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and matters of a like kind, the word "Province" shall include "County of Westland," and the word "Superintendent" shall include, with regard to such County, any person whom the Governor may from time to time appoint to perform within such County those duties and exercise those powers under any such Act which might, if such duties or powers had to be performed or exercised within a Province, be exercised or performed by the Superintendent of such Province:

And whereas it is expedient that the powers reserved to the Governor by the said ninth section of the said "Secondary Punishment Act, 1854," should so far as the same are exercisable with regard to persons sentenced to penal servitude by any Court of competent jurisdiction sitting within the County of Westland, and so far as the same are exercisable with regard to persons sentenced to penal servitude by any Court of competent jurisdiction sitting and acting beyond the limits of the said County, upon such persons being removed under lawful authority to any prison within the said County, should be delegated to the Chairman of the Council of the said County:

Now therefore, I, Sir George Alfred Arney, the Officer Administering the Government of New Zealand, in exercise and pursuance of the powers vested in me by the said seventeenth section, do hereby, by this instrument under my hand, delegate to

HENRY LEE ROBINSON, Esq.,

so long as he shall hold the office of Chairman of the Council of the said County all the powers reserved to the Governor by the ninth section of the said Act; but only so far as the same are exercisable with regard to persons heretofore or hereafter to be sentenced to penal servitude by any Court of competent jurisdiction sitting and acting within the said County, and so far as the same are exercisable with regard to persons heretofore or hereafter to be sentenced to penal servitude by any Court of competent jurisdiction sitting and acting beyond the limits of the said County, upon such persons being removed under lawful authority to any prison within such County.

Given under the hand of His Excellency Sir George Alfred Arney, Knight, the Officer administering the Government of New Zealand, and Commander-in-Chief in and over Her Majesty's Colony of New Zealand and its Dependencies and Vice-Admiral of the same, at the Government House at Wellington,

this first day of May, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and seventy-three.

WILLIAM H. REYNOLDS.

[Extracted from the New Zealand Gazette, No. 27, of the 8th of May, 1873.]

Member of Central Board of Health, Westland, appointed.

Colonial Secretary's Office,
Wellington, May 2, 1873.

HIS Excellency the Officer Administering the Government has been pleased to appoint

HENRY WIDENHAM MAUNSELL, Esq.,

to be a Member of the Central Board of Health of Westland, in the room of T. H. Garland, Esq., who has left the Colony.

W. H. REYNOLDS.

[Extracted from the New Zealand Gazette, No. 27, of the 8th of May, 1873.]

Auditor of Trust Accounts appointed.

Office of the Minister of Justice,
Wellington, May 5, 1873.

HIS Excellency the Officer Administering the Government has been pleased to appoint

JOHN FRAME McBETH, Esq.,

to be Auditor of the Courts of Law Trust Accounts for the District of Greymouth, under "The Courts of Law Trust Moneys Act, 1868," vice H. F. Andrews, Esq., resigned.

WILLIAM H. REYNOLDS,

(in the absence of the Minister of Justice.)

[Extracted from the New Zealand Gazette, No. 27, of the 8th of May, 1873.]

Coroner Appointed.

Office of the Minister of Justice,
Wellington, May 7, 1873.

HIS Excellency the Officer Administering the Government has been pleased to appoint

ALEXANDER GROVES DUFF, Esq., M.D.,

of Ross, Westland, to be a Coroner within the Colony.

WILLIAM H. REYNOLDS,

(in the absence of the Minister of Justice.)