EXTRACT FROM NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.

New Zealand Police Gazette, Volume XXXVII, Issue 19, 15 May 1912, Page 285

EXTRACT FROM NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.

(From Gazette, 1912, page 1563.) Hokitilca Police Gaol ceased to he a Police Gaol. (1.5.) ISLINGTON, Governor. A PROCLAMATION. WHEREAS by an Act of the General Assembly of New Zealand, intituled the Prisons Act, 1908, 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, John Poynder Dickson - Poynder, Baron Islington, the Governor of the Dominion 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 at Hokitika, in the Provincial District of Westland, shall cease to be a police gaol. Given under the hand of His Excellency the Right Honourable John Poynder Dickson - Poynder, Baron Islington, Governor and Commander-in-Chief in and over His Majesty’s Dominion of New Zealand and its Dependencies; and issued under the Seal of the said Dominion, at the Government House, at Wellington, this fourth day of October, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and eleven. JOHN G. FINDLAY. God save the King !