✨ Appointment of Inspector of Lunatic Asylums
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 relate, and are to be obeyed accordingly.
A. FOLLETT HALCOMBE,
PROVINCIAL SECRETARY.
VOL. XVII. FRIDAY, JUNE 17, 1870. No. 13
Proclamation.
By His Honor William Waring Taylor Esquire Deputy Superintendent of the Province of Wellington in the Colony of New Zealand.
WHEREAS by "The Lunatics Act 1868" it was enacted that it should be lawful for the Governor from time to time to appoint Inspectors and Deputy Inspectors of Asylums Hospitals and Licensed Houses in New Zealand and to assign to such Inspector a District and also one or more official visitors of particular Asylums, Hospitals and Licensed Houses in New Zealand all of whom should be Justices of the Peace And it was also enacted that it should be lawful for the Governor in Council from time to time to order and direct that all or any of the powers functions duties and authorities vested in or required to be performed by the Governor or the Governor in Council or the Colonial Secretary by the said Act within any Province or the District of the Colony should be exercised or performed by the Superintendent of any such Province or by any other person the Governor might think fit And whereas by an order in Council issued in the month of March now last His Excellency Sir George Ferguson Bowen the Governor of New Zealand with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of the said Colony in pursuance and exercise of the power and authority for that purpose vested in him did thereby order and direct that all the powers functions duties and authorities vested in or required to be performed by the Governor or the Governor in Council or the Colonial Secretary by "The Lunatics Act 1868" within the Province of Wellington should be exercised by the Deputy Superintendent of such Province (but only during the absence of the Superintendent of the said Province and during any vacancy in the office of the Superintendent of the said Province arising by death or resignation and only so long as the said Deputy Superintendent should hold the office) And whereas the Superintendent of Wellington is now absent from the Colony Now therefore I William Waring Taylor the Deputy Superintendent of the Province of Wellington in pursuance of the power given to me in this behalf do hereby appoint Thomas Adolphus Bowden Esquire Justice of the Peace Inspector of Lunatic Asylums and Licensed Houses And do hereby assign to him the Province of Wellington as a district for the above purpose.
Given under my hand and issued under the public seal of the Province of Wellington at Wellington this ninth day of June one thousand eight hundred and seventy.
W. WARING TAYLOR,
Deputy Superintendent.
By His Honor's Command,
A. FOLLETT HALCOMBE,
Provincial Secretary.
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Wellington Provincial Gazette 1870, No 13
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🏥 Appointment of Thomas Adolphus Bowden as Inspector of Lunatic Asylums and Licensed Houses
🏥 Health & Social Welfare9 June 1870
Lunatics Act 1868, Inspector, Lunatic Asylums, Licensed Houses, Wellington, Appointment
- William Waring Taylor (Esquire), Deputy Superintendent of Wellington
- George Ferguson Bowen (Sir), Governor of New Zealand
- Thomas Adolphus Bowden (Esquire), Appointed Inspector of Lunatic Asylums and Licensed Houses
- A. Follett Halcombe, Provincial Secretary
- W. Waring Taylor, Deputy Superintendent