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This information was published in 1966 in An Encyclopaedia of New Zealand, edited by A. H. McLintock. It has not been corrected and will not be updated.

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Public Seal of New Zealand

When the Public Seal was first sent to New Zealand in 1841, it was used with the Governor's signature on all dispatches to the British Government, on grants of waste land, and on letters patent designating local body areas.

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John Sidney Gully, M.A., DIP.N.Z.L.S., Assistant Chief Librarian, General Assembly Library, Wellington.