Num. 43.

1393

THE

NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE

EXTRAORDINARY.

Published by Authority.

WELLINGTON, MONDAY, MAY 9, 1910.

Proclamation notifying the Demise of the Crown.

(L.S.) PLUNKET, Governor.

A PROCLAMATION.

WHEREAS by section four of the Demise of the Crown Act, 1908, it is enacted that any demise of the Crown shall not affect anything done in New Zealand before the day whereon the Governor by Proclamation notifies such demise, and all things done in New Zealand at any time after such demise but before the day of the publication of the Gazette containing the aforesaid Proclamation, and which but for the said Act might be affected by any such demise, shall have the same effect and be of the same force as if no such demise had happened: Now, therefore, I, William Lee, Baron Plunket, the Governor of the Dominion of New Zealand, in pursuance of the provisions of the said section and for the purposes thereof, do by this Proclamation hereby notify that His Most Gracious Majesty King Edward the Seventh died at Buckingham Palace, London, on the sixth day of May, one thousand nine hundred and ten.

Given under the hand of His Excellency the Right Honourable William Lee, Baron Plunket, Knight Grand Cross 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 ninth day of May, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and ten.

J. G. WARD.

GOD SAVE THE KING!

Death of His Majesty.—Public Observance as to Mourning.

PLUNKET, Governor.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government Buildings, at Wellington, this ninth day of May, 1910.

Present:

THE RIGHT HON. SIR J. G. WARD, K.C.M.G., PRESIDING IN COUNCIL.

HIS Excellency the Governor of the Dominion of New Zealand, having been advised by the Secretary of State for the Colonies of the lamented death of His Most Gracious Majesty King Edward the Seventh, and acting by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of the said Dominion, doth hereby enjoin as follows upon his late Majesty’s loving and lamenting subjects in the said Dominion in token of their grief and sorrow for the great loss the Empire has sustained:—

1. All ministers of religion and all congregations are invited on Sunday next, the fifteenth instant, and also on the day appointed for the funeral of his late Majesty, to hold solemn services of public worship and mourning on behalf of the people of the Dominion.

2. The New Zealand ensign, with a scarf of crape attached to the flagstaff one foot above the flag, shall be displayed at half-mast on all public buildings in the Dominion till sunset each day and until sunset of the day appointed for the funeral.

3. All ships in the various harbours of the Dominion are invited to display their ensigns at half-mast each day until and including the day of the funeral.

4. All officers of the Government are enjoined to wear mourning until further notified, and all other subjects of his late Majesty are requested to do the same, in such manner as their loyalty and feelings direct.

5. And, generally, until after the day of the funeral, it is enjoined that all festivities of a public nature be suspended, and that on that day all places of business and public entertainment be closed.

J. F. ANDREWS,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

By Authority: JOHN MACKAY, Government Printer, Wellington.