✨ Prorogation of General Assembly
Num. 90. 2157
THE
NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE
EXTRAORDINARY.
Published by Authority.
WELLINGTON, WEDNESDAY, MAY 30. 1917.
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 thirty-first day of the month of May, one thousand nine hundred and seventeen, 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 thirty-first day of May, one thousand nine hundred and seventeen: Nevertheless, for certain causes and considerations I have thought fit further to prorogue the same to Thursday, the twenty-eighth day of the month of June, one thousand nine hundred and seventeen, so that neither you nor any of you, on the said thirty-first 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 Thursday, the twenty-eighth day of the month of June, one thousand nine hundred and seventeen, 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 thirtieth day of May, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and seventeen.
J. ALLEN.
GOD SAVE THE KING!
By Authority: MARCUS F. MARKS, Government Printer, Wellington.
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🏛️ Prorogation of General Assembly Meeting
🏛️ Governance & Central Administration30 May 1917
General Assembly, Prorogation, Wellington, Legislative Council, House of Representatives
- Arthur William de Brito Savile, Earl of Liverpool, Governor and Commander-in-Chief
- J. Allen