✨ Proclamations and Legal Notices
THE
NEW ZEALAND
GOVERNMENT GAZETTE
(PROVINCE OF WESTLAND).
Published by Authority.
All Notifications which appear in this Gazette with any Official Signature thereto annexed are to be considered as Official Communications made to those Persons to whom they may relate, and are to be obeyed accordingly.
J. A. BONAR, Superintendent.
VOL. I.] HOKITIKA, SATURDAY, MARCH 28, 1874. [No. 10.]
Extracted from the New Zealand Gazette,
No. 15, March 12, 1874.
Designation of District Court of the County of Westland altered to “District Court of Westland South.”
(L.S.) JAMES FERGUSSON, Governor.
A PROCLAMATION.
WHEREAS by “The District Courts Act, 1858,” it is enacted that there shall be within the Colony of New Zealand Courts of Record possessing civil and criminal jurisdiction to be called “District Courts,” and the Governor is empowered, from time to time, as he shall think fit, by Proclamation in the New Zealand Gazette, to constitute throughout the Colony, or in any part thereof, districts within which such Courts shall be respectively held, and such districts to abolish, and the boundaries thereof to define or alter, and also to declare by what local name such Courts shall be designated:
And whereas by a Proclamation bearing date the nineteenth day of March, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-seven, the then Governor of the said Colony did, in pursuance and exercise of the power aforesaid, constitute and proclaim the district of the Colony therein described to be a district within which a District Court should be held under the said Act and “The District Courts Act Amendment Act, 1865:” And whereas by another Proclamation bearing date the twentieth day of January, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-eight, the boundaries of the district described in the hereinbefore in part recited Proclamation were altered, and it was by the now reciting Proclamation declared that the local name by which such Court should be designated should be “The District Court of the County of Westland.” And whereas by a further Proclamation, bearing date the twenty-eighth day of June, one thousand eight hundred and seventy, after reciting the lastly hereinbefore in part recited Proclamation, it was...
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Westland Provincial Gazette 1874, No 10
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⚖️ Designation of District Court of Westland altered
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- James Fergusson, Governor
⚖️ Proclamation regarding District Courts Act
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- James Fergusson, Governor