✨ Parliamentary Proclamation
Numb. 75.
1577
THE
NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE
EXTRAORDINARY.
Published by Authority.
WELLINGTON, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 2, 1897.
Meeting of the General Assembly for the Despatch of Business.
RANFURLY, 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, summoned and called to a Meeting of the General Assembly of the said Colony, at the City of Wellington, on the third day of the month of September, one thousand eight hundred and ninety-seven, to have been commenced and held, and to every of you—GREETING:
A PROCLAMATION.
WHEREAS the Meeting of the General Assembly stands prorogued to the third day of September instant: Nevertheless, for certain causes and considerations I have thought fit further to prorogue the same to Thursday, the twenty-third day of September instant, so that neither you nor any of you, on the said third day of September instant, 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-third day of the month of September, one thousand eight hundred and ninety-seven, 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 Uchter John Mark, Earl of Ranfurly; Knight Commander 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 issued under the Seal of the said Colony, at the Government House, at Wellington, this first day of September, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and ninety-seven.
(L.S.)
JOHN McKENZIE.
GOD SAVE THE QUEEN!
By Authority: JOHN MACKAY, Government Printer, Wellington.
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NZ Gazette 1897, No 75
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🏛️ Prorogation of General Assembly to September 23, 1897
🏛️ Governance & Central Administration1 September 1897
Parliament, Prorogation, General Assembly, Legislative Council, House of Representatives, Wellington
- Uchter John Mark, Earl of Ranfurly, Governor
- John McKenzie
- John Mackay, Government Printer