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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
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(1.) In any case where you are satisfied that in any specified locality within the jurisdiction of a Local Board of Health or Harbour Board in that district any specified nuisance exists, or any specified building or place is in a condition dangerous to the public health, or any specified means should be adopted to prevent the introduction or spread of the bubonic plague, you shall forthwith report the matter, with your recommendation thereon, by telegraph to the Colonial Secretary, and shall also, for the purpose of assisting such Board to protect the public health, report the matter in writing, with your recommendation thereon, to the Board.
(2.) In every case where you make report and recommendation as aforesaid to a Local Board of Health or Harbour Board, the Board is hereby enjoined to forthwith employ all means exercisable by it under “The Public Health Act, 1876,” or its local governing Act, or otherwise howsoever, in order to give full and prompt effect to your report and recommendation.
(3.) In every case where you are of opinion that any such Board is not taking prompt steps to give full effect to your report and recommendation you shall forthwith notify the fact to the Colonial Secretary by telegraph, and he shall thereupon take such action as in the interests of the public health he deems expedient.
(4.) For the purpose of further assisting such Board to give full and prompt effect to your report and recommendation, all members of the Police Force are hereby enjoined to co-operate with such Board.
And, for the purpose of securing uniformity of action and result, I hereby further direct that in acting under this Commission you shall from time to time confer with and report to the General Commissioners as you think fit, or as they desire; and in particular that you shall forward to them by telegraph a copy of every report and recommendation which you make to the Colonial Secretary, as hereinbefore provided.
And I do hereby declare that this Commission shall continue in full force, and that, subject to these presents, you, the said
JAMES TORRANCE,
shall and may from time to time proceed in the subject-matter hereof, at such time and times within the prescribed limits, and at such place or places, as you may deem expedient. And I do hereby further declare that this Commission is issued subject to the provisions of “The Commissioners’ Powers Act, 1867,” and “The Commissioners’ Powers Act 1867 Amendment Act, 1872.”
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 twenty-fourth day of April, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred.
J. G. WARD,
Colonial Secretary.
Approved in Council.
J. F. ANDREWS,
Acting-Clerk of the Executive Council.
By Authority: JOHN MACKAY, Government Printer, Wellington.
NZ Gazette 1900, No 33
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Commission Appointing James Torrance to Inquire into Sanitary Conditions in Southland
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🏥 Health & Social Welfare24 April 1900
Sanitary Commission, Bubonic Plague, Southland, Medical Officer, Public Health, Quarantine
- James Torrance, Appointed as Sanitary Commissioner
- J. G. Ward, Colonial Secretary
- J. F. Andrews, Acting-Clerk of the Executive Council