NEW ZEALAND

GOVERNMENT GAZETTE

(Province of Taranaki).

Published by Authority.

Vol. X.] NEW PLYMOUTH, FRIDAY, JUNE 27, 1862. [No. 14.

[Re-printed from the New Zealand Gazette.]

A PROCLAMATION

DISALLOWING THE TARANAKI "PUBLIC RESERVES ORDINANCE, 1861."

By His Excellency Sir George Grey, Knight, Commander of the Most Honourable 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 made and enacted in the fifteenth and sixteenth years of the reign of Her Majesty Queen Victoria, intituled "An Act to grant a Representative Constitution to the Colony of New Zealand," it is amongst other things enacted that whenever any Bill shall have been assented to by the Superintendent as in the said Act provided, the Superintendent shall forthwith transmit to the Governor an authentic copy thereof, and it shall be lawful for the Governor at any time within three months after any such Bill shall have been received by him, to declare by Proclamation his disallowance of such Bill, and that any such disallowance shall make void and annul the same from and after the day of the date of such Proclamation, or any subsequent day to be named therein.

And whereas the Ordinance hereinafter specified has been enacted by the Superintendent of the Province of Taranaki, with the advice and consent of the Provincial Council thereof, and the said Ordinance was received by the Governor on the fifth day of May, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-two.

And whereas it is expedient that the said Ordinance should be disallowed.

Now, therefore, I, the Governor of New Zealand, in pursuance of the authority vested in me in that behalf by the said recited Act of Parliament, do hereby proclaim and declare my disallowance of the following Ordinance passed by the Superintendent and Provincial Council of the Province of Taranaki, viz.:

"Public Reserves Ordinance, 1861."

Given under my hand, at Auckland, and issued under the Seal of the Colony of New Zealand, this ninth day of June, in the year of our Lord, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-two.

By His Excellency’s Command,
G. Grey.

William Fox.

God Save The Queen!

TENDERS FOR RATIONS.

Superintendent’s Office,
21st June, 1862.

The following Tenders for the supply of Rations for the six months ending 31st December, 1862, have been received and are published for general information.

Tender Accepted.

• Bread, per lb. ... 2½d.
• Meat, " ... 5d.
• Flour, per 100 lbs. ... 19s.

G.Y. Lethbridge.

Tenders Rejected.

• Bread, per lb. ... 2¼d.

• Meat, " ... 5½d.
  Messrs. Caddy and Colson

• Flour, per 100 lbs. ... 19s.

• Meat, per lb. ... 6½d.
  Thomas Bayly, junr.

Charles Brown,
Superintendent.

DESIGN FOR A PIER OR JETTY.

Superintendent’s Office,
21st June, 1862.

The sum of Ten Pounds will be given for the design for a Pier or Jetty that fulfils best the following conditions:

• That will enable boats to load or discharge with facility alongside of it, at high or low water.
• That will be easily repairable.
• That will be capable of extension, to afford shelter to small vessels from the prevailing winds.

The designs to be sent in before the end of July next.

Charles Brown,
Superintendent.