✨ Proclamations and Appointments
THE COUNTY OF
WESTLAND GAZETTE.
Published by Authority.
HOKITIKA, MONDAY, FEBRUARY 7, 1870.
PROCLAMATION.
WHEREAS by "The Lunatics’ Act, 1868" it is enacted that the Governor in Council may from time to time by proclamation 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 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 the County Gaol, situated on the Gaol Reserve, Hokitika,
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 County of Westland, to be a Public Asylum within the meaning of "The Lunatics’ Act, 1868," aforesaid, until a more suitable building be provided.
Given under my hand at Hokitika, this 2nd day of February, one thousand eight hundred and seventy.
C. Hoos.
Hokitika, 2nd February, 1870.
In pursuance of the powers delegated to me under "The Lunatics Act, 1868," I hereby appoint
FITZHERBERT DENMOTT, ESQ., F.R.C.S.E.,
to be the Medical Officer who shall take charge of the Lunatic Asylum on the Gaol Reserve.
C. Hoos,
Governor’s Delegate.
Hokitika, 2nd February, 1870.
And whereas by an instrument in writing dated the third day of February, 1869, and published in the New Zealand Gazette, No. 5, of the 8th February, 1869, His Excellency the Governor, with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of the 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 Lunatics’ Act, 1868," within the County of Westland shall be exercised by the Chairman of the Council of the said County:
Now therefore I, Conrad Hoos, Chairman of the County Council of the County of Westland, in pursuance and exercise of the powers vested in me in that behalf do hereby proclaim
IT is hereby notified for general information
Mr. Thomas Tubman
has resigned his appointment as a Member of the Jones’ Flat Mining Drainage Board.
C. Hoos,
Governor’s Delegate.
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Westland Provincial Gazette 1870, No 6
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🏥 Proclamation of County Gaol as Public Asylum
🏥 Health & Social Welfare2 February 1870
Lunatics’ Act, 1868, County Gaol, Public Asylum, Hokitika
- C. Hoos, Governor’s Delegate
🏥 Appointment of Medical Officer for Lunatic Asylum
🏥 Health & Social Welfare2 February 1870
Lunatics Act, 1868, Medical Officer, Lunatic Asylum, Hokitika
- Fitzherbert Denmott (Esquire, F.R.C.S.E.), Appointed Medical Officer for Lunatic Asylum
- C. Hoos, Governor’s Delegate
🏥 Delegation of Powers under Lunatics’ Act
🏥 Health & Social Welfare2 February 1870
Lunatics’ Act, 1868, Delegation of Powers, County of Westland
- C. Hoos, Chairman of the County Council of the County of Westland
🌾 Resignation from Mining Drainage Board
🌾 Primary Industries & Resources2 February 1870
Resignation, Jones’ Flat Mining Drainage Board, Hokitika
- Thomas Tubman (Mr), Resigned from Mining Drainage Board
- C. Hoos, Governor’s Delegate