✨ Provincial and Flax Commission Notices
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. XVIII. MONDAY, FEBRUARY 13, 1871. No. 4
Election of Provincial Council. Member for the City of Wellington.
Provincial Secretary’s Office,
Wellington, 10th Feb., 1871.
HIS HONOR the SUPERINTENDENT directs it to be notified for general information that a writ for the election of a member to serve in the Provincial Council for the City of Wellington having been issued in accordance with clause 12 of “An Act to Grant a Representative Constitution to the Colony of New Zealand,” the Returning Officer has returned the said writ with a certificate that the undermentioned gentleman has been duly elected to serve as member of the Provincial Council for the said City of Wellington—
GEORGE CRAWFORD.
By His Honor’s command,
A. FOLLETT HALCOMBE,
Provincial Secretary.
Flax Commission.
[Extract from page 80 of New Zealand Gazette, No 8, February 4, 1871.]
Colonial Secretary’s Office,
Wellington, 3rd February, 1871.
IN compliance with recommendations contained in the Reports of the Flax Commission Committee, and of the Joint Committee on Colonial Industries, to the effect that “premiums not exceeding in the whole £500 should be granted for the encouragement of Sericulture in the Colony,” and that the development of certain industrial pursuits would often be best promoted by the offer of a bonus on production, the following Rewards are offered, subject to the under-mentioned conditions:
A bonus of 50 per cent. on the value realized is offered for the production of the first £1,000 worth of cocoons of the Silkworm or eggs of the Silkworm produced in the Colony, to be paid on quantities of not less value than £50 or more than £100 produced by any one person.
To any person or persons who shall manufacture, within the Colony, from New Zealand flax—
For the first 500 reams of Printing Paper, a sum of £400; and a further sum of £250 for the first 500 reams of Packing Paper; and the like sum for the first 10,000 yards of Scrim-cloth suitable for covering flax bales.
CONDITIONS.
The required quantity of each article to be completed before the 30th June, 1872.
The weight of each ream of printing paper to be not less than 30 lbs., of each ream of packing paper not less than 40 lbs., and of each piece of scrim-cloth of 100 yards in length and double width, not less than 30 lbs.
The rewards will be paid on the certificate of an officer to be appointed by the Government that the above conditions have been complied with.
W. GISBORNE.
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Wellington Provincial Gazette 1871, No 4
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🏘️ Election of Provincial Council Member for Wellington
🏘️ Provincial & Local Government10 February 1871
Election, Provincial Council, Wellington, George Crawford
- George Crawford, Elected member of Provincial Council
- A. Follett Halcombe, Provincial Secretary
🌾 Flax Commission Rewards for Sericulture and Flax Products
🌾 Primary Industries & Resources3 February 1871
Flax Commission, Sericulture, Silkworm, Printing Paper, Packing Paper, Scrim-cloth
- W. Gisborne