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THE
NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
Published by Authority.

WELLINGTON, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 6, 1871.

G. F. BOWEN, Governor.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME,
GREETING:

WHEREAS by an Act of the General Assembly
of New Zealand, intituled "The Regulation
of Elections Act, 1870," 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 within one mile
of 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 from
time to time to abolish, and to appoint other Polling
Places in lieu of those abolished, and that every such
Warrant shall be published in the New Zealand
Gazette: Provided always that no Polling Place shall
be appointed by the Governor under the said Act
unless he shall be first satisfied that the place to be
appointed is more convenient than any other for at
least twenty electors to record their votes thereat:
And whereas by the said Act it is further enacted
that every election of the Superintendent or of a
Member of the Provincial Council of a Province shall
be conducted in the manner prescribed therein for
the election of Members of the House of Repre-
sentatives, and that the Governor shall have the
same powers of appointing and altering Polling
Places and Principal Polling Places for Electoral
Districts for the election of Superintendents and
Members of Provincial Councils as, under the provi-
sions thereinbefore contained, he has for Electoral
Districts for election of Members of the House of
Representatives:

Now therefore, I, Sir George Ferguson Bowen, the
Governor of New Zealand, in pursuance of the power
and authority in me vested by the said Act, do
hereby appoint the following place to be an additional
Polling Place for the District of Papanui, for the
the election of Members of the Provincial Council

of the Province of Canterbury, namely-
Mr. Gould's Coach House, Springfield Road.

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 Government
House, at Wellington, this second day
of October, in the year of our Lord one
thousand eight hundred and seventy-one.

W. GISBORNE.

G. F. BOWEN, Governor.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME,
GREETING:

WHEREAS by "The Regulation of Elections Act,
1870," 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 Dis-
trict, within or within one mile of the limits thereof, and
to appoint any one of such Polling Places to be the
Principal Polling Place for the District, and all or any
of such Polling Places from time to time to abolish, and,
if he think fit, to appoint other Polling Places in lieu
of those abolished, and that every such Warrant shall
be published in the New Zealand Gazette: Provided
always that no Polling Place shall be appointed by
the Governor under the said Act unless he shall be
first satisfied that the place to be appointed is more
convenient than any other for at least twenty
electors to record their votes thereat:
And whereas by Warrant under the hand of the
Governor, bearing date the thirtieth day of December,
one thousand eight hundred and seventy, Maxwell's
Woolshed, Race Course Hill Station, was appointed

ERRATUM.—In Gazette No. 5, of 22nd January, 1870, page 33, in the list of Medical Practitioners, after the name of Wm.
George McClure, Southland, Member Royal College of Surgeons, read "England," which was accidentally omitted.