Southland Provincial Gazette – 1867 – No. 11

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✨ Prison and Convict Regulations

NEW ZEALAND

Government Gazette.

PROVINCE OF SOUTHLAND.

Published by Authority.

All Public Notifications which appear in this Gazette, with any Official Signatures, are to be considered as Official communications made to those persons to whom they may relate, and are to be obeyed accordingly.

By His Honor’s Command,

W. H. AYLMER,
Clerk to Superintendent.

VOL. 5.] FRIDAY, MAY 3, 1867. [No. 11.]

G. Grey, Governor.

WHEREAS by an Ordinance of the Lieutenant-Governor and Commander-in-Chief of the Colony of New Zealand, intituled

"An Ordinance for the Regulation of Prisons,
Session VII., No. 7," the Governor is empowered from time to time to make such rules and regulations as to him may seem fit, touching the duties of the Officers of any Public Gaol, the classification, diet, instruction, treatment and correction of the Prisoners therein, and generally to prescribe all such rules as may be necessary for the good discipline of any Public Gaol, and the safe custody of the prisoners therein.

And WHEREAS by an Act of the General Assembly of the said Colony, intituled "The Secondary Punishment Act Amendment Act, 1863," it is enacted that it shall be lawful for the Governor from time to time to make such rules and regulations as to him shall seem meet for the employment, safe custody, management and discipline of Convicts under sentence of Penal Servitude, and to enforce the observance of such rules and regulations by solitary confinement for any period not exceeding one month at any one time, or for three months in periods of one month each, at intervals of at least one month each; by placing in irons; whipping, not exceeding fifty lashes at one time; by imprisonment, not exceeding twelve months, in addition to the original sentence; and by such prison discipline as may be prescribed in that behalf: provided always that no rule or regulation awarding any such punishment as aforesaid shall come into operation until a copy thereof shall have been first published in the New Zealand Government Gazette:

Now therefore, I, Sir George Grey, Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, under and by virtue of the provisions in the said Ordinance

VUW Te Waharoa — Southland Provincial Gazette 1867, No 11

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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G. Grey, Governor

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