HIS Honor the Superintendent directs it to be notified that he has abolished Truscott’s Woolshed as a Polling Place for the election of Members for the Courtenay Road District, and has appointed

THE SCHOOL, WESTMELTON,

to be a Polling Place in its stead.

WALTER KENNAWAY,
Secretary for Public Works.

Public Works Office,
Christchurch, 18th October, 1878.

HIS Honor the Superintendent directs it to be notified that he has, in pursuance of the powers vested in him under the provisions of the “Timaru and Gladstone Board of Works Amendment Act, 1870,” and the “Roads Ordinance, 1872,” and by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council, appointed

T. O. RAYNER

Returning Officer at the election of a member of the Timaru and Gladstone Board of Works for the Geraldine district. And further that he has appointed the Geraldine Road Board Office as a Polling Place for the said election.

WALTER KENNAWAY,
Secretary for Public Works.

Provincial Secretary’s Office,
Christchurch, Oct. 14th, 1873.

HIS Honor the Superintendent directs it to be notified that in pursuance of the powers vested in him, he has appointed

ACTING-SERGEANT ROBERT WALLACE
MOUNTED-CONSTABLE JOSEPH MARTIN GILCHRIST
MOUNTED-CONSTABLE LIONEL D. BENJAMIN

to be Inspectors of Slaughter Yards for the Kaiapoi District.

WALTER KENNAWAY,
Provincial Secretary.

Provincial Secretary’s Office,
Christchurch, Oct. 14th, 1873.

HIS Honor the Superintendent directs it to be notified that he has appointed

ACTING-SERGEANT ROBERT WALLACE
MOUNTED-CONSTABLE JOSEPH MARTIN GILCHRIST
MOUNTED-CONSTABLE LIONEL D. BENJAMIN

to be persons duly authorised to register dogs in the Kaiapoi District.

WALTER KENNAWAY,
Provincial Secretary.

CANTERBURY WASTE LANDS ACT.

HIS Honor the Superintendent directs the publication of the following sections of “The Waste Lands Act, 1873,” for general information :-

3. The clause numbered thirteen is hereby repealed, and the following provisions are made in lieu thereof:-

All applications for the purchase of rural land shall be made and determined in the following manner, that is to say,-

When the applicant, or any person authorized in writing or by telegram on his behalf, shall apply at the Survey Office, either at Christchurch or Timaru, for the purpose of purchasing any portion of rural land, the Chief Surveyor, or such person as he may appoint, shall prepare a form of application for the said applicant, or any person authorized in writing on his behalf to sign, containing a description of the portion of land which the applicant desires to purchase, and shall initial the said form, and note thereon the precise time at which the application shall have been made; and the Commissioners shall, during the sitting of the Board, consider and determine all such applications in the order in which they shall have been received at the above-mentioned Survey Offices, up to such day and hour as may from time to time be fixed by the Superintendent, on the recommendation of the Board: Provided that if two or more persons shall apply at the same time for the same piece of land, or any portion thereof, the Board shall determine the priority of right to be heard by lot. Applications for the purchase of rural lands shall have priority of hearing before any other applications.

4. For all other purposes, a book, to be called the “Application Book,” shall be kept open during office hours at the Land Office, in which the name of every person desiring to make any application to the Board shall be written in order by himself, or any person duly authorised in writing in his behalf, and the Commissioners shall, during the sitting of the Board, consider and determine all applications made by such persons in the order in which their names shall appear in the Application Book, except where otherwise provided: Provided that if any person shall not appear himself, or by some person duly authorized on his behalf, before the Board when called in his turn, his application shall be dismissed until his name shall appear again in the book in order: Provided also, that if two or more persons shall apply at the same time to write their names in the Application Book, the Chief Commissioner, or in his absence any other Commissioner, or the Chief Clerk of the Board, shall bracket their names and shall initial the bracket, and when they shall appear before the Board the Board shall determine the priority of right to be heard by lot, and it shall not be lawful for the Board to hear any application except such as shall be made in accordance with the provisions of this Act.

WALTER KENNAWAY,
Secretary for Public Works.

Public Works Office,
14th Oct., 1873, Christchurch,
Canterbury, New Zealand.