New Munster

Provinces according to the proclamation of March 10, 1848

Provinces under the New Zealand Constitution Act 1846

The first three provinces of the country according to the letters patent dated November 16, 1840

New Munster was a province in the former British colony of New Zealand .

geography

New Munster covered the entire South Island of New Zealand from 1840 to 1846, was awarded New Leinster ( Stewart Island ) in 1846 and, from March 10, 1848, the area south of the Patea River on the North Island.

history

When New Zealand was declared an independent colony by letters patent on November 16, 1840 and was no longer subject to the colony of New South Wales , the three main islands of New Zealand, which were previously known as Northern Island , Middle Island and Stewart's Island , became referred to geographically as New Ulster ( North Island ), New Munster ( South Island ) and New Leinster ( Stewart Island ).

On December 23, 1846, New Zealand was divided into two provinces, New Ulster and New Munster, under the New Zealand Constitution Act 1846 and by Royal Charter . On March 10, 1848, a proclamation followed by Governor George Edward Gray , in which the part of the province of New Ulster , which lies on the North Island south of the Patea River , the province of New Munster was awarded.

Edward Eyre was appointed Deputy Governor for the Province of New Munster on January 28, 1848 .

With the New Zealand Constitution Act 1852 , the provinces of New Ulster and New Munster were dissolved and divided into new provinces. New Munster was therefore replaced on the North Island by the Province of Wellington and on the South Island by the Provinces of Nelson , Canterbury and Otago .

See also

• Provinces of New Zealand

literature

• Donald Edgar Paterson : New Leinster, New Munster, and New Ulster . In: Alexander Hare McLintock (Ed.): An Encyclopaedia of New Zealand . Wellington 1966 ( online [accessed November 6, 2016]).
• Alison Dench : Essential Dates . A Timeline of New Zealand History . Random House , Auckland 2005, ISBN 1-86941-689-9 (English).

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Dench : Essential Dates . A Timeline of New Zealand History . 2005, p.  59 .
2. ↑ ^{a b} Dench : Essential Dates . A Timeline of New Zealand History . 2005, p.  71 .
3. ^ Government Gazette . Volume 3 Issue 187 . The New Zealander , Auckland March 15, 1848 ( online [accessed November 6, 2016]).
4. ^ New Zealand's Nine Provinces (1853-76) . (PDF 22 kB) Friends of the Hocking Collections , 2000, accessed on November 6, 2016 (English).