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GOVERNMENT GAZETTE
(PROVINCE OF TARANAKI.)
Published by Authority.
Vol. XIII.] NEW PLYMOUTH, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 8, 1865. [No. 28.]
PROCLAMATION
By His Honor HENRY ROBERT RICHMOND, Esquire, Superintendent of the Province of Taranaki.
WHEREAS Edward Smyth Willcoeks, Esquire, Returning Officer for the Province of Taranaki, did, on the 7th September instant, openly declare and publicly notify that at the election of a Superintendent for the Province of Taranaki, I, HENRY ROBERT RICHMOND, was duly elected by a majority of the voters of the whole Province to be Superintendent thereof.
Now, therefore, I do hereby proclaim and declare that I have assumed the office of Superintendent of the Province of Taranaki accordingly, and I hereby call upon the inhabitants of the said Province to aid and assist me therein.
H. R. RICHMOND,
Superintendent.
Superintendent’s Office,
New Plymouth,
7th September, 1865.
PROCLAMATION
By His Honor HENRY ROBERT RICHMOND, Esquire, Superintendent of the Province of Taranaki.
WHEREAS by an Act of the General Assembly of New Zealand, intituled the “Superintendent’s Deputy Act, 1856,” it is amongst other things enacted that it shall be lawful for the Superintendent of any Province, by proclamation to be published in the Government Gazette of such Province, to appoint such person as he may think fit, being a registered elector of such Province, to be his Deputy, and as such to perform and exercise all the acts and powers (except such powers as are conferred by the Constitution Act, 15 and 16 Vic., c. 72), which may be exercised and performed by such Superintendent, or such of them only as shall be specified in such proclamation.
Now, therefore, I, the Superintendent of the Province of Taranaki, do hereby appoint WILLIAM NORTHCROFT, Esquire, to be my Deputy during my absence from the said Province, and as such to perform and exercise all the acts and powers appertaining to the office of Superintendent except such as are conferred by the Constitution Act.
Given under my hand at New Plymouth this seventh day of September, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-five.
H. R. RICHMOND,
Superintendent.
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Taranaki Provincial Gazette 1865, No 23
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🏘️ Proclamation of Election as Superintendent
🏘️ Provincial & Local Government7 September 1865
Proclamation, Election, Superintendent, Taranaki
- Henry Robert Richmond (Esquire), Proclaimed as Superintendent
- Edward Smyth Willcoeks (Esquire), Returning Officer
- H. R. Richmond, Superintendent
🏘️ Appointment of Deputy Superintendent
🏘️ Provincial & Local Government7 September 1865
Proclamation, Appointment, Deputy Superintendent, Taranaki
- William Northcroft (Esquire), Appointed Deputy Superintendent
- H. R. Richmond, Superintendent