✨ Proclamation
Numb. 89. 2455
THE
NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE
EXTRAORDINARY.
Published by Authority.
WELLINGTON, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 25, 1903.
Proroguing the General Assembly.
RANFURLY, Governor.
A PROCLAMATION.
WHEREAS by an Act passed in the Parliament holden in the fifteenth and sixteenth years of the reign of Her late 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 twenty-first day of January, one thousand nine hundred and four; 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 Grand Cross of the Most Distinguished Order of Saint Michael and Saint George; Governor and Commander-in-Chief in and over His 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-fifth day of November, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and three.
(L.S.)
J. G. WARD.
GOD SAVE THE KING!
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NZ Gazette 1903, No 89
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🏛️ Proclamation to prorogue the General Assembly
🏛️ Governance & Central Administration25 November 1903
Prorogation, General Assembly, Parliament, Governor, Proclamation
- Uchter John Mark Ranfurly (Earl of Ranfurly, Knight Grand Cross of the Most Distinguished Order of Saint Michael and Saint George, Governor and Commander-in-Chief), Issued proclamation
- J. G. Ward