Taranaki Provincial Gazette – 1866 – No. 3

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✨ Miscellaneous Notices

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appear in the following schedule, opposite the numbers of the said Districts respectively, were duly elected Commissioners and Auditors respectively for the said Districts, for the year 1865-6, and that the Rates placed opposite the numbers of the said Districts in the said schedule, were duly imposed on all Lands within the said Districts respectively:

S C H E D U L E:

Number of District	COMMISSIONERS	AUDITORS	Rate per acre
First	G. Tate, J. Kelly, H. Barribault	R. Pickering, R. Pheney	Six Pence
Third	J. T. Upjohn, Z. Wells, R. Baker	T. King, W. Devenish	Six Pence
Fourth	G. Broadmore, H. Brown, W. French	C. Brown, R. Pheney	Nine Pence
Seventh	E. Moyle, W. Blake, N. Julian	T. White, W. R. King	Six Pence
Tenth	M. Carrick, J. T. Upjohn, R. Wells	F. U. Gledhill, W. Devenish	Three Pence
Eleventh	J. Kelly, junr., T. Purdie, C. D. Whitcombe	J. G. Corbett, G. Marshall	Six Pence

H. R. RICHMOND,
Superintendent.

(From the New Zealand Gazette.)

MILITIA AND VOLUNTEERS:

Colonial Defence Office,
Wellington, December 18, 1865

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to make the undernamed appointments, viz.:

In the Taranaki Militia,
Cornet William Johnson (Taranaki Mounted Volunteers) to be Ensign. Date of commission, 6th December, 1865.

John Paxton Hall to be Ensign. Date of Commission, 8th December, 1865.

T. M. Haultain.

A PROCLAMATION

Disallowing certain Taranaki Acts.

WHEREAS by an Act made and enacted in the Imperial Parliament holden 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 once shall make void and annul the same:

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 Acts passed by the Superintendent and Provincial Council of the Province of Taranaki, namely —

“Executive Council Ordinance, 1865”
“Provincial Council Ordinance, 1865”

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, and issued under the Seal of the said Colony, this thirtieth day of December, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty-five.

GOD SAVE THE QUEEN!

Printed and published, under the authority of the Provincial Government, by Messrs. Woon and Atkinsons, of the Town of New Plymouth, Government Printers for the same being.

VUW Te Waharoa — Taranaki Provincial Gazette 1866, No 3

The Taranaki Provincial Council building (depicted) was on lower Brougham Street in New Plymouth.

✨ LLM interpretation of page content

🏗️ Publication of Commissioners and Auditors for Road Districts (continued from previous page)

Domain🏗️ Infrastructure & Public Works
Dated17 January 1866
KeywordsCommissioners, Auditors, Roads and Bridges Ordinance, Taranaki, General Meetings
👱🏽 Names

30 names identified

G. Tate, Commissioner for First District
J. Kelly, Commissioner for First District
H. Barribault, Commissioner for First District
R. Pickering, Auditor for First District
R. Pheney, Auditor for First District
J. T. Upjohn, Commissioner for Third District
Z. Wells, Commissioner for Third District
R. Baker, Commissioner for Third District
T. King, Auditor for Third District
W. Devenish, Auditor for Third District
G. Broadmore, Commissioner for Fourth District
H. Brown, Commissioner for Fourth District
W. French, Commissioner for Fourth District
C. Brown, Auditor for Fourth District
R. Pheney, Auditor for Fourth District
E. Moyle, Commissioner for Seventh District
W. Blake, Commissioner for Seventh District
N. Julian, Commissioner for Seventh District
T. White, Auditor for Seventh District
W. R. King, Auditor for Seventh District
M. Carrick, Commissioner for Tenth District
J. T. Upjohn, Commissioner for Tenth District
R. Wells, Commissioner for Tenth District
F. U. Gledhill, Auditor for Tenth District
W. Devenish, Auditor for Tenth District
J. Kelly (junior), Commissioner for Eleventh District
T. Purdie, Commissioner for Eleventh District
C. D. Whitcombe, Commissioner for Eleventh District
J. G. Corbett, Auditor for Eleventh District
G. Marshall, Auditor for Eleventh District

👩‍💼 Officials

H. R. Richmond, Superintendent

🛡️ Militia and Volunteers Appointments

Domain🛡️ Defence & Military
Dated18 December 1865
KeywordsAppointments, Taranaki Militia, Ensign
👱🏽 Names

William Johnson (Cornet), Appointed Ensign
John Paxton Hall, Appointed Ensign

👩‍💼 Officials

T. M. Haultain

🏛️ Disallowance of Taranaki Acts

Domain🏛️ Governance & Central Administration
Dated30 December 1865
KeywordsProclamation, Disallowance, Taranaki Acts, Executive Council Ordinance, Provincial Council Ordinance
👩‍💼 Officials

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

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