Talk:New Munster Province

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This article is a direct copy from this website: http://www.teara.govt.nz/1966/P/Provinces/NewLeinsterNewMunsterAndNewUlster/en —Preceding unsigned comment added by 202.36.179.67 (talk) 22:17, 10 August 2008 (UTC)

I recommend that the content of this page be accepted and merged into the politics section of the South Island page. Son of Zealandia (talk) 06:11, 1 August 2009 (UTC)

Recent move

Please see Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_New_Zealand/politics#First_three_provinces. Schwede66 00:25, 2 August 2010 (UTC)

Inaccuracies

Folks, this article is decidedly inaccurate, and actually gets the 1841-46 and 1846-53 bounds of New Munster around the wrong way. The 1840 Charter granted the name of New Munster to what we now know as the South Island. The North Island - the whole island - was to be New Ulster. If you don't believe me, go check out the leader in the New Zealand Gazette (a Wellington paper), 24 July 1841. The 1846 Constitution Act gave the Governor the power to include the southern part of the North Island within the province of New Munster, a power which George Grey exercised in early 1848 (just before receipt of the 1848 Suspending Act). When the New Munster Provincial Council had its solitary sitting, it met in Wellington and represented the area depicted in the map currently labelled as 1841.

Would fix this myself but I'm not exactly active on Wikipedia any more and have no intention of resuming activity at the present. - Axver (talk) 01:13, 26 November 2010 (UTC)

I'm no expert, but the text of this page is inconsistent with the map on this page, and the wiki page on "NZ Provinces" . Tried to fix it, but had formatting problems, so abandoned it. Wreader (talk) 23:12, 4 March 2015 (UTC)

Looks like we need to have a discussion about the whole of the Provinces of New Zealand articles... --LJ Holden 02:50, 5 March 2015 (UTC)