Extracts from New Zealand Gazette.

New Zealand Police Gazette, Volume XXIV, Issue 23, 7 November 1900, Page 244

Extracts from New Zealand Gazette.

(From Gazette, 1900, pages 1919, 1920, 1924, and 1929.) Police Gaol proclaimed. RANFURLY, Governor. By his Deputy, (1.5.) ROBERT STOUT. A PROCLAMATION. WHEREAS by an Act of the General Assembly of New Zealand intituled “ The Prisons Act, 1882,” it is enacted that the Governor may, by Proclamation published in the Gazette, declare that such police-stations as he shall name therein shall be police gaols : And whereas it is desirable to proclaim the lock-up recently erected in the Public Buildings Reserve at Nelson, in the Provincial District of Nelson, to be a police gaol: Now, therefore, I, Uchter John Mark, Earl of Ranfurly, the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, in pursuance of the above-recited power and authority, do hereby declare that the said building shall be a police gaol from and after the appearance of this Proclamation in the Gazette. Given under the hand of His Excellency the Right Honourable Uchter John Mark, Earl of Ranfurly; Knight Commander of the Most Distinguished Order of Saint Michael and Saint George; Governor and Commander-in-Chief in and over Her Majesty’s Colony of New Zealand and its Dependencies; and issued under the Seal of the said Colony, at the Government House, at Wellington, this seventeenth day of October, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred. JAMES McGOWAN.

God save the Queen !

Police-gaol closed. RANFURLY, Governor. By his Deputy, (1.5.) ROBERT STOUT. A PROCLAMATION. WHEREAS by an Act of the General Assembly of New Zealand intituled “ The Prisons Act, 1882,” it is enacted that the Governor may, by Proclamation in the New Zealand Gazette, declare that any prison or police-gaol shall no longer be a prison or police-gaol; and upon the gazetting of such Proclamation, or from and after any later date fixed in such Proclamation for the purpose, such prison or policegaol shall cease to be a prison or police-gaol: Now, therefore, I, Uchter John Mark, Earl of Ranfurly, the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, in pursuance of the above-recited power and authority, do hereby declare

that from and after the gazetting of this Proclamation the police-gaol in Shelburne Street, Nelson, in the Provincial District of Nelson, shall cease to be a police-gaol. Given under the hand of His Excellency the Right Honourable Uchter John Mark, Earl of Ranfurly; Knight Commander of the Most Distinguished Order of Saint Michael and Saint George; Governor and Commander-in-Chief in and over Her Majesty’s Colony of New Zealand and its Dependencies; and issued under the Seal of the said Colony, at the Government House, at Wellington, this seventeenth day of October, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred. JAMES McGOWAN.

God save the Queen !

Police Gaoler appointed

Department of Justice (Prisons Branch), Wellington, 17th October, 1900. HIS Excellency the Governor, by his Deputy, has been pleased to appoint Constable John Bird to be Police Gaoler at Nelson, vice Constable Andrew Phelan, deceased. JAMES McGOWAN.

Inspector of Factories appointed. Department of Labour, Wellington, 24th October, 1900. HIS Excellency the Governor, by his Deputy, has been pleased to appoint the under-mentioned person to be an Inspector under “ The Factories Act, 1894,” and to assign to him the district set opposite his name, viz.: — Name. District. Constable Alfred Hammond The North Island of the CoHyde lony of New Zealand, and the islands adjacent thereto. R. J. SEDDON, Minister of Labour.

Sale of Unclaimed Property. Police Department (Commissioner’s Office), Wellington, 22nd October, 1900. rjAHE unclaimed property described hereunder, and now I in possession of the police at the stations named, will, unless previously claimed, be sold by public auction, at the respective police - offices, on Monday, the 19th November proximo, at noon, in accordance with the police regulations : Auckland.— Ladies’ silver watch, No. 124359, and chain ; silver hunting-watch, No. 51689, with chain and pendants; Waltham watch, No. 4509672, and brass chain; three handbags, four umbrellas, bag of kauri-gum, mackintosh, gold locket, two gold pins, and sundries. Wellington. —Two gold rings, gold ornament, three silver brooches, tweed overcoat, two boas, and sundries. Nelson. —Tweed overcoat, pea-rifle, and two purses. Greymouth. —Waterproof coat and sundries. * Christchurch. — Gentlemen’s roadster bicycle, No. 2580, 24 in. frame, black enamelled steel rims, rat-trap pedals, block chain, straight handle-bars; gold bracelet, two boas, two mackintoshes, handbag, and sundries. Dunedin. — Waterproof coat, ladies’gold ring, three swags, ladies’ jacket and cape, and sundries. Invercargill. Silver watch, No. 1329830; Waterbury watch, four umbrellas, swag, and sundries. J. B. TUNBRIDGE, (00/40.) Commissioner of Police.