✨ Proclamation on Road Management
NEW ZEALAND GOVERNMENT GAZETTE.
(PROVINCE OF WELLINGTON.)
Published by Authority.
All Public Notifications which appear in this Gazette, with any Official Signature thereunto annexed, are to be considered as Official communications made to those persons to whom they may relate, and are to be obeyed accordingly.
By His Honor’s command,
WILLIAM FITZHERBERT, Provincial Secretary.
VOL. II.] SATURDAY, JUNE 30, 1855. [No. 2.
PROCLAMATION.
By His Honor ISAAC EARL FEATHERSTON, ESQUIRE, Superintendent of the Province of Wellington, in the Islands of New Zealand.
WHEREAS by an Act of the Provincial Council of Wellington, Session I., No. 21., intituled “An Act to provide for the making, maintaining, repairing and management of Country Roads within the Province,” Provisions were made for the establishment of Districts within which rates upon Land should be levied for the making, maintenance, repair, and improvement of highways then and thereafter to be made therein, and also for constituting Boards of Commissioners for carrying out the Provisions of the said Act within such Districts; And in the said Act were contained certain Enactments with respect to offences against the Board and Roads, comprising the Clauses of the said Act 88 to 102 inclusive. And whereas by a certain Act of the Provincial Council of Wellington, Session II., No. 8, intituled “An Act to vest in the Superintendent and his Executive Council the management of Roads in Districts for which Boards of Commissioners for such purpose may not be constituted.” It was enacted, “That the management and control of all highways within the Province, except in those Districts for which Boards of Commissioners for such purposes should be constituted should be vested in the Superintendent and his Executive Council; And also that the Superintendent by and with the consent of his Executive Council might by Proclamation declare that all or any of the enactments contained in the said Act of the first Session, No. 21, imposing Penalties for offences against the Roads and Board should be in force with respect to any highway under his control; And whereas it is deemed expedient that the Enactments with respect to offences against the Board and Roads hereinbefore referred to should be made applicable and enforced in the Hutt District. Therefore I, Isaac Earl Featherston, Superintendent of the Province of Wellington, by and with the advice of my Executive Council, Do hereby proclaim that from and after the first
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Wellington Provincial Gazette 1855, No 5
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🏛️ Proclamation for Road Offences in Hutt District
🏛️ Governance & Central Administration30 June 1855
Road management, Proclamation, Hutt District, Offences, Provincial Council
- Isaac Earl Featherston, Superintendent of the Province of Wellington
- William Fitzherbert, Provincial Secretary