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THE
NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
Published by Authority.

WELLINGTON, FRIDAY, JULY 21, 1865.

Warrant Abolishing a Polling Place and Appointing
other Polling Places in lieu thereof.

By His Excellency Sir GEORGE GREY, Knight
Commander of the Most Honorable Order
of the Bath, Governor and Commander-
in-Chief in and over Her Majesty's Colony
of New Zealand and its Dependences, 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, the premises of

MR. A. GILLIES,

were appointed a polling place for the district of
Wairarapa, for the election of Members of the House
of Representatives, and whereas it is expedient to
abolish the same :

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 above named polling place for the
district of the Wairarapa for the election of Members
of the House of Representatives, and do appoint in
lieu thereof.

The premises of Mr. PETER HUME, Tananui.
The School House, . . . . . Carterton.
The School House, . . . . . Featherston.
The premises of Mr. J. CRIPPS, Whareama.

Given under my hand, this seventeenth
day of July, one thousand eight hundred
and sixty-five.

By His Excellency's command,
J. C. RICHMOND.
G. GREY.

"The New Zealand Natives Reserves Act, 1856."

GEORGE F. SWAINSON, a person duly
appointed in this behalf, under the provisions of
"The New Zealand Native Reserves Act, 1856,"
hereby certify and report that I have ascertained
that the Aboriginal Inhabitants entitled to the piece
or parcel of land described in the Schedule hereunder
written have assented that the said piece or parcel of
land shall be subject to the provisions of the said
Act.

As witness my hand this eleventh day of May,
1865
GEORGE F. SWAINSON.

Schedule above referred to :

All that piece of land situate at Porirua (marked
A) commencing at Te Uru Kahika, by the stream
running into Porirua harbor, thence running inland
to Pokawhenua, thence to Rangituhi, thence to the
Takapuroahia stream, thence to Hamutawa, thence to
Te Huni Korite stream, and down the stream to the
Porirua harbor, thence along the beach and joining
at Te Uru Kahika.

Report adopted this 11th day of July, 1865, with
the advice and consent of the Executive Council of
the Colony.

FORSTER GORING,
G. GREY, Governor.
Clerk of the Executive Council.

Member summoned to Legislative Council.

Government Buildings,
Wellington, 12th July, 1865.

HIS Excellency the Governor has, in Her Majesty's
name, summoned

JAMES DU PRE LANCE,
of Hornsley Downs, in the Province of Canterbury,
Esquire, to the Legislative Council of New Zealand,
by writ of summons under the Seal of the Colony.

FRED. A. WELD.