✨ Government Proclamation
Num. 78. 2819
THE
NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE
EXTRAORDINARY.
Published by Authority.
WELLINGTON, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 26, 1924.
Assumption of the Government of New Zealand by Sir Robert Stout, Chief Justice.
ROBERT STOUT,
Administrator of the Government.
A PROCLAMATION.
WHEREAS His Majesty King George V was graciously pleased, by Letters Patent passed under the Great Seal of the United Kingdom, and bearing date at Westminster, the eleventh day of May, one thousand nine hundred and seventeen, to constitute the office of Governor-General and Commander-in-Chief in and over the Dominion of New Zealand and its dependencies: And whereas His said Majesty was also pleased, by a Commission under the Royal Sign Manual and Signet, bearing date at Saint James’s, the fifth day of July, one thousand nine hundred and twenty, to appoint the Right Honourable John Rushworth, Viscount Jellicoe, to be Governor-General and Commander-in-Chief in and over the said Dominion and its dependencies during His said Majesty’s will and pleasure: And whereas His Majesty was pleased, by a Commission under the Royal Sign Manual and Signet, bearing date at Saint James’s, the twenty-third day of July, one thousand nine hundred and seventeen, amongst other things, to appoint the Chief Justice of the said Dominion for the time being to administer the Government thereof in case of the death, incapacity, or removal, or of the departure from the said Dominion of the Governor-General appointed under the said hereinbefore-in-part-recited Letters Patent, with all and singular the powers and authorities granted by the said Letters Patent: And whereas the said Right Honourable John Rushworth, Viscount Jellicoe, departed from the said Dominion on the twenty-sixth day of November, instant:
Now, therefore, I, Robert Stout, the Chief Justice of the Dominion of New Zealand for the time being, do hereby proclaim and declare that I have this day taken the oaths prescribed by the hereinbefore-in-part-recited Letters Patent before the Honourable John Henry Hosking, one of the Judges of the Supreme Court of the said Dominion, and that I have assumed the administration of the Government of the said Dominion under and by virtue of His Majesty’s said Commission.
Given under the hand of His Excellency the Administrator of the Government of the Dominion of New Zealand, and issued under the Seal of that Dominion, this 26th day of November, 1924.
F. H. D. BELL,
For the Prime Minister.
GOD SAVE THE KING!
By Authority: W. A. G. SKINNER, Government Printer, Wellington.
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🏛️ Assumption of Government by Sir Robert Stout
🏛️ Governance & Central Administration26 November 1924
Proclamation, Government, Chief Justice, Administrator
- Robert Stout (Sir), Assumed administration of Government
- John Rushworth Jellicoe (Right Honourable Viscount), Departed from Dominion
- John Henry Hosking (Honourable), Witnessed oaths
- Robert Stout, Administrator of the Government
- F. H. D. Bell, For the Prime Minister