New Zealand Gazette – 1893 – No. 36

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✨ Proclamation for General Assembly Meeting

Numb. 36. 613

THE

NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE

EXTRAORDINARY.

Published by Authority.

WELLINGTON, TUESDAY, MAY 9, 1893.

Meeting of the General Assembly for the Despatch of Business.

GLASGOW, Governor.

To the LEGISLATIVE COUNCILLORS of the Colony of New Zealand and the MEMBERS elected to serve in the HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES of the said Colony, and to every of you—GREETING :

A PROCLAMATION.

WHEREAS the Meeting of the General Assembly stands prorogued to the twelfth day of May, one thousand eight hundred and ninety-three: Nevertheless, for certain causes and considerations I have thought fit further to prorogue the same to Thursday, the twenty-second day of the month of June next, so that neither you nor any of you, on the said twelfth day of May, at the City of Wellington, are to be held constrained to appear; commanding and by the tenor of these presents enjoining you and each of you, and all others in this behalf interested, that on Thursday, the twenty-second day of the month of June next, personally you be and appear, for the DESPATCH OF BUSINESS, at half-past two o’clock in the afternoon, in the Parliament Houses, situate in Molesworth Street, in the City of Wellington, there to take into consideration the state and welfare of the said Colony of New Zealand, and therein to do as may seem necessary.

Given under the hand of His Excellency the Right Honourable David, Earl of Glasgow, 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 ninth day of May, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and ninety-three.

(L.S.)

P. A. BUCKLEY.

GOD SAVE THE QUEEN!

By Authority: SAMUEL COSTALL, Government Printer for the time being, Wellington.

VUW Te Waharoa — NZ Gazette 1893, No 36

In 1865 Parliament moved to Wellington and sat in the Wellington Provincial Council Chambers (depicted). Gradually expanded into a larger complex of buildings, it was replaced by the General Assembly Library in 1899

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🏛️ Proclamation for General Assembly Meeting

Domain🏛️ Governance & Central Administration
Dated9 May 1893
KeywordsProclamation, General Assembly, Prorogation, Wellington, Parliament
👩‍💼 Officials

David, Earl of Glasgow, 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
P. A. Buckley
Samuel Costall, Government Printer

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