New Zealand Gazette – 1863 – No. 42

Page 349

✨ Proclamations, Legislation Commencement

Numb. 42. 349

The New Zealand Gazette.

Published by Authority.

FRIDAY, AUGUST 21, 1863.

A PROCLAMATION
Bringing into operation "The Auckland
Waste Lands Act Amendment Act, 1862."

By His Excellency Sir GEORGE
GREY, Knight Commander 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 General
Assembly of New Zealand, intituled
"An Act to Amend the Auckland Waste
Lands Act, 1858," it is enacted that the said
Act shall come into operation on and from a
day after Her Majesty's assent has been given
to that Act, to be fixed by the Governor by
Proclamation in the Government Gazette of
the Colony, and Her Majesty's assent had been
given to the said Act :

Now, therefore, I, Sir George Grey, the
Governor of New Zealand, do hereby fix the
First day of September next ensuing as the
day on which the said Act shall come into
operation.

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 August, in the
year of our Lord, One thousand
eight hundred and sixty-three.

(L.S.)

G. GREY.

By His Excellency's command,
ALFRED DOMETT.

GOD SAVE THE QUEEN !

A PROCLAMATION
Constituting Hundreds in the Province of
Southland.

By His Excellency Sir GEORGE
GREY, Knight Commander
the Most Honorable 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.

(L.S.)

WHEREAS it is enacted by the "Defini-
tion of Districts Act, 1858," that it
shall be lawful for the Governor, from time to
time, by Proclamation in the New Zealand
Gazette, to divide the Colony into Counties,
Hundreds, Parishes, or such other divisions
as he may deem expedient, which shall have
such limits, and shall have and be known by
such names or designations as in and by the
Proclamation constituting the same shall be
prescribed :

Now, therefore, I, Sir George Grey, the
Governor of New Zealand, in exercise of the
power in me in this behalf vested by the said
recited Act, do hereby proclaim and declare as
follows :

There shall be within the Province of South-
land, in the said Colony, the several Hundreds
bounded by the limits and known by the
names or designations hereunder written ; that
is to say,

Mataura Hundred

Comprises all that area, estimated to contain
13,000 acres, bounded on the South by a line
running due West, in continuation of the North
boundary line of the Oteramika Hundred, on

VUW Te Waharoa — NZ Gazette 1863, No 42

Parliament sat at General Assembly House (nicknamed the 'Shedifice') in Auckland from 1854-1864, sharing the building with the Auckland Provincial Council.

Ironically the Upper House met on the lower story, and the Lower House on the upper story.

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🏛️ Proclamation bringing into operation The Auckland Waste Lands Act Amendment Act, 1862

Domain🏛️ Governance & Central Administration
Dated19 August 1863
KeywordsProclamation, Auckland Waste Lands Act Amendment Act 1862, Commencement date, Legislation
👩‍💼 Officials

Sir George Grey, Governor and Commander-in-Chief
Alfred Domett

🏛️ Proclamation constituting Hundreds in the Province of Southland

Domain🏛️ Governance & Central Administration
KeywordsProclamation, Southland Province, Hundreds constitution, Mataura Hundred, Land division
👩‍💼 Officials

Sir George Grey, Governor

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