✨ Provincial Government Notices
RETURNING OFFICER FOR PROVINCIAL ELECTIONS
for the Districts of Tuapeka and Waitahuna, in the Province
of Otago, vice William Lawrence Simpson, Esq., resigned.
DONALD McLEAN,
(in the absence of the Colonial Secretary.)
PROVINCIAL REGISTRATION OFFICER APPOINTED.
Colonial Secretary’s Office,
Wellington, 23rd May, 1873.
His Excellency the Officer Administering the Government
has been pleased to appoint
William Parker Street, Esq.,
to be Registration Officer for the Province of Otago, to
form Electoral Rolls for the election of Members of the
Provincial Council thereof.
DONALD McLEAN,
(in the absence of the Colonial Secretary.)
(From the New Zealand Gazette, May 22, 1873. No. 32.)
DISSOLUTION OF OTAGO PROVINCIAL COUNCIL.
(k.s.)
Officer Administering the Government.
A PROCLAMATION.
WHEREAS by an Act of the Imperial Parliament,
passed in the fifteenth and sixteenth years of the
reign of Her present Majesty, cap. 72, intituled “An Act
to grant a Representative Constitution to the Colony of
New Zealand,” the several Provinces of Auckland, New
Plymouth, Wellington, Nelson, Canterbury, and Otago
are thereby established, and it is enacted that for each of
the said Provinces there shall be a Superintendent and
Provincial Council:
And whereas by the said Act it is further enacted that
every Provincial Council shall continue for the period of
four years from the day of return of the Writs for elec-
ting the same and no longer: Provided always that it
shall be lawful for the Governor of New Zealand, by
Proclamation or otherwise, to dissolve the same whenever
his Excellency shall think fit expedient so to do:
Now therefore I, Sir George Alfred Arney, the Officer
Administering the Government of the Colony of New
Zealand, do, by this Proclamation, dissolve the Provincial
Council of the said Province of Otago accordingly.
Given under the hand of His Excellency Sir
George Alfred Arney, Knight, the Officer
Administering the Government, and Commander-in-Chief in and over Her Majesty’s
Colony of New Zealand and its Dependencies,
and Vice-Admiral of the same; and issued
under the Seal of the said Colony, at
Wellington, this twenty-second day of May,
in the year of our Lord one thousand eight
hundred and seventy-three.
DONALD McLEAN.
GOD SAVE THE QUEEN!
REGISTRATION OFFICER APPOINTED.
Colonial Secretary’s Office,
Wellington, 21st May, 1873.
HIS Excellency the Officer Administering the
Government has been pleased to appoint
William Parker Street, Esq.,
to be Registration Officer for the Province of Otago,
to form Electoral Rolls for the election of Members of the
Provincial Council thereof, in the room of A. Chetwode
Strode, Esq., resigned.
DONALD McLEAN,
(in the absence of the Colonial Secretary.)
Printed under the Authority of the Provincial Government of
Otago, by Mills, Dick and Co., of Stafford Street, Printers
tothe said Provincial Government for the time being.
Otago Provincial Gazette 1873, No 853
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🏘️ Appointment of Returning Officer for Provincial Elections
🏘️ Provincial & Local GovernmentReturning Officer, Provincial Elections, Tuapeka, Waitahuna, Otago
- William Lawrence Simpson (Esquire), Resigned as Returning Officer
- William Parker Street (Esquire), Appointed Returning Officer
- DONALD McLEAN, (in the absence of the Colonial Secretary)
🏘️ Appointment of Provincial Registration Officer
🏘️ Provincial & Local Government23 May 1873
Registration Officer, Provincial Council, Otago
- William Parker Street (Esquire), Appointed Registration Officer
- DONALD McLEAN, (in the absence of the Colonial Secretary)
🏘️ Dissolution of Otago Provincial Council
🏘️ Provincial & Local Government22 May 1873
Dissolution, Provincial Council, Otago
- Sir George Alfred Arney, Knight, Officer Administering the Government
- DONALD McLEAN
🏘️ Appointment of Registration Officer for Otago
🏘️ Provincial & Local Government21 May 1873
Registration Officer, Provincial Council, Otago
- William Parker Street (Esquire), Appointed Registration Officer
- A. Chetwode Strode (Esquire), Resigned as Registration Officer
- DONALD McLEAN, (in the absence of the Colonial Secretary)