✨ Proclamations and Court Notices
No. 2. 11
SUPPLEMENT
TO THE
NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE
OF THURSDAY, JANUARY 3, 1878.
Published by Authority.
WELLINGTON, FRIDAY, JANUARY 4, 1878.
South Rakaia District constituted under “The Canterbury Roads Ordinance, 1872.”
(L.S.) NORMANBY, Governor.
A PROCLAMATION.
WHEREAS the respective Road Boards of the Mount Hutt District and the Acton District have, pursuant to the sixth section of the Ordinance of the Province of Canterbury, intituled “The Canterbury Roads Ordinance, 1872,” by petitions under the several common seals of such districts, prayed to be constituted one united district under the said ordinance:
Now, therefore, I, George Augustus Constantine Marquis of Normanby, Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, in exercise of the powers and authorities vested in me by the said ordinance, and by “The Abolition of Provinces Act, 1875,” do hereby proclaim and declare that the said two districts are hereby constituted one united district under the said ordinance by the name of “The South Rakaia District,” and I do hereby appoint the fourteenth day of February, one thousand eight hundred and seventy-eight, for the first election of members of the said district.
Given under the hand of His Excellency the Most Honorable George Augustus Constantine, 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 Council; 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; and issued under the Seal of the said Colony, at the Government House, at Wellington, this fourth day of January, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and seventy-eight.
G. S. WHITMORE.
GOD SAVE THE QUEEN!
Altering Place of Sitting of District Court at Timaru.
NORMANBY, Governor.
IN pursuance and exercise of the power in that behalf enabling me, I, George Augustus Constantine, Marquis of Normanby, the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, do hereby fix and appoint that a sitting of the District Court of the Timaru and Oamaru District shall be held at Timaru, in the Odd Fellows’ Hall, Barnard Street, on Tuesday, the first day of January next, for the despatch of Civil business only, instead of at the Mechanics’ Institute as fixed by warrant bearing date the thirteenth day of February last past.
As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor, this thirty-first day of December, one thousand eight hundred and seventy-seven.
J. T. FISHER,
(in absence of the Minister of Justice).
By authority: GEORGE DIDSBURY, Government Printer, Wellington.
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NZ Gazette 1878, No 2
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🏘️ South Rakaia District Proclamation
🏘️ Provincial & Local Government4 January 1878
Proclamation, District Court, South Rakaia, Canterbury, Road Boards, Election
- George Augustus Constantine Marquis of Normanby, Governor of the Colony of New Zealand
- G. S. Whitmore
⚖️ Timaru District Court Sitting Change
⚖️ Justice & Law Enforcement31 December 1877
District Court, Timaru, Court Sitting, Location Change, Mechanics’ Institute, Odd Fellows’ Hall
- George Augustus Constantine Marquis of Normanby, Governor of the Colony of New Zealand
- J. T. Fisher, in absence of the Minister of Justice
- George Didsbury, Government Printer