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.

HENRY BUNNY,
PROVINCIAL SECRETARY.

VOL. XX. WEDNESDAY, MAY 28, 1873. No. 13.

Notice.

Superintendent’s Office,
Wellington, 22nd May, 1873.

THE following resolution has been forwarded by the Wanganui and Waitotara Highway Board :-

"Wanganui and Waitotara Highway Board, Wanganui 5th May, 1873.

"The Board having considered the several objections made to the line of the proposed Swamp Road, deem it desirable to construct the same, according to the line laid off by the Board’s Engineer, and shown in the plan and section, and hereby order the same to be constructed."

Under the provisions of the thirty-third Clause of "The Highway Board, Empowering Act 1871," I, William Fitzherbert, Superintendent of the Province of Wellington, do hereby appoint that the objections referred to in the above resolution shall be heard at the Superintendent’s Office, in the buildings belonging to the Provincial Government, on the Reclaimed Land in the City of Wellington, on Thursday, 12th day of June, One thousand eight hundred and seventy-three, at twelve o’clock noon.

Given under my hand at Wellington this twenty-second day of May, one thousand eight hundred and seventy-three.

WILLIAM FITZHERBERT,
Superintendent.

Proclamation.

By His Honor William Fitzherbert, Esquire, C.M.G., Superintendent of the Province of Wellington, in the Colony of New Zealand.

WHEREAS by "The Lunatics Act 1868," it is enacted that the Governor in Council may from time to time, by Proclamation published in the New Zealand Gazette, proclaim any house or building provided or deemed suitable for the reception of Lunatics, and wholly or in part supported out of any money appropriated for the purpose by the General Assembly, or wholly or in part supported by or at the cost of any Province or County, or other division of the Colony, a Public Asylum within the meaning of the said Act: And whereas by Order in Council dated the twelfth day of February, 1873, His Excellency Sir George Ferguson Bowen, the then Governor of New Zealand, with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of the said Colony, in pursuance and in exercise of the power and authority for that purpose vested in him did 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 aforesaid Act, within the Province of Wellington, shall be exercised by the Superintendent of such Province.

Now, therefore I, William Fitzherbert, Superintendent of the Province of Wellington, do hereby proclaim the building known as "The Wellington Lunatic Asylum," situated in the Province of Wellington, and erected upon a portion of the Wellington Town Belt, being a house or building provided and deemed suitable for the reception of Lunatics, and wholly or in part supported at the cost of the Province of Wellington, to be a Public Asylum within the meaning of "The Lunatics Act 1868."

Given under my hand and issued under the public seal of the Province of Wellington, at Wellington, this twenty-second day of May, one thousand eight hundred and seventy-three.

WILLIAM FITZHERBERT,
Superintendent.

Countersigned,
HENRY BUNNY,
Provincial Secretary.