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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.

meeting to be held at noon at the appointed place,
and shall declare the purpose for which the meeting
is held. It shall be competent to the Returning
Officer to declare the meeting adjourned from day to
day till the election is completed.

7. Every candidate shall be proposed by one and
   seconded by another elector who shall each previously
   obtain from the Returning Officer a certificate that
   he is qualified to vote at the election; and if no more
   than one candidate shall be so proposed and seconded,
   the Returning Officer shall declare such candidate
   duly elected, and will make his return accordingly.

8. In the event of there being more candidates
   than one proposed and seconded, the Returning
   Officer shall call for a show of hands, separately, in
   favour of each candidate, and after such show shall
   declare the person in whose favour the show of hands
   shall appear to have been largest; and if thereupon a
   poll be not demanded by one of the candidates,
   the Returning Officer shall declare such person to
   be duly elected.

9. The name of the person so declared to be
   elected shall be endorsed on the writ by the Return-
   ing Officer as the person duly elected in pursuance
   thereof, and the writ shall be returned by him to the
   Governor forthwith.

10. If a poll be demanded as aforesaid, the Return-
    ing Officer shall then declare the day on which the
    same shall be taken, being the day fixed by the writ as
    aforesaid, and on that day the poll shall be open, at
    the places appointed as aforesaid, from Nine a.m. to
    Four p.m. of the same day, unless otherwise ordered
    by the Returning Officer.

11. If a poll be demanded, the Returning Officer
    shall immediately make arrangements for the issue by
    the Registration Officer or officers at each polling
    place of voting papers to electors, and such papers
    may be issued at any time or times appointed by
    the Returning Officer until the close of the poll.

12. On the day of the poll, the electors shall enter
    one by one, the polling booth, and shall each present
    his voting paper, which shall be in the form C. and
    in the English and the Maori language, and when
    requested to do so, shall state the name of the
    candidate for whom he intends to vote, and his own
    name. The Returning Officer or his Deputy shall
    thereupon write the name of such candidate and
    elector on the voting paper, and pass it to the
    Maori associated with him for the purpose, who shall
    place his initials or name upon the paper, as witness.

13. The Returning Officer shall, as soon as con-
    venient, immediately after the closing of the poll,
    proceed with such of his Deputies and Maoris
    associated with him as may be convenient, to
    ascertain the numbers polled for each candidate,
    and shall on a day to be appointed by him declare
    the person found to have the greatest number of
    votes to be duly elected, and shall endorse the writ
    accordingly, as provided in Regulation 9.

14. The Returning Officer or his Deputy shall
    have power to appoint a sufficient number of con-
    stables to keep order, and to make and enforce such
    other regulations for ensuring the orderly, effective,
    and impartial conduct of the election as may not be
    at variance with "The Maori Representation Act,
    1867."

15. In any case not provided for in the above
    regulations, the Returning Officer shall as far as
    possible be guided by the law and practice which
    obtains in relation to election of Members for the
    House of Representatives of other Electoral Districts
    than Maori Districts.

16. Where by these regulations it is directed that
    any notice or copy of any instrument is to be pub-
    lished in the Kahiti, such publication shall be in the
    Maori language, and where by these regulations it is
    directed that any notice or copy of any instrument is
    to be published in the New Zealand Gazette, such
    publication shall be in the English language.

17. The term "Electoral District," where used
    herein, shall mean the Maori Electoral Districts as
    defined in the Schedule to "The Maori Represen-
    tation Act, 1867," or in any proclamation to be
    issued under the eighth section of "The Maori
    Representation Act, 1867," for the time being in
    force.

FORM A.

I, [A. B.,] Returning Officer for the
Maori Electoral District [or one of the Deputy Returning
Officers or Registration Officers]
do promise and
swear that I will faithfully perform the duties of Returning
Officer [or Deputy Returning Officer or Registration Officer]
to the best of my ability—So help me God.

FORM B.

VICTORIA, by the grace of God, of the United Kingdom of
Great Britain and Ireland, and of the Islands of New
Zealand, &c., Queen, to
Esquire, Returning Officer
for the
District: Greeting:
Whereas it is necessary that an election of
Member of
the House of Representatives of New Zealand
shall take place: Now, therefore, We do hereby require and
command you to cause to be elected by the Voters duly
qualified for that purpose, freely and indifferently, and in
manner and form by law and regulations this behalf
prescribed, a legally qualified person to serve as Member of the
said House of Representatives for the
Maori Electoral
District: And We do hereby further require and command
that you cause the Nomination of the said Member to be at
on the
day of
and the polling
in case it shall be required, to be at the several polling places,
on the
day of
, and that this Our Writ, with
the name of the person so elected endorsed thereon by you, shall
be returned to Us here on or before the twenty-eighth day of
May, 1868.

In witness whereof, His Excellency Sir George Ferguson
Bowen, the Governor and Commander-in-Chief of
New Zealand, has caused the Public Seal of the
Colony of New Zealand to be hereunto affixed, at
Wellington, the
day of
, 1868.

Governor.

FORM C.

Pukapuka Pooti.

Ko te tangata Maori kei raro nei tona ingoa e marama ana ia
kia pooti a te whakatunga o te tangata mo te Takiwa Pooti
Maori Whaka-te
hei reo mo ratou Whaka-Maori ki
roto ki te Runanga Nui o Niu Tireni.

Voting Paper.

The undermentioned person is entitled to vote at the election
of a Member of the House of Representatives for the
Maori Electoral District.

Ko te ingoa iriri,
Maori hoki,
o te tangata pooti.
Christian and Surname
of Elector.

Iwi.
Tribe.

Hapu.
Hapu.

Kainga.
Abode.

Tangata e pootitia ana
Kai-titiro—
Candidate voted for
Witness—

Registration Officer.

Given under the hand of His Excellency Sir
George Ferguson Bowen, Knight Grand
Cross of the Most Distinguished Order
of Saint Michael and Saint George,
Governor and Commander-in-Chief in
and over Her Majesty's Colony of New
Zealand and its Dependencies, and Vice-
Admiral of the same, and issued under
the Seal of the said Colony, at the