✨ Provincial Council Election Notice
NEW ZEALAND
GOVERNMENT GAZETTE
PROVINCE OF CANTERBURY,
Published by Authority.
All Public Notifications which appear in this Gazette, with any Official Signature, are to be considered as Official Communications made to those persons to whom they may relate, and are to be obeyed accordingly.
By His Honor's command,
RICHARD PACKER,
Provincial Secretary.
VOL. IV.] MONDAY, FEBRUARY 23, 1857. [No. V.
NOTICE.
Province of Canterbury to Wit.
WHEREAS a Writ under the hand of James Edward Fitz Gerald, Esquire, Superintendent of the said Province, bearing date the 16th day of February, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and fifty seven, hath been directed to me William Guise Brittan, Esquire, Resident Magistrate and Returning Officer for the Electoral District of the Town of Christchurch in the said Province, requiring and commanding me to cause to be elected in form and manner by law prescribed, one Person to serve as a member of the Provincial Council for the said Electoral District of the Town of Christchurch, in the place of Richard Packer, Esquire, resigned :—NOW, therefore I, William Guise Brittan, Resident Magistrate and Returning Officer for the Electoral District of the Town of Christchurch, Do Hereby in pursuance of the said recited Writ, give notice that a public meeting of the Electors of the said District will be holden at the offices of the Provincial Government in the Town of Christchurch, on Tuesday the third day of March next, at 12 o'clock at noon, for the purpose of nominating one Person to serve as a member of the Provincial Council, for the said District, and in the event of a Poll being demanded for the candidates or any of them, such polling shall take place on Wednesday the fourth day of March, in the lobby of the Provincial Council Chamber at Christchurch; The voting to commence at any time after nine o'clock of the said day, and to close at four o'clock p.m. of the same day.
WILLIAM GUISE BRITTAN,
Resident Magistrate and
Returning Officer.
Christchurch, Feb. 16, 1857.
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Canterbury Provincial Gazette 1857, No 5
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🏘️ Notice of election for member of the Provincial Council for the Town of Christchurch
🏘️ Provincial & Local Government16 February 1857
Election, Provincial Council, Christchurch, Returning Officer, Writ
- James Edward Fitz Gerald (Esquire), Superintendent who issued the writ
- Richard Packer (Esquire), Resigned member of the Provincial Council
- Richard Packer, Provincial Secretary
- William Guise Brittan, Resident Magistrate and Returning Officer