✨ Proclamations and Notices
THE COUNTY OF
WESTLAND GAZETTE.
Published by Authority.
HOKITIKA, MONDAY, JULY 6, 1873.
PROCLAMATION.
WHEREAS by "The Lunatics’ Act, 1868," it is enacted that the Governor in Council may from time to time by proclamation in the "Government 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, by an instrument in writing dated the third day of February, 1869, and published in the "New Zealand Gazette," No. 5, of the twenty-first day of January, 1873, 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, Henry Lee Robinson, Chairman of the County Council of Westland, in pursuance and exercise of the powers vested in me in that behalf, do hereby proclaim the building situated on the Gaol Reserve, Hokitika, and known as the Sea View Lunatic Asylum, being a house or building provided and deemed suitable for the reception of lunatics, and wholly supported at the cost of the County of Westland, to be a Public Asylum within the meaning of "The Lunatics’ Act, 1868," aforesaid.
Given under my hand at Hokitika, this twenty-eighth day of June, one thousand eight hundred and seventy-three.
H. L. ROBINSON,
County Chairman’s Office,
Hokitika, June 26, 1873.
IT is hereby notified for general information, that
JOHN GRIFFIN, Esq.,
has been declared duly elected as a Member of the Paroa Road Board.
A. E. TENNANT,
County Secretary.
IT is hereby notified, in accordance with the provisions of section forty-three of "The Westland Waste Lands Act, 1870," that the Westland Waste Lands Board have declared open for sale the land described in the schedule hereunto annexed.
G. G. FITZGERALD,
Chief Commissioner of the Waste Lands Board.
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Westland Provincial Gazette 1873, No 15
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🏥 Proclamation of Public Asylum
🏥 Health & Social Welfare28 June 1873
Lunatics' Act, Public Asylum, Hokitika, Sea View Lunatic Asylum
- Henry Lee Robinson, Chairman of the County Council of Westland
🏘️ Election of Paroa Road Board Member
🏘️ Provincial & Local GovernmentParoa Road Board, Election, John Griffin
- John Griffin (Esquire), Elected as Member of the Paroa Road Board
- A. E. Tennant, County Secretary
🗺️ Land Open for Sale
🗺️ Lands, Settlement & SurveyWestland Waste Lands Act, Land Sale
- G. G. Fitzgerald, Chief Commissioner of the Waste Lands Board