New Zealand Gazette – 1873 – No. 27

Page 269

✨ Abolition of Curator Districts



Numb. 27.

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THE
NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.

Published by Authority.

WELLINGTON, THURSDAY, MAY 8, 1873.

Curators' Districts abolished.

(L.S.) G. A. ARNEY,
Officer Administering the Government.

A PROCLAMATION.

WHEREAS by "The Intestate Estates Act
Amendment Act, 1866," it is enacted that the
Governor may, by Proclamation published in the
New Zealand Gazette, from time to time divide the
Colony, for the purposes of "The Intestate Estates
Act, 1865," and the said Amendment Act, into such
and so many districts as he shall think fit, and every
such district shall be called by a distinct name, and
shall be a Curator's District; and in like manner from
time to time, as he shall think fit, to abolish any such
district, and alter or vary the boundaries of any
district, or increase the number of such districts;
and by the said Amendment Act it is further pro-
vided, that the Provinces in the Colony for which
Curators have before the passing of the said Act
been appointed, shall be deemed to be districts
defined pursuant to the said Amendment Act, subject
in every respect to be varied or altered as if defined
under the same Act: And whereas under the pro-
visions of the said Amendment Act the several
districts named in the Schedule hereto have become
or been constituted Curators' Districts, for the pur-
poses of the hereinbefore mentioned Acts: And
it is expedient that all such districts should be
abolished in the manner hereinafter set forth :

Now therefore I, Sir George Alfred Arney, the
Officer Administering the Government of the Colony
of New Zealand, in pursuance and exercise of the
power and authority vested in me by the hereinbefore
in part recited Act, and of every other power and
authority enabling me in that behalf, do hereby pro-
claim and declare that the said several Curators'
Districts particularly mentioned and set forth in the
Schedule hereto, and all other Curators' Districts
proclaimed or constituted under the hereinbefore in
part recited Act, shall be and the same are hereby
abolished.

Given under the hand of His Excellency
Sir George Alfred Arney, Knight, the
Officer Administering the Government,
and Commander-in-Chief in and over Her
Majesty's Colony of New Zealand and
its Dependencies, and Vice-Admiral of
the same; and issued under the Seal of
the said Colony, at Wellington, this
seventh day of May, in the year of our
Lord one thousand eight hundred and
seventy-three.

WILLIAM H. REYNOLDS.

GOD SAVE THE QUEEN !

SCHEDULE.

Name of Curator's District. Date when same became or was proclaimed a Curator's District.
Auckland District ... 21st January, 1867.
Taranaki District ... 7th December, 1867.
Hawke's Bay District ... 1st June, 1866.
Wellington District ... 5th June, 1867.
Nelson District ... 11th July, 1872.
Marlborough District ... 11th July, 1872.
Canterbury District ... 1st May, 1866.
Westland District ... 10th August, 1867.
Otago District ... 7th December, 1867.
Southland District ... 7th December, 1867.

Curators' District constituted.

(L.S.) G. A. ARNEY,
Officer Administering the Government.

A PROCLAMATION.

WHEREAS by "The Intestate Estates Act
Amendment Act, 1866," it is enacted that the
Governor may, by Proclamation published in the
New Zealand Gazette, from time to time divide the
Colony, for the purposes of "The Intestate Estates
Act, 1865," and the said Amendment Act, into such



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🏛️ Proclamation Abolishing Curators' Districts under Intestate Estates Acts

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🏛️ Proclamation Constituting Curators' Districts under Intestate Estates Acts

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