCKLAND,
THE FOURTH DAY OF NOVEMBER, 1861.
Present:—
His Excellency the Administrator of the
Government in Council.
W HEREAS by the 123rd Section of the
"Customs Regulation Act, 1858," it is
enacted that any goods whatever may, by
Proclamation or Order of the Governor in
Council (revocable from time to time), be pro-
hibited to be exported or to be carried coast-
wise, and any such prohibition may apply
to the whole Colony or to any part thereof;
and if any goods shall be exported from the
Colony or carried coastwise contrary to any
such prohibition, or be water borne to be so
exported or carried, they shall be forfeited;
and any person offending against the pro-
visions of such Section, or of any Proclamation
or Order issued in pursuance thereof, shall
for every such offence forfeit and pay the
sum of £500.
Now, therefore. His Excellency the
Administrator of the Government, with
the advice and consent of the Ex-
ecutive Council of New Zealand, in pur-
suance and exercise of the said power and
authority, and of all other powers him in that
behalf enabling, doth hereby Order, that the
carriage coastwise of spirits and strong waters
of any description, from any port or place in
the Colony, to any port or place on or near to
the coast, extending from a point lying
midway between the rivers Ohiwa and
Opotiki in the Bay of Plenty, in the Province
of Auckland, to and including the river
Nuhaka in Hawke's Bay, in the Province of
Hawkes's Bay, shall be, and the same is hereby
prohibited from and after the fourth day of
November now instant.
J. HOLT,
Clerk Executive Council.
Defining Warrant District of Nelson under
the Sheriffs' Act, 1858.
By His Excellency Sir GEORGE GREY,
Knight Commander of the Most
Honorable Order of the Bath,
Administrator of the Govern-
ment of the Colony of New
Zealand and its Dependencies.
W HEREAS by the "Sheriffs' Act, 1858,"
the Governor is empowered, in the
manner therein mentioned, to appoint fit
persons to be Sheriffs of the several Districts
of the Colony of New Zealand, and from time
to time to define the Districts within which
such Sheriffs shall respectively have juris-
diction, and every such definition to revoke
or amend, and the limits of such Districts to
alter as occasion may require: Now, therefore,
I, Sir George Grey, the Administrator of the
Government of the said Colony, in pursuance
of the said power and authority, do hereby
define the District of Nelson, under the said
Act, to be all the Territory comprised within
the Province of Nelson.
Given under my hand at Government
House, at Auckland, this fourth
day of November, One thousand
eight hundred and sixty-one.
G. GREY.
By His Excellency's command,
HENRY SEWELL.
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NZ Gazette 1861, No 48
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🏭 Order prohibiting coastwise carriage of spirits in parts of the Colony
🏭 Trade, Customs & Industry4 November 1861
Order in Council, Spirits prohibition, Coastwise carriage, Customs Regulation Act 1858, Auckland, Hawke's Bay
- J. Holt, Clerk Executive Council
⚖️ Defining the Nelson Warrant District under the Sheriffs' Act, 1858
⚖️ Justice & Law Enforcement4 November 1861
Sheriff, Warrant District, Nelson Province, Sheriffs' Act 1858, Jurisdiction definition
- Sir George Grey, Knight Commander of the Most Honorable Order of the Bath, Administrator of the Government of the Colony of New Zealand and its Dependencies
- Henry Sewell