New Zealand Gazette – 1866 – No. 4

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✨ Election Polling Place Proclamation

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THE

NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.

Published by Authority.

WELLINGTON, FRIDAY, JANUARY 19, 1866.

G. GREY, GOVERNOR.

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 in exercise of the said power and authority by divers Warrants under the hand of the
Governor, certain places have been appointed Polling Places and Principal Polling Places for Electoral
Districts for the Election of Members of the House of Representatives:

And whereas it is expedient to abolish the same and to appoint others in lieu thereof, and to appoint
Polling Places and Principal Polling Places for each of the Electoral Districts within the Colony of New
Zealand, for the Election of Members of the House of Representatives: 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 in this behalf, do hereby abolish all existing Polling Places and Principal Polling Places heretofore
appointed for the Electoral Districts within the said Colony for the Election of Members of the House of
Representatives; and I do hereby appoint the places mentioned in the second column of the Schedule
hereunder written, to be the Polling Places for the Electoral District mentioned in the first column of the
said Schedule, opposite to which the names of such places are in the said Schedule respectively set, of the
places mentioned in the said second column of the said Schedule, and I do appoint the places mentioned in
the third column of the said Schedule to be the Principal Polling Places for the respective Electoral
Districts opposite to which the names of such places are set.

Electoral District.	Polling Places.	Principal Polling Place.
Mongonui	Mongonui, The Court House	The Court House, Mongonui
	Oruaiti, Mr. Ball's residence
	Oruru, The Runanga House
	Kaitai, Mr. James Matthews' residence
Bay of Islands.	Russell, The Court House	The Court House, Russell
	Waimate, The Runanga House
	Hokianga, The Court House, Herd's
	Point
	Whangaroa, The Court House
Marsden	Wangarei, The Native School House in	The Native School House in the Town-
	the Township of Wangarei	ship of Wangarei