Wellington Provincial Gazette – 1859 – No. 3

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✨ Medical Practitioners List and Slaughtering Fees Notice

NEW ZEALAND

GOVERNMENT GAZETTE.

(PROVINCE OF WELLINGTON.)

Published by Authority.

All Public Notifications which appear in this Gazette, with any Official Signature thereto 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. VI.] THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 3, 1859. [No. 3]

Provincial Secretary’s Office,
Wellington, 26th January, 1859.

HIS Honor the Superintendent has directed the publication of the following letter for general information.

WILLIAM FITZHERBERT,
Provincial Secretary.

Provincial Hospital,
Wellington, Jan. 25th, 1859.

SIR,—

I send you the following list of legally qualified Medical Practitioners residing in the Province of Wellington, to be published as the Act directs for the information of Coroners, Magistrates and the Public.

Remaining your
Obedient servant,
C. FRANCE,
Hon. Secretary to the Medical Board.

William Fitzherbert, Esq.,
Provincial Secretary.

G. D. Monteith
J. Rees
F. J. Knox
T. Hitchings
P. G. Hayes
C. G. Hewson
C. France
B. Tuke
R. P. Welch
H. S. Spratt
A. Johnston
A. Florence
M. Kebbell
J. R. Williams
B. Buck

NOTICE.

WHEREAS by an Ordinance of the late Legislature of New Zealand, intituled “An Ordinance for regulating the Slaughtering of Cattle in certain places,” it was enacted that it should be lawful for the Governor from time to time, as occasion might require, to fix a scale of fees to be levied, collected and received, from every party who should bring any cattle to be slaughtered at any public slaughter-house or place for slaughtering cattle: And whereas such authority so far as concerns the Province of Wellington, is now, by law, vested in the Superintendent of the said Province:

And whereas it is expedient to fix the scale of fees to be levied, collected, and received, for slaughtering cattle at the Public Slaughter House in the Town of Wanganui: Now therefore, I, Isaac Earl Featherston, Superintendent of the Province of Wellington, do hereby fix the following scale of fees to be levied, collected, and received, from persons bringing cattle to be slaughtered at the Public Slaughtering Place in the Town of Wanganui, aforesaid, viz.:

For every Bull, Cow, Heifer, Steer, or other Head of Cattle... 2s. 6d.

For every Calf and Pig... 1s. 6d.

For every score of Sheep or Goats... 10s. 0d.

Given under my hand this thirty-first day of January, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-nine.

I. E. FEATHERSTON,
Superintendent.

Countersigned,
William Fitzherbert,
Provincial Secretary.

VUW Te Waharoa — Wellington Provincial Gazette 1859, No 3

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

✨ LLM interpretation of page content

🏥 List of Legally Qualified Medical Practitioners in Wellington Province

Domain🏥 Health & Social Welfare
Dated25 January 1859
KeywordsMedical Practitioners, Wellington Province, Coroners, Magistrates
👱🏽 Names

15 names identified

G. D. Monteith, Legally qualified medical practitioner
J. Rees, Legally qualified medical practitioner
F. J. Knox, Legally qualified medical practitioner
T. Hitchings, Legally qualified medical practitioner
P. G. Hayes, Legally qualified medical practitioner
C. G. Hewson, Legally qualified medical practitioner
C. France, Hon. Secretary to the Medical Board
B. Tuke, Legally qualified medical practitioner
R. P. Welch, Legally qualified medical practitioner
H. S. Spratt, Legally qualified medical practitioner
A. Johnston, Legally qualified medical practitioner
A. Florence, Legally qualified medical practitioner
M. Kebbell, Legally qualified medical practitioner
J. R. Williams, Legally qualified medical practitioner
B. Buck, Legally qualified medical practitioner

👩‍💼 Officials

William Fitzherbert, Provincial Secretary
C. France, Hon. Secretary to the Medical Board

🌾 Notice of Fees for Slaughtering Cattle in Wanganui

Domain🌾 Primary Industries & Resources
Dated31 January 1859
KeywordsSlaughtering Fees, Cattle, Wanganui, Public Slaughter House
👩‍💼 Officials

Isaac Earl Featherston, Superintendent
William Fitzherbert, Provincial Secretary

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