✨ Deputy-Governor Appointment
And whereas I have occasion to be temporarily absent from the said colony for a short period, not exceeding one month, for the purpose of visiting the Governor of the neighbouring Colony of New South Wales, and there being no Lieutenant-Governor in the Colony of New Zealand, I have deemed it expedient to appoint a Deputy during such temporary absence, with such powers and authorities on my behalf as are hereinafter specified and limited:
Now, therefore, know ye that, for the purposes aforesaid, and in pursuance and exercise of the power and authority vested in me by the hereinbefore in part recited Letters Patent, and of every other power and authority enabling me in that behalf, I, the said William Francis Drummond Jervois, as such Governor as aforesaid, do, by these presents issued under the Public Seal of the Colony of New Zealand, constitute and appoint Sir James Prendergast, Knight, Chief Justice of the said colony, to be my Deputy during the period of my temporary absence from the Colony of New Zealand as aforesaid, and in that capacity for me and on my behalf to exercise, perform, and execute all the powers and authorities vested in me as such Governor by the said Letters Patent, except the powers and authorities conferred by clause six thereof.
And I expressly direct my said Deputy that, in the execution of the powers and authorities hereinbefore specified and limited, he shall only act therein, and exercise the same upon being advised thereto by a member of the Executive Council of the colony, and, where the same is necessary or required by law, such power or authority shall be exercised by and with the advice of the said Executive Council.
And, lastly, that my said Deputy shall, in the exercise of all or any of the powers and authorities hereby conferred upon him, conform to and abide by the requirements of any law, statute, or regulation in force in the colony respecting the same, and also to the hereinbefore in part recited Letters Patent and the Royal Instructions accompanying the same so far as they are applicable.
In witness whereof I have caused these presents to be passed under the Public Seal of the Colony of New Zealand, and have hereunto set my hand this sixteenth day of January, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and eighty-eight.
Wm. F. DRUMMOND JERVOIS.
By Authority: GEORGE DIDSURY, Government Printer, Wellington.
NZ Gazette 1888, No 3
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Appointment of Deputy-Governor
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🏛️ Governance & Central Administration16 January 1888
Deputy-Governor, Appointment, Royal Commission, Temporary Absence, Chief Justice
- James Prendergast (Sir, Knight, Chief Justice), Appointed Deputy-Governor
- Wm. F. Drummond Jervois, Governor
- George Didsbury, Government Printer