✨ Military and Civil Appointments
Superintendent’s Office,
New Plymouth, 28th July, 1864.
I HEREBY appoint
William Devenish
to be an Inspector of Scab. The appointment to bear date from this day.
Chas. Brown,
Superintendent.
[Reprinted from New Zealand Gazette, July 11.]
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A PROCLAMATION
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 “The Naturalization Act, 1864,” it is enacted that every person who shall be declared to come within the operation of that Act by any Proclamation to be issued in that behalf by His Excellency the Governor shall as from the time in such Proclamation specified be deemed and taken until the termination of the next Session of the General Assembly to be and to have been from such specified time a natural-born subject of Her Majesty within the Colony of New Zealand as fully to all intents and purposes as if his name had been inserted in the Schedule to that Act annexed: Provided always that every such Proclamation shall contain the description, occupation, or calling of every person therein named and his place of residence at the date of such Proclamation:
Now therefore I, Sir George Grey, the Governor of New Zealand, in pursuance of the power and authority in me vested by the said Act, do hereby proclaim and declare that the person hereinafter mentioned shall come within the operation of the said Act from the date hereinafter specified, viz.:
Louis Von Rotter,
from the thirty-first day of May, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-five, native of Upper Saxony, Military Settler; residence, White Cliff, in the Province of Taranaki.
Given under my hand at the Government House at Wellington, and issued under the Seal of the Colony of New Zealand, this twenty-second day of June, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty-five.
By His Excellency’s command,
G. Grey.
Fred. A. Weld,
God Save the Queen!
MILITIA AND VOLUNTEERS.
Colonial Defence Office,
Wellington, 30th June, 1865.
HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to make the following appointments, viz.:
In the Taranaki Militia.
Lieutenant Arthur Standish, to be Captain.
Date of Commission, 3rd March, 1865.
William Tatton, to be Lieutenant. Date of Commission, 17th May, 1865.
Thomas Kelly, to be Ensign. Date of Commission, 17th May, 1865.
Louis Von Rotter, to be Ensign. Date of Commission, 14th June, 1865.
Henry William Northeroft, to be Ensign. Date of Commission, 28th June, 1865.
H. A. Atkinson.
Colonial Defence Office,
Wellington, 30th June, 1865.
HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to make the following appointments in the New Zealand Militia, viz.:
Captain Robert Parris, to be Major, (unattached). Date of Commission, 6th May, 1865.
Lieutenant Charles P. Sisson, Taranaki Militia, to be placed on the unattached list.
H. A. Atkinson.
Printed by Woon and Atkinson, for the Provincial Government.
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Taranaki Provincial Gazette 1865, No 20
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🌾 Appointment of Inspector of Scab
🌾 Primary Industries & Resources28 July 1864
Inspector of Scab, Appointment, New Plymouth
- William Devenish, Appointed Inspector of Scab
- Chas. Brown, Superintendent
🏛️ Proclamation of Naturalization
🏛️ Governance & Central Administration22 June 1865
Naturalization, Military Settler, Taranaki
- Louis Von Rotter, Declared natural-born subject
- Sir George Grey, Governor
- Fred. A. Weld
🛡️ Militia Appointments in Taranaki
🛡️ Defence & Military30 June 1865
Militia, Appointments, Taranaki
- Arthur Standish (Lieutenant), Promoted to Captain
- William Tatton, Appointed Lieutenant
- Thomas Kelly, Appointed Ensign
- Louis Von Rotter, Appointed Ensign
- Henry William Northeft, Appointed Ensign
- H. A. Atkinson
🛡️ Militia Appointments and Transfers
🛡️ Defence & Military30 June 1865
Militia, Promotions, Transfers
- Robert Parris (Captain), Promoted to Major
- Charles P. Sisson (Lieutenant), Placed on unattached list
- H. A. Atkinson