Southland Provincial Gazette – 1865 – No. 6

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✨ Proclamation

SOUTHLAND

PROVINCIAL GOVERNMENT

GAZETTE.

Published by Authority.

Vol. 3.] FRIDAY, 3rd MARCH, 1865. [No. 6.

PROCLAMATION.

By His Excellency Sir George Grey, Knight Commander of the most Honorable Order of the Bath, Governor and Commander-in-Chief in and over Her Majesty’s Colony of New Zealand and its Dependencies, and Vice-Admiral of the same, &c., &c., &c.

WHEREAS, by an Act of the Imperial Parliament, passed in the fifteenth and sixteenth years of Her Majesty’s Reign, entitled “An Act to grant a Representative Constitution to the Colony of New Zealand,” it is amongst other things provided, that it shall be lawful for the Governor of New Zealand,

on behalf of Her Majesty, to disallow any election of a Superintendent of a Province established under the said Act:

And whereas by an Act of the Imperial Parliament, passed in the twenty-fifth and twenty-sixth years of Her Majesty’s Reign, entitled “An Act respecting the establishment and government of Provinces of New Zealand,” and to enable the Legislature of New Zealand to repeal the Seventy-third Section of an Act, entitled “An Act to grant a Representative Constitution to the Colony of New Zealand,” it is amongst other things enacted, that, subject as therein mentioned, the said recited Act of the fifteenth and sixteenth Victoria shall apply to all Provinces at any time existing in New Zealand, in like manner and subject to the same conditions, as the same applies to Provinces established by the said first recited Act:

And whereas an election of a Superintendent of a Province established under the said Act has been held, and it is expedient that the Governor should exercise the powers conferred by the hereinbefore recited Acts of the Imperial Parliament.

VUW Te Waharoa — Southland Provincial Gazette 1865, No 6

Built in 1864 as a Masonic lodge, this building was purchased by the Southland Provincial Council as their council chambers in 1866. It still stands today.

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🏘️ Proclamation regarding the disallowance of a Superintendent election

Domain🏘️ Provincial & Local Government
KeywordsProclamation, Governor, Superintendent, Election, Disallowance, Southland, Imperial Parliament
👩‍💼 Officials

Sir George Grey, Knight Commander of the most Honorable Order of the Bath, Governor and Commander-in-Chief in and over Her Majesty’s Colony of New Zealand and its Dependencies, and Vice-Admiral of the same

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