Marlborough Provincial Gazette – 1865 – No. 109

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✨ Electoral Polling Place Changes



WARRANT ABOLISHING A PRINCIPAL POLLING PLACE, AND APPOINTING ANOTHER IN LIEU THEREOF.

By His Excellency Sir George Grey,
Knight Commander of the Most Honourable Order of the Bath, Governor and Commander-in-Chief in and over Her Majesty’s Colony of New Zealand and its Dependencies, and Vice-Admiral of the same, &c., &c., &c.

To all to whom these presents shall come,
Greeting.

WHEREAS by “The Regulation of Elections Act, 1858,” it is enacted that it shall be lawful for the Governor by Warrant under his hand, from time to time, to appoint polling places for each electoral district, within or without the limits thereof, and to appoint any one of such places to be the principal polling place for the district, and all or any of such polling places at any time to abolish and to appoint other polling places in lieu thereof;

And whereas by Warrant under the hand of the Governor, bearing date the sixteenth day of July, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-three, the

Court House, Picton,

was appointed a Principal Polling Place for the District of Queen Charlotte Sound, for the Election of Members of the Provincial Council of the Province of Marlborough;

And whereas it is expedient to abolish the same, and to appoint another in lieu thereof:

Now know ye, that I, Sir George Grey, the Governor of the said Colony, in pursuance of the power and authority in me vested by the said Act, do hereby abolish the abovementioned principal polling place for the district of Queen Charlotte Sound, for the election of Members of the Provincial Council of the Province of Marlborough, and do appoint in lieu thereof:

The House of Mr Duncan, The Grove, Queen Charlotte Sound.

Given under my hand at the Government House, at Wellington, this sixteenth day of August, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty-five.

G. Grey,
By His Excellency’s command,
J. C. Richmond,
Colonial Secretary.

Printed for the Provincial Government by the Proprietors of the ‘Marlborough Press,’ Government Printers for the time being to said Government.




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🏛️ Abolition and Reappointment of Principal Polling Place

🏛️ Governance & Central Administration
16 August 1865
Polling Place, Election, Queen Charlotte Sound, Provincial Council, Marlborough
  • Duncan (Mr), House appointed as new polling place

  • Sir George Grey, Governor
  • J. C. Richmond, Colonial Secretary