✨ Prorogation of Parliament
Num. 41. 1509
THE
NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE
EXTRAORDINARY.
Published by Authority.
WELLINGTON, TUESDAY, MAY 26, 1908.
Meeting of the General Assembly for the Despatch of Business.
PLUNKET, Governor.
To the LEGISLATIVE COUNCILLORS of the Dominion of New Zealand and the MEMBERS elected to serve in the HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES of the said Dominion, summoned and called to a Meeting of the General Assembly of the said Dominion, at the City of Wellington, on the twenty-ninth day of the month of May, one thousand nine hundred and eight, 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 twenty-ninth day of May, one thousand nine hundred and eight: Nevertheless, for certain causes and considerations I have thought fit further to prorogue the same to Monday, the twenty-ninth day of the month of June, one thousand nine hundred and eight, so that neither you nor any of you, on the said twenty-ninth day of May, 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 Monday, the twenty-ninth day of the month of June, one thousand nine hundred and eight, 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 Bowen Street, in the City of Wellington, there to take into consideration the state and welfare of the said Dominion of New Zealand, and therein to do as may seem necessary.
Given under the hand of His Excellency the Right Honourable William Lee, Baron Plunket, Knight Commander of the Most Distinguished Order of Saint Michael and Saint George, Knight Commander of the Royal Victorian Order, Governor and Commander-in-Chief in and over His Majesty’s Dominion of New Zealand and its Dependencies; and issued under the Seal of the said Dominion, at the Government House, at Wellington, this twenty-fifth day of May, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and eight.
(l.s.)
J. G. WARD.
GOD SAVE THE KING!
By Authority: JOHN MACKAY, Government Printer, Wellington.
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NZ Gazette 1908, No 41
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🏛️ Prorogation of the General Assembly
🏛️ Governance & Central Administration25 May 1908
Parliament, General Assembly, Prorogation, Wellington
- Plunket, Governor
- J. G. Ward