PUBLIC SAFETY
STATE OF EMERGENCY POWERS OF THE GOVERNOR (Per Press Association.) WELLINGTON, this day. A proclamation declaring a state of emergency in New Zealand under section 2 of the Public Safety Conservation Act, 1932, was issued last night. It provides that if at any time it appears to the Governor-General that any circumstances exist or are likely to come into existence whereby the public safety or public order is or is likely to be imperrilled he may by proclamation approved in the Executive Council declare that a state of emengeny exists throughout New Zealand.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20032, 2 September 1939, Page 16
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95PUBLIC SAFETY Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20032, 2 September 1939, Page 16
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