Extracts from New Zealand Gazette.

New Zealand Police Gazette, Volume XXVII, Issue 11, 20 May 1903, Page 131

Extracts from New Zealand Gazette.

(From Gazette, 1903, pages 1110 and 1121 )

Prison closed. (1.5.) RANFURLY, Governor. 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 police gaol 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 prison at Mount Cook, in the Provincial District of Wellington, shall cease to be a prison, and that the Terrace Prison at Wellington will in future be known as the Wellington Prison. Given under the hand of His Excellency the Right Honourable Uchter John Mark, Earl of Ranfurly ; Knight Grand Cross of the Most Distinguished Order of Saint Michael and Saint George; Governor and Commander-in-Chief in and over His 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 first day of May, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and three. JAS. McGOWAN. God save the King !

Declaring Ahipara, Herekino, and Whan gape Oyster-fisheries, within which Oysters may he taken. RANFURLY, Governor. IN pursuance of the power and authority vested in me by sectiou fifteen of “ The Sea-fisheries Act, 1894,” I, Uchter John Mark, Earl of Ranfurly, the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, do hereby declare the bays, estuaries, and tidal waters of Ahipara Bay, of Herekino Harbour inside the Heads, and of Whangape Harbour inside the Heads, to be oyster-fisheries under the names of “The Ahipara Oyster-fishery,” “The Herekino Oysterfishery,” and “ The Whangape Oyster-fishery,” respectively. And I do further declare and prescribe that it shall be lawful to take oysters within the period prescribed in that behalf in such oyster-fisheries. As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor, this twenty-eighth day of April, one thousand nine hundred and three. WM. HALL-JONES.