✨ Prorogation of General Assembly
Num. 130. 3425
THE
NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE
EXTRAORDINARY.
Published by Authority.
WELLINGTON, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 7, 1919.
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-General 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 fourth day of December, one thousand nine hundred and nineteen, 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, Member of His Majesty’s Most Honourable Privy Council, Knight Grand Cross of the Most Distinguished Order of Saint Michael and Saint George, Knight Grand Cross of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, Member of the Royal Victorian Order, Knight of Justice of the Order of Saint John of Jerusalem, 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 seventh day of November, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and nineteen.
J. B. HINE,
Minister of Internal Affairs.
GOD SAVE THE KING!
By Authority: MARCUS F. MARKS, Government Printer, Wellington.
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🏛️ Proroguing the General Assembly
🏛️ Governance & Central Administration7 November 1919
Prorogation, General Assembly, Proclamation
- Arthur William de Brito Savile, Earl of Liverpool, Governor-General
- J. B. Hine, Minister of Internal Affairs