✨ Governor's Proclamations
Numb. 50. 459
DIEU ET MON DROIT
THE
NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
Published by Authority.
WELLINGTON, TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 7, 1869.
G. F. BOWEN, Governor.
A PROCLAMATION.
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 Auckland, 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 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 samé whenever he shall think it expedient
so to do:
Now therefore I, Sir George Ferguson Bowen, the
Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, do, by this
Proclamation, dissolve the Provincial Council of the
said Province of Auckland accordingly.
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 Govern-
ment House, at Wellington; and issued
under the Seal of the said Colony, this
seventh day of September, in the year
of our Lord one thousand eight hundred
and sixty-nine.
W. GISBORNE.
GOD SAVE THE QUEEN!
G. F. BOWEN, Governor.
A PROCLAMATION.
WHEREAS by an Order in Council made on the
twenty-fifth day of March, one thousand eight
hundred and sixty-one, the Province of Southland
was constituted and established under "The New
Provinces Act, 1858," and it is provided by the
Constitution Act that it shall be lawful for the
Governor of New Zealand, by Proclamation or other-
wise, to dissolve the Provincial Council of any Pro-
vince whenever he shall think it expedient so to do:
Now therefore I, the Governor of the Colony of
New Zealand, in exercise of the said power, do, by
this Proclamation, dissolve the Provincial Council of
the said Province of Southland.
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 Wellington; and issued under
the Seal of the said Colony, this seventh
day of September, in the year of our Lord
one thousand eight hundred and sixty-
nine.
W. GISBORNE.
GOD SAVE THE QUEEN!
G. F. BOWEN, Governor.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME,
GREETING :
WHER EAS by "The Regulation of Elections
Act, 1858," it is enacted that it shall be lawful
for the Governor, by warrant under his hand, from
time to time to appoint polling places for each
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NZ Gazette 1869, No 50
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🏘️ Proclamation Dissolving the Provincial Council of Auckland
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- G. F. Bowen, Governor
- W. Gisborne
🏘️ Proclamation Dissolving the Provincial Council of Southland
🏘️ Provincial & Local Government7 September 1869
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- G. F. Bowen, Governor
- W. Gisborne
🏘️ Commencement of Proclamation regarding appointment of polling places
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- G. F. Bowen, Governor