Wellington Province

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(For the current top-level subdivision of Wellington in New Zealand, see Wellington Region)

The Wellington Province was a province of New Zealand until the abolition of provincial government in 1876.

Contents 1 Area 2 Anniversary Day 3 Superintendents 4 Legislation 5 Source

[edit] Area

The province governed much of the southern half of the North Island, roughly the same area now known as the Manawatu-Wanganui and Wellington Regions. In the centre of the island the Wellington Province shared a boundary with the Auckland Province at latitude 39° south. East of the main divide, the boundary with Hawke's Bay Province lay just south of Woodville. To the west, just beyond the town of Waverley was the southern border of Taranaki Province.

Wellington's former provincial boundaries include four of New Zealand's main urban areas: Wellington, Palmerston North, Wanganui and Kapiti. Other large towns are Feilding, Levin and Masterton. According to Statistics New Zealand figures at the 2001 census 626,000 people lived within the old provincial boundaries.

[edit] Anniversary Day

New Zealand law provides an anniversary day for each province. Wellington Anniversary Day is the second-to-last Monday in January and is observed as a public holiday within the old provincial boundaries.

[edit] Superintendents

• 2 July 1853 - 14 March 1870 Isaac Featherston
• 28 April 1871 - 1 Jan 1877 William Fitzherbert

[edit] Legislation

The only act of the provincial assembly still in effect is the Manawatu Racecourse Act 1869.[1]

• Wanganui and Rangitikei Racecourses Act 1862
• Manawatu Racecourse Act 1869

[edit] Source

• A page containing a map of the old provincial boundaries is available here.
• List at Rulers site with provincial superintendents