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THE
NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
Published by Authority.
WELLINGTON, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 24TH, 1865.
A PROCLAMATION
For the Dissolution of the Provincial Council of
the Province of Wellington.
By His Excellency SIR GEORGE GREY,
Knight Commander of the Most
Honorable Order of the Bath,
Governor and Commander-in-Chief
in and over Her Majesty's Colony
of New Zealand and its Dependen-
cies, and Vice-Admiral of the same,
&c., &c., &c.
WHEREAS, by an Act of the Imperial Par
liament, 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
Provinces there shall be a Superintendent and
Provincial Council.
And whereas by the said Act it is further
enacted that every Provincial Council shall con-
tinue 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 Proclamation, dis-
solve the Provincial Council of the said Pro-
vince of Wellington accordingly.
L.S.
Given under my hand, at the Govern-
ment House at Auckland, and
issued under the Seal of the Colony
of New Zealand, this sixteenth day
of February, in the year of Our
Lord one thousand eight hundred
and sixty-five.
G. GREY.
By His Excellency's command,
FRED. A. WELD.
GOD SAVE THE QUEEN!
A PROCLAMATION
Constituting Hundreds in the Province of Otago.
By His Excellency SIR GEORGE GREY,
Knight Commander of the most
Honorable Order of the Bath, Go-
vernor and Commander-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 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 con-
stituting the same shall be prescribed :
Now, therefore, I, Sir George Grey, the Go-
vernor 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 Otago,
in the said Colony, the several Hundreds
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NZ Gazette 1865, No 6
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🏘️ Proclamation Dissolving the Provincial Council of Wellington
🏘️ Provincial & Local Government16 February 1865
Proclamation, Provincial Council, Dissolution, Wellington Province, Imperial Act
- Sir George Grey, Governor and Commander-in-Chief
- Fred. A. Weld
🏘️ Proclamation Constituting Hundreds in the Province of Otago
🏘️ Provincial & Local GovernmentProclamation, Hundreds, Division, Otago Province, Definition of Districts Act 1858
- Sir George Grey, Governor and Commander-in-Chief