✨ Provincial Council Election Notice
NOTICE
Province of Auckland,
to wit.
WHEREAS a Writ under the hand of John Williamson, Esquire, Superintendent of the Province of Auckland, bearing date the twenty-fourth day of July, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-seven, hath been directed to me, Thomas Beckham, Esquire, Returning Officer for the District of the Suburbs of Auckland, requiring and commanding me to cause to be elected by and from amongst the voters duly qualified for that purpose, freely and indifferently, and in manner and in form by law prescribed, one person to serve as a Member of the Provincial Council for the Suburbs of Auckland, in place of David Graham, Esquire, resigned.
Now, therefore, I, the said Thomas Beckham, Esquire, Returning Officer for the Suburbs of Auckland, do hereby, in pursuance of the said recited Writ, give notice that a Public Meeting of the Electors of the Suburbs of Auckland will be holden at the Supreme Court House, Auckland, on Friday the seventh day of August at noon, for the purpose of nominating one Person to serve as a Member of the Provincial Council as aforesaid for the Suburbs of Auckland. And in the event of a Poll being demanded for the Candidates, or any of them, such Polling shall take place on the following day, the eighth of August, at such Supreme Court House aforesaid, the voting to commence at any time after nine o’clock of the said day and to close at four o’clock of the afternoon of the same day.
Thomas Beckham,
Returning Officer
Auckland, July 24, 1857.
Printed by W. C. WILSON,
for the Provincial Government.
Auckland Provincial Gazette 1857, No 16
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🏘️ Notice of Election for Provincial Council Member
🏘️ Provincial & Local Government24 July 1857
Election, Provincial Council, Suburbs of Auckland, Returning Officer
- John Williamson (Esquire), Superintendent of the Province of Auckland
- Thomas Beckham (Esquire), Returning Officer for the Suburbs of Auckland
- David Graham (Esquire), Resigned Member of the Provincial Council
- John Williamson, Superintendent of the Province of Auckland
- Thomas Beckham, Returning Officer for the Suburbs of Auckland