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Wellington Independent, Volume XV, Issue 1381, 18 November 1859, Page 5

From the 'Government Gazette ,, Nov. 16. PROCLAMATION. By His Excellency Colonel Thomas Gore Browne, Companion of the Most Honorable Order of the Bath, Governor and Commander in Chief, in and over Her Majesty's Colony of New Zealand, and its Dependencies, and Vice Admiral of the same, "WHEREAS by an Ordinance of the Lieutenant-Governor and the Legislative Council of the Colony, intituled "An Ordinance for establishing Standard Weights and Measures and fdr the prevention of the use of such as are false and deficient," Session VII, No. 10, the Governor is empowered from time to time by Proclamation to appoint and define the Towns and Districts to which the operation of the said Ordinance should extend. Now therefore, I, Thomas Gore Browne, the Governor .as aforesaid of the said Colony, in exercise of the said power and authority Do hereby proclaim and appoint that from and after the Twenty-sixth day of December, 1859, the operation of the said in part recited Ordinance shall extend to all that territory situate in the Province of Wellington in the said Colony, known and defined as the Electoral Districts of the City of Wellington, the Wellington Country, and the Hutt. Given under my hand, and issued under the Public Seal of the Colony of New Zealand, at Government House, at Auckland, this Twenty-fourth day of October, in. the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and fiftynine. T. Gore Browne. ■ By His Excellency's command, Henry John Tancred, God Save the Queen! Colonial Secretary's Office, Auckland, 24th October, 1859. TTIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVER- ■*-•■- NOR has been pleased to appoint James Henry Marriott, to be Inspector of Weights and Measures under the " Weights and Measures Ordinance," Session VII, No. 10. Henry John Tancred, For the Colonial Secretary. Colonial Secretary's Office, Auckland, 24th October, 1859. TN Pursuance of the 3rd clause of the •*- " Weights and Measures Ordinance," Session VH, No. 10, His Excellency the Governor has been pleased to appoint James Henry Marriott, to be the person with whom the approved copies or models of the Standard Weights and Measures of the Colony shall bo deposited at Wellington. Henry JonN Tancred, For the Colonial Secretary Colonial Secretary's Office, Auckland, 24th October, 1859. TN Pursuance of the Bth clause of the ■*- " Weights and Measures Ordinance," Session VII, No. 10, His Excellency the Governor has been pleased to appoint the " Broad Arrow" as the.proper mark or stamp to be fixed on- weights and measures compared with the approved copies or models of the Standard Weights and Measures of the Colony, and found true. John Henry Tanored, For the Colonial Secretary.