✨ Order in Council
THE COUNTY OF
WESTLAND GAZETTE.
Published by Authority.
HOKITIKA, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 3, 1871.
[Extracted from New Zealand Gazette, No. 5, of the 20th January, 1871.]
(G. F. BOWEN, Governor.)
ORDER IN COUNCIL.
At the Government Building, at Wellington, this twenty-first day of December, 1870.
PRESENT:
The Honourable William Fox, Prime Minister, Presiding, and Members of the Executive Council.
WHEREAS, by the seventeenth section of "The Outlying Districts Sale of Spirits Act, 1870," it is enacted that the Ordinance of the Lieutenant-Governor and Legislative Council of New Zealand, intituled "An Ordinance to Prohibit the Sale, &c., of Spirits, and to Regulate the Sale, &c., of other Intoxicating Liquors, to Persons of the Native Race," Session VIII., Number 3, shall, except in any such town, district, or province as may be included in any such Order in Council as thereinafter provided, be repealed on and from the thirty-first day of December, one thousand eight hundred and seventy: And whereas it is by the eighteenth section of the said Act enacted that it shall be lawful for the Governor in Council at any time before the said thirty-first day of December, to suspend the operation of the said seventeenth section of the said Act within any town, province, or district within the Colony, and at any time thereafter to revoke any such Order in Council, and upon any such revocation, the said Ordinances shall be repealed within the town, district, or province to which the said last named Order relates: And whereas it is desirable to suspend the operation of the said seventeenth section of the said Act in the district described in the schedule hereto:
Now therefore, His Excellency, Sir George Ferguson Bowen, the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of the said Colony, in pursuance of the powers and authorities vested in him by the said Act, doth hereby order and declare that the operation of the said seventeenth section of the said "Outlying Districts Sale of Spirits Act, 1870," shall be and the same is hereby suspended in the district described in the schedule hereto.
SCHEDULE.
WESTLAND.
That portion of the Colony formerly in the Province of Canterbury, and being now the County of Westland, comprised within the following boundaries:—The sea coast from the mouth of the river Awarua to the mouth of the river Grey; thence the southern
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Westland Provincial Gazette 1871, No 4
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🏛️ Suspension of Spirits Act in Westland District
🏛️ Governance & Central Administration21 December 1870
Order in Council, Spirits Act, Westland, Liquor Regulations
- G. F. Bowen, Governor
- The Honourable William Fox, Prime Minister