Wellington Provincial Gazette – 1861 – No. 28

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✨ Government Communications and Exhibition Notices

NEW ZEALAND

GOVERNMENT GAZETTE,

(PROVINCE OF WELLINGTON.)

Published by Authority.

All Public Notifications which appear in this Gazette, with any Official Notices therein inserted, are to be considered as Official Communications made to those Persons to whom they relate, and are to be obeyed accordingly.

J. WOODWARD,
Acting Provincial Secretary.

VOL. VIII.] FRIDAY, AUGUST 23, 1861. [No. 28.

PROVINCIAL SECRETARY'S OFFICE,

Wellington, 15th August, 1861.

HIS HONOR THE DEPUTY SUPERINTENDENT, at the request of the Honorable the Colonial Secretary, directs the publication of the following Despatches from Her Majesty's Principal Secretary of State for the Colonies; together with the Warrant appointing local Commissioners and reference thereto; for general information.

J. WOODWARD,
Acting Provincial Secretary.

Downing Street,
20th April, 1861.

Sir,—With reference to my previous Despatches on the same subject, I transmit to you herewith for your information a copy of a Warrant which has been published in the London Gazette of the 29th ultimo.

International Exhibition of 1862, containing the decisions at which they have arrived on points connected with the management of the Exhibition.

I have, &c.
Newcastle.
Governor Gore Browne, C.B.

DECISIONS

OF

HER MAJESTY'S COMMISSIONERS

ON POINTS

RELATING TO THE EXHIBITION.

April, 1861.

Her Majesty's Commissioners have fixed upon Thursday, the last day of May, 1862, for opening the Exhibition.
The Exhibition building will be erected on a site adjoining the grounds of the Royal Horticultural Society, and in the immediate neighbourhood of the ground occupied in 1851, on the occasion of the first International Exhibition.
The portion of the building to be devoted to the exhibition of Pictures will be erected in brick, and will occupy the entire front towards Cromwell Road; the portion in which Machinery will be exhibited will extend along Prince Albert's Road, on the west side of the grounds.
All works originally to be exhibited should have been produced since 1850. The decision whether goods, proposed to be exhibited, are admissible or not, must, in each case, eventually rest with Her Majesty's Commissioners.
Subject to the necessary limitation of space, all persons, whether Designers,

VUW Te Waharoa — Wellington Provincial Gazette 1861, No 28

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🏛️ Publication of Despatches from Her Majesty's Principal Secretary of State for the Colonies

Domain🏛️ Governance & Central Administration
Dated15 August 1861
KeywordsDespatches, Colonial Secretary, Warrant, Commissioners
👩‍💼 Officials

J. Woodward, Acting Provincial Secretary
Newcastle, Her Majesty's Principal Secretary of State for the Colonies
Governor Gore Browne, C.B.

🏛️ Decisions of Her Majesty's Commissioners on the International Exhibition of 1862

Domain🏛️ Governance & Central Administration
KeywordsInternational Exhibition, 1862, Commissioners, Building, Pictures, Machinery

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