Southland Provincial Gazette – 1868 – No. 30

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✨ Proclamations and Executive Council Notices



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PROCLAMATION

By JOHN PARKIN TAYLOR, Esq.,
Superintendent of the Province of Southland.

WHEREAS His Excellency the Governor in Council has been pleased to delegate under “The Lunatics Act, 1868,” to the Superintendent of the Province of Southland all the powers, functions, duties, and authorities vested in or required to be performed by the Governor, or the Governor in Council, or the Colonial Secretary by the said Act.

Now, therefore, I, the said Superintendent, in virtue of the powers vested in me, do hereby proclaim that the buildings at present erected on the two parcels of land described in the schedule hereto, and known as the Gaol and Lunatic Asylum respectively, shall be public Asylums within the meaning of “The Lunatic’s Act, 1868.”

Given under my hand, and issued under the Public Seal of the Province of Southland at Invercargill, this twenty-fourth day of December, one thousand eight hundred and sixty eight.

JOHN P. TAYLOR,
Superintendent.

SCHEDULE.

GAOL RESERVE.

All that parcel of land in the Town of Invercargill, containing, by admeasurement, 2 roods and 28 perches, being bounded on the N. by Spey-street, 403 links; on the E. by Leven-street, 200 links; on the S. by the Railway Station Reserve, 278 links; and towards the W. by the Oreti Railway line, 236 links.

LUNATIC ASYLUM RESERVE.

All that parcel of land in the town of Invercargill, containing, by admeasurement, 2 acres, 1 rood, 11 perches, being part of the land granted as a Hospital Reserve, bounded on the N. by the street forming the northern boundary of the Town Belt, 715 links; on the E. by part of the Hospital reserve, 284 links; on the S. by Gala-street, 100 links; again on the E. by Leven-street, 100 links; again on the S. by the reserve for Public Gardens, 579 links, and towards the W. by the line of the Oreti Railway, 386 links.

Superintendent’s Office,
Southland, 10th Dec., 1868.

IT is hereby notified that

JAMES MORELAND M’CLURE, Esq.,

has resigned his seat in the Executive Council for the Province of Southland.

JOHN P. TAYLOR,
Superintendent.

Superintendent’s Office,
Southland, 14th Dec. 1868.

IT is hereby notified that I have appointed

WALTER HENRY PEARSON, Esq.,

and

JOHN ROSS Esq.,

to be Members of the Executive Council for the Province of Southland.

JOHN P. TAYLOR,
Superintendent.

Printed by the Authority of the Provincial Government of Southland, by REYNOLDS AND Co., of Invercargill, New Zealand, Printers to the said Provincial Government, for the time being.




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🏛️ Proclamation of Public Asylums under the Lunatics Act, 1868

🏛️ Governance & Central Administration
24 December 1868
Proclamation, Lunatics Act, Public Asylums, Gaol, Lunatic Asylum, Invercargill
  • John Parkin Taylor, Superintendent of the Province of Southland

🏛️ Resignation from Executive Council

🏛️ Governance & Central Administration
10 December 1868
Resignation, Executive Council, Southland
  • James Moreland M'Clure (Esquire), Resigned seat in Executive Council

  • John P. Taylor, Superintendent

🏛️ Appointments to Executive Council

🏛️ Governance & Central Administration
14 December 1868
Appointments, Executive Council, Southland
  • Walter Henry Pearson (Esquire), Appointed Member of Executive Council
  • John Ross (Esquire), Appointed Member of Executive Council

  • John P. Taylor, Superintendent