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The Cyclopedia of New Zealand [Wellington Provincial District]

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The Executive Council was called into existence by Captain Hobson on the 3rd of May, 1841, the birthday of New Zealand as an independent Colony. For the first thirteen years it consisted of the Colonial Secretary, the Attorney-General, and the Colonial Treasurer; and these offices had each but two occupants during the first fifteen years. On the setting up of a Legislative Chamber, however, in 1854, the Executive Council was numerically strengthened for about two months by the addition of several members of the newly-formed House of Representatives; but from the 2nd of September, 1854, till the establishment of responsible government on the 7th of May, 1856, the three officers mentioned again constituted, with the Governor, the Executive Council, notwithstanding that only one of them, the Attorney-General, was a member of the General Assembly. The following were the members of the Executive between the dates above mentioned.