Taranaki Provincial Gazette – 1872 – No. 2

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✨ Immigration Regulations



TARANAKI GOVERNMENT GAZETTE.

By the Agent-General in England for the sailing of each ship, be left behind, the passage money and passages will be forfeited.

  1. Applicants in the Colony, when writing to the persons for whose passages they have applied, should distinctly inform them that no part of the passage money paid in the Colony will be returned, if they omit to write to the Agent-General in London, telling him that they decline the passages offered to them.

  2. The address of the Agent-General in London is as follows:—

The Agent-General for New Zealand,
7, Westminster Chambers,
Victoria Street, S.W.,
London.

  1. All the ships employed in this service will be under the provisions of the "Passenger Act."

  2. Notwithstanding anything herein to the contrary, the Agent-General in London will have power to refuse passages where the intending Emigrants are in ill health, or in any way unfitted, according to his judgment, to undertake the voyage.

  3. Forms of Application may be obtained at any Post Office in the Colony, but passage moneys can only be paid at any Money Order Post Office in the Colony.

Given under the hand of His Excellency Sir George Ferguson Bowen, Knight Grand Cross of the Most Distinguished Order of Saint Michael and Saint George, Governor and Commander-in-Chief in and over Her Majesty’s Colony of New Zealand and its Dependencies, and Vice-Admiral of the same, at the Government House, at Wellington, this third day of January, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and seventy-two.

W. Gisborne.



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🛂 Immigration Regulations (continued from previous page)

🛂 Immigration
3 January 1872
Immigration, Regulations, Passage Money, Agent-General, London
  • His Excellency Sir George Ferguson Bowen, Knight Grand Cross of the Most Distinguished Order of Saint Michael and Saint George, Governor and Commander-in-Chief in and over Her Majesty’s Colony of New Zealand and its Dependencies, and Vice-Admiral of the same
  • W. Gisborne