New Zealand Gazette – 1880 – No. 27

Page 367

✨ Proclamation of Bank Holidays

Numb. 27.
367

SUPPLEMENT
TO THE
NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE
OF THURSDAY, MARCH 18, 1880.

Published by Authority.

WELLINGTON, TUESDAY, MARCH 23, 1880.

31st March to be a Bank Holiday and 1st April
to be a Bank Half-holiday throughout the Pro-
vincial District of Taranaki.

(L.S.) HERCULES ROBINSON, Governor.

A PROCLAMATION.

IN pursuance and exercise of all powers and
authorities enabling me in that behalf, I, Her-
cules George Robert Robinson, the Governor of the
Colony of New Zealand, do hereby proclaim and
declare that, by an Order in Council made under the
provisions of "The Bank Holidays Act, 1873," and
"The Bank Holidays Amendment Act, 1878," and
bearing even date herewith, I have declared that
Wednesday, the thirty-first day of March instant,
shall be a bank holiday, and Thursday, the first day
of April next, shall be a bank half-holiday from the
hour of noon, throughout the Provincial District of
Taranaki, under and for the purposes of the said
Acts.

Given under the hand of His Excellency
Sir Hercules George Robert Robinson,
Knight Grand Cross of the Most Distin-
guished 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
twenty-third day of March, in the year
of our Lord one thousand eight hundred
and eighty.

THOMAS DICK.

GOD SAVE THE QUEEN !

By Authority: GEORGE DIDSBURY, Government Printer, Wellington.

VUW Te Waharoa — NZ Gazette 1880, No 27

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🏛️ Proclamation declaring Bank Holiday and Half-holiday in Taranaki Provincial District

Domain🏛️ Governance & Central Administration
Dated23 March 1880
KeywordsProclamation, Bank Holiday, Bank Half-holiday, Taranaki, Governor
👩‍💼 Officials

Hercules Robinson, Governor
Sir Hercules George Robert Robinson, Governor and Commander-in-Chief in and over Her Majesty's Colony of New Zealand and its Dependencies, and Vice-Admiral of the same
Thomas Dick

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