✨ Electoral Proclamations and Appointments




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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
payment of the duty chargeable thereon under "The
Bonded Warehouse Duty Act, 1866."

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, at the Government
House, at Wellington, this seventh day
of January, in the year of our Lord one
thousand eight hundred and sixty-nine.

FORSTER GORING,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

G. F. BOWEN, Governor.

WHEREAS by the one hundred and thirty-third
section of an Act of the General Assembly of
New Zealand, intituled "The Municipal Corporations
Act, 1867," it is enacted that it shall be the duty of
the Town Clerk of every borough, as soon as con-
veniently may be after every election of a Mayor for
such borough, to give notice to the Colonial Secretary
for the time being of such election, and of the person
elected; and it shall be lawful for the Governor, if he
shall think fit, and if such person shall not then be a
Justice of the Peace, by warrant under his hand
published in the New Zealand Gazette, to appoint
such person to be a Justice of the Peace for the
Colony; and it is also thereby enacted that in every
such appointment it shall be expressed that it is made
under the one hundred and thirty-third section of
the said Act; and it is further declared that such
appointment shall continue in force only during
the Mayoralty of such person, and the person so
appointed shall not, by virtue of such appointment,
be authorized to sit or act as a Justice of the Peace
elsewhere than within the borough:

Now therefore I, Sir George Ferguson Bowen,
the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, in pur-
suance and exercise of the said power and authority
in me vested in this behalf, do hereby appoint

JOSHUA CHARLES PORTER, Esq., and
EVAN PROSSER, Esq.,

the persons elected to be respectively the Mayor of
the Borough of Kaiapoi and the Mayor of the
Borough of Hokitika, to be Justices of the Peace
under the one hundred and thirty-third section of
"The Municipal Corporations Act, 1867."

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, at the Government
House, at Wellington, this seventh day
of January, in the year of our Lord one
thousand eight hundred and sixty-nine.

E. W. STAFFORD.

polling places at any time to abolish, and to appoint
other polling places in lieu thereof:

Now, therefore, the Governor of New Zealand, in
pursuance of the power and authority in him vested
by the said Act, doth hereby appoint the following
place to be an additional polling place for the
Electoral District hereinafter specified, for the elec-
tion of Members of the House of Representatives,
namely:--

For the District of Hampden--
The Police Camp, Cardrona.

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, at the Government
House, at Wellington, this ninth day
of January, in the year of our Lord
one thousand eight hundred and sixty-
nine.

E. W. STAFFORD.

G. F. BOWEN, 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, by warrant under the hand of the Governor,
bearing date the seventh day of May, one thousand
eight hundred and sixty-six, Mr. Teschemaker's
Woolshed was appointed a principal polling place for
the District of Mount Cook for the election of
Superintendent and Members of the Provincial
Council of the Province of Canterbury:

And whereas it is expedient to abolish the same :

Now know ye that I, Sir George Ferguson Bowen,
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 principal polling
place for the District of Mount Cook for the election
of Superintendent and Members of the Provincial
Council of the Province of Canterbury, and do
appoint in lieu thereof--

Mr. Ensor's Woolshed, Burke's Pass.

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, at the Government
House, at Wellington, this ninth day
of January, in the year of our Lord one
thousand eight hundred and sixty-nine.

E. W. STAFFORD.

G. F. BOWEN, Governor.

TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME,
GREETING:

WHEREAS by an Act of the General Assembly,
intituled "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



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πŸ’° Proclamation regarding Bonded Warehouse Duty Act, 1866 (continued from previous page)

πŸ’° Finance & Revenue
7 January 1869
Bonded Warehouse Duty Act 1866, Duty payment, Proclamation
  • 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
  • FORSTER GORING, Clerk of the Executive Council.
  • G. F. BOWEN, Governor.

βš–οΈ Appointment of Borough Mayors as Justices of the Peace

βš–οΈ Justice & Law Enforcement
7 January 1869
Municipal Corporations Act 1867, Mayor, Justice of the Peace, Kaiapoi, Hokitika
  • JOSHUA CHARLES PORTER (Esquire), Elected Mayor of Kaiapoi, appointed JP
  • EVAN PROSSER (Esquire), Elected Mayor of Hokitika, appointed JP

  • Sir George Ferguson Bowen, Governor of the Colony of New Zealand
  • E. W. STAFFORD.
  • G. F. BOWEN, Governor.

πŸ›οΈ Appointment of additional polling place for Hampden Electoral District

πŸ›οΈ Governance & Central Administration
9 January 1869
Polling place, Hampden District, Cardrona, House of Representatives election
  • 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
  • E. W. STAFFORD.

πŸ›οΈ Abolition and replacement of principal polling place for Mount Cook District

πŸ›οΈ Governance & Central Administration
9 January 1869
Polling place abolition, Mount Cook District, Canterbury Province, Burke's Pass
  • 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
  • E. W. STAFFORD.

πŸ›οΈ Provisions regarding appointment and abolition of polling places

πŸ›οΈ Governance & Central Administration
Regulation of Elections Act 1858, Polling places, Governor's warrant