Governor's Proclamations




Numb. 32.

DIEU ET
NI SOIT QUI・MAL
HO
THE
MON・DROIT
NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
Published by Authority.

WELLINGTON, FRIDAY, JUNE 11, 1869.

G. F. BOWEN, Governor.
A PROCLAMATION.

WHEREAS by "The Public Houses Act, 1868,"
it is enacted that, whenever the Colonial Forces
shall be employed for the purpose of suppressing
rebellion or other disturbances in any part of the
Colony, and shall be stationed at any place near to or
within such part, it shall be lawful for the Governor
from time to time, by Proclamation, to declare that,
from and after a day to be fixed therein, such part of
the Colony as shall be defined in the Proclamation
shall be a Proclaimed District within the meaning
and for the purposes of the said Act; and thereupon
it shall not be lawful for any person, whether holding
a license under any Act or Ordinance regulating the
sale of wine, ale, beer, or spirits, or not, to sell or
supply any wine, beer, or spirituous or fermented
liquor of any kind without the permission of such
person as the Governor shall from time to time
appoint, to grant permits for the sale of such articles
within such district:

And whereas the Colonial Forces are now employed
in suppressing rebellion and other disturbances in
the part of the Colony hereinafter described, and are
stationed in and near such part:

Now therefore I, Sir George Ferguson Bowen, the
Governor of New Zealand, in pursuance and exercise
of the power and authority for that purpose vested
in me by the said Act, do hereby proclaim and declare
that all that part of the Colony situated in the
Province of Taranaki, and bounded as follows,-On
the South by the River Hangatahua from its mouth
to its source, thence by a straight line to the summit
of Mount Egmont, thence by a straight line running
due East to the eastern boundary of the said Province;
on the East by the eastern boundary of the said Pro-
vince; on the North by the northern boundary of the
said Province; and on the West by the sea; except so
much of the said district as is comprised within the
under-mentioned blocks, viz., Omata Block, Fitzroy
Block, Grey Block, Hua and Waiwakaiho Block,
Bell Block, and the Tarurutangi Block,-shall, from,
from and after the twenty-fifth day of June, one
thousand eight hundred and sixty-nine, be a Pro-

(L.S.)

claimed District within the meaning and for the
purposes of "The Public Houses Act, 1868," afore-
said.

Given under the hand of His Excellency Sir
George Ferguson Bowen, Knight Grand
Cross of the Most Distinguished Order
of Saint Michael and Saint George,
Governor and Commander-in-Chief in
and over Her Majesty's Colony of New
Zealand and its Dependencies, and Vice-
Admiral of the same, at the Government
House, at Auckland; and issued under
the Seal of the said Colony, on the twenty-
fifth day of May, one thousand eight
hundred and sixty-nine.

T. M. HAULTAIN.

GOD SAVE THE QUEEN!

G. F. BOWEN, Governor.

WHEREAS by "The Public Houses Act, 1868,"
it is enacted that, whenever the Colonial Forces
shall be employed for the purpose of suppressing
rebellion or other disturbances in any part of the
Colony, and shall be stationed at any place near to
or within such part, it shall be lawful for the
Governor from time to time, by Proclamation, to
declare that, from and after a day to be fixed therein,
such part of the Colony as shall be defined in the
Proclamation shall be a Proclaimed District within
the meaning and for the purposes of the said Act,
and thereupon it shall not be lawful for any person;
whether holding a license under any Act or Ordi-
nance regulating the sale of wine, ale, beer, or spirits,
or not, to sell or supply any wine, beer, or spirituous
or fermented liquors of any kind, without the per-
mission of such person as the Governor shall from
time to time appoint to grant permits for the sale of
such articles within such district:

And whereas hy a Proclamation bearing date the
twenty-fifth day of May, His Excellency the
Governor, in pursuance and exercise of the powers
and authorities for that purpose vested in him, did
proclaim and declare that all that part of the Colony
situated in the Province of Taranaki, and bounded
as follows,-On the South, by the River Hangatahua



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