New Ulster

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

geography

New Ulster covered the entire North Island of New Zealand from 1840 to the beginning of 1848, but was then delimited from March 10, 1848 in a horizontal demarcation south of the Patea River .

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.

GD Pitt became Deputy Governor for New Ulster Province on February 14, 1848 .

With the New Zealand Constitution Act 1852 , the provinces of New Ulster and New Munster were dissolved and divided into new provinces. New Ulster was therefore replaced by the provinces of Auckland and New Plymouth and together with part of New Munster by the province of Wellington .

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).