New Zealand Gazette – 1917 – No. 163

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✨ Prorogation of Parliament

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THE

NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE

EXTRAORDINARY.

Published by Authority.

WELLINGTON, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 3, 1917.

Proroguing the General Assembly.

[L.S.]
LIVERPOOL, Governor-General.
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:
And whereas by an Order in Council of the ninth day of September, one
thousand nine hundred and seven, His Majesty was pleased to approve the draft
of a Proclamation substituting the title of the Dominion of New Zealand for that
of the Colony of New Zealand as the designation of the said Colony:
Now, therefore, I, Arthur William de Brito Savile, Earl of Liverpool, the
Governor-General of the Dominion 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 sixth day of
December, one thousand nine hundred and seventeen, and the said General Assembly
is hereby prorogued accordingly.
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-General 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 second day of November,
in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and
seventeen.
G. W. RUSSELL,
Minister of Internal Affairs.
GOD SAVE THE KING!