New Zealand Gazette – 1919 – No. 78

Page 2077

✨ Royal Proclamation



Aumb. 78.
2077

THE
NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE
EXTRAORDINARY.
Published by Authority.

WELLINGTON, THURSDAY, JULY 3, 1919.

The following Proclamation issued by His Majesty the King is published by
His Excellency the Governor-General for the information of the Public.

BY THE KING.
A PROCLAMATION.
GEORGE R.I.

WHEREAS it has pleased Almighty God to bring to a close the late wide-
spread and sanguinary war in which we were engaged against Germany
and her Allies, we, therefore, adoring the Divine Goodness and duly consider-
ing that the great and general blessings of peace do call for public and solemn
acknowledgment, have thought fit, by and with the advice of our Privy Council,
to issue this our Royal Proclamation hereby appointing and commanding that
a general thanksgiving to Almighty God for these His manifold and great
mercies be observed throughout our Dominions on Sunday, the sixth day of July,
and for the better and more devout solemnization of the same we have given
directions to the Most Reverend the Archbishops and the Right Reverend the
Bishops of England to compose a form of prayer suitable to this occasion to
be used in all churches and chapels, and to take care for the timely dispersing
of the same throughout their respective dioceses; and to the same end we do
further advertise and exhort the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland,
and all spiritual authorities and Ministers of religion in their respective
churches and other places of public worship throughout our United Kingdom
of Great Britain and Ireland, and in all quarters of our Dominions beyond the
seas, to take part as it may properly behove them to do in this great and common
act of worship; and we do strictly charge and command that the said public
day of thanksgiving be religiously observed by all as they tender the favour of
Almighty God and have the sense of His benefits.

Given at our Court at Buckingham Palace, this first day of July, in
the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and nineteen,
and in the tenth year of our reign.

GOD SAVE THE KING!

Government House, Wellington,
3rd July, 1919.

LIVERPOOL, Governor-General.

By his Deputy,
ROBERT STOUT.

By Authority: MARCUS F. MARKS, Government Printer, Wellington.



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🏛️ Proclamation of Thanksgiving for the End of War

🏛️ Governance & Central Administration
1 July 1919
Proclamation, Thanksgiving, War, Peace, Religious Observance
  • George R.I., King
  • LIVERPOOL, Governor-General
  • ROBERT STOUT, Deputy