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SUPPLEMENT
TO THE
NEW ZEALAND
GAZETTE
OF THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 1, 1877.
Published by Authority.

WELLINGTON, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 2, 1877.

The Forest Trees Planting Acts to be in operation
throughout the Colony.

(L.S.) NORMANBY, Governor.

A PROCLAMATION.

WHEREAS by "The Forest Trees Planting
Encouragement Act, 1871," (hereinafter called
"the said Act,") it is enacted that the Governor may
from time to time, upon the application of the
Superintendent and Provincial Council of any pro-
vince, by Proclamation in the New Zealand Gazette,
declare the said Act to be in operation in any
province, or in any district being part of a province,
to be defined in such Proclamation, and on a day to
be fixed in such Proclamation the said Act shall
come into operation in such province or district:

And whereas, in pursuance and under the authority
of the said Act, certain Proclamations have been
made and issued whereby the said Act was proclaimed
and declared to be in operation in the then existing
Provinces of Otago and Canterbury as and from the
several days therein respectively mentioned:

And whereas by the seventh section of "The
Abolition of Provinces Act, 1875," it is, among other
things, enacted that all powers, duties, and functions
which immediately before the date of the abolition
thereunder of any province were, under or by virtue
of any law not expressly or impliedly repealed or
altered thereby, vested in or to be exercised or per-
formed by the Superintendent of such abolished
province, either done by or with the advice and
consent of or on the recommendation of the Execu-
tive or Provincial Council of such province, shall on
the day of the date of the abolition of such province,
and for the purposes of the district included within
such abolished province, vest in and be exercised and
performed by the Governor:

And whereas it is expedient that the said Act
should be brought into operation in other parts of
the Colony of New Zealand, as hereinafter men-
tioned:

Now, therefore, I, George Augustus Constantine,
Marquis of Normanby, the Governor of the said
colony, in pursuance and exercise of the authority
vested in me by the said Act, and of all other powers
and authorities enabling me in this behalf, do hereby
proclaim and declare that from and after the first
day of February, one thousand eight hundred
and seventy-seven, "The Forest Trees Planting
Encouragement Act, 1871," as amended by "The
Forest Trees Planting Encouragement Act Amend-
ment Act, 1872," shall be in force in all the provincial
districts of the said colony, in addition to the said
Districts of Canterbury and Otago.

Given under the hand of His Excellency the
Most Honorable George Augustus Con-
stantine, Marquis of Normanby, Earl of
Mulgrave, Viscount Normanby, and Baron
Mulgrave of Mulgrave, all in the County
of York, in the Peerage of the United
Kingdom; and Baron Mulgrave of New
Ross, in the County of Wexford, in the
Peerage of Ireland; a Member of Her
Majesty's Most Honorable Privy Coun-
cil; Knight Commander 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; and issued
under the Seal of the said Colony, at the
Government House, at Wellington, this
thirty-first day of January, in the year
of our Lord one thousand eight hundred
and seventy-seven.

GOD SAVE THE QUEEN!

D. REID.

Regulations under the Forest Trees Planting Acts.

NORMANBY, Governor.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House, at Wellington, this
first day of February, 1877.

Present:

HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR IN COUNCIL.

WHEREAS by the fourth section of "The Forest
Trees Planting Encouragement Act, 1871,"