✨ Land Schedule and Polling Place Notice
SCHEDULE B.
All that parcel of land in the Province of Taranaki, Colony of New Zealand, containing by admeasurement six acres one rood, more or less, being part of the Native Reserve numbered fourteen on the plan of the Fitzroy District, bounded towards the north by the Poti Stream; towards the east by Watson Street, two hundred and five links; towards the south by Lemon Street, one thousand three hundred and eighty-seven links; and towards the west by Hobson Street, five hundred and ten links. And also all that other parcel of land, containing by admeasurement twelve acres, more or less, being part of the same reserve numbered fourteen, bounded towards the north by Lemon Street, one thousand three hundred and eighty-seven links; towards the east by Watson Street, six hundred and thirty links; towards the south by the Uira Stream; and towards the west by Hobson Street, eight hundred and five links.
G. GREY, Governor.
Warrant abolishing a Principal Polling Place and appointing another in lieu thereof.
To all to whom these presents shall come, greeting.
WHEREAS by "The Regulation of Elections Act, 1858," it is enacted that it shall be lawful for the Governor, by warrant under his hand, from time to time, to appoint polling places for each electoral district within or without the limits thereof, and to appoint any one of such places to be the principal polling place for the district, and all or any of such polling places at any time to abolish, and to appoint other polling places in lieu thereof.
And whereas by warrant under the hand of the Governor, bearing date the seventeenth day of February, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-nine, the Court House, in the Town of New Plymouth, was appointed a principal polling place for the Districts of the Town of New Plymouth, Grey and Bell, and Omata, for the election of Superintendent and Members of the Provincial Council of the Province of Taranaki.
And whereas it is expedient to abolish the same:
Now know ye, that I, Sir George Grey, the Governor of the said Colony, in pursuance of the power and authority in me vested by the said Act, do hereby abolish the above-named principal polling place for the Districts of the Town of New Plymouth, Grey and Bell, and Omata, for the election of Superintendent and Members of the Provincial Council of the Province of Taranaki, and do appoint in lieu thereof:
THE "TARANAKI INSTITUTE," NEW PLYMOUTH.
Given under the hand of 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, at the Government House, at Wellington, this twenty ninth day of November, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty-five.
E. W. STAFFORD.
Colonial Defence Office,
Wellington, December 4, 1863.
THE following Rules are published for general information:—
The Rules relative to Pay and Allowances to Militia and Volunteers, dated 29th July, 1863, are hereby cancelled, and the following are substituted in lieu thereof:—
"Officers, Non-commissioned Officers, and Privates of the New Zealand Militia (not on actual service) when called out for enrolment, or for inspection of arms, or for training, and not obliged to leave their homes to be encamped, or when on actual service and in possession of arms, when required to parade periodically for inspection of arms,—will not receive any pay."
The rates of pay when on actual service in the field or doing garrison duty will be published on a future occasion.
A. H. RUSSELL,
(In the absence of the Defence Minister.)
Printed and published, under the authority of the Provincial Government, by Messrs. Woon and Atkinson, of the town of New Plymouth, Government Printers for the time being.
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Schedule of Land in Taranaki
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🗺️ Lands, Settlement & SurveyLand, Native Reserve, Fitzroy District, Taranaki
- G. Grey, Governor
🏛️ Warrant Abolishing and Appointing Polling Place
🏛️ Governance & Central Administration29 November 1865
Polling Place, Taranaki Institute, New Plymouth, Elections
- Sir George Grey, Governor
- E. W. Stafford
🛡️ Rules for Pay and Allowances to Militia and Volunteers
🛡️ Defence & Military4 December 1863
Militia, Volunteers, Pay, Allowances, Rules
- A. H. Russell, (In the absence of the Defence Minister)
Taranaki Provincial Gazette 1865, No 34