Wellington Provincial Gazette – 1863 – No. 15

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✨ Proclamations and Appointments

NEW ZEALAND

GOVERNMENT GAZETTE,

(PROVINCE OF WELLINGTON.)

All Public Notifications which appear in this Gazette, with any Official Signatures thereto annexed, 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. X.] FRIDAY, MARCH 13, 1863. [No. 15]

District Highways Act extended to Road between Wanganui and Waitotara.

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 III., Number 9, Intituled "An Act to vest in the Superintendent the control of the Main Roads in the Province," it is among other things enacted that the Superintendent, with the advice of his Executive Council, might by Proclamation declare that any or all of the offences and penalties for the same, mentioned in the "District Highways Act, 1856," in respect of District Highways, should be applicable to any Main or Trunk Road or any part thereof. And whereas it is deemed expedient that all the offences and penalties for the same, mentioned in the "District Highways Act, 1856," in respect of District Highways, should be made applicable to the portion of the Great North Western Main Road hereafter particularly mentioned. Now therefore I, Isaac Earl Featherston, Superintendent of the said Province of Wellington, do, with the advice of my Executive Council, hereby proclaim that all the offences and penalties for the same, mentioned in the "District Highways Act, 1856," in respect of District Highways, shall be applicable to the portion of the Great North Western Main Road, which commences at the Town of Wanganui and ends at the Wai-Totara.

Given under my hand and issued under the Public Seal of the Province of Wellington, at Wellington, this ninth day of March, One thousand eight hundred and sixty-three.

L.S.
I. E. FEATHERSTON,
Superintendent.

By His Honor's Command,
J. WOODWARD,
Acting Provincial Secretary.

South Makara Board of Wardens.

South Makara,
March 9th, 1863.

Sir,—
At a Public Meeting of the rate payers of the said District, the following gentlemen were duly elected Wardens for the next two years:

William Seivers,
John Christie,
William Dimond, Junior,
James Stroudley,
George Shorter, and
Joseph McLeavey,
Chairman.

To the Provincial Secretary,
Wellington.

VUW Te Waharoa — Wellington Provincial Gazette 1863, No 15

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

✨ LLM interpretation of page content

🏗️ Extension of District Highways Act to Road between Wanganui and Waitotara

Domain🏗️ Infrastructure & Public Works
Dated9 March 1863
KeywordsHighways, Road regulations, Wanganui, Waitotara, Proclamation
👩‍💼 Officials

Isaac Earl Featherston, Superintendent
J. Woodward, Acting Provincial Secretary

🏘️ Appointment of Wardens for South Makara Board

Domain🏘️ Provincial & Local Government
Dated9 March 1863
KeywordsWardens, Appointments, South Makara, Board of Wardens
👱🏽 Names

6 names identified

William Seivers, Elected Warden
John Christie, Elected Warden
William Dimond (Junior), Elected Warden
James Stroudley, Elected Warden
George Shorter, Elected Warden
Joseph McLeavey, Elected Warden and Chairman

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