Southland Provincial Gazette – 1869 – No. 1

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✨ Proclamations and Marine Act Notice

PROCLAMATION

By the Honorable JOHN PARKIN TAYLOR,
Superintendent of the Province of
Southland

WHEREAS by the “Thistle Ordinance, 1862,” it is enacted that the Superintendent may by proclamation direct that the said Ordinance shall come into operation within any district, and by the same proclamation declare the limits thereof: Now therefore, I, John Parkin Taylor, Superintendent of the Province of Southland, do hereby proclaim and declare that the provisions of the said “Thistle Ordinance, 1862,” shall come into operation within the following district, that is to say, the whole of that part of the Province of Southland situated on the main land, and that such operation shall take effect on and after the first day of February next ensuing.

Given under my hand, and issued under the Public Seal of the Province of Southland this twentieth day of January one thousand eight hundred and sixty nine

JOHN P. TAYLOR,
Superintendent.

G. F. BOWEN, Governor.

TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, GREETING:

BY virtue of the power vested in me in this behalf by “The Marine Act 1867,” I, Sir George Ferguson Bowen, Knight Grand Cross of the Most Distinguished Order of Saint Michael and Saint George, Governor of New Zealand, do hereby cancel and annul all definitions of the limits of ports in the colony of New Zealand heretofore made, for the purpose of the said Act or of any Act repealed by the said Act, by any Superintendent or otherwise, and do hereby order that for the purpose of “The Marine Act, 1867,” the limits of the several Ports of the Colony mentioned in the second column of the Schedule hereto shall be such as are defined and set opposite thereto respectively in the third column of the said Schedule.

Given under the hand of His Excellency Sir George Ferguson Bowen, Knight Grand Cross of the Most Distinguished Order of Saint Michael and Saint George, Governor and Commander-in-Chief in and over Her Majesty’s Colony of New Zealand and its Dependencies and Vice-Admiral of the same, at the Government House, at Wellington, this twentieth day of November, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty-eight.

SCHEDULE.

Province or District.	Port.	Seaward Limits
Southland	Bluff	A circle of three nautic miles radius from the Flagstaff on Starting Point.
"	Invercargill (New River)	A circle of three nautic miles radius from the outer leading Beacon.
"	Riverton (Jacob's River.)	A circle of three nautic miles radius from the Flagstaff on the South Head.

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