Nelson Provincial Gazette – 1855 – No. 15

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✨ Proclamation of Polling Places



NEW ZEALAND
GOVERNMENT GAZETTE
(PROVINCE OF NELSON).
PUBLISHED BY AUTHORITY.

All Public Notifications which appear in this Gazette, with any Official Signature thereunto annexed, 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,
S. L. MULLER, Provincial Secretary.

VOL. III. NELSON, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 3, 1855. No. 15.

PROCLAMATION.

By His Excellency Colonel THOMAS GORE BROWNE, Companion of the Most Honorable Order of the Bath, Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, &c., &c., &c.

WHEREAS, by an Act passed in the Session of the Imperial Parliament, holden in the 15th and 16th years of the reign of Her Majesty Queen Victoria, chapter 72, it is amongst other things enacted, That it shall be lawful for the Governor of New Zealand, by proclamation, to constitute within New Zealand convenient Electoral Districts for the election of Members of the House of Representatives, and to make provision for the appointing of Returning Officers, and for the issuing, executing, and returning the necessary Writs for such elections, and for taking the Poll thereat :

Now, THEREFORE, I, the Governor of New Zealand, in pursuance of the provisions of the said in part recited Act, do hereby PROCLAIM AND DECLARE that, at the election of Members of the House of Representatives, the following shall be additional Polling Places for the undermentioned districts in the Province of Nelson, viz.:—

For the Town of Nelson—
Mr. GODFREY'S Hotel, Wairau;
Mr. EVES' House, Awatere;

For the Waimea Districts—
The Court House, Nelson;

For the Motueka and Massacre Bay Districts—
The Court House, Nelson;

For the Wairau District—
The Court House, Nelson:

AND I hereby further PROCLAIM AND DECLARE, that the Returning Officer of the above-mentioned districts shall be the Resident Magistrate residing at Nelson, or such other person as he may depute to act in that behalf.

Given under my hand, and issued under the Public Seal of the Colony of New Zealand, at Nelson, in the colony aforesaid, this third day of November, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and fifty-five.

T. GORE BROWNE.

By his Excellency's command
(For the Colonial Secretary),
W. GISBORNE.

GOD SAVE THE QUEEN!



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🏛️ Proclamation of additional polling places for the Province of Nelson

🏛️ Governance & Central Administration
3 November 1855
Electoral Districts, Polling Places, Nelson, House of Representatives, Elections
  • Mr. Godfrey (Mr.), Owner of hotel used as polling place
  • Mr. Eves (Mr.), Owner of house used as polling place

  • Thomas Gore Browne, Governor of the Colony of New Zealand
  • W. Gisborne, For the Colonial Secretary