✨ Military Mobilization Proclamation
Humb. 89.
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THE
NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE
EXTRAORDINARY.
Published by Authority.
WELLINGTON, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 28, 1881.
Calling out for Actual Service certain Volunteer
Corps.
ARTHUR GORDON, Governor.
WHEREAS by the thirty-sixth section of "The
Volunteer Act, 1881," it is enacted, inter alia,
that the Governor may at any time call out for
actual service any Volunteer corps, or any part
thereof, and that every officer and volunteer belong-
ing to any corps so called out shall be bound to
assemble at such place as the Governor may direct,
and shall remain on actual service until released by
the Governor's authority:
Now, therefore, I, Arthur Hamilton Gordon, the
Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, do hereby
call out for actual service the several Volunteer
corps named in the Schedule hereto; and I do hereby
direct the officers and volunteers of each of the said
corps to assemble at the place mentioned, and set
opposite to the name of such corps in the Schedule
aforesaid.
SCHEDULE.
Name of Corps.
NEW PLYMOUTH—
Taranaki Mounted Rifle Volunteers.
PATEA—
Wairoa Light Horse Volunteers.
Hawera Light Horse Volunteers.
Waverley Rifle Volunteers.
Patea Rifle Volunteers.
Normanby Rifle Volunteers.
WANGANUI—
Alexandra Cavalry Volunteers.
Wanganui Rifle Volunteers.
Wanganui City Rifle Volunteers.
SCHEDULE—continued.
Name of Corps. Place of
Assembly.
Head-quarters of the respective
corps.
RANGITIKEI—
Royal Rifle Volunteers.
Manchester Rifle Volunteers.
Palmerston North Rifle Volunteers.
NELSON—
H Battery New Zealand Regiment of Artillery
Volunteers.
Nelson City Rifle Volunteers.
Stoke (Nelson) Rifle Volunteers.
Waimea Rifle Volunteers.
THAMES—
Hauraki Engineer Volunteers.
Nos. 1, 2, and 3 Companies Thames Scottish
Battalion Rifle Volunteers.
Thames Rifle Ranger Volunteers.
Thames Native Rifle Volunteers.
Thames Naval Volunteers.
WELLINGTON—
D Battery New Zealand Regiment of Artillery
Volunteers.
City Rifle Volunteers.
Makara Rifle Volunteers.
Kaiwharawhara Rifle Volunteers.
Wellington Guards Volunteers.
Wellington Naval Brigade Volunteers.
New Zealand Engineer Corps of Sub-marine
Miners Volunteers.
WAIRARAPA—
Greytown Rifle Volunteers.
Masterton Rifle Volunteers.
Carterton Rifle Volunteers.
As witness the hand of His Excellency the
Governor, this twenty-seventh day of
October, one thousand eight hundred and
eighty-one.
JOHN HALL.
By Authority: GEORGE DIDSBURY, Government Printer, Wellington.
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NZ Gazette 1881, No 89
✨ LLM interpretation of page content
🛡️ Proclamation calling out Volunteer Corps for Actual Service
🛡️ Defence & Military27 October 1881
Volunteer Corps, Actual Service, Mobilization, 1881 Act, Artillery, Rifle Volunteers, New Plymouth, Patea, Wanganui
- Arthur Hamilton Gordon, Governor
- John Hall