Numb. 65.

639

THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
Published by Authority.

WELLINGTON, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 12, 1871.

G. F. BOWEN, Governor.

WHEREAS by "The County of Westland Act,
1868," it is, among other things, enacted that
within the period of fifteen days before or after the
day appointed for the holding of any election or of
any meeting of the County Council or of any Road
Board, or for the doing of any act, matter, or thing
by the said Act required to be done on or before a
day certain, it shall be lawful for the Governor to
extend the time allowed for the holding of such
election or meeting, or for the doing of any such
act, matter, or thing, as aforesaid, notwithstanding
the day may have passed on which the same
ought to have been held or done, and to adopt
or cause to be adopted such measures as may
be necessary to remove any obstacle of a technical
or formal nature by which the carrying out of the
provisions of the said Act relating to such elections
or meetings as aforesaid may be impeded, and to
supply any deficiency which may be required to be
supplied, in order to enable the said provisions
to be duly carried out: Provided always that
any such measure so adopted by the Governor
shall be duly notified in the New Zealand Gazette :
And whereas by the said Act it is also enacted that
annual elections of the Members of Road Boards of
Road Districts shall be held on the second Thursday
of December in each year as therein mentioned :
And by the said Act it is further enacted that four-
teen clear days before any election thereunder, public
notice of such election shall be given by advertise-
ment as therein also mentioned: And whereas, by
inadvertence, notice of the election of Members for
the Road Board of the Kanieri Road District hath
not been given in accordance with the last-mentioned
enactment, and it is expedient that the time for
the holding of such election should be extended as
and in manner hereinafter mentioned :

Now therefore, His Excellency Sir George Fer-
guson Bowen, the Governor of the Colony of New
Zealand, in exercise and pursuance of the power
and authority in him vested by the said Act, doth
hereby extend the time allowed for the holding of
the election of Members of the Road Board of the
Kanieri Road District from the said second Thursday
of the month of December instant, on which day the
said election ought, according to the provisions of
the said Act to have been held, to the twenty-ninth
day of the same month.

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 twelfth day of
December, in the year of our Lord one
thousand eight hundred and seventy-
one.

W. GISBORNE.

PUBLIC WORKS AND IMMIGRATION FOR THE
MIDDLE ISLAND.'

Colonial Secretary's Office,
Wellington, 11th December, 1871.

IT is requested that for the future all Correspond-
ence connected with the administration of the
Immigration and Public Works Acts 1870 and 1871,
in the Middle Island, may be addressed to the office
of the Resident Minister for the Middle Island,
Christchurch.

W. GISBORNE.

Colonial Secretary's Office,
Wellington, 11th December, 1871.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to
appoint

WILLIAM SEFTON MOORHOUSE, Esq.,
to be Secretary for Crown Lands.

This appointment bears date the 26th October,
1871.

W. GISBORNE.

Colonial Secretary's Office,
Wellington, 11th December, 1871.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to
appoint

WILLIAM SEFTON MOORHOUSE, Esq.,
to be a Land Claims Commissioner under "The