Wellington Provincial Gazette – 1858 – No. 36

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✨ Harbour and Quarantine Regulations

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 relate, and are to be obeyed accordingly.

WILLIAM FITZHERBERT, Provincial Secretary.

VOL. V.] MONDAY, NOVEMBER 29, 1858. [No. 36.

NOTICE

Superintendent's Office,
Wellington, Nov. 13, 1858.

THE following Order of the Governor in Council, notifying the Harbour and Quarantine Regulations for the Port and Harbour of Wellington, are published for general information.

WILLIAM FITZHERBERT,
Deputy Superintendent.

At Government House, at Auckland, the 1st day of November, 1858.
Present: — His Excellency the Governor in Council.

WHEREAS by the Harbour Regulations Ordinance, No. 15 of Session 2, it is enacted that it shall be lawful for the Governor in Council, from time to time, to make all such Regulations respecting Pilots and Pilotage, Quarantine and Harbours, as in the said Ordinance provided.

Now, therefore, His Excellency the Governor, by and with the advice of his Executive Council, doth hereby make the following Regulations for the Port and Harbour of Wellington.

F. G. STEWARD.

I.—HARBOUR REGULATIONS.

Pilots and Masters of Vessels.

No person shall be deemed a Pilot unless he be duly licensed by His Excellency the Governor.
All persons so licensed shall be provided with a license according to the form hereto annexed.
Every Pilot shall carry his license with him, and shall produce it to the master of any Ship or Vessel on its being demanded, or forfeit a sum not exceeding forty shillings.
The rates of pilotage into or out of the Port of Wellington, from or to the distance of one league from the Pilot Station, are as follows, viz:—

Vessels under 200 tons, 4d. per ton
Ditto 200 to 300 tons, 3½d. "
Ditto 300 to 400 tons, 3d. "
Ditto 400 to 600 tons, 2½d. "
Ditto 600 and upwards, 2d. "

but no pilotage is to be chargeable on any Vessel engaged in the Coasting trade, unless the assistance of a Pilot be required by the Master of the Vessel.
The Master of every Vessel...

VUW Te Waharoa — Wellington Provincial Gazette 1858, No 36

The Wellington Provincial Council Chambers (depicted) were shared with Parliament after 1865

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🏛️ Publication of Harbour and Quarantine Regulations

Domain🏛️ Governance & Central Administration
Dated13 November 1858
KeywordsPublic Notice, Harbour Regulations, Quarantine, Wellington
👩‍💼 Officials

William Fitzherbert, Deputy Superintendent

🏛️ Harbour Regulations for Wellington

Domain🏛️ Governance & Central Administration
Dated1 November 1858
KeywordsHarbour Regulations, Pilots, Pilotage, Wellington
👩‍💼 Officials

F. G. Steward

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