✨ Prorogation of General Assembly
Numb. 51. 1159
THE
NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE
EXTRAORDINARY.
Published by Authority.
WELLINGTON, TUESDAY, JUNE 8, 1897.
Further proroguing the General Assembly.
JAMES PRENDERGAST,
Administrator of the Government.
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, summoned and called to a Meeting of the
General Assembly of the said Colony, at the City of Wellington,
on the tenth day of the month of June, one thousand eight
hundred and ninety-seven, to have been commenced and held, and
to every of you—Greeting:
A PROCLAMATION.
WHEREAS on the twelfth day of April, one thousand eight hundred and
ninety-seven, the General Assembly of New Zealand was prorogued to the
tenth day of the month of June, one thousand eight hundred and ninety-seven,
at which time you were held constrained to appear: Now know ye that for divers
causes and considerations I have thought fit to relieve you and each of you of your
attendance at the time aforesaid, hereby convoking and by these presents enjoining
you and each of you that on Thursday, the twelfth day of August next, you
meet in Parliament, at 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.
(L.S.) Given under the hand of His Excellency Sir James Prendergast,
Knight, Chief Justice, Administrator of the Government in and
over Her Majesty’s Colony of New Zealand and its Dependencies;
and issued under the Seal of the said Colony, at the Government
House, at Wellington, this seventh day of June, in the year of
our Lord one thousand eight hundred and ninety-seven.
J. CARROLL.
GOD SAVE THE QUEEN!
By Authority: JOHN MACKAY, Government Printer, Wellington.
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NZ Gazette 1897, No 51
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🏛️ Prorogation of General Assembly to August 12, 1897
🏛️ Governance & Central Administration7 June 1897
Prorogation, General Assembly, Wellington, Proclamation
- James Prendergast, Administrator of the Government
- J. Carroll
- John Mackay, Government Printer