✨ Governor's Proclamations and Appointments
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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
G. F. BOWEN, Governor.
IN pursuance and exercise of the power and autho-
rity in this behalf enabling me, I, Sir George
Ferguson Bowen, the Governor of the Colony of
New Zealand, do hereby fix and appoint that Sittings
of the District Court of the Otago Gold Fields,
additional to those already appointed, shall be held
as follows:--
In the Resident Magistrate's Court at Lawrence,
on the second Tuesday in October next.
In the Resident Magistrate's Court at Naseby, on
the second Wednesday in November next.
In the Resident Magistrate's Court at Clyde, on
the Monday next after the second Wednesday
in November next.
In the Resident Magistrate's Court at Queenstown,
on the Monday second after the second Wednes-
day in November next.
As witness the hand of His Excellency the
Governor this nineteenth day of July,
one thousand eight hundred and seventy.
W. GISBORNE.
G. F. BOWEN, Governor.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME,
GREETING:
WHEREAS 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
Electoral District, within or without the limits
thereof, and to appoint any one of such places to be
the principal polling place for the district, and all or
any of such polling places at any time to abolish
and to appoint other polling places in lieu thereof:
Now therefore, the Governor of New Zealand, in
pursuance of the power and authority in him vested
by the said Act, doth hereby appoint the following
place to be an additional polling place for the
Electoral District hereinafter specified, for the
election of Members of the House of Representa-
tives, namely,—
For the District of Motueka—
The Schoolroom, Ngatimoti.
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
and over Her Majesty's Colony of New
Zealand and its Dependencies, and Vice-
Admiral of the same, at the Government
House at Wellington, this nineteenth
day of July, in the year of our Lord
one thousand eight hundred and seventy.
W. GISBORNE.
G. F. BOWEN, Governor.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME,
GREETING:
WHEREAS by an Act of the General Assembly,
intituled "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 Electoral
District, within or without the limits thereof, and to
appoint any one of such places to be the principal
polling place for the district, and all or any of such
polling places at any time to abolish, and to appoint
other polling places in lieu thereof: And whereas
by another Act of the General Assembly, intituled
"The Provincial Elections Act, 1858," it is enacted
that, subject to certain provisions therein contained,
every election of the Superintendent or of a Member
of the Provincial Council of a Province shall be
conducted in the manner prescribed by "The Regu-
lation of Elections Act, 1858," aforesaid, and the
provisions of the said last-mentioned Act shall apply
to the elections of Superintendents and Members of
Provincial Councils:
Now therefore, I, Sir George Ferguson Bowen,
the Governor of the said Colony, in pursuance of the
power and authority in me vested by the said Acts, do
hereby appoint the following place to be an additional
pelling place for the District of Motueka, for the
election of Superintendent and Members of the
Provincial Council of the Province of Nelson,
namely,—
For the District of Motueka—
The Schoolroom, Ngatimoti.
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, this nineteenth
day of July, in the year of our Lord
one thousand eight hundred and seventy.
W. GISBORNE.
G. F. BOWEN, Governor.
WHEREAS by the one hundred and thirty-third
section of an Act of the General Assembly of
New Zealand, intituled "The Municipal Corporations
Act, 1867," it is enacted that it shall be the duty of
the Town Clerk of every borough, as soon as con-
veniently may be after every election of a Mayor for
such borough, to give notice to the Colonial Secretary
for the time being of such election, and of the person
elected; and it shall be lawful for the Governor, if he
shall think fit, and if such person shall not then be a
Justice of the Peace, by Warrant under his hand
published in the New Zealand Gazette, to appoint
such person to be a Justice of the Peace for the
Colony; and it is also thereby enacted that in every
such appointment it shall be expressed that it is made
under the one hundred and thirty-third section of
the said Act; and it is further declared that such
appointment shall continue in force only during
the Mayoralty of such person, and the person so
appointed shall not, by virtue of such appointment,
authorized to sit or act as a Justice of the Peace
elsewhere than within the borough:
Now therefore, I, Sir George Ferguson Bowen,
the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, in pur-
suance and exercise of the said power and authority
in me vested in this behalf, do hereby appoint
JOSEPH KILGOUR, Esq.,
the person elected to be the Mayor of the Borough
of Greymouth, to be a Justice of the Peace under
the one hundred and thirty-third section of "The
Municipal Corporations Act, 1867.”
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 Wellington, this
sixth day of July, one thousand eight
hundred and seventy.
W. GISBORNE.
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⚖️ Justice & Law Enforcement19 July 1870
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- G. F. Bowen, Governor
- W. Gisborne
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- G. F. Bowen, Governor
- W. Gisborne
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- G. F. Bowen, Governor
- W. Gisborne
⚖️ Appointment of Greymouth Mayor as temporary Justice of the Peace
⚖️ Justice & Law Enforcement6 July 1870
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- G. F. Bowen, Governor
- W. Gisborne
NZ Gazette 1870, No 40