✨ Prorogation of General Assembly
Num. 37. 959
THE
NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE
EXTRAORDINARY.
Published by Authority.
WELLINGTON, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 5, 1916.
Meeting of the General Assembly for the Despatch of Business.
LIVERPOOL, 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 sixth day of the month of April, one thousand nine hundred and sixteen, 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 sixth day of April, one thousand nine hundred and sixteen: Nevertheless, for certain causes and considerations I have thought fit further to prorogue the same to Tuesday, the ninth day of the month of May, one thousand nine hundred and sixteen, so that neither you nor any of you, on the said sixth day of April, 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 Tuesday, the ninth day of the month of May, one thousand nine hundred and sixteen, 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 Arthur William de Brito Savile, Earl of Liverpool, Knight Grand Cross of the Most Distinguished Order of Saint Michael and Saint George, Member 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 fifth day of April, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and sixteen.
(L.S.)
W. F. MASSEY.
God save the King!
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NZ Gazette 1916, No 37
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🏛️ Prorogation of General Assembly Meeting
🏛️ Governance & Central Administration5 April 1916
Prorogation, General Assembly, Legislative Council, House of Representatives, Wellington
- Arthur William de Brito Savile, Earl of Liverpool, Governor and Commander-in-Chief
- W. F. Massey