✨ Provincial Proclamation
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, FEBRUARY 14, 1874. [No. 3.]
PROCLAMATION.
WHEREAS, by "The Bridges and Ferries Act, 1868," Amendment Act, 1869," it is enacted that it shall be lawful for the Governor in Council, at the time of making any Proclamation bringing "The Bridges and Ferries Act, 1868," into operation in any Province, or at any time thereafter, to delegate all or any of the powers by the said Act vested in the Governor and exercisable by him within the Province in such Proclamation mentioned, except the powers conferred by the second section of the said Act to the Superintendent of the Province, in which the said Act shall be so brought into operation, or to any other person or persons, and such delegation from time to time to alter and revoke:
And whereas by a Proclamation bearing date the twenty-sixth day of September, 1870, and published in "The New Zealand Gazette," No. 54, of the 30th September 1870, His Excellency the Governor has declared that the said "Bridges and Ferries Act, 1868," into operation in the Province of Westland on the twenty-sixth day of September, one thousand eight hundred and seventy:
And whereas by "The Province of Westland Act, 1873," it is among other things enacted, that all the powers at the time of the first election of a Superintendent of the Province of Westland, vested in the Chairman of the County Council of the County of Westland, either solely or with the advice or on the recommendation of the County Council of the said County, except such powers as are contained in the parts of the Act repealed by the said "Province of Westland Act, 1873," shall, within the Province of Westland, so far as applicable to the circumstances of the said Province, be vested in the Superintendent of the said Province:
Now therefore, I, James Alexander Bonar, Superintendent of the Province of Westland, in pursuance and exercise of the powers vested in me do hereby proclaim that the ferry, mentioned in the schedule hereto annexed, shall be deemed to be a public ferry within the meaning of "The Bridges and Ferries Act, 1868."
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Westland Provincial Gazette 1874, No 3
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- J. A. Bonar, Superintendent