✨ Proclamation of Prorogation
Numb. 89.
1917
THE
NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE
EXTRAORDINARY.
Published by Authority.
WELLINGTON, MONDAY, OCTOBER 22, 1900.
Proroguing the General Assembly.
RANFURLY, Governor.
By his Deputy,
ROBERT STOUT.
A P R O C L A M A T I O N.
WHEREAS by an Act passed in the Parliament holden in the fifteenth and sixteenth years of the reign of Her Majesty Queen Victoria, intituled “An Act to grant a Representative Constitution to the Colony of New Zealand,” it is, among other things, enacted that the Governor may, at his pleasure, prorogue the General Assembly of New Zealand:
Now, therefore, I, Uchter John Mark, Earl of Ranfurly, the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, in pursuance and exercise of the hereinbefore-recited power and authority, and of every other power and authority in this behalf enabling me, do hereby proclaim and declare that I do this day prorogue the General Assembly of New Zealand until Thursday, the twentieth day of December, one thousand nine hundred; and the said General Assembly is hereby prorogued accordingly.
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-second day of October, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred.
(L.S.)
R. J. SEDDON.
GOD SAVE THE QUEEN!
By Authority JOHN MACKAY, Government Printer, Wellington.
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NZ Gazette 1900, No 89
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🏛️ Proclamation proroguing the General Assembly until 20 December 1900
🏛️ Governance & Central Administration22 October 1900
Prorogation, General Assembly, Governor, Earl of Ranfurly, Parliament
- Uchter John Mark, Earl of Ranfurly, Governor
- Robert Stout, Deputy
- R. J. Seddon